Mr & Mrs Mahmoud Khalil Museum

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Lonely Planet review

The wonderful Mr & Mrs Mahmoud Khalil Museum includes sculptures by Rodin and a rich selection of French works by the likes of Delacroix, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Monet and Pissarro. There are also some Rubens, Sisleys and a Picasso. The paintings are housed in a temperature-controlled villa, the former home of Khalil, which was later taken over by President Sadat. It's just a few minutes' walk south of the Cairo Sheraton.

Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil was a noted politician during the 1940s, but his legacy to the arts endures, for he amassed one of the Middle East's finest collections of 19th- and 20th-century European art.