 Even
if you have no interest in agriculture, check out this museum. Of the
125 thousand square meters, only
20 thousand are given over to the
museum building, of which another 20 percent are a riot of rare flowers
and
plants. The extensive gardens are an oasis of peaceful greenery in a
capital city with a frenetic pace.
Originally
the palace of the Princess Fatma, daughter of the Khedive Ismail, it
took the Ministry of Agriculture eight
years to prepare the palace,
which was opened as a museum in 1938. It contains 10 halls, some of
which are
closed.
There’s
something for everyone. Bread, a vital part of life in Egypt, gets its
own hall, with everything from different
kinds of wheat to a machine
used for filtering flour in ancient Egypt. Take a walk though the
Egyptian countryside
on the ground floor. And bug fans can get all
fluttery over the insect collection, which actually contains a display
of rare luminous bugs.
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