Qasr Al-Eini Museum, Medical museum in Cairo, Egypt.
Qasr Al-Eini Museum is a medical museum in Cairo housed in the ground floor of Kasr El Aini Hospital's conference hall. It displays medical artifacts, rare books, and scientific materials that trace the development of medicine in Egypt.
The idea to establish the museum came in 1976 as a way to document the legacy of Arab medical education. It opened its first phase in March 1998.
The museum is named after the historic Qasr Al-Eini Palace complex and documents how medical education developed in the Arab world. Visitors can see how the training of physicians changed over generations.
The museum is located within the hospital complex and is best explored on foot, allowing time to move slowly through the displays. Access is straightforward since the collection is housed on the ground floor.
The collection includes an encyclopedia featuring portraits of 154 professors from the 19th century who taught at this institution. Additionally, the museum preserves marble tablets discovered in 1979 and Turkish language orders from Muhammad Ali Pasha for the construction of the palace complex.
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