Gayer-Anderson Museum

Housed in two adjoining sixteenth- and seventeenth-century houses beside the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, this museum preserves the residence and collection of a British army officer and antiquarian who lived here in the 1930s and 1940s. The interconnected rooms are arranged around courtyards and reception halls fitted with fountains, mashrabiya screens and painted ceilings. Displays combine pharaonic antiquities, Islamic furniture, carpets and objects gathered across the region.