the latest word in luxury travel    RSS

 

globorati - travel.beautiful.

November 21, 2008
AFRICA & MIDEAST | QATAR | DOHA

Will Doha’s new museum rival Bilbao’s Guggenheim?

Qatar secures a place on the international art map with tomorrow’s opening of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. Designed by starchitect I.M. Pei, the $800-million museum houses 13 centuries’ worth of Islamic artifacts from three continents. Read more about Qatar’s ascent in the art world — and the most buzzed about museum since Bilbao’s Guggenheim — here.


email | share | rss

 del.icio.us  digg  facebook
 reddit  yahoo buzz  stumbleupon

read more: Breaking News