Art galleries in Cairo

Cairo, Cairo has 3 art galleries on the map. That's 3 galleries mapped around Cairo. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Cairo (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Attar Art and Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) - مركز الصورة المعاصرة, plus Falak Art Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Cairo's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Cairo gallery lineup

3 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Cairo

1 of the 3 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

The two mapped art galleries sit on 282 and 27 شارع طلعت حرب — close enough to make a single outing of it.

The Cairo gallery walk

Making a day of it in Cairo? Work this order: Attar Art on 282, Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) - مركز الصورة المعاصرة on 27 شارع طلعت حرب, and Falak Art Gallery. That's the gallery walk in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Gallery tips for Cairo

A few things worth knowing before you work through Cairo's art galleries:

• Go to opening nights at Attar Art. Free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that wants to talk about the work. The best gallery experience there is.
• Don't rush the video work at Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) - مركز الصورة المعاصرة. Video installations need their full runtime. Sit down, give it the minutes it asks for.
• Ask about private views. Mailing lists get you invited to previews — quieter, with the artists around and first pick of the work.
• Bring a curious friend. Art is better with someone to argue with about it. The disagreement is the point.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Cairo — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Cairo can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 3, or a art gallery we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 3 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.