Museums

We have visited 3 museums in Muscat during this week! I am a bit proud to say it because it seems the museums opening times and “our schedule” never fit. The museums here are usually open from Saturday until Thursday and usually in the mornings, until 1.30 pm or so. Andres works from Saturday until Wednesday and on Thursdays we are often out of Muscat or we get out of the house only after 11am, so we never get enough time for museums visit.

On Thursday when I was in Wadi Ash Shab then Andres went to the Sultan's Armed Forces museum with the boys. They had arrived half an hour before closing time, so we decided to go there again on Friday (fortunately this museum is also open on Fridays). As the name says it gives an overview about the Sultan's armed forces, including lots of Oman's history. There is also outdoor exhibition with planes, army vehicles and even boats.

Today (Andres had a day off:)) we went to Children's museum first. It included different experiments from physics and chemistry areas and most of it was interactive exhibition. Though, our boys were still too small to make most of the experiments but older kids seemed to have more fun. At least there was a playground for the small kids and our boys enjoyed it to the fullest.

Our next stop was Natural History museum but we arrived at closing time:( Fortunately the museum was also open in the afternoon today, so we had lunch and went to the beach in meantime and then returned to the museum. There was very interesting exhibition about Oman's nature: different nature areas, animals, birds, snakes, insects, whales and dolphins. Outdoors there was also a small botanical garden.

Of course, with two small kids it is complicated to get enough time to read all the stands but we got pretty good overview, anyway. The ticket prices here are very low, 300-500 baizas (about 0,6-1 euro) per person (and small kids gratis). All the stands were also in English, of course, and very often the museum staff came to give further explanations. 

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