Everything about The Coptic Museum totally explained
The
Coptic Museum is a
museum in
Coptic Cairo,
Egypt with the largest collection of Egyptian Christian artifacts in the world. It was founded by Morcos Smeika Pasha in
1910 to house Coptic antiquities. The museum traces the history of
Christianity in Egypt from its beginnings to the present day. It was erected over a land offered by the
Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria under the guardianship of
Pope Cyril V.
The Coptic museum houses the world's most important examples of
Coptic art.
Background
Morcos Smeika Pasha founded the Coptic Museum in 1910 after raising funds by public subscription. He used his influential position in the Coptic community to acquire many Coptic artifacts from old Coptic houses. The Egyptian government actively supported the initiative, and by 1947 a new wing was added to house a collection that was kept in the
Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The Coptic Museum was renovated in 1983-84 and again in 2005-06.
Collection
The Coptic Museum contains the world's largest collection of Coptic artifacts and
artwork. Coptic monuments display a rich mixture of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman traditions, thus providing a link between ancient and Islamic Egypt. The objects are grouped into different mediums, such as stonework, woodwork, metalwork, textiles and manuscripts.. The total number of objects on display is about 15,000 objects.
Nag Hammadi Library
The Coptic Museum also houses a corpus of 1,200
Nag Hammadi manuscripts in a library open to specialist researchers only.
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