President, First Lady visit Bahrain National Museum, Beit Al Quran Facility

President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and First Lady Fazna Ahmed on Saturday visited and toured the Bahrain National Museum and the Beit Al Quran Facility in Bahrain.

The visits took place during the President and First Lady's state visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain at the invitation of the King, H.M. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. 

The Bahrain National Museum was officially inaugurated by the late Amir H.H. Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al-Khalifa on 15, December 1988.

The museum complex is composed of two connected buildings that house the permanent exhibition area, temporary exhibition halls, an art gallery, and a lecture hall, among other amenities.

Notably, the Museum holds 6000 years of Bahrain’s history.

The Beit Al Quran Facility is a multi-purpose complex, that was established in 1990.

The complex is most famous for its Islamic Museum, it is one of the most renowned Islamic museums in the world.

Additionally, it was built to accommodate a comprehensive and valuable collection of the Quran and other rare Islamic manuscripts.

The institution and its museum house historic Quranic manuscripts from various parts of the Islamic world, including China in the East and Spain in the West, which represent the progression of calligraphic traditions from the first Hijri century (622–722 AD) and of the Islamic Golden Age, to the present day.