Tareq Rajab Museum

The Tareq Rajab Museum contains more than thirty thousand items that were collected over the previous fifty years, with approximately ten thousand on permanent exhibit.

Tareq Sayed Rajab was the first Kuwaiti to study art and archaeology in another country. He met and fell in love with Jehan Wellborne while studying in the United Kingdom. They traveled together throughout the Islamic world as well as Central and South-East Asia and the Far East, gathering artifacts and documenting monuments, people, and customs or anything they thought could be used and shown in a museum. Devoting their life to working and studying, finally, they could unveil the Museum to the public in 1980.

The Museum is currently divided into two separate areas:

• Area A exhibits calligraphy, manuscripts, miniatures, ceramics, metalwork, glass, jade-, wood- and stone-carvings
• Area B displays costumes, textiles, jewelry, and musical instruments in the Islamic world dated back to 250 years

Location: Kuwait City