page_title: Khalifa House Museum
section_title: The house
hierarchical_section_title: Khalifa House Museum / The house
caption_attribution_description: English: Beams and matting of the ceiling
context_page_description: The Khalifa House Museum is an ethnographic museum, located opposite the Mahdi’s tomb in the city of Omdurman in Sudan. It was the residence of the successor of the Mahdi, Kalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad and the headquarters of the administration of the Mahdi State.
  The House was transferred to a museum in 1928.
context_section_description: The Khalifa House is a low, two-storied building with a series of linked courtyards. The ground floor was built in 1888 and the upper floor in 1891. Its traditional mud-brick structure is of great historical importance, since it exhibits the style and architecture prevailing at the period.
caption: Beams and matting of the ceiling
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