Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum

BIB00153

Note

Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum

Collection title

Cairo Salon

BIB00153

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

02/16/2008

Production year

2008

Abstract

The Museum of Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil and his wife is an Egyptian museum, located in the district of Zamalek in Cairo. Founded by Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil, it contains works of great artistic value, including Art Nouveau. Before his death in 1953, Mahmoud Khalil had bequeathed the museum to his wife who, in turn, bequeathed the museum and the palace to the Egyptian government. The opening of the palace as a museum was held for the first time in 1962; the collection was sent to the palace of Prince Amr Ibrahim in Zamalek in 1971 and the museum was reopened in 1979. The ground floor, first and second floors are used as galleries. The museum collections include a rare collection of Japanese-style small boxes that occupy the ground floor. The basement houses the administrative departments, the library, a data center and a large conference room. The ground floor of the museum has five rooms, including a rotunda decorated with a bronze statue of the "call to arms" by Rodin. The room also contains large Chinese vases, vases from Japan and a group of Turkish dishes. There is also a tapestry of Belgium dating from the seventeenth century.

Type

video

Production companies

Library of Alexandria - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Personalities

Serageldin Ismail

Primary theme

Fine arts

Credits / Cast

Serageldin Ismail - Participant

Period of events

2008

Map locations

Egypt - Lower Egypt - Alexandria

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

3m38

Transcript

- Silence

- (Music)

- Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil is one that brought a lot to the movement of modern arts in Egypt.

- Son of a feudal family that devoted its life and its money to acquisition of artistic treasures,

- he created the first association to promote fine arts, in 1923, and to contribute to the formation of a new generation of artists.

- Music

- Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil was born in 1877.

- He is the son of Ibrahim Bacha Khalil who held a very important position in the Diwan of Khedive.

- He travelled to Paris to study law at la Sorbonne, and there, City of the Lights welcomed him.

- He studied History of civilizations there as well.

- Music

- In 1903, he met Emeline Ectros,

- who was passionate about art and collection, and he then started to love her and acquisition of artistic treasures.

- Music

- In Paris in 1903, Emeline spent 4000 pounds for the Jeune Femme à la Cravate Noire Renoir’s painting,

- when Mahmoud Khalil reproached her that, she answered laughing: “It is destiny that will decide of the value of this painting”.

- Now its price goes over 50 millions of dollars on the global art market.

- Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil remains one of the most controversial and mysterious personality

- because he was a competent politician, who held positions of Minister,

- Senator then President of the Senate for three consecutive mandates,

- but he’s more well known for his collection of rare works of art,

- that became one of the most important museum in Egypt. He is so one of the greatest public donor,

- because he let to his country an exceptional art museum.

- Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil built his palace in the region of Giza in 1915.

- His spouse ordered the palace and all the masterworks and rare pieces it contains,

- including the garden surrounding it, to be given to the government to transform it into the museum that bears the name of Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil and his spouse.

- The museum opened its doors for the first time on July the 23rd 1962,

- then after its renovation it reopened in 1995, to finally grant the wish of its owner half a century after he died,

- and which was to transform his palace into a museum of artistic wonders.

- Music

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Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum

Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum

- Silence

- (Music)

- Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil is one that brought a lot to the movement of modern arts in Egypt.

- Son of a feudal family that devoted its life and its money to acquisition of artistic treasures,

- he created the first association to promote fine arts, in 1923, and to contribute to the formation of a new generation of artists.

- Music

- Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil was born in 1877.

- He is the son of Ibrahim Bacha Khalil who held a very important position in the Diwan of Khedive.

- He travelled to Paris to study law at la Sorbonne, and there, City of the Lights welcomed him.

- He studied History of civilizations there as well.

- Music

- In 1903, he met Emeline Ectros,

- who was passionate about art and collection, and he then started to love her and acquisition of artistic treasures.

- Music

- In Paris in 1903, Emeline spent 4000 pounds for the Jeune Femme à la Cravate Noire Renoir’s painting,

- when Mahmoud Khalil reproached her that, she answered laughing: “It is destiny that will decide of the value of this painting”.

- Now its price goes over 50 millions of dollars on the global art market.

- Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil remains one of the most controversial and mysterious personality

- because he was a competent politician, who held positions of Minister,

- Senator then President of the Senate for three consecutive mandates,

- but he’s more well known for his collection of rare works of art,

- that became one of the most important museum in Egypt. He is so one of the greatest public donor,

- because he let to his country an exceptional art museum.

- Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil built his palace in the region of Giza in 1915.

- His spouse ordered the palace and all the masterworks and rare pieces it contains,

- including the garden surrounding it, to be given to the government to transform it into the museum that bears the name of Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil and his spouse.

- The museum opened its doors for the first time on July the 23rd 1962,

- then after its renovation it reopened in 1995, to finally grant the wish of its owner half a century after he died,

- and which was to transform his palace into a museum of artistic wonders.

- Music

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