Rashid Al Muhairi, the principal cultural guide at the Shindagha Museum in charge of Bait Al Khor and Perfume House, stressed the historical and commercial importance of Dubai Creek, saying it was the vital artery of Dubai and the commercial activity it witnessed since the 15th century. Since its inception, the creek has a historical and life significance for this place, pointing out that this museum combines the spirit of authenticity through ancient buildings and contemporary spirit with modern technology, including the film depicting Dubai 200 years ago.
“The Shindagha Museum was established at the initiative of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. The first project was the Al Shindagha Open Air Museum, which includes 17 museums in a number of houses, as well as art galleries and heritage restaurants that will be adjacent to the museums, with the purpose of presenting Dubai's history and heritage on the one hand, and documenting and restoring the area on the other. ''
Al Muhairi pointed out that the area is open to heritage projects in all its forms, including traditional crafts, and illustrated and written history.All these projects will be distributed among the old houses, explaining that the Creek House knows people the value of the creek for Dubai, where Dubai was founded around it, as it was the reason for living for these City. The Cultural Guide stressed that the Creek House has known people the importance of the Creek throughout history, and shows its importance in the Gulf for thousands of years, where commercial convoys were passing through the land of Dubai, and through the Creek, which was taken as a port, and was inferred through discoveries in different areas in Dubai, there Monuments belonging to Mesopotamia, Sindh, and Pharaonic monuments, which confirms the passage of all these ancient civilizations.
Al-Muhairi stressed that through marine discoveries, the passage of civilizations and how they took the Creek as a port and a passage for ships, pointing out that Dubai has known commercial activity since the 15th century through a Sicilian merchant named Balbi.This story is one of the oldest stories that mention the city of Dubai.
Phase
Speaking about the development of the creek, Al Muhairi stressed that it has evolved through stages from diving trips to and from Dubai, then deepening the creek in two stages in the fifties and sixties, as many ships were passing and could not enter due to the difficulty of the northern stream and wind, and then new areas were established on the outskirts As demand for Dubai rose as a commercial destination, Mina Rashid was established in 1969 and was completed in 1971 and was officially opened in 1974. To continue increasing demand came the establishment of Jebel Ali Port, Dubai was housing and trade, and everything related to daily life centered in Creek.
Al-Muhairi explained that the visit to the museum introduced visitors to the discoveries in the first room, which includes many discoveries, including those belonging to the Pharaonic civilization, in addition to the stones that did not exist only in the country of Sindh, and there are talismans and necklaces reflect the strange beliefs that prevailed in that period.
14 teachers
In another room we see how Dubai has evolved through its landmarks, where it counted 14 teachers that contributed significantly to the development of Dubai, including Dubai Municipality, the deepening of the creek, Al Maktoum Bridge, Shindagha Tunnel, Mina Rashid, and others, it was the first building block for the founding of the city of Dubai. With objects that can be corrected by cameras to return to their initial form in the past. He added that they also chose Al Maktoum Hospital as one of the landmarks, because it was the first hospital in Dubai, as they were forced to walk 500 km to reach Muscat for treatment, and the late Sheikh Maktoum bin Hasher Al Maktoum, the father of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, went for treatment in Muscat, and on his return died and was buried there.
Intellectual Perceptions
As for the culture of museums and their presence in the UAE, Al Muhairi noted the existence of a large category that goes to museums, not only to visit but also to expand intellectual perceptions and to experience the same history, where they come from painters associations, as well as for meetings, so the museum became part of the community itself, as it inspires inspiration Many of the arts, the museum is linked to the reality of art in Dubai. He stressed that history and heritage are part of the culture, and from visiting the museum we learn about culture and crafts, especially as it displays art related to history, photos and documents fall within the framework of historical arts, pointing to the existence of a lot of imagination in films that carry imaginations of old images, and this combines Technology, drawing and drawing information from the photos, where the story and Dubai are presented 200 years ago in a 12-minute film.
Special rates for students
Cultural guide Rashid Al Muhairi said that the museum offers special tours for school students at special prices, where organizing tours to introduce the history of Dubai to bring these stories to their minds rather than rigid lessons. He pointed out that the French schools adopt the test students interactively in the museum instead of examining students with these materials through questions and answers in class.
- Stones existed only in the country of Sindh and talismans and necklaces reflect the strange beliefs were prevalent.
- Dubai has known business activity since the 15th century through a Sicilian merchant named Balbi, and this is one of the oldest stories that remember Dubai.