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The 6th of October War Panorama is a museum and memorial to the 1973 October war, located in
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The visitors are directed to a waiting area until the Panorama is open. The waiting area is an outdoor area with food kiosks and vendors which sell souvenirs.
The spacious outdoors display area lies across from the Panorama building. In it are shown military vehicles that were used in the war. These include tanks, aircraft and weaponry that belonged to both
The 6th of October War Panorama is a museum and memorial to the 1973 October war, located in Heliopolis, Cairo
Heliopolis (, ', , "New Egypt") was an early 20th century suburb outside Cairo, Egypt, which has since merged with Cairo and is administratively divided into the districts of Masr El Gedida and El Nozha in the Eastern Area.
Named after ...
. Constructed over an area of 7.5 feddans (around 32,000 square metres), it was inaugurated on 5 October 1989 by former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 and the 41st Prime Minister of Egypt, prime minister from 1981 to ...
. It was built as a cylindrical fort-like building molded in Islamic architectural style with partial assistance from a group of North Korean architects and is run by the Egyptian National Military Museums Department.
The Panorama
Waiting area
The visitors are directed to a waiting area until the Panorama is open. The waiting area is an outdoor area with food kiosks and vendors which sell souvenirs.
Outdoors display
The spacious outdoors display area lies across from the Panorama building. In it are shown military vehicles that were used in the war. These include tanks, aircraft and weaponry that belonged to both Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
and Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
. The panorama
A panorama (formed from Greek language, Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any Obtuse angle, wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography (panoramic photography), film, seismic image ...
itself also contains many weapons, models and reliefs showing the course of war.
First hall
The show, a 15-minutedocumentary
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
on the war starts in the first hall. The film was made in the 1990s. Narration is in 11 languages.
Second hall
Visitors sit on a rotating platform to view a 360 degree war film featuring Egyptian soldiers storming the Bar-Lev Line on the Suez Canal, which is documented on a hugemural
A mural is any piece of Graphic arts, graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage.
Word mural in art
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. There are also 3D figures on the wall while a narrator describes the war. The narration is in Arabic only.
See also
* Egyptian Military museum *October War Panorama
The October War Panorama () is a National museum located in Damascus, Syria which commemorates the memory of the Yom Kippur War, 1973 October War between Egypt and Syria against Israel from a Syrian perspective, and the 1982 Lebanon War battles tha ...
(Damascus, Syria)
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090522012146/http://www.sis.gov.eg/VR/october/english/5.htm * http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egypts-museums-ii-october-war-panorama {{coord, 30, 04, 27, N, 31, 18, 24, E, type:landmark, display=title 1999 establishments in Egypt Museums in Cairo Museums established in 1999