Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) revealed on 23rd March, at MOMA, its exhibition plans for the new National Museum of Qatar designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel.
Embodying the pride and traditions of Qatars people while offering international visitors a dialogue about rapid change and modernization, the National Museum of Qatar will be the setting for a program in which entire walls become cinematic displays, sonorous cocoons shelter oral-history presentations and hand-held mobile devices guide visitors through thematic displays of the collections treasures. Though built around an historic structure, the Fariq Al Salatah Palace, which had served as a museum of heritage since 1975, the National Museum of Qatar is conceived and designed as a thoroughly new institution, in keeping with the high aspirations that animate QMA.