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Doha: On the occasion of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and the year-round national cultural movement Qatar Creates, Qatar Museums will present the special exhibition Art Mill Museum 2030, on view to the public from October 24 through March 30, 2023 at the Qatar Flour Mills Warehouse and the recently renovated Al Najada Heritage House #15 in Doha.
Looking ahead towards the opening of the Art Mill Museum Matahen Alfan in 2030, the exhibition will introduce the concept of the museum, the architectural project by Elemental, led by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena, and the garden design.
Completing a cultural district that already comprises the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), MIA Park and the National Museum of Qatar, the Art Mill Museum will house an exceptional and international art collection assembled over the past 40 years, with multidisciplinary works of great diversity dating from 1850 to the present.
In the main building of 80,000sqm (including 23,000 sqm of gallery spaces), the Art Mill Museum will offer visual art icons as well as architecture and design, films and film props, fashion, crafts, and much more.
A pioneering institution in the non-Western world, it will represent the modern and contemporary arts of all regions of the globe on an equal basis, engaging local and international audiences alike through multiple narratives of art history. The museum concept has been developed by art historian and museum director Catherine Grenier and the prefiguration team.
A signature public garden is designed by VOGT Landscape Architects, led by Günther Vogt. A creative village for arts, crafts and design will provide recreational, learning and production resources for the general public and for the creative communities of Qatar and beyond.
H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Museums, said:“As visitors from around the world come to Doha for Qatar Creates and the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, we are thrilled to take the public behind the scenes, revealing the complex and fascinating process of how we are developing an institution that will be one of the world's leading museums of modern and contemporary art.”
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