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Michelin-starred chef works with no-alcohol approach at MIA’s new IDAM restaurant

Not every world-renowned chef appears to be grumbling about Qatar’s cultural sensibilities. It took 18 months, but famous Frenchman Alain Ducasse has come up with a menu that seems to…

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Report: Museum of Islamic Art ranks among world’s most beautiful museums

Report: Museum of Islamic Art ranks among world’s most beautiful museums Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art joins the Guggenheim and the Louvre in a list of the world’s top 20 most…

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New exhibitions at the MIA encourage kids to be inspired by science

Two new temporary exhibitions have opened at the Museum of Islamic Art which aim to inspire young people in Qatar to get more involved in science. 1001 Inventions invites visitors…

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ArtPrice: How Qatar ‘conquered’ the global art market, and where it’s looking next

The steps Qatar has taken to pursue its “conquest of the art market,” and its plans for the future, are being told by its search history, which has been meticulously…

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Google & QMA celebrate launch of ‘first major online exhibition of Islamic art’

The Qatar Museums Authority hosted an event tonight to mark the launch of its two flagship collections as part of the Google Art Project. An art digitization scheme, Google Art hosts…

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Qatar is the first Arab country on the Google Art Project

You can now browse more than 250 works at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) & Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, sortable by artist, and usually with details of origin, date etc.

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Park at Museum of Islamic Art to open for National Day in December

The Qatar Museum’s Authority announced yesterday that a new park at the Museum of Islamic Art would be completed and open to the public on December 16 – just ahead…

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