We wanted to go to one of the several museums in the area. Number one on our list was the new Museum for Islamic Art in a building designed by I.M.Pei, however it was not opened yet. It was completed last year and ready for the hand over and was supposed to be open in 2007. I guess they are waiting for the last month in 2007 to open it.
Turns out the Qatar National museum wasn't open either because of restorations. So we decided to go to the Al Wakra museum in Al Wakra, south of Doha. And to get there we past another roundabout, this time with giant perfume bottles in the center.
We get there and read that it was on Buoy roundabout next to the coast guard station. We found the roundabout and the coast guard stations but no museum. We drove around for about a half hour look for this building. Qatar is horrible about signage. Use your signs. One that said museum and had an arrow would have been nice. But in driving around looking for this thing we got to see a true Middle East town that hadn't been monopolized by commercialism like Doha. The old architecture was still there and the mosques were beautiful as always. No museum but in a way the town itself was one.
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