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Museum · Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Zayed National Museum

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Zayed National Museum is a museum of the history and culture of the United Arab Emirates in the Saadiyat Cultural District on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, honouring the country's founder, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

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Zayed National Museum is a museum in the Saadiyat Cultural District on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, on the history and culture of the United Arab Emirates and the values of its founder, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Visit Abu Dhabi, the emirate's tourism site, describes six permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions, a collection that includes manuscripts and archaeological finds, and a building by Foster + Partners whose five towers reinterpret traditional barjeel wind towers. This record is the museum on Saadiyat Island, not the Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum in Al Ain and not the Founder's Memorial on the Corniche. The museum's own site could not be read for this record; Visit Abu Dhabi directs visitors there for tickets, opening hours and tours.

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Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates; the UAE government portal names the city of Abu Dhabi as one of the emirate's three main regions, with Al Ain in the east and Al Dhafrah in the west, and as home to most ministries and foreign embassies. XTOUR maps places inside the city such as the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Qasr Al Hosn and the Saadiyat Island museums, and treats Al Ain and Al Wathba Wetland Reserve as outside it.

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