Many guests to Dubai could also be conversant in the Dubai Museum as one of many high vacationer points of interest in Dubai, however chances are you’ll be stunned by simply what number of different museums you will see that within the metropolis.
Athough the nation is just 48 years previous, town of Dubai has a for much longer historical past, and civilisation within the area will be dated again some 5,000 years! A lot of this historical past is captured in these high museums throughout town.
Some are fairly small and clarify particular chapters of town with a nominal entry payment. Others are fabulous trendy buildings with the current period and the long run in thoughts.
Let’s take a deeper have a look at every:
- Dubai Museum & Al Fahidi Fort (3 AED)
- Etihad Museum (25 AED)
- Espresso Museum
- Coin Museum
- Bayt Al Khanyar (Dagger) Museum (5 AED)
- Majilis Ghorfat Umm Al Sheif
- Salsali Personal Museum – Free
- Dubai Police Museum (Naif Museum) – Free
- Saruq Al-Hadid Archaeology Museum (20 AED)
- Museum of the Poet Aqeli
- Pearl Museum – personal assortment of Emirates NBD
- Al Shindaga Museum – Story of the Creek and Fragrance Home
Distinctive Trendy Museums in Dubai
- Museum of the Future
- Museum of Illusions
- OliOli interactive kids’s play museum
- 3D World Selfie Museum
Different historic buildings price a go to
Though not museums as such, the culturally curious will certainly need to embody these buildings and excursions on their Dubai points of interest checklist:
Arabian Tea Home
The unique is in Bastakyia, nevertheless, there at the moment are further branches of the Emirati favorite.
Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Tradition Understanding
Throughout the Al Fahidi Historic Neighbourhood, you will see that the SMCCU, a not-for-profit group housed in a restored wind tower home.
Home 26 Al Fahidi Historic Neighbourhood, Al Musallah Road
Open Doorways, Open Minds, all questions – regardless of how delicate – are welcome and answered.
By means of SMCCU you may join a conventional Emirati breakfast, lunch, or dinner. These embody guided excursions of the Al Fahidi Historic Neighbourhood earlier than taking a seat on Bedouin-style carpets and pillows and luxuriate in a collection of conventional dishes whereas your native host solutions questions on life within the emirate.
In addition they provide strolling excursions, a mosque go to to Al Farooq Mosque and Creekside excursions. Occasions and dates are restricted so you’re totally really useful to e-book prematurely. Prices fluctuate per exercise, kids are discounted 50%.
It’s also possible to e-book these excursions by way of exterior suppliers corresponding to Get Your Information to simply preserve your tour and attraction bookings collectively:
- Historic Strolling Tour (1.5 hours 10:30 AM Tuesday & Thursday)
- Cultural Lunch at SMCCU (1.5 hours, 1:00 PM Monday to Thursday)
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Jumeirah Mosque
Though fairly a contemporary constructing, the excursions carried out at Jumeirah Mosque are among the many greatest for understanding extra concerning the nation’s Islamic tradition. You’ll be able to learn a whole on what to anticipate at Dubai’s mosques (and which of them are literally open to non-Muslims) right here.
That is an instance of what you may count on on a cultural tour of the Jumeirah Mosque, carried out by SMCCU.
You’ll be able to mix each Al Fahidi Historic Neighbourhood and the Jumeirah Mosque when you take a Heritage Categorical tour run by SMCCU.
Different Buildings of curiosity in Dubai
- Al Ahmadiya Faculty
- Majlis Ghorfat Umm Al Sheif
- Heritage Home
We strongly recommend history-lovers make a day journey as much as Sharjah, often called the nation’s cultural capital. Right here you will see that the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, the Calligraphy Museum, Shajrah Fort (al Hisn) to call just some.
You will discover a whole itemizing of Sharjah Museums right here.
Museum of Islamic Civilization in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
One other excellent spot to go to is Al Ain, in Abu Dhabi Emirate. Birthplace of the nation’s founding Father Sheikh Zayed, and residential to the nation’s UNESCO World Heritage Listed websites. You’ll be able to see a whole information to visiting Al Ain right here.
Al Jahili Fort Al Ain
Abu Dhabi additionally has a number of museums and cultural points of interest of curiosity together with the breathtaking Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi, Qasr Al Hosn, the UAE Heritage Village and Qasr al Watan. You will discover a whole information on the way to day journey to Abu Dhabi from Dubai right here.
- We recommend this full-day group tour from Dubai
Every of the Northern Emirates additionally has its personal museum:
- Ajman Museum
- Nationwide Museum of Ras al Khaimah
- Fujairah Museum
- Falaj Mualla Museum
You’ll be able to be taught extra concerning the 7 Emirates of the UAE right here.
