[3] Mohammed Nagi was born to an Egyptian father and Turkish mother, [1] in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on 17 January 1888.
[4] Nagy returned to Alexandria during the World War I, when he was fired by a "radical approach towards classic rules of art" and concentrated his painting on Impressionism.
[4] In 1939 Nagy started his ambitious project titled "Alexandria School" when he headed the Museum of Modern Art as its director.
In 1952, to give shape to his project, he decided to build an atelier in a plot of land which he purchased from Hadayek El Ahram.
[4] In 1962, the Ministry of Culture bought his atelier and then Tharwat Okasha formally inaugurated the Mohamed Nagy Museum on 13 July 1968.