- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Chronology
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
-
1 Cairo -
2 A Love of Learning -
3 A Prominent Family -
4 The State Railways -
5 Education and Legislation -
6 Simaika and the British Administrators -
7 An Ancient Church -
8 The Patriarchs -
9 The Awakening of the Coptic Church -
10 Al-Majlis al-Milli -
11 The Coptic and Ethiopian Dispute over Deir al-Sultan in Jerusalem -
12 Travels in Sudan -
13 A Crumbling Heritage -
14 The Committee for the Preservation of Arab Art -
15 A New Museum -
16 A State Institution -
17 Searching for Antiquities, Saving Libraries -
18 Recognition - Appendix
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
A New Museum
A New Museum
- Chapter:
- (p.133) 15 A New Museum
- Source:
- Marcus Simaika
- Author(s):
Samir Simaika
Nevine Henein
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
This chapter discusses Marcus Simaika's role in the establishment of the Coptic Museum. It was in 1908 that Simaika made his first attempt to start a small Coptic museum. While engaged in the repair and restoration of the ancient churches as a member of the Comité, Simaika had collected a large quantity of interesting carved wood and stone fragments. He had asked Patriarch Cyril V for permission to move the objects he had collected, along with any spare icons, manuscripts, and carved wooden screens, into two rooms adjoining the Muʻallaqa Church in Old Cairo. When it was constructed, the Coptic Museum filled a gap in the chronology of Egyptian history and culture, and with its foundation Egypt finally had museums grouping together the antiquities of each of the four main periods of its history.
Keywords: museums, Marcus Simaika, Coptic Museum, Cyril V, Muʻallaqa Church, Egypt
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Chronology
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
-
1 Cairo -
2 A Love of Learning -
3 A Prominent Family -
4 The State Railways -
5 Education and Legislation -
6 Simaika and the British Administrators -
7 An Ancient Church -
8 The Patriarchs -
9 The Awakening of the Coptic Church -
10 Al-Majlis al-Milli -
11 The Coptic and Ethiopian Dispute over Deir al-Sultan in Jerusalem -
12 Travels in Sudan -
13 A Crumbling Heritage -
14 The Committee for the Preservation of Arab Art -
15 A New Museum -
16 A State Institution -
17 Searching for Antiquities, Saving Libraries -
18 Recognition - Appendix
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
