The National Museum
Dune-curved national museum telling Arabia's story from the cosmos to Islam and the modern kingdom.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the National Museum in Riyadh is about the man who drew its curved west wall: Raymond Moriyama, a Canadian architect born in Vancouver in nineteen twenty-nine. It reaches back to a burned four-year-old, a wartime internment camp in British Columbia, and a treehouse by a cold river, then forward to a deadline in Riyadh in the late nineteen nineties. Best heard standing in the square, facing the long sweep of the facade.
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