(MENAFN- The Peninsula) By Raynald C Rivera | The Peninsula
Doha: The spectacular National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) celebrates another feather in its cap having been declared by TIME Magazine as one of the World's Greatest Places for 2019. TIME has listed NMoQ on the '100 destinations to experience right now which include museums, parks, restaurants and hotels.
'Great news! The National Museum of #Qatar has been named by the @TIME Magazine as one of the 100 World's Greatest Places for 2019! Qatar Museums Chairperson H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani said in a tweet yesterday.
The list is divided into three categories namely greatest places 'To Visit which include 37 museums and parks, greatest places 'To Stay which comprise 44 hotels, and greatest places 'To Eat and Drink which consist of 19 restaurants.
NMoQ has been listed on the greatest places 'To Visit for 2019 along with Mori Building Digital Art Museum in Japan, Camp Adventure in Denmark, Central Library in Canada and Newseum in Washington, DC, among others.
According to TIME, the annual list was selected from nominations from editors and correspondents around the world as well as industry experts after evaluating based on 'quality, originality, sustainability, innovation and influence resulting to '100 new and newly noteworthy destinations to experience right now.
In his article, TIME correspondent Karl Vick referred to NMoQ as a 'groundbreaking structure designed by acclaimed French architect Jean Nouvel taking inspiration from the desert rose.
'In the Gulf, a desert rose forms when sand adheres to the crystals created by the slow evaporation of salt basins. The resulting clusters look like interlocking discs and inspired Jean Nouvel's design of the National Museum of Qatar, which sprawls along the waterfront of the capital, Doha, said Vick.
He added: 'The destination museum opened in March and uses immersive video screens and dioramas to take visitors on a mile-long journey through the peninsula's history, from geology to pearl diving to Bedouin life and finally back to geology—namely, to the discovery of the oil and gas that enriched the kingdom and paved the way for groundbreaking structures like this one.
With an area of 52,000sqm, NMoQ is an architectural masterpiece whose winding, 1.5km gallery path provides a journey through a series of unique, encompassing environments, each of which tells its part of the story of Qatar through a special combination of architectural space, music, poetry, oral histories, evocative aromas, archaeological and heritage objects, commissioned artworks, monumentally-scaled art films, and more.
Commissioned artworks by local and international artists such as Ali Hassan, Aisha Nasser Al Sowaidi, Roch Vandromme, and Jean-Michel Othoniel located outdoors and indoors are among the unique features of the museum.
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