There is no better place to start our journey into Dilmun than at the Bahrain National Museum.
Sitting on over 20,000 square meters of land, and inaugurated on December 15, 1988, the largest museum in Bahrain is a repository for 6000 years of the island's history. With six (6) permanent display halls and a very active temporary exhibition area, as well as a gift shop, cafe and a lecture hall, the Bahrain National Museum is considered one of the finest museums in the Gulf area.
The permanent exhibition halls include the Hall of Graves, a testimony to the estimated 80,000 burial mounds that is scattered across the length of the western side of the the main island. The Dilmun Hall showcases the development of Bahrain's ancient past from the Neolithic to the Late Dilmun era. There is a hall dedicated to the period of Tylos and Islam in the island, as well as a hall of a collection of important documents and manuscripts from the Arabic and Islamic cultures. Two halls are reserved for the traditional trades and crafts, as well as the cultures and traditions of the Bahraini people.
Visit the Bahrain National Museum any day of the week, from 8am to 8pm. Entrance fee is only 1 dinar per person, but comes with a postcard to send to loved ones back home.
Bahrain National Museum
Shaikh Hamad Causeway
Manama, Bahrain
#pinoyindilmun
Sitting on over 20,000 square meters of land, and inaugurated on December 15, 1988, the largest museum in Bahrain is a repository for 6000 years of the island's history. With six (6) permanent display halls and a very active temporary exhibition area, as well as a gift shop, cafe and a lecture hall, the Bahrain National Museum is considered one of the finest museums in the Gulf area.
The permanent exhibition halls include the Hall of Graves, a testimony to the estimated 80,000 burial mounds that is scattered across the length of the western side of the the main island. The Dilmun Hall showcases the development of Bahrain's ancient past from the Neolithic to the Late Dilmun era. There is a hall dedicated to the period of Tylos and Islam in the island, as well as a hall of a collection of important documents and manuscripts from the Arabic and Islamic cultures. Two halls are reserved for the traditional trades and crafts, as well as the cultures and traditions of the Bahraini people.
Visit the Bahrain National Museum any day of the week, from 8am to 8pm. Entrance fee is only 1 dinar per person, but comes with a postcard to send to loved ones back home.
Bahrain National Museum
Shaikh Hamad Causeway
Manama, Bahrain
#pinoyindilmun
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