The Minister of Culture and Communications inspects the Prince Waheed Selim Museum to discuss the partnership in the museum’s efficiency development project
Dr. Ahmed Fouad Heno, Minister of Culture, and Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, inspected the Prince Wahid Salim Museum -Al -Matareya -and affiliated with the plastic arts sector headed For art and Egyptian culture.
& nbsp; Huge contains many rare books, in addition to a valuable collection of unique artifacts, as the museum contains a large theater in the garden, which includes a group of rare plants, in addition to a fountain located on the right side of the palace, and many large sculptural statues
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Dr. Ahmed Fouad Heno, Minister of Culture, confirmed that & quot; Prince Wahid Selim Museum & quot; It represents a technical and historical treasure that deserves all attention and care, pointing out that the partnership with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the project to develop and raise the museum’s efficiency will contribute to turning it into a cultural and technical radiation center that keeps pace with the latest international standards. This project comes to activate the Ministry of Culture’s vision of maximizing the benefit of our heritage and artistic treasures, and making it accessible to the public in diligence and internationally. & Nbsp;
& nbsp; Castle used it during hunting trips in the Matareya area, which was characterized by its vast gardens and areas of agricultural areas at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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& nbsp; About 150 thousand pounds, and when Prince Wahid Selim returned from France in 1939, where he was studying there, his mother, Princess Shweikar, the palace, and the prince also enriched the palace with many rare artifacts and artistic statues that made him a distinctive architectural masterpiece. Only, provided that the ownership of the palace to the state after his death, and in the wake of the death of the prince on December 19, 1995 at the age of 75, was issued, Republican Decree No. 376 of 1996 was issued to transfer the palace to the 1998 museum, to become a subordinate to the plastic arts sector at the Ministry of Culture.
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