{"id":213495,"date":"2025-12-03T16:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213495\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:53:11","slug":"first-museum-dedicated-to-maqbool-fida-husain-opens-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213495\/","title":{"rendered":"First museum dedicated to Maqbool Fida Husain opens in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian architect Martand Khosla has designed a series of geometric volumes for the Lawh Wa Qalam: M F Husain Museum in Doha<\/a>, which is the world’s first museum<\/a> dedicated to modernist artist Maqbool Fida Husain.<\/p>\n

Launched by non-profit organisation Qatar Foundation<\/a>, the museum contains over 150 objects celebrating the life and career of Husain, a Qatari artist who was born in India and passed away in 2011.<\/p>\n

\"LawhThe Lawh Wa Qalam: M F Husain Museum has opened in Doha<\/p>\n

Located in Qatar Foundation’s Education City campus, the Lawh Wa Qalam: M F Husain Museum is made up of a series of rectangular and cylindrical volumes with geometric relief patterns on the facades.<\/p>\n

Khosla<\/a>‘s design for the building was based on a sketch Husain drew when imagining what a museum dedicated to his works might look like.<\/p>\n

\"ArtMartand Khosla based his design for the building on a sketch drawn by Maqbool Fida Husain<\/p>\n

“The architectural challenge, one I enjoyed immensely, was to translate his symbolic vision into a contemporary building that could both house his individual legacy and engage with the context of Education City,” said Khosla.<\/p>\n

“The museum’s architectural language evolved into a series of spaces that invite reflection and exchange, with materials that celebrate our shared cultural histories across South and West Asia.”<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Suzhou<\/p>\n

BIG unveils Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art topped with ribbon-like roof\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

The museum’s interior was designed as a series of exhibition spaces that guide visitors through Husain’s career, containing the artist’s paintings, sculpture, films, tapestries, photography, poetry and installations.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the building is a cafe, gift shop, timber-lined library, creativity hub and an auditorium designed for events and lectures.<\/p>\n

\"ArtIt is the world’s first museum dedicated to Husain<\/p>\n

“Created as a space for learning, discovery, and cross-cultural dialogue, Lawh Wa Qalam: M F Husain Museum invites visitors to explore Husain’s artistic world and the influences, philosophies, and memories that shaped his practice,” said the Qatar Foundation.<\/p>\n

Other art museums that have recently been featured on Dezeen include a gallery in Suzhou with a ribbon-like roof designed by BIG<\/a> and a curving museum in Los Angeles designed by MAD<\/a>, which is nearing completion.<\/p>\n

The photography is by the Qatar Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian architect Martand Khosla has designed a series of geometric volumes for the Lawh Wa Qalam: M F…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,62143,366,35487,18,117,9127,19,17,4504,2120,10357,10358],"class_list":{"0":"post-213495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-cultural-buildings","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-doha","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-galleries","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-museums","21":"tag-qatar","22":"tag-sectionall","23":"tag-sectionarchitecture"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115656681753122760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}