Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum (), also known as "Al Ain Palace Museum" (), is a

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

in the city of

Al Ain Al Ain () is a city in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and the seat of the administrative division of the Al Ain Region. The city is Oman–United Arab Emirates border, bordered to the east by the Omani town of Al-Buraimi. Al A ...

, within the

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The museum is based in the palace of the former UAE President,

Sheikh Sheikh ( , , , , ''shuyūkh'' ) is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder (administrative title), elder". It commonly designates a tribal chief or a Muslim ulama, scholar. Though this title generally refers to me ...

Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was an Emirati royal, politician, philanthropist and the founder of the United Arab Emirates. Zayed served as the governor of Eastern Region from 1946 until he became ...

(1918–2004), and his family. It was originally built in 1937 on the western side of the

Al Ain Oasis Al-Ain Oasis (, "Oasis of the Spring (hydrology), Spring") is the largest oasis in the city of Al Ain, within the Al Ain Region, Eastern Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Geography It is located in Al-Mutawa'a Distric ...

, the largest

oasis In ecology, an oasis (; : oases ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The long ...

. Many of the rooms are of the ''

majlis (, pl. ') is an Arabic term meaning 'sitting room', used to describe various types of special gatherings among common interest groups of administrative, social or religious nature in countries with linguistic or cultural connections to the Mus ...

'' (meeting room for receiving visitors) type. In one of the courts there is a replica grand court tent, representing a link with

Bedouin The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu ( ; , singular ) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq). The Bedouin originated in the Sy ...

life. There is also a

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similar to the one driven by Sheikh Zayed in the desert to visit Bedouin communities. Behind the museum is the Al Ain Oasis, with an entrance close by, and a path leading through the oasis to the Al Ain National Museum.

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Al Ain Palace Museum web page
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