Mustafa Kamel Museum, a national edifice
Egypt, History, 2/22/2001

Mustafa Kamel's shrine came back to life where it began to receive its visitors after it had gone through restoration and renovation works. It is one of our national edifices narrating spotlight stories of Egypt's history and its heroes.

The restoration works took a whole year at a cost of LE 167 thousand. It was inaugurated in early February.

After Mustafa Kamel had died, he was buried in a humble grave beside his mother. His friend and fellow Abdel Rahman El Rafi'e, unsatisfied, worked on setting up a new shrine worth of the late great leader. The shrine was erected on an area of half feddan in Saladin Square. Fifty-two years ago, the shrine was decided to become a national museum and it was inaugurated in the year 1956.

Days passed by and the museum got to embrace the remains of the four mates: Mustafa Kamel, leader Muhammad Fareed, historian Abdel Rahman Al Rafi'e, and fighter Fathi Radwan, a beacon throwing light on the history of our struggle.

A quick tour in the museum bring us back to the age of patriotic heroism and the leader of the national movement, the owner of Allewa' newspaper and his exquisite role in igniting the national spirit and other events figured in oil paintings and unique documents and other new paintings.

Painter Abdel Aziz Darweesh succeeded in visualizing Denshway and the barbarism of the British soldiers and the quiet Egyptian village whose land was tinted by the blood of martyrs. Painter Abdel Fattah Al Beyali figured out Mustafa Kamel as delivering a speech before the Indian Assembly in addition to another painting picturing Alexandria battle.

A painting by Kamel Mustafa recorded the last moments of Mustafa Kamel's life on his deathbed.

Among the most important properties of the museum are the handwritten documents and letters the heroes used to exchange as a means of combating the occupation force. These properties were placed in harmony with the furniture of Kamel's house: bed, desk, formal suit and other things.

We have to stop inside the museum by Fathi Radwan's library which comprises 40 books covering all domains of intellect: plays and autobiographies of leaders of Egypt and the world.

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