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Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum ( ar, مَتْحَف قَصْر ٱلشَّيْخ زَايِد, Matḥaf Ash-Shaykh Zāyid al-Waṭanī), also known as "Al Ain Palace Museum" ( ar, مَتْحَف قَصْر ٱلْعَيْن, Matḥaf Qaṣr Al-ʿAyn), is a
museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
in the city of
Al Ain Al Ain ( ar, ٱلْعَيْن, , ) is a city in the western side of Tawam (region), Tuwwam region and the seat of the administrative division of its namesake, Al-Ain Region, Abu Dhabi, Al Ain in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ...
, within the
Emirate of Abu Dhabi The Emirate of Abu Dhabi (, , or ; ar, إِمَارَةْ أَبُوظَبِي , ) is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is by far the largest emirate, accounting for 87% of the nation's total land area o ...
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United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...
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Description

The museum is based in the palace of the former UAE President,
Sheikh Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...
Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ( ar, زَايِد بِن سُلْطَان آل نَهْيَان, Zāyed bin Sulṭān Āl Nahyān; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was an Emirati politician, statesman, and philanthropist who served as ...
(1918–2004), and his family. It was originally built in 1937 on the western side of the Al Ain Oasis, the largest
oasis In ecology, an oasis (; ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment'ksar''with its surrounding feeding source, the palm grove, within a relational and circulatory nomadic system.” The location of oases has been of critical imp ...
in Al Ain. Sheikh Zayed lived here until 1966. It was made into a museum in 1998. The museum presents many of the rooms in the palace, including an
art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...
. Many of the rooms are of the ''
majlis ( ar, المجلس, pl. ') is an Arabic term meaning "sitting room", used to describe various types of special gatherings among common interest groups of administrative, social or religious nature in countries with linguistic or cultural conne ...
'' (meeting room for receiving visitors) type. In one of the courts there is a replica grand court tent, representing a link with
Bedouin The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (; , singular ) are nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert and A ...
life. There is also a
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similar to the one driven by Sheikh Zayed in the desert to visit Bedouin communities. Behind the museum is the Al Ain Oasis, with an entrance close by, and a path leading through the oasis to the
Al Ain National Museum Al Ain Museum ( ar, مَتْحَف ٱلْعَيْن, Matḥaf Al), also known as Al Ain Museum ( ar, مَتْحَف ٱلْعَيْن, Matḥaf al-ʿAyn), is a museum in the city of Al Ain, within the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirate ...
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See also

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Al Jahili Fort Al-Jahili Fort () is a fort in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. The fort was established in 1891 around Al-Jahili Oasis for the protection of palm farmers. Later it was seized by the former Omani coastal scout for its operation to ...
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Cultural policy in Abu Dhabi The concept of cultural policy in Abu Dhabi, a city within the United Arab Emirates refers to any initiative undertaken by the Emirate government aimed at achieving goals of certain cultural content and ascribable within a coherent strategic frame ...
* List of cultural property of national significance in the United Arab Emirates *
List of museums in the United Arab Emirates This is a list of museums in the United Arab Emirates. *Al Ahmadiya School * Al Ain National Museum * Al Eslah School Museum * Al Hisn Fort Museum * Anime Museum *Dubai Museum * Etihad Museum * Fujairah Heritage Village * Fujairah Museum * Gug ...
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Tawam (region) ar, وَاحَة ٱلْبُرَيْمِي, Wāḥat Al-Buraymī , native_name_lang = ar , image_skyline = Mezyad Fort.jpg , image_caption = Mezyad Fort in Al Ain (UAE), with Jebel Hafeet, which is partially in the Omani Governorate ...


References


External links


Al Ain Palace Museum web page
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