Qatar Museums working on 10-year plan to fuse museology with heritage

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Museums is working on a 10 year plan to seamlessly blend museology with the nation s rich heritage and diverse collections. Shei...

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Museums is working on a 10-year plan to seamlessly blend museology with the nation’s rich heritage and diverse collections.

Sheikha Amna Al Thani, Chief of Museum and Heritage Development at Qatar Museums, revealed this initiative during a recent episode of “The Power of Culture” podcast, hosted by Qatar Museums Chairperson, H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani.

The strategic roadmap aims to craft complementary experiences across various museums, each spotlighting unique narratives and themes. Over the next eight years, the museum will experiment with diverse themes and narratives while concurrently nurturing heritage sites. Originally conceived for the World Cup in 2022, this endeavour will span a decade, focusing on the seamless integration of museology with heritage and general collections.

“What we’re trying to do here is create complementary experiences with our different museums where one highlights one story, the other is more about an in-depth tale of a theme. So over the next eight years in development, we will be prototyping a lot of the themes, narratives, and in parallel, we are developing our heritage sites."

Sheikha Amna added: “And this is a huge exercise that we’ve started for the World Cup, but it will carry over the next 10 years and we’re working on a full 10-year plan to integrate museology with the heritage and also our general collections,” said.