Beyti Beytak • My Home is Your Home — Fahad bin Ali Palace, Doha, 25 October 2026 – 29 May 2027
Photo: Mat Kieffer, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Qatar Museums and the future Art Mill Museum present Beyti Beytak • My Home is Your Home at the Fahad bin Ali Palace in Msheireb, Doha, until 29 May 2027. The exhibition opened on 25 October 2026 in the presence of Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, chairperson of Qatar Museums, and it is the first time that the palace, a 1953 landmark next to the Amiri Diwan that blends Art Deco with vernacular Qatari architecture, has been opened to the public.
The project was first shown at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2025, where it marked Qatar’s first official participation in the architecture exhibition, and it has been expanded for Doha. More than forty architects, designers and practitioners from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia and beyond are represented, among them Nayyar Ali Dada, AAU Anastas, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Rifat Chadirji, Aziza Chaouni, Sumaya Dabbagh, Elizabeth Diller, Balkrishna Doshi, Michel Écochard, ELEMENTAL, Hassan Fathy and Herzog & de Meuron. Across seven sections, architectural models, drawings, archival material, films and site-specific installations look at communal places from desert oases and sacred spaces to private houses and contemporary museums, treating architecture as a social practice rooted in home, hospitality and shared responsibility. New for Doha are a commission by the Iraqi architect Ola Znad, Souq Al Liqa, built in the traditional reed construction of the Ahwar marshes, and archival research tracing the city’s own urban development.
The exhibition is curated by Aurélien Lemonier, Art Mill Museum senior curator of architecture, design and gardens, with Sean Anderson as guest co-curator, assisted by Virgile Alexandre and Farah Al Sidiky.
Practical details
- Dates: 25 October 2026 – 29 May 2027
- Opening hours: Tuesday to Thursday and Saturday to Sunday 11am–9pm; Friday 3.30–9pm; closed Monday
- Where: Fahad bin Ali Palace, Msheireb, Doha, Qatar
- Organised by: Qatar Museums and the Art Mill Museum
- Tickets and information: qm.org.qa
Cultural Heritage Online lists this exhibition because it opens a mid-century palace of Doha to visitors for the first time and uses it to show how the region’s architects have thought about home, from vernacular building to the contemporary museum.
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