The scene at Bab Al-Khalq in Cairo has almost returned to normal. The January car bomb attack that targeted the Cairo Security Directorate on Port Said Street, where the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is located, caused heavy damage and killed four people. Now, with the directorate restored, the street is once more buzzing with activity. But the façade of the MIA, which features elaborate decorations in the Islamic style, remains damaged and the shattered glass of the windows has not been replaced. In place of the authentic Mameluke gate, inlaid with silver and iron geometric motifs, stands a temporary mud-brick wall. Ever since the 24 January bombing, the facility has been closed to visitors.

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After a seven-month hiatus, restoration work of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in central Cairo is finally set to begin. The MIA was subjected to severe destruction and damage in January after a car bomb exploded outside the adjacent Cairo Security Directorate. The blast of the bomb destroyed the facade of the building and the nearby Egyptian National Library and Archives building.

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For good reason, the man in charge on the ground sounds profoundly tired, and angry, over the phone. Ahmed Sharaf, the chief of museums at Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry, is taking stock of the latest heritage catastrophe to strike his country, yet another in the region’s tragic tally of such events in recent years. He has strong feelings about the truck bombing that severely damaged Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Art at about 7 a.m. on Jan. 24. Intended for the police headquarters nearby, it killed four people, injured 76 and sent a storm of debris through the museum, shattering windows and glass cases and wrecking priceless objects.

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A man in a white lab coat sat alone among piles of blown-off ceiling, mangled metal and splintered wood here on Thursday inside the Museum of Islamic Art — home to a world-renowned collection that covers centuries of art from countries across the Islamic world. He carefully separated ochre-tinted pieces of old glass from the clear shards of modern showcases.

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Art experts and enthusiasts strongly condemned the devastation wreaked last week at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, which was damaged in a blast aimed at the nearby Cairo security directorate on Friday (January 24th). Two car bombs exploded outside the directorate last week, killing four people and inflicting heavy damage on the building and collections of the Museum of Islamic Art, located opposite the directorate on Port Said Street.

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Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Art — home to almost 100,000 priceless artifacts that comprise one of the world’s most important collections of its kind — was extensively damaged when a car bomb exploded early Friday morning outside police headquarters across the street.

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The facade of the Museum of Islamic Art in central Cairo has been completely destroyed by a powerful car bomb that exploded outside the adjacent Cairo Security Directorate early on Friday morning. Four people were killed and at least 76 injured in the bomb last, according to health ministry figures. The blast of the bomb also destroyed the facade of the nearby Egyptian National Library and Archives building.

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See also: Bomb Damages Egypt’s National Library and Archives

The car bomb which gutted Cairo’s central police headquarters early on Friday morning has also caused severe structural damage to Egypt’s National Library and Archives (NLA), located across the street from the security directorate targeted in the blast.

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A number of artefacts exhibited at Doha’s Museum of Islamic Arts (MIA) are not from Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Arts (MIA), Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said at a press conference on Monday [September 9th, 2013]. Over the weekend, artists and activists wrote on social media sites that 35 objects from Cairo’s MIA had suddenly appeared in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

Read More: Egypt Antiquities Ministry Says No Islamic Artefacts are Missing

The origin of Cairo’s outstanding Museum of Islamic Art dates back to the era of Khedive Ismail era (ruled from 1863-1879), when it was decided to start collecting examples of rare woodwork and plaster artefacts, as well as metal, ceramic, glass, crystal, and textile objects of all periods, from throughout the Islamic world.

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