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.
I have added new photos to our web gallery.
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