Sultan Al Qasimi directs allocating a grant to restore the Museum of the Owner of “Broken Wings”

Sharjah renews the legacy of Gibran Khalil Gibran in his hometown

The Sharjah Ruler’s Grant for the Museum will run for 5 years.

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His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, directed a grant to restore and modernize the Gibran Khalil Gibran Museum in the Lebanese town of Bsharri (Gibran’s birthplace), and to work on preserving the collections and restoring pieces of art such as photographs, manuscripts, tools and books, And paintings, in addition to providing it with the latest museum display techniques.

The five-year grant comes as part of a series of initiatives by His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, to appreciate cultural symbols in the region and the world, and to sponsor institutions that carry noble values. The museum displays the biography of the international writer and philosopher Gibran Khalil Gibran, and highlights his literary and artistic biography.

The Gibran Museum committee revealed that the grant of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah will be spent on printing a selection of Gibran's books, which are: "The Prophet", "Magnon", "Broken Wings", "Twenty Drawings" and "Turn the Pages". and "The Final Home", in addition to the release of a documentary film.

She explained that the museum will benefit from the grant to renovate and equip a reading room, work on installing a painting structure in one of the museum's rooms, and provide and install tablets on the walls of the museum, to facilitate public access to information related to the exhibits.

His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, inaugurated in 2021 the exhibition "A View of the Soul", which was organized by the "House of Wisdom", in cooperation with the "Gibran National Committee" and the Gibran Museum, and it witnessed the display of 34 original artworks by Gibran.

Gibran Museum officials valued the honor of His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, and stressed that such efforts are not alien to His Highness, who is a symbol in the world in supporting culture and intellectuals, nurturing human gains, and protecting the legacy of creators, cultural institutions, and historical monuments with a civilized dimension.

Museum officials:

• "Such efforts are not strange to His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, who is a symbol of supporting culture and intellectuals, and caring for human gains."

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