Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum

Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum is a privately owned museum positioned in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya in Qatar. Encompassing an area of 530,000 m², the 3-building museum turned into opened in 1998 by means of Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani. The museum is positioned in Al Samriya, a locality of Al-Shahaniya that is about 20 km westward of the capital Doha. It is offered thru Dukhan Road. In 1998, Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani opened the museum to the general public. The museum, consisting of three buildings, was built over a historic castle in Al Samriya.

Sheikh Faisal has stated that his cause turned into to hold and sell the cultural background of Qatar with the aid of housing conventional artifacts and works of art within the museum. There are 15 halls within the museum which accommodate a total of over 15,000 artifacts. All of the artifacts within the museum were amassed with the aid of Sheikh Faisal over a span of 50 years. The artifacts are grouped into 4 principal categories: Islamic art, automobiles, coins and forex, and traditional Qatari artifacts. Objects of each category are housed in separate rooms with distinct subject matters.