Dubai Museum Inward Dubai

Courtyard of Al Fahidi Fort

Dubai Museum (Arabic: متحف دبي‎) is the chief museum inwards Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is located inwards the Al Fahidi Fort (Arabic: حصن الفهيدي‎), built inwards 1787 together with is the oldest existing edifice inwards Dubai.

The museum was opened yesteryear the ruler of Dubai inwards 1971, alongside the aim of presenting the traditional agency of life inwards the Emirate of Dubai. It includes local antiquities equally good equally artifacts from African together with Asian countries that traded alongside Dubai. It likewise includes several dioramas showing life inwards the emirate earlier the advent of oil. In improver to artifacts from recent discoveries equally former equally 3000 B.C.

In 2007, Dubai Museum welcomed 1,800 visitors daily, alongside a yearly full of 611,840. In March 2008, the Museum had 80,000 visitors. The most pop times are from August to April.

The dhow exterior the museum

History

Al Fahidi Fort was built inwards several phases. The oldest tower was built to a greater extent than or less 1787 together with believed to hold upwards the oldest edifice inwards Dubai that yet exists today. The fort was used to guard the landward approaches to the town from the raids of neighbouring tribes. It has likewise served, at diverse times throughout history equally the ruler's palace, a garrison, together with a prison.

In 1969 Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum issued a missive of the alphabet to Shaikh Badr Mohammad Al Sabah, caput of the piece of job of state inwards Kuwait, bespeak for a museum practiced to hold upwards sent to Dubai to assist found the museum. Work on renovating the fort commenced inwards 1970, together with opened equally the Dubai Museum on 12 May 1971 yesteryear Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, together with hence ruler of Dubai. Additional galleries were built together with opened inwards 1995.

The Arish alongside the current of air tower

The Fort

Al Fahidi Fort is square-shaped alongside towers occupying 3 of its corners. It was built of coral stone together with mortar inwards several phases. Just off the southern wall prevarication the remains of the urban essence walls. Next to them stands a tall dhow (traditional boat) inwards the middle of a large courtyard that covers the hugger-mugger galleries. Two cannons guard the chief gate to the fort on the eastern wall, adorned yesteryear flags of Dubai together with the United Arab Emirates.

 An former nutrient stall

Internal halls describe of piece of job 3 of the fort walls. One hall is at the chief gate together with houses the ticket office, piece the others incorporate a collection of former weapons together with arms from unlike historical periods along alongside a model of the urban essence inwards 1820 AD. Traditional musical instruments are likewise displayed adjacent to a video of folkloric music.

The halls environs a fundamental courtyard. Here you'll regain a bronze canon alongside canon balls, a well, together with diverse types of boats. In the corner stands a traditional summertime solid called Arish. The Arish is made but from weaved palm fronds. It comprises seating together with sleeping areas equally good equally a kitchen, filled alongside household furnishings together with objects used yesteryear the locals inwards yesteryear times. The Arish features the distinct current of air tower design, used for AC inwards the pre-electricity days.

 Pearl traders

The Galleries

Entrance to the galleries is located at the tower on the south-western corner of the fort. After descending the spiral stairs visitors move into the kickoff gallery, where former maps of Dubai are displayed. Next is the video room, showing a video, updated inwards 2007, that depicts Dubai from earlier the regain of fossil oil inwards the 1960s to the electrical flow day. Below it at that topographic point is a map that shows the urban scape of the urban essence growing inwards sync alongside the timeline of the video.

gift shop

Life-size dioramas of the pre-oil era expression behind the adjacent door. Once they enter, visitors volition ready human foot on a the deck of a dhow unloading at the model creek-side souq. Moving ahead they volition run across the shops filled alongside craftsmen, vendors together with buyers. H5N1 tailor, a carpenter, an Fe smith, a fabric vendor together with others describe of piece of job the street. Realistic sounds together with life-size videos of craftsmen at piece of job plow over the impression of a bustling souq.

The street leads to a model mosque, solid together with family, together with hence turns to the correct where it is surrounded yesteryear depictions of desert life. H5N1 appointment farm, a camel, wild animals, together with a Bedouin tent filled alongside jewelry, trinkets together with objects from the daily life of Bedouins. The walls say most their cognition of the stars together with how they used it to guide their activities.

Next is the largest diorama which is all most the sea, alongside a huge scene of the edifice of a dhow, scenes of marine life detailing local species, inwards improver to a collection of sea-faring equipment. The final diorama features an archaeological site inwards Al Qusais surface area that goes dorsum to 3000 BC. There are tombs, an excavated skeleton, together with an archaeologist. All the agency sounds, visual effects together with electronic guides accompany the dioramas.

Cabinets filled alongside archaeological finds from Al Qusais site describe of piece of job the walls adjacent to the digging scene. Finally, the winding runway leads to a gallery displaying finds from other sites together with historical eras, similar the Umayyad site at Jumeirah. The gift store is the final halt earlier a spiral ramp takes yous upwards to the museum's southern exit.