Tribune News Network
Doha
The Learning and Outreach Department at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) is planning to visit a number of schools in the country as part of its community outreach initiatives, the museum announced on Monday.
The programme prepares students for the NMOQ opening, introduces them to its collection and establishes the museum as a primary educational resource for culture, heritage and history.
Ahead of its opening to the public on March 28, 2019, the NMoQ has designed and developed a wide variety of exciting and engaging resources for school groups, families and young visitors.
These extend the educational resources built into the museum itself, which include six indoor, purpose-built intergenerational learning spaces that enable students to do everything from uncover ancient objects to explore life on board a pearling dhow.
NMoQ will also host various school events, from plays to away-days, in coordination with NMoQ education staff.
"It is important for us to support the development of creative, compassionate and engaged students who come to us to learn from the museum’s resources and not to simply visit it,” said Fatima al Kuwari, head of the Learning and Outreach department at NMoQ.
"Education is at the heart of the National Museum of Qatar’s offerings. Our educational programmes not only complement the national curriculum but also introduce audiences to our country’s rich history, diverse culture and connection with the world around us,” she added.
The educational programmes at NMoQ present knowledge in engaging, interactive ways to encourage learners to expand their cultural horizons, gain a sense of national participation, build critical thinking skills and nourish their curiosity.
NMoQ tells the story of Qatar’s past, present and future through an immersive, multilayered experience. The highly anticipated museum is organised in three ‘chapters’ — Beginnings, Life in Qatar, and Building the Nation — presented in eleven galleries.
The visitor’s chronological journey, which extends through more than 1.5 kilometres of experiences, starts in the geological period long before the peninsula was inhabited by humans and continues to the present day.
Each gallery is an all-encompassing environment, which tells its part of the grand story through a creative combination of elements such as music, storytelling, archival images, oral histories and evocative aromas. Designed as distinctive experiences, these environmental galleries also contextualise an impressive array of archaeological and heritage objects, manuscripts, documents, photographs, jewellery and costumes.
Doha
The Learning and Outreach Department at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) is planning to visit a number of schools in the country as part of its community outreach initiatives, the museum announced on Monday.
The programme prepares students for the NMOQ opening, introduces them to its collection and establishes the museum as a primary educational resource for culture, heritage and history.
Ahead of its opening to the public on March 28, 2019, the NMoQ has designed and developed a wide variety of exciting and engaging resources for school groups, families and young visitors.
These extend the educational resources built into the museum itself, which include six indoor, purpose-built intergenerational learning spaces that enable students to do everything from uncover ancient objects to explore life on board a pearling dhow.
NMoQ will also host various school events, from plays to away-days, in coordination with NMoQ education staff.
"It is important for us to support the development of creative, compassionate and engaged students who come to us to learn from the museum’s resources and not to simply visit it,” said Fatima al Kuwari, head of the Learning and Outreach department at NMoQ.
"Education is at the heart of the National Museum of Qatar’s offerings. Our educational programmes not only complement the national curriculum but also introduce audiences to our country’s rich history, diverse culture and connection with the world around us,” she added.
The educational programmes at NMoQ present knowledge in engaging, interactive ways to encourage learners to expand their cultural horizons, gain a sense of national participation, build critical thinking skills and nourish their curiosity.
NMoQ tells the story of Qatar’s past, present and future through an immersive, multilayered experience. The highly anticipated museum is organised in three ‘chapters’ — Beginnings, Life in Qatar, and Building the Nation — presented in eleven galleries.
The visitor’s chronological journey, which extends through more than 1.5 kilometres of experiences, starts in the geological period long before the peninsula was inhabited by humans and continues to the present day.
Each gallery is an all-encompassing environment, which tells its part of the grand story through a creative combination of elements such as music, storytelling, archival images, oral histories and evocative aromas. Designed as distinctive experiences, these environmental galleries also contextualise an impressive array of archaeological and heritage objects, manuscripts, documents, photographs, jewellery and costumes.