Photo credit: Official website of National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ)
Doha, Qatar: Curtains are about to fall on some of the popular exhibitions in Qatar as they conclude in August.
Some of these include Olafur Eliasson: The Curious Desert; I Am The Traveler And Also The Road; Beirut and the Golden Sixties; and Mosques in Qatar: Then and Now.
Most of the exhibitions are free for residents and non-residents in Qatar. Tickets for the exhibits can be booked through the Qatar Museums website.
The Curious Desert by Olafur Eliasson at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) will run until August 15, while the artist's outdoor installation at Al Thakira Mangrove will continue until October. The two-part exhibit marks as Olafur Eliasson’s first solo exhibition in the Gulf region. Entry to this exhibit is free for residents and non-residents in the country.
Beirut and The Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility will run until this weekend, August 5. The exhibition, on show at Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, showcases paintings, sculptures, multimedia works, and archival materials documenting the turbulent chapter in the development of Modernism in Beirut. Entry to this exhibit is free for residents and non-residents in the country.
I Am The Traveler And Also The Road is also on show at Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art until August 5. It features the works of eleven photographers working in the WANA region. Entry to this exhibit is free for residents and non-residents in the country.
The exhibition Mosques in Qatar: Then and Now will take visitors on a photographic tour which will showcase "that despite architectural changes, the mosque remains as important a part of the community as it ever has been". The exhibit is on show at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) until August 12, 2023. Admission to the exhibition is free for residents in the country and QAR 50 for non-resident adults.
