Models, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain

Display of models of traditional historic buildings in Muharraq which are being conserved and adapted by architects Studio Anne Holtrop, in the Bahrain National Museum, designed by Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen, inaugurated December 1988 by Amir Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, in Manama, Bahrain. 16 properties along the Pearling Path or Route de le Perle are being restored, including houses, a mosque and a museum. The museum houses cultural and archaeological collections covering 6000 years of history, with rooms entitled Burial Mounds, Dilmun, Tylos and Islam, Customs and Traditions, Traditional Trades and Crafts, and Documents and Manuscripts. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Al-baa¸¥rayn Bahrain Bahraini Bahrein Conservation Gulf Hartvig Krohn Mamlakat Manama Maquette Muharraq Pearling Perle Rasmussen

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