
Cabinet · Alexandria · Drawer 03
Royal Jewelry Museum rooms
Princess Fatma's Art Deco villa in Zizenia holds the Muhammad Ali dynasty's personal jewelry — crowns, diadems, pocket watches, and gem suites displayed in mirrored rooms where royalty once entertained beside the Mediterranean.
Museum doubles as period interior specimen — parquet floors, painted ceilings, and sea breezes through restored windows.
Jewelry drawers
Khedival tiaras, diamond parures, and ceremonial regalia tell nineteenth-century Egypt's Ottoman-European court style. Cases allow close viewing; lighting flatters facet without mall-shop glare.
Villa rooms
Each salon retains residential proportions — you sense wearing these objects in ballroom context, not abstract museum white cubes. Upper floors quieter; guards often the only company midweek.
Pair with Alexandria National Museum another day — jewelry villa as glamour drawer, national museum as archaeology drawer.
Drawer 03 logs Alexandria's sparkle cabinet — modern Egypt's royal material culture in situ.