Badr Museum was built by the talented artist Abd El Moghny Badr who was born in 1985 in Farafra Oasis, the museum is a combination between a house and a museum.
Badr Abdel Moghny is a self-taught artist who encapsulates the local life in sculpture, oil and watercolor. He has shaped models out of local clay into postures illustrating the crafts and pastimes of the people of Farafra.
Badr Abd El Moghny built a small house as a gallery, the gallery contains sand paintings and ceramics of the desert and nature of Farafra Oasis, beside many sculptures of smaller size, the gallery sell these things to tourists as souvenirs.
His distinctive style of painting and sculpture in mud, stone and sand has won him foreign admirers; he exhibited successfully in Europe in the early 1990s and later in Cairo.
Badr built his museum with his own hand, this museum can only described as a piece of art itself, Badr museum was built like many of Farafra houses. The art paintings of Badr are filled with depth and sadness.