Shamma Bint Mohammed launches the "Knowledge for Humanity" initiative
Sheikha Dr. Shamma bint Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan visited a group of important museums in the United Kingdom, including the Wallace Museum in London, which contains the art collection collected by Sir Richard and the Somarquis of Hertford in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The museum contains hundreds of original paintings, hundreds of weapons and armor, historical clocks, manuscripts, and a large collection of art sculptures and ceramic arts belonging to many human civilizations around the world, including masterpieces by artists such as Canaletto, Hals, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez and Fiji Le Brun.
Sheikha Shamma also visited the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London, which is the world's leading art and design museum and houses a permanent collection of more than 2.3 million pieces spanning over 5,000 years of human creativity in architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture and painting. and jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art, design, and theatre.
She visited the Queen's House Museum or the Queen's House in the British capital, London, which was the residence of the Queen, and was built between 1616 and 1619 in Greenwich. Of paintings related to the sea world, the museum also hosts many art exhibitions for artists and photographers in the modern era.
Sheikha Shamma had a date with a visit to the Roman Fishburne Palace in Sussex, United Kingdom, which dates back to the era when Britain was under Roman rule.
Sheikha Dr. Shamma bint Muhammad bin Khalid said: If we want to see history in a real way without forgery, let us look at the arts and collectibles that accompanied human existence, starting from those simple drawings that the first human engraved on the walls of caves to those masterpieces found on the walls of museums that are interested It acquires artistic human creations through different eras.
She added that the cultural and knowledge exchange between cultures around the world enriches human civilization and increases the space for coexistence and love between peoples.
She announced the launch of the "Knowledge for Humanity" initiative, inspired by the spirit of the fiftieth celebration and a message of Emirati brotherhood, during which museums and universities around the world are gifted models of Emirati historical holdings to be among their holdings, with knowledge sources of books and technological means that define the UAE between the past, today and the future, so that the world knows On the Emirati civilization and the ancient folklore, as well as the development of modern arts in the Emirates, a translation of what was expressed by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, when he said, “Human brotherhood and tolerance” is the source of our strength. Let this initiative be a message of love and brotherhood. From the Emirates to everyone around the world, over the course of 3 years, 50 letters containing collectibles and informational books about the Emirates will be sent to 50 museums and 50 universities around the world.
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