Company House - Msheireb Museums
Former headquarters of Qatar's first oil company, telling its early workers' story through tools and film.
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This guide to Company House in Doha follows the Qatari pioneers who worked for the country's first oil company, men who came in from the Dukhan field and waited here between jobs. It reaches back to 1939 and to a long wartime pause that stretched their journeys and separations. Inside the cinema you hear workers speak in their own words, and the museum lets you pick up the tools they used. Best heard standing in the cinema room.
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