Msheireb Museums
Restored merchant house and former slave market, now the Arab world's first museum confronting the region's history of slavery.
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This guide to Msheireb Museums in Doha centers on Bin Jelmood House, a whitewashed merchant house that doubled as a slave market until well into the twentieth century. You'll hear about the enslaved people, many brought from Zanzibar and the East African coast, sent from this courtyard to dive for pearls in the Gulf, and about the building's second life after Sheikha Moza bint Nasser opened it in 2015 as the first museum in the Arab world to confront slavery directly. First-person films now trace those journeys through the rooms you'll walk.
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