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museum "education" He bid farewell to his headquarters at Princess Faiqa Palace after 56 years

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.

 
 

 

During the era of Dr. Mohamed Hafez Ghanem, former Minister of Education, the first floor of the museum was opened in July 1970. Document Library: The document library attached to the museum includes more than 25,000 documents, some of which date back more than 100 years. The most prominent of these are exam questions dating back to 1912, academic curricula, school albums about the educational activities held there, and large numbers of newspapers from the Egyptian Gazette, Al-Hilal, and Al-Muqtataf. And Mahdi’s album from Prince Tousun to the library of the Ministry of Education in 1937.

 

 

 

 

 

It includes a collection of pictures of some famous Egyptian men in the 19th century, the album of the Saidia School in 1909, the album of the Princess Fawqia Secondary School for Girls, and a manuscript of questions. The Arabic language in some secondary schools from 1912 to 1933, and the census of education in the Egyptian country by Amin Sami in 1894. The museum devotes a section to ministers, as it includes photographs of the 87 ministers of education, starting from Major General Mustafa Mukhtar, who assumed the presidency of the Schools Bureau in 1837 until the current minister, Reda Hegazy, and a section for souvenirs for ministers. The museum’s sections review the process of development of education through the ages. It includes a number of reproductions of Pharaonic statues donated by the Ministry of Antiquities, in the Education Department of the Ancient Egyptians, where there is a reproduction of the Rosetta Stone, a model of the first university in the history of mankind, which was the University of On, and reproductions of the forms of celebrations and activities that were It takes place in ancient Egypt and the message of the eloquent peasant.

 

The museum also includes education departments in the Coptic era and among the Arabs and a general education department, which contains furniture for the meeting room of Ali Pasha Mubarak, and a model of a school. And the Al-Ashraf Qaitbay Mosque in the Mamluk desert, and a large group of pictures of members of the missions during the era of   Muhammad Ali Pasha and Khedive Ismail, pictures of the teachers of the Tawfiqiyya School in 1898, small statues illustrating the development of school uniforms throughout history, and souvenir pictures of school students.

 

 

 

 

 

A section reviews the story of girls’ education, which dates back to the year 1832, when the first school was established, which was the “maternity” school for midwives. During the reign of Muhammad Ali, the Al-Syoufiya School was established in 1873, which is a primary education school for girls, and in 1889 the Al-Suniya School was established, and it includes pictures of some pioneering women in education. The museum also includes a model of the Coppersmiths’ School in which the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser received his primary education, a wooden braid inlaid with copper decorations dating back to the era of Ali Pasha Mubarak, an artistic painting illustrating an anatomy lesson during the era of Muhammad Ali Pasha, and letters from the people of the city of Fuwah in which they demand Establishing the first school in their town in 1876.

 

 

 

Taha Hussein’s office. The upper floor includes technical education departments of all types, industrial, agricultural and commercial education, samples of student work, the universities department, and the Al-Azhar Department. The Special Education Department displays some methods for teaching blind students, and the School Activities and Gifted Department includes some winning inventions for school students. One of the most important exhibits on the upper floor is the office of Dr. Taha Hussein when he held the position of Minister of Education from 1950 to 1952.  Examples of student success certificates, a picture of the leader Saad Zaghloul at the opening of the National University in 1908, a copy of the Holy Qur’an printed in Braille, oil paintings and photographs of the sheikhs of Al-Azhar, a picture of the first fixed budget of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, a plaque with the names of the sheikhs of Al-Azhar, and models of the universities of Cairo and Assiut and the College of Education. Proxy, the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams, the High Dam, and animal and bird taxidermy as a gift from the Ministry of Agriculture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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