Beit El-Sennari is a restored late-18th-century house built for Ibrahim Katkhuda El-Sennari, a Sudanese scholar and occultist. After Napoleon's arrival, French artists and scholars used the house while documenting Egypt.
Today visitors can see the courtyard, open gardens, and displays from the Institute for Applied Arts, including glassware and pottery. It is a quieter historic stop than Cairo's major monuments, but worthwhile if you like domestic architecture and layered city history.