Islamic Arts Museum to Launch “Disease, Medicine” Exhibition in Dec.

Museum of Islamic Art in Bab Al-Khalq will organize a temporary archaeological exhibition entitled "Disease and Medicine", next December.

Professor Moamen Othman, head of the museums sector, explained that this exhibition sincerely believed in the museums’ educational role, in the middle of this current events to confront the outbreak of coronavirus.

The exhibition includes a group of 50 artifacts, illustrating medical and surgical tools from the Islamic civilization, in addition to hygiene and alternative medicine tools such as a selection of one of the bowls from different Islamic eras, and the pitcher and bowls of the Mamluk-era.

Othman pointed that the medical sciences flourished during Islamic history, as doctors distinguished, hospitals advanced, and the Islamic faith emphasized the common sense laws, which encourage cleanliness, health, beauty, and protecting the body from various diseases.

On the sidelines of the exhibition, a number of cultural, educational and awareness-raising activities will be organized, in addition to setting up artistic workshops to teach children to draw motifs on gags, inspired by artifacts in the museum.

An interactive artistic presentation will be organized with the museum’s audience of children and youth on coronavirus and methods of prevention, in addition to methods for the safe disposal of prevention tools, recycling and use of empty medicine bottles, in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment.

Othman also mentioned that a medical caravan will be organized, for the first time, in cooperation with Trade Union & Workers' Services to help workers and museum visitors.

Contributed by Omnia Ahmed