Visiting The Museum

Saturday – Thursday: 09:00 AM – 13:00 PM & 16:30 PM – 20:30PM
Friday: 09:00 AM – 13:00 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 KD3 for adults, KD1.5 for anyone under 18 and free for children under 6.
The same ticket can be used at both museums

Visiting The Museum

Saturday – Thursday: 09:00 AM – 13.00 PM & 16:30 PM – 20:30PM
Friday: 09:00 AM – 13:00 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 KD3 for adults, KD1.5 for anyone under 18 and free for children under 6.
The same ticket can be used at both museums

Visiting the Museum

Saturday – Thursday: 09:00 AM – 13:00 PM & 16:30 PM – 20:30PM
Friday: 09:00 AM – 13:00 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 KD3 for adults, KD1.5 for anyone under 18 and free for children under 6.
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. 

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الدكتور زياد السيد رجب سيقدم محاضرة بعنوان "قصة القطعة: مختارات من مقتنيات متحف طارق رجب" وذلك ضمن افتتاح الموسم الثقافي التاسع والعشرين لدار الآثار الإسلامية. ستُعقد المحاضرة في تمام الساعة السابعة مساءً يوم ٣٠ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٤ في مركز اليرموك الثقافي.

Dr. Ziad Al Sayid Rajab will be giving a lecture titled “The Story Behind the Object: A Selection of Objects from the Tareq Rajab Museum“ as part of the opening session of Dar Al Athar Al Islamiyyah’s 29th Cultural Season. The lecture will take place at 7pm on the 30th of September 2024 at the Yarmouk Cultural Centre.

الدكتور زياد السيد رجب سيقدم محاضرة بعنوان "قصة القطعة: مختارات من مقتنيات متحف طارق رجب" وذلك ضمن افتتاح الموسم الثقافي التاسع والعشرين لدار الآثار الإسلامية. ستُعقد المحاضرة في تمام الساعة السابعة مساءً يوم ٣٠ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٤ في مركز اليرموك الثقافي.

Dr. Ziad Al Sayid Rajab will be giving a lecture titled “The Story Behind the Object: A Selection of Objects from the Tareq Rajab Museum“ as part of the opening session of Dar Al Athar Al Islamiyyah’s 29th Cultural Season. The lecture will take place at 7pm on the 30th of September 2024 at the Yarmouk Cultural Centre.
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تشرفنا مؤخرًا باستقبال سعادة عليا مواني، سفيرة كندا لدى الكويت، في متحفنا.

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We recently had the pleasure of welcoming Her Excellency, Aliya Mawani, the Canadian Ambassador to Kuwait to our Museum.

تشرفنا مؤخرًا باستقبال سعادة عليا مواني، سفيرة كندا لدى الكويت، في متحفنا.

🇰🇼🇨🇦

We recently had the pleasure of welcoming Her Excellency, Aliya Mawani, the Canadian Ambassador to Kuwait to our Museum.
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زوج الركاب من شمال أفريقيا من القرن التاسع عشر ميلادي. تتميز هذه الركاب بتصميمها المستطيل الذي ينحني عند القاعدة مع جوانب مثلثية الشكل، مزخرفة بنقوش دقيقة ومُعتقة بالفضة.

📸: @tareqrajab

A pair of North African stirrups (19th Century CE). The stirrups are rectangular and bent at the base with triangular sides that are incised and decorated with silver inlay.

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زوج الركاب من شمال أفريقيا من القرن التاسع عشر ميلادي. تتميز هذه الركاب بتصميمها المستطيل الذي ينحني عند القاعدة مع جوانب مثلثية الشكل، مزخرفة بنقوش دقيقة ومُعتقة بالفضة.

📸: @tareqrajab

A pair of North African stirrups (19th Century CE). The stirrups are rectangular and bent at the base with triangular sides that are incised and decorated with silver inlay.

#antique #northafricanart #19thcentury #equestrianstyle #horsestirrups #vintagefinds #silverinlay #decorativearts #historicalartifacts #artoftheday #collectibleantiques #islamicart #tareqrajabmuseum #kuwait #visitkuwait #kuwaittourism #kuwaitinstagram #kuwaitmuseums
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