A museum to commemorate Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was inaugurated this week, after being postponed for years due to a number of issues, Reuters reports. The Naguib Mahfouz Museum and Creativity Center is in a redeveloped two-story building in Gamaliya that dates back to 1774, and houses the author’s belongings, including handwritten texts, and his personal library. The museum also has all Mahfouz’s works, in both old and new editions, seminar rooms, an audiovisual library, and a library containing research on him. His 1988 Nobel Prize remains with his family.

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