The National Museum of Qatar in Doha opened in its current building on March 28, 2019, replacing an earlier museum that had occupied the site since 1975. Designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, the building takes its form from the desert rose, a crystal formation found in Qatar's arid terrain, and is built from large interlocking curved discs of varying sizes that intersect to create shaded cavities intended to protect visitors from the desert heat. The roughly 40,000-square-meter museum wraps around and incorporates the restored Old Amiri Palace, once the residence of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani and a building central to Qatari national identity, at the heart of its site on the southern end of Doha's Corniche. The museum complex connects to the surrounding shoreline by two pedestrian bridges and one road bridge.
Facts
Building Type Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Qatar, located there.
Sources
1. National Museum of Qatar, Wikipedia
Opening paragraph
a national museum in Doha, Qatar
History, New Building
opened to the public on 28 March 2019
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The National Museum of Qatar in Doha opened in its current building on March 28, 2019, replacing an earlier museum that had occupied the site since 1975. Designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, the building takes its form from the desert rose, a crystal formation found in Qatar's arid terrain, and is built from large interlocking curved discs of varying sizes that intersect to create shaded cavities intended to protect visitors from the desert heat. The roughly 40,000-square-meter museum wraps around and incorporates the restored Old Amiri Palace, once the residence of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani and a building central to Qatari national identity, at the heart of its site on the southern end of Doha's Corniche. The museum complex connects to the surrounding shoreline by two pedestrian bridges and one road bridge.
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