Mr. and Mrs. Mohamed M Khalili Museum The Mr & Mrs Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo reopened April 2021 after a decade of closure. The museum was closed in 2010 after its greatest treasure, the Vincent Van Gogh's Poppy Flower painting, was stolen. The thief used a knife to cut the canvas from its frame during the museum’s opening hours. This was the second time the painting was stolen. It contains one of Egypt's largest and finest personal collections of valuable artifacts. Khalil was married to a French woman named Emiline Lock, and was a regular visitor to Paris, where he used to collect paintings. Khalil was both an Egyptian politician and a sponsor of art in Egypt's cultural scene, having helped in the foundation of the Society of Fine Arts Lovers