Tag - Museum

KAREN BLIXEN’S HOUSE

If you loved the Out of Africa movie, you’d love this museum as much as we did. It is located in the farmhouse where author Karen Blixen lived between 1914 and 1931. She left after a series of personal tragedies, but the lovely colonial house has been preserved as a museum. The...

ROYAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM

Today, finally, we drove out of Amman, and we made a short stop at the museum (๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ 5 JOD), which displays more than 70 classic cars and motorbikes from the personal collection of King Hussein. It’s a gem and a great way to recount the story of modern Jordan. Vehicles range from pre...

AMMAN – TANK MUSEUM

We arrived at an imposing building that looked like a futuristic military base. Inside is Ammanยดs newest Royal Tank Museum (๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ 5 JOD), which opened in 2018. It was our honor and great pleasure to have a private visit guided by the general manager, Mr. Maher A. Tarawneh, through 20,000...

AMMAN – HEJAZ RAILWAY

Our first stop on the busy sightseeing day was the Hejaz Railway, which once ferried pilgrims from Damascus in Syria to Amman and then to Medina in Saudi Arabia. Still, only the breeze rolls through this historic old station at present. There’s a small on-site museum (๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ free), and...

SHEIKH FAISAL BIN QASSIM AL THANI MUSEUM

After nearly a week’s stay in Doha, we finally hit the road again toward Al Samriya. On the way, we stopped at our favorite hypermarket, LuLu, and bought a few goodies for our fridge. (we still feel it’s the most expensive country in the Gulf). After a 30-minute drive, we...

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF QATAR

Our second museum today was opened in March 2019. French architect Jean Nouvel’s sprawling desert-rose-inspired structure is spectacular (๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ 50 QAR). It houses 1.5km of galleries organized into three ‘chapters’: Beginnings, Life in Qatar, and Building the Nation...

MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART

It took us a few hours to explore the world’s most extensive collection of Islamic art, drawn from three continents. This fabulous museum (๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ 50 QAR) is so rich in treasure that it rewards short, intense visits. Rising from its purpose-built island and set in an extensive landscape...

OFF-ROAD HISTORY MUSEUM

We had the great honor of meeting HH Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan and had a great time with him on a private tour of his unique museum, where he took us through several large halls and introduced us to his collection of more than 500 cars. We were lucky to inspect with him the fresh...

EMIRATES AUTO MUSEUM

We stopped for two hours to visit a pyramid-shaped structure that rises from the desert sands some 45km south of Abu Dhabi on the lonely highway that leads to the Liwa Oasis. It holds the private car collection (๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ 56,85 AED) of HH Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, known as...

AL AQAH CAR MUSEUM

We passed by the Al Aqah Heritage Village and Cars Museum (๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ25 AED, only cash). It was established in 2015 by a local citizen to present local culture and preserve automotive heritage. There are three little museums: one with coins and banknotes, another with ancient books, and the main...