There is nothing like losing yourself in a museum and being completely submerged in history. The Tareq Rajab Museum- one of Kuwait’s distinct personal small-scale museums is a great place to lose yourself at in Kuwait.
The original Tareq Rajab Museum was opened in the 1980's by Taraq Sayed Rajab and his wife Jehan Wellborne. Tareq Sayed Rajab and his wife are avid collectors of historical artifacts which branch out into textiles, ceramics, costumes and calligraphy pieces, to count a few.
Originally a private art collection, the Tareq Rajab Museum houses a collection of over thirty thousand items collected by this dynamic couple over the last fifty years, 10 thousand of which are now on permanent display. The museum contains calligraphy, pottery, metalwork, glass, wood, carvings costumes, textiles, embroideries and jewelry of the Islamic world.
Since then, the museum has expanded by adding two new buildings to the museum in Jabriya, the area where the first museum was opened. The two new additions are Dar Al-Cid and Dar Jehan also known as the Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy.
I still have one of Tereq Rajab's paintings which was painted in 1974. It was bought in Kuwait early in 1975. The painting is in oil and is very similar, although darker colours, to the one shown on page 33 of his book entitled "Tareq Sayid Rajab and the development of fine art in Kuwait" ---- I hope you find this useful
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