Dubai Moving Image Museum was officially inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, chairman of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. A one-of-its-kind museum in the Middle East, it is one of the very few in the world focusing on the history of the moving image. Akram Miknas, the museums founder […]
Dubai Moving Image Museum was officially inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, chairman of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority.
A one-of-its-kind museum in the Middle East, it is one of the very few in the world focusing on the history of the moving image. Akram Miknas, the museums founder and owner, said the museums exhibits are original and were collected over a period of 30 years.
This museum is one of only a handful of museums in the world focusing on the history of the moving image, and is the only museum of its kind in the Middle East given Dubais impressive track record of being the forefront in the fields of culture and arts he added.
Charting the evolution of the moving image, from the first primitive cave drawings to the birth of the motion picture film, the museum houses Miknas private collection accumulated over more than 30 years. All items in the museum are original, dating back from the 1730s to the 20th century and it is located on the first floor of MCNs Hive building, located in Tecom Section C in Dubai.