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Alexandria’s Rare Library
The Municipal Library was established in Alexandria’s Muharram Bey district in 1892, after Baron Menasce donated his villa to the municipality. For 134 years, it remained part of the city’s cultural memory. It temporarily relocated to the al-Labban district, then its premises were destroyed in a 1940 bombing and rebuilt about eight years later. The library held more than 6,000 manuscripts and around 200,000 books, and the Fine Arts Museum was added to it in 1954. In 2012, most of the manuscripts were transferred to the Manuscript Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina for preservation and restoration. The building was renovated at a cost of nearly 17 million pounds and reopened in 2013.
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