Children's Civilisation & Creativity Centre

In 2005 Mallinson Architects won a competition to redesign the Children's Museum in Cairo. It serves 100,000 disadvantaged children a year providing learning support and hands on teaching in a hidden garden.

The Children of the Nile Museum provide interactive learning on four learning themes:

Where am I from? - History

Who am I? - Ethnography

Where am I going? - Geography

How can I make a difference? - Science

The building provides four gallery spaces connected by a time ramp the top floor is a star dome science learning space, the lower ones are hands on interactive galleries, they all use low energy technologies and modern learning displays.

The Museum Garden provides a more relaxed space where the children do creative activities and explore a Nilotic landscape that traces the changing vegetation of the Nile valley from flood plane to Savanna and Desert. The Nile path is a gigantic sculpture that traces the changing materials of history utilising found fragments of Cairo in a giant mozaic.