Kasr Al-ainy Museum
The Museum narrates the history of medicine in the Arab Machreq, confirming the historical role played by the Qasr Al-Eini School of Medicine as a linkage between medicine in pharaonic Egypt and modern medicine.
The library of the Museum houses the following:
-Numerous rare books and references.
-An encyclopedia on “The Wise Men of Qasr Al-Eini” or the biographies of 154 professors who lectured in Qasr Al-Eini, with their photos. Some 64 amongst them go back to the 19th Century.
-Various documents and manuscripts.
-Tableaux of marble.
-Photographic pictures.
-Different statues.
-An original copy of the book ” Description de l’Egypte ” which was written by the French scholarswho accompanied Bonaparte during his campaign on Egypt (1789)
kasr Alainy Museum The First Museum of an Arab Faculty OF Medicine
The idea of founding the Qasr Al-Eini Museum was first initiated in 1976 by Dr. Mohammed Almenawi.
The idea of founding the Qasr Al-Eini Museum was first initiated in 1976 by Dr. Mohammed Almenawi, the surgeon gynecologist and obstetrician who was general secretary of the Faculty of Medicine and responsible of the Museum.
The first stage was inaugurated on March 8, 1998 in the presence of representatives of the world faculties of medicine; the second stage in March 1999 . The Museum was eventually established in the adequate form appropriate to the oldest Faculty of Medicine in the Orient.