Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum
Private fort-museum of over fifteen thousand collected objects, from vintage cars to a rebuilt Damascene house.
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This guide to the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum in Doha traces one businessman's path from a teenage car-parts seller in 1960s Doha to founder of a billion-dollar holding company, and the collecting habit that grew alongside it — Qurans, fossils, antique cars and carpets that eventually outgrew his own majlis. You'll hear how the collection came to fill a stone fort at Al Samriya, including a Damascene house rebuilt stone by stone around its own courtyard. Wander the halls slowly; the vehicles alone span more than a century.
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