Sharjah Art Museum

About The Museum

Sharjah Art Museum first opened its doors on April 17, 1997.

Why visit the Museum?

This unique museum offers art lovers and all visitors the opportunity to admire the art collections and temporary exhibitions hosted and organized by the museum. In addition, the museum offers the chance for visitors to participate in its programmes and workshops.

A world of beauty, art and creativity ‎

In this stunning museum, you can view exhibitions and permanent collections by renowned artists. Explore the history of the region through the fascinating masterpieces by local painters and Arab artists who have significantly enriched the Arab art scene.

Explore the silent magnificence of various mediums and techniques that will spark your imagination. Throughout the year, the museum holds a variety of temporary exhibitions and art events. The Art Library embraces over 4,000 titles in Arabic, English and other languages, along with visual and audio materials.

Exhibitions‎
Permanent collections: Sharjah Art Museum displays a captivating Collection of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art.

The collection includes paintings and sculptures by renowned artists in the Middle East, including: Abdulqader Al Rais, Louay Kayali, Bashir Sinwar, Faiq Hassan, Mohammed Yusuf and Ismail Fatah Al-Turk.

Enjoy a virtual tour to “Museum Collection: Modern and Contemporary Arab Art” Exhibition

Parallel Histories: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation Exhibition (12 May, 2018 - June, 2025):

Drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, artworks in the exhibition reflect the manifold ways in which artists in the Arab world have responded to socio-political events and the human condition across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While the multiple histories and experiences encapsulated by works on display were often separated by geography, political climate, national borders, personal circumstance, and various conditions of life, they—like parallels—ran alongside one another, replacing each other with time, and forming a kaleidoscopic fabric of both synchronous and changing events. In offering a broad look at the region’s highly varied artistic milieu, this exhibition brings together a plurality of art schools, movements, and figures whose histories have, and continue to coexist side by side. It also calls attention to subjects that remain pertinent for artists in the present-day, mirroring concerns of their peers in the early to mid-twentieth century, including reinterpretations of regional craft, questions of identity, experiences of migrant communities, labour concerns, and changing political structures. In presenting a multiplicity of voices and praxis that emerged from the region and its diasporas in a shared space, the display offers an opportunity to explore the heterogeneity of regional art, and invites visitors to (re)consider the reading of the Arab world’s past and present.

Local and international exhibitions:

The museum hosts local and international exhibitions, cultural activities and artistic & educational workshops throughout the year.

Drop In Workshops

Engage in interactive sessions where children aged 6-12 and their families can participate in hands-on activities from Monday to Thursday. Information about workshops is available at the reception desk, and find materials and instructions provided for independent exploration.

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