Name of Monument:

Plants Museum at the Agricultural museum

Other name of the Monument:

Plants display Museum

Location:

Dokki (Cairo), Egypt

Responsible Institution:

Ministry of Agriculture

 About Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT), Dokki (Cairo)

Date of Monument:

Construction:1930; inauguration: 1940

History:

King Fu`ad I chose the palace of Fatma Ismail, the daughter of Khedive Ismail, ‎to host the displays of the Agricultural Museum. The ‎palace was chosen due to its location near the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture in the ‎neighborhood of Dokki in Cairo.

The museum, which was first called "The Agricultural Museum of King Fu`ad I", was officially opened for the public on the 16th of January 1938 in a big ceremony that the king himself attended.

Description:

This building is used as a display museum to show the most important crops, cultivated plants, and food products in Egypt, as well as samples of many agricultural machines that were used in the harvesting, threshing, seed preservation and food manufacturing processes.

Citation of this web page:

Ibrahim Abdel Aziz "Plants Museum at the Agricultural museum" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;AWE;eg;5;en

Prepared by: Ibrahim Abdel AzizIbrahim Abdel Aziz

Botany Senior Specialist, Natural Heritage Unit, Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT), Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Copyedited by: Daniel de la VegaDaniel de la Vega

Daniel de la Vega is a copy editor based in Portland, Oregon. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2014 and has since done editing and localization work on everything from college applications to magazines to video game dialogue.

MWNF Working Number: ET2 005