Visiting The Museum
Saturday – Thursday: 09:00 AM – 12.00 PM & 16:00 PM – 19:00PM
Friday: 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Tareq Rajab Museum
Block 12, Street 5, Building 22
Jabriya, Kuwait
Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy
Block 12, Street 1, Building 2
Jabriya, Kuwait
Admission is KD2 for adults
Admission for school trips is free
The same ticket can be used at both museums
Visiting The Museum
Saturday – Thursday: 09:00 AM – 12.00 PM & 16:00 PM – 19:00PM
Friday: 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Tareq Rajab Museum
Block 12, Street 5, Building 22
Jabriya, Kuwait
Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy
Block 12, Street 1, Building 2
Jabriya, Kuwait
Admission is KD2 for adults
Admission for school trips is free
The same ticket can be used at both museums
Visiting the Museum
Saturday – Thursday: 09:00 AM – 12.00 PM & 16:00 PM – 19:00PM
Friday: 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Tareq Rajab Museum
Block 12, Street 5, Building 22
Jabriya, Kuwait
Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy
Block 12, Street 1, Building 2
Jabriya, Kuwait
Admission is KD2 for adults
Admission for school trips is free
The same ticket can be used at both museums
Welcome To The Tareq Rajab Museum
Established in 1980 by Tareq S. Rajab and Jehan S. Rajab, the Tareq Rajab Museum houses a collection of over thirty thousand items collected over the last sixty years, of which approximately ten thousand are on permanent display. While the museum is often referred to as a single entity, its collections are displayed across two nearby locations. The “Tareq Rajab Museum“, is the original museum founded in 1980 and is home to the collections of Islamic manuscripts, ceramics, glass, metalwork including the Bronze Door of Sultan Barquq, Islamic arms and armour, a large collection of silver folk jewellery, textiles, embroideries, costumes, musical instruments and orientalist artwork. In contrast, the “Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy“, which was founded in 2007, displays a range of mediums for Arabic script including manuscripts by famous calligraphers and scientists such as Yaqut Al-Musta’simi, Sheikh Hamdullah Al-Amasi, Ya’qub Ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi and Qusta Ibn Luqa Al-Ba’albaki, contemporary calligraphy and art, as well as decorated ceramics, metalwork, glass and textiles, such as four Burqa’s (curtains of the Holy Ka’aba’s door) located at the centre of the museum and a curtain from the inside of the shrine of the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) in Medina.
Featured Collections
The Tareq Rajab Museum is home to a very large and important collection of Al Quran and manuscripts that originate from across the entirety of the Islamic World, encompassing works from the earliest Umayyad Caliphs (AD 661-750) to The Qajars of Persia (AD 1779-1924).
The Gold Room displays gold jewellery from both pre-Islamic and Islamic periods. While the museum is home to pre-Islamic piece's that originate from the Himalayan region, the majority originate from the Middle East, influencing later craft development in the Islamic world.
The Tareq Rajab Museum contains pottery and ceramics from many regions across the Islamic World, including Mesopotamia, Persia, Transoxiana, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Spain and as far as China; with examples dating from between the 9th century and the 19th century AD.