One of Qatar’s museums ‘Desert Rose’ built in an extremely large expanse of 52,000-square meters. Its costing was about $434 million is opening in the coming week of March for the general public. Within it there is more than 1,500 metres (yards) of gallery space.Almost a decade in the making, three years late and at an estimated cost of $434 million, Qatar´s vast national museum, built in the shape of a desert rose, opens this week.
The entrance includes 114 fountain sculptures in a 900-meter long lagoon and the museum´s multi-curved roof, which resembles a giant jigsaw puzzle, is made up of 76,000 panels in 3,600 different shapes and sizes.
The National Museum of Qatar also stands on the site of the former palace of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim al-Thani — son of the founder of modern Qatar. The palace has been restored as part of the massive project.
The museum, which officials say celebrates Qatar´s Bedouin past and energy-rich present, is a mirror image of the country´s wealth and ambition.
Among the exhibits is a 19th century carpet embroidered with 1.5 million Gulf pearls and the oldest Holy Quran found as of date in Qatar, also dating back to the 1800s.
“This is a museum that narrates the story of the people of Qatar,” Sheikha Amna bint Abdulaziz bin Jassim al-Thani, the museum´s director, has stated.
The museum is located on Doha´s waterfront Corniche, it will also serve as the first thing foreigners/visitors will be seeing once they arrive once they make their way from the airport. It is expected to become the building which has the most attention-grasping futuristic design. It must also be kept in mind that Qatar, in many ways if not one,it is being transformed for the 2022 football world cup.
