Last May, I was lucky enough to be invited on a private tour of the new Al Salam Palace Museum which was recently restored. The museum was expected to open end of last year but I guess due to some delays it just opened now.
Al Salam Palace was built in the late 1950s and was used to accommodate visiting heads of state. During the 1990 invasion, the palace was completely destroyed and stayed abandoned for years until the restoration project started back in 2013 to turn it into a museum. The palace is located right next to JACC and consists of three main museums:
Museum of Kuwait’s History through its Rulers
Museum of Al Salam Palace History
Museum of the Civilizations that inhabited Kuwait
You can only get a tour of the museum and there are two kinds right now:
Standard Tour (English or Arabic)
Duration: 120 minutes
Cost: KD8
VIP Tour (Arabic)
Duration: 60-120 minutes
Cost: KD20
The Al Salam Palace website is up right now with more information and booking options, you can check it out at aspm.com.kw. You can also follow them on isntagram @aspm.kw
22 replies on “Al Salam Palace Museum Now Open!”
What’s the difference between the standard tour and the VIP one?
Click the link
Wow that’s a great news, I was folloing SSH as they r the best Architecture and designers in this region. After JACC and ASCC need to see their new creative part. Waiting 2 go and watch.
8 Kd is too exorbitant!
8KD is exorbitant? How much do you guys want to pay for a tour? 7KD? 500fils? I’m curious what amount would be considered acceptable.
Kuwait Towers is 3KD if you want to go to the top. Abduallah Al Salem Cultral Center is 3KD to enter but it isn’t a tour.
Personally I don’t think 8KD is expensive for a guided tour of this specific museum.
20KD for the VIP tour is expensive but I’m also clearly not the target audience for that tour.
Yes 3 KD would be more like it, specially if we would want to go with our family of 5 for example! We don’t own a blog and earn revenue of it, you know!
So the cost of anything in life should be calculated based on your earning and family count?
Off course! Else we’d all be broke
Well guess what, no one is forced to go! Therefore if the ticket would be “exorbitant” for you, then just stay at home and save money from your income until you have enough to visit!
They don’t do tours on weekends and only do them early when I’m at work otherwise, guess I’m not welcome
They do offer tours on Saturdays.
8 KD or 20 KD, seems like they want the public to pay for the restoration. Who will be the first paying customer to take the tour and let us know how it went?
Love the cheap-ass people wanting everything for free or 1 KD.
Nobody said we wanted the tour for 1 KD. 3 Kd was more reasonable.
Yeah but I’d like to buy a Ferrari F40 for 20,000KD doesn’t mean that 500,000KD is exorbitant
Look at this list smart ass and thank God for the blessing you’re in
https://www.viator.com/London-tours/Museum-Tickets-and-Passes/d737-g8-c31
I am sure the Al Salam tour will not be close to a Madame Tausade’s or London Bus tour, so your comparison is not valid.
The same morons that go to London and pay 30KD per person for a party of 10 and still keep their mouth shut because it’s LONDON. Everything is EXORBITANT here.
Yes, we are not in London!
I think they should have an option with no guided tour, just a recorded handheld based on the number of the room and item you’re viewing. cheaper and convenient.
Some people need to be supervised…
I was surprised when they had told me it was only going to be a guided tour since I personally don’t like tours. But, I think that has to do with the fact its a palace and a lot of the items on display are expensive, priceless or fragile and so people need supervision.