museum "education" He bid farewell to his headquarters at Princess Faiqa Palace after 56 years
– Transfer of possessions and documents amounting to more than 25 thousand documents to the Student Union building in Agouza
– Taha Hussein’s office, gifts from ministers, and certificates of outstanding students are among the collections
– Dr. Wafa Shaarawi: The floor allocated to the museum in the Union Building is not well equipped
After 56 years, the Museum of Education bid farewell to its headquarters in the General Office of the Ministry of Education in Princess Faiqa Palace, located at 12 Al-Falaki Street in Al-Qasr Al-Aini, to move to the Student Union Building. In Agouza, after the Ministry moved to its new headquarters in the Administrative Capital.
The museum is located in the western building of the Ministry’s Office, and it has a special entrance on Ismail Abaza Street, in addition to the main entrance to the Ministry’s Office. The museum presents the story of the development of education in Egypt through different eras, highlights people who contributed to the reform and renaissance of education, and opens its doors to all visitors free of charge. The director was keen Museum Abdo Muhammad Abdel Shafi receives the last visit to the museum, before departure, For members of the “Seagulls” group Which includes a group of people interested in learning about the history of their country and the development of education, and they were accompanied by Dr. Wafa Shaarawi, director of administration with the rank of director general at the Ministry of Education, formerly and currently retired, holds a doctorate in museum management, to explain the museum’s collections. I toured with them “Rosa Al-Youssef Gate” Within the two-storey museum, a ground floor includes an external courtyard with two statues of a male and female student carrying a torch, symbolizing that knowledge has light, and a statue of the seated writer, which is the museum’s motto and which is printed on official correspondence, and a reproduction of the head of the Egyptian peasant statue. The original of the statue is in the Agricultural Museum. As for the internal courtyard It is topped with a painting of "plaster" Painted in bronze, it represents the different stages of education and dates back to 1969 by the artist Louis, as well as a wooden painting about student activities by the artist Emile Muhareb, who was one of the museum’s employees, and a statue of Mustafa Mukhtar, the first Minister of Education, who is of Turkish origin, and Ali Pasha Mubarak, the first Egyptian Minister of Education, who is the fifth minister. In order. During our wandering, we noticed the stacked cartons waiting for the start signal to collect the museum’s collectibles and documents to transport them to the Student Union building. Dr. expresses "Wafa Shaarawy" Expressing her sadness about moving the museum, she said that the area of the floor that was allocated to it at the Student Union headquarters represents less than 20% of the area of the current headquarters, and that it is not well equipped to display and preserve collectibles and documents. The history of establishing the museum and the idea of establishing the museum go back to the era of Minister Ali Zaki Al-Orabi Pasha, when an exhibition was held at the Agricultural Society’s Saray on the island in March 1937 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Ministry of Public Education. The exhibition was well received, and was the nucleus of the Education Museum, which was issued a decision on May 17, 1937. By establishing it and transferring it to the palace affiliated with the Ministry on the island, documents related to education and issued in various languages were collected to form the nucleus of the document library attached to the museum. The museum was then moved to several places until it settled in the Ministry’s office in Princess Faiqa Palace, by decision of Dr. Mohamed Helmy Murad, former Minister of Education, in July 1968.