Museum Rooms ----> The Lobby

The Lobby

 In the entrance of the museum there is the lobby which is in a rectangular shape and all the galleries’ doors openned on this lobby and stair for the upper floor .On the musuem’s wooden door Both sides there are two small rooms ; the left one used as a control room for all the musuem and the electric pannel, while the right one used as a water closet .

In the middle of the lobby there is a marble Jet with a geometric Formation . The walls is covered with marble till the middle and above it there is a line of gypsum decorations but the remaining is from a soft gypsum . The marble is influenced by the Mamlouke buildings .

The ceiling of the lobby is covered with a Mamlouke beautiful doom, consist of a square has a four colored glass lamps and from the four corners there are yokes to change the square to a circle .

In this doom there are sixteen window of the colored glass, and from the middle of the doom there is a chandelier . In the lobby’s four corners there are a copper oil lamps and above all the doors there is an Islamic decorations .

Frontface of the museum’s door there is a conical stove covered  with a Turkish tile with a plant decorations . On these tiles  we have ( done by me in kutahia contractor Mohammed fouad ) written and also we have  ( no winner except Allah ) and on two squares, “Allah” and on the other “Mohammed” .

The lobby has eight show cases that exhibit Turkish, Iranian and Mamlouke masterpieces . one of these pieces is an Iranian Ewer ends with an animal head and another Mamlouke Bowel that has some written texts on it .

There are some modern Furniture have been added to the lobby as a preparation for helding musical parties and cultural seminars . They add a wooden stand, a microphones, piano and a circular wooden table have been designed on the Islamic style .