Museum
Scitech - Prince Sultan Science and Technology Center
Seaside science centre with interactive halls, a giant-screen dome and an astronomical observatory.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Scitech, the Sultan bin Abdulaziz Science and Technology Center on the Al Khobar corniche near Dammam, is about an old ritual and a new instrument: watching the sky for the crescent that opens Ramadan. It begins far inland at Majmaah with Abdullah al-Khudairi, one of the moon-sighters the kingdom sends out, and returns to the domed observatory on this building's northeastern corner. Along the way it visits a December morning in twenty nineteen when families in Al-Ahsa went into the desert to watch the sun.
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