Museums in Arabia: Transnational Practices and Regional Processes

With the regeneration of existing museums as well as the establishment of new ones, museum activity has, in recent years, undergone major and rapid development in the Arabian Peninsula. Alongside such rapid expansion, questions are inevitably raised as to the new challenges museums face in this region.

This volume addresses the issues facing museums in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen and the UAE, with contributions from heritage practitioners with first-hand experience of working in the region and leading academics from a range of disciplines.

The interdisciplinary approaches analyse museum development from both an inside and outside perspective, suggesting that museums do not follow a uniform trajectory across the region, but are embedded within each states’ socio-cultural context, individual government agendas and political realities. Including case study analyses, new empirical data and critical evaluation of the role of the museum in Arabian Peninsula societies, this book adds fresh perspectives to the study of Gulf heritage and museology.

22 black and white illustrations

Softcover

188 pages

Dimensions: height 23.4 x width 15.7 x depth 2.0 cm

ISBN: 9780367192952

Publisher: Routledge

Published June 30, 2021