Museums
The vision of His Highness The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, is to mold the State of Qatar into a capital of culture. Under the umbrella of QMA, the Museum of Islamic Art is the flagship project of His Highness’s vision. The Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, is a museum for the world. It will bring the world to Doha, but it will als…
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What happened to the original Qatar National Museum? What is the new National Museum of Qatar? When does it open? These are some of the questions often asked about the new National Museum of Qatar. The Qatar National Museum opened in 1975 in a restored palace originally built in the early 20th century by Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al-Thani. It serv…
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About the Orientalist Museum The Orientalist Museum has of one of the most significant collections of Orientalist art ever assembled in the world. It offers a unique ideology of Orientalist art history and is the only institution in the world dedicated solely to Orientalist art. Its collection of paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints, as wel…
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We host exhibitions, programs and events that explore and celebrate art by Arab artists. We hope you will use us as an inspiring space for dialogue and scholarship about modern and contemporary art in the region and the Arab diaspora. Our story really begins more than twenty years ago, when our patron and founder H.E. Sheikh Hassan bin Mohamed bin …
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