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Trails

Follow a reading sequence through the collection, then add its records to your fieldbook. Thematic trails follow one theme across many places; place trails gather the records of one place. They are not verified walking routes or promises of public access.

Themes

Art for industry, hotels and everyday life

Under Sadat and Mubarak, factories, hotels and companies became major patrons. Already in the Nasser years, a Cairo stationery shop sold his small statues to private buyers.

  1. BTM - Factory Entrance
  2. BTM Factory Premises
  3. Oriental Weavers
  4. Open Air Museum and Gallery - Kafraoui Park
  5. Sheraton - El Gezirah
  6. Sheraton Heliopolis
  7. Daughter of Nile - Jollyville Mövenpick Hotel
  8. Agiba Petroleum Company (Factory Premises)
  9. Le Méridien Heliopolis
  10. General Motors Egypt
  11. Egypt Air Paris
  12. Papeterie Khodeir
  13. Ashtray for Nasr Cars
  14. Nut Bowl for Egypt Air

Commissions for the state and the army

Monuments, reliefs and friezes for public squares, the metro, a stadium, the armed forces and regional government.

  1. Metro Station Ain Shams
  2. Armed Forces Officers Club
  3. Panorama October
  4. Mermaid with Wings
  5. Knowledge is Light
  6. Military Academy for Postgraduate and Strategic Studies
  7. Midan Galaa
  8. Cairo International Stadium

Between East and West

During the Cold War, his work travelled to both sides of the Iron Curtain, and as far as China and the United States.

  1. Heilig Kruiskerk
  2. Mosaics in Private Swimming Pool
  3. Female Peasants with Breadbasket
  4. Porzellanikon
  5. Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
  6. Staatliche Höhere Fachschule für Porzellan
  7. House of Dr. Karl Kraus
  8. Egypt Air Paris
  9. The Stable Family
  10. Museum of Applied Arts
  11. Musée de l’Homme
  12. Beijing Museum
  13. National Cash Register Dayton

Faith and remembrance

Works for churches and memorials, and monuments that commemorate national events, from Cairo to Hasselt and Boston.

  1. The Dawn of Egypt
  2. Panorama October
  3. St. Therese Armenian Catholic Church
  4. Heilig Kruiskerk
  5. The Stable Family

Museums

Museums in Egypt, Europe and China that hold, or once held, works by Heshmat.

  1. Fatima Ismail’s Palace Museum
  2. Museum of Egyptian Modern Art
  3. The Hassan Heshmat Museum
  4. Porzellanikon
  5. Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
  6. Museum of Applied Arts
  7. Musée de l’Homme
  8. Beijing Museum

Places

Heshmat in Selb

Read the collection’s records of artworks and places of residence in Selb, Germany. The individual entries provide the documentary context.

  1. Hotel Schmidt Selb
  2. Haus der Familie Haude
  3. Porzellanikon
  4. Staatliche Höhere Fachschule für Porzellan

10th of Ramadan City

Explore the records associated with 10th of Ramadan City, including The Dawn of Egypt and its recorded relocation in 2022.

  1. The Dawn of Egypt
  2. BTM - Factory Entrance
  3. BTM Factory Premises
  4. Oriental Weavers
  5. Open Air Museum and Gallery - Kafraoui Park