The structural design of the Qatar’s land mark museum is a sign of the desert like features in Qatar. The museum is set up close to Corniche in Doha which is in Qatar. Museum structure is made with a path that resembles the trade paths which were formerly used by the desert traders. These desert like routes with the museum are used by the tourist while inside. The decoration which represents a sand color is significant symbol for the dusty Qatar environment. None the less, the museum has also embraced the use of light and shades that has been widely used by the Qatar people (Mulla, 2016). The decoration in general shows the lives of the people of Qatar. For example, how the people lived and did their trade, how they kept their cattle and the general landscape.
Visits have a chance to watch videos about the Qatari people along the wall of the building when they are on tour. This gives the visitors a hint on what to look for when they want to learn more about Qatar. In the museum, there is a restored palace, this shows how much the people of Qatari have advanced in their architectural designs and their Engineering abilities. There are different items that were used and still being used by the Qatar people. One can get them at a glance as gift in the shops created inside the Museum. The desert rose resembles the desert in the Qatar environment (Bounia, 2018)
The overall view of the environment that entails the plants such as grass and other ancient plants. lagoons, dunes as well as crops is represented in the park that found outside the disk-shaped museum. Some significant trees such as date palm as well as big sacred sidra tree is also found in the park. New and old trees have been kept in the park. There are also desert resistant plants that have been captured in the park. In a nutshell, the park shows the natural environment of Qatar. It also shows where and how the citizens interacted with the environment, especially arid environment (Mitchell & Curtis, 2018). Artwork is also evident showing the desert animals like the camels. It is evident that people of Qatari preferred animals that could survive in the desert.
Children have also been furnished with playgrounds so that they can have a feeling of what the culture of the place was and where they have reached with their development so far, the structural designs and features of the museum represents the past and the current state of Qatar environment and social lives of the people. Inside the museum there is the café that gives a hint for the visitors what the Qatari Cosine looks like. They have an opportunity to have a taste of it too (Mitchell & Curtis, 2018). The museum has galleries that interprets the previous events and the presents happenings. The museum therefore is a too. The structure who’s main has been to showcase the environment of the place, political state such as the palace that used to harbor the royal family and in general the lives of the people of Qatar.
References
Bounia, A. (2018). The desert rose as new symbol for the nation;Materiality ,heritage and the artitecture of the new National Museum of Qatar. Heritage and society.
Mitchell, J. S., & Curtis, S. (2018). Old media,new narratives;Repurposing incovenient artifacts for the National Museum of Qatar . Journal of Arabian Studies.
Mulla, M. I. (2016). The development of the first Qatar National museum. Cultural Heritage in the Arabian peninsula .
