Museum of Islamic Art
Art museum · Doha Port
Doha, Qatar
Highlights
Pei-designed museum tracing 1400 years of Islamic art.
Pei-designed museum tracing 1400 years of Islamic art.
"A museum that houses thousands of fascinating pieces from across the region, with a monolithic structure designed by I. M. Pei."
"Located on the top floor of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, IDAM by Alain Ducasse combines French techniques with Middle Eastern flavors, offering dishes like slow-cooked camel and langoustine poached in saffron broth." - Guide MICHELIN
"When the I. M. Pei–designed Museum of Islamic Art first opened in 2008, just months before Pei’s 92nd birthday, it was the first major project in Qatar to set architecture-loving hearts aflutter. Now, after an extensive enhancement project, its dramatic interior spaces are looking better than ever. Spanning 1,400 years of history, the museum’s galleries have been reimagined and reinstalled, introducing new visitor trails and child-friendly resources as well as more than 1,000 newly conserved or acquired objects displayed for the first time."
"When the I. M. Pei–designed Museum of Islamic Art first opened in 2008, just months before Pei’s 92nd birthday, it was the first major project in Qatar to set architecture-loving hearts aflutter. Now, after an extensive enhancement project, its dramatic interior spaces are looking better than ever. Spanning 1,400 years of history, the museum’s galleries have been reimagined and reinstalled, introducing new visitor trails and child-friendly resources as well as more than 1,000 newly conserved or acquired objects displayed for the first time. There’s also a new gallery exploring the building’s creation story, which charts Pei’s journeys through the Islamic world before he finally settled on the fountain at Cairo’s Ibn Tulun Mosque as his inspiration for the museum." - Nicola Chilton
"The Museum of Islamic Art is a good place to get a crash course on Middle Eastern history—and responsible for putting Doha on the map as an emerging cultural center."
