"Your Royal Coffee" temporary exhibition launches in Alexandria’s Royal Jewelry Museum

CAIRO – 4 January 2022: Under the title "Your Royal Coffee", a temporary exhibition was opened at the Royal Jewelry Museum in Alexandria, including part of a coffee set from King Farouk's possessions.

Professor Safaa Farouk Ragab, the museum's general manager, explained that this exhibition is part of a series of temporary exhibitions that the museum hosts to shed light on some of the artifacts in the museum’s store.

Part of the exhibition - Min. of Tourism & Antiquities

Ragab pointed out that the exhibition includes 32 antiquities consisting of 15 gilded cups and 17 cup-holders (stands) that are decorated from the outside with royal-Louis XV drawings.

The exhibition is scheduled to run for 3 months.

The Royal Jewelry Museum is one of the European architecture masterpieces, built by Italian engineer Antonio Lachiac in 1919. 

The museum building is a palace belonging to Princess Fatima Haider, one of the princesses of the Mohammad Ali family, and is distinguished by its architecture, decorations, and artistic units.

The palace was converted into a museum in 1986 and contains 1,045 pieces of rare collectibles of gold, silver and precious stones belonging to the family of Mohammad Ali Pasha.