Over the weekend I decided to pass by three museums with a friend of mine. All three museums are located right next to each other so you could cover them all in under two hours. There’s actually a fourth museum right next to the Maritime Museum which you could visit as well, the Modern Art Museum, but they were closed when I passed by.
Maritime Museum
Our first stop was the Maritime Museum which is located opposite Souk Sharq. It’s easy to spot since they have to large wooden ships parked outside with a miniature light house [Google Maps]. The museum is pretty nicely designed on the inside, it’s two floors and pretty modern looking with a ship like structure being the main inspiration to the design. They have a lot of sea related items on display from old tools used to build the ships to fishermen gear. Really worth checking out.
Here is their visiting hours:
Monday to Saturday
8:30AM to 12:30PM and 4:30PM to 8:30PM
Friday
4:30PM to 8:30PM
Dickson House Cultural Centre
Further up the road was the Dickson House Cultural Centre. The Dickson House served as offices and residences for the British Political Agents in the early 1900’s. I didn’t like this place much since there wasn’t much to see inside and the whole interior was refurbished but not to the original state. The outdoor yard in the back on the other hand was nice and the Dickson House caretaker Fayez, whom one of my readers nicknamed the Tour Guide Nazi (in reference to Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi) was a really interesting character. I actually enjoyed sitting on the bench in the yard chatting with him more than the actual tour. [Google Maps]
Here is their visiting hours:
Monday to Saturday
8:30AM to 11:30AM and 4:30PM to 8:30PM
Friday
4:30PM to 8:30PM
Amricani Cultural Centre
The final destination was the Amricani Cultural Centre which is located across the street from the House of Parliament. The Amricani was originally the American Mission Hospital and just recently got renovated and opened to the public. Lectures and exhibitions take place there occasionally but when I passed by there wasn’t anything going on. They do have a 20 minute movie you can watch about the history of the hospital but personally I’d go there just to see their freaky looking display. It’s a small corner showing how the hospital used to look like when it first opened but it really looks like a scene from the movie SAW. Definitely worth checking out. They didn’t have opening hours displayed and I couldn’t find anything on their website but my guess it’s similar to the other two museums above. [Google Maps]
Monday to Saturday
8:30AM to 11:30AM and 4:30PM to 8:30PM
Friday
4:30PM to 8:30PM
All the museums above are free of charge to enter.
8 replies on “Kuwait City Museums”
The modern art gallery is a pretty good place to visit on your own. Its practically empty and you’ll have lots of time to walk around the place.
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I think they periodically change the pieces so you may not see some of the paintings on the next visit.
That hospital display does look like a torture chamber.
+1
Someone can shoot haunted scene over there !
Its look like a scene from “ American Horror Stories”
The Amricani Cultural Centre also houses Dar Al Athar Al Islamiyah. They own an amazing Islamic jewellery collection.
Must have been in a different building i guess because the one i went to didn’t have anything except for the display I spoke about, the movie room, the rare books library, auditorium and the exhibition space which was empty.
Fayez…lol… “look this way.”… “don’t look this way”.