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Executive Summary By Darmansjah Godjali

Time to put the countries in the Persian Gulf region as a travel destination. United Arab Emirates has built a variety of area attractions, including tours of the desert.

Piece of information about a museum in the magazine Qatar Airways Doha en route from Jakarta to attract enough attention. The museum was named the Museum of Islamic Art. Museum of Islamic Art is located at Al Rumaila Park located in the Bay of Doha. From the museum we can see the intention of Doha to be the center of Islamic art.

"Yes, I know the place," said Fuad, taxi driver, who drove us around Doha. Taxi drivers in Doha to easily take his guest to the Museum of Islamic Art because this place does have typical characteristics. From a distance, Turkish-style museum building was already visible.

A magnificent building in the middle of the park looks beautiful. The entrance to the museum in the middle of the flowing water and also the ranks of palm trees that give a sense of cool. Although the distance between the pedestrian street and the museum entrance some distance away, the beauty around him quite entertaining.
Entering the museum, visitors can not charge a penny. Not many museums are free like this. For some reason, when officers know us from Indonesia, he greeted us. "How are you doing?" Asked the museum guard.

the Bay of Doha

A little chat with the guard occurred museum. We were then asked to look at the bottom, the first floor which contains a multimedia room to guide familiar with the museum. Then we walked to the second floor which is where the various artifacts of Islamic art based on themes, such as calligraphy, figures, and science.

On the third floor there are artefacts on display by place and time. The oldest sequence of the early period of Islamic art in the 7th century until the 12th, Iran and Central Asia of the 12th century until the 14th, Egypt and Syria until the 13th century to the 14th, India and Turkey to the 16th century until the 18th. The contents of this museum is really a proof of artistic achievement of the Islamic world.

This museum was first opened in 2008, which is the realization of a dream emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, after two decades earlier. He was ambitious to make Qatar a regional center for education and culture and international.

Museum of Islamic Art is one among a number of museums that have been established and will be built in Qatar. Government of Qatar to see, it's time citizens and also citizens of the world to understand various Islamic art heritage. The world also needs to see the connection between Islamic culture and the culture of a changing world.

 Doha City

In a book about the Museum of Islamic Art, Museum Director Oliver Watson said, for those non-Muslims, this museum also shows how tolerant and progressive Islam to adopt and adapt the ideas that cross borders.
In the museum are also ongoing exhibition. The exhibition is titled "A Journey into the World of Ottomans." This exhibition contains a number of works of art from the 16th century to the 21st century, which describes the situation of the Ottoman Empire at that time until now the Republic of Turkey.

Talking about the Ottomans, we discuss the last caliphate very famous in the world. Ottomans became the center of Islamic civilization for centuries with various works of art and culture that can still be enjoyed until now. For example, the global coffee culture and cafes as a place to relax birth of Ottoman civilization.

Thousands of Ottoman Istanbul was the scene of a number of European artists in expressing their work. In the exhibition that we can see traces of European artists to read life in the East at that time. The work which is the oldest form of portrait painting in 1510 Sultan Mahmud II.

Works that stand out are the works of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour. He is a French artist who witnessed the Ottoman Empire life in the 18th century. He accurately describes the activity in the capital of that empire ranging from diplomatic activity in the palace until the daily activities in Istanbul. This exhibition is one among various Islamic art exhibition which was held in Doha.

Doha also rife with various other arts activities. Auction of works of art more and more done. Auction-emerging Islamic art auction. In October last, an auction of Islamic art goods reached U.S. $ 40.3 million value. In mid-December and also held an auction for the works of calligraphy in Doha.

Of course, contemporary works from Qatar and other Persian Gulf countries are also starting to rise. Among the artists began to see Doha as a "market" for new works of art that most of the Islamic theme.

One of the artists who appear are Sadequain from Pakistan. He made a new breath in the tradition of calligraphy and managed to auction off his work with the U.S. dollar price of 60000-80000. The work, entitled "Surah Al-Rahman" is riveting among art lovers in the place.

Doha is enjoying economic progress because of the oil and gas are now also beginning to shift its economic base as other countries in the Persian Gulf region. Doha seems to have chosen to become tourist destinations in the region as well as a city of Islamic Art, a place for those who want to know the development of Islamic art from time to time.

Time to put the countries in the Persian Gulf region as a travel destination. United Arab Emirates has built a variety of area attractions, including tours of the desert.

Piece of information about a museum in the magazine Qatar Airways Doha en route from Jakarta to attract enough attention. The museum was named the Museum of Islamic Art. Museum of Islamic Art is located at Al Rumaila Park located in the Bay of Doha. From the museum we can see the intention of Doha to be the center of Islamic art.

"Yes, I know the place," said Fuad, taxi driver, who drove us around Doha. Taxi drivers in Doha to easily take his guest to the Museum of Islamic Art because this place does have typical characteristics. From a distance, Turkish-style museum building was already visible.

A magnificent building in the middle of the park looks beautiful. The entrance to the museum in the middle of the flowing water and also the ranks of palm trees that give a sense of cool. Although the distance between the pedestrian street and the museum entrance some distance away, the beauty around him quite entertaining.
Entering the museum, visitors can not charge a penny. Not many museums are free like this. For some reason, when officers know us from Indonesia, he greeted us. "How are you doing?" asked the museum guard.

A little chat with the guard occurred museum. We were then asked to look at the bottom, the first floor which contains a multimedia room to guide familiar with the museum. Then we walked to the second floor which is where the various artifacts of Islamic art based on themes, such as calligraphy, figures, and science.

On the third floor there are artefacts on display by place and time. The oldest sequence of the early period of Islamic art in the 7th century until the 12th, Iran and Central Asia of the 12th century until the 14th, Egypt and Syria until the 13th century to the 14th, India and Turkey to the 16th century until the 18th. The contents of this museum is really a proof of artistic achievement of the Islamic world.

 

This museum was first opened in 2008, which is the realization of a dream emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, after two decades earlier. He was ambitious to make Qatar a regional center for education and culture and international.

Museum of Islamic Art is one among a number of museums that have been established and will be built in Qatar. Government of Qatar to see, it's time citizens and also citizens of the world to understand various Islamic art heritage. The world also needs to see the connection between Islamic culture and the culture of a changing world.