The Royal Jewellery Museum in Alexandria
The Royal Jewelry Museum was created to showcase the collections of the Alawite dynasty, which ruled Egypt for over 150 years, from 1805 to 1952. The palace was built in Zizinia, on Ahmed Yehia Street to be precise, in 1919 by Madame Zainab Fahmy, and was completed by her daughter, Princess Fatima, daughter of Prince Ali Haidar, grandson of Mohamed Ali Pasha. It serves as the backdrop for the royal family's collections, and reflects the princess's refined taste in the paintings, gilded ceilings and mosaics that adorn the palace's rooms.
The museum consists of east and west wings connected by a corridor, each consisting of two floors and a basement, and displays the possessions the family accumulated throughout their reign in all the palace's magnificent halls, which showcase their lavish lifestyle.
Among the museum's holdings is a necklace inlaid with emeralds and diamonds, belonging to the founder of the family, Muhammad Ali Pasha, as well as a rare gold chessboard, gold binoculars studded with emeralds, diamonds and rubies, gold cups studded with precious stones, and dazzling jewelry prepared by top designers in Europe especially for the royal family to adorn the princesses and queens of the Alawite family.
The Royal Jewelry Museum in Alexandria announced that the museum's exhibits include a gold chess set consisting of 32 pieces of animal and people statues studded with 425 diamonds and painted with colored enamel, and the bases of the pieces carry paintings of historical figures and buildings and Iranian writings executed in colored enamel. In addition to a group of medals and medals made of gold, silver and precious stones, in addition to a group of pocket watches made of gold of various shapes, some with portraits of people, others with decorations, and others with the names of princes and princesses made of pure gold.