ABSTRACT
The Bahrain National Museum was opened in late 1988 by the Ministry of Culture and Information (now Ministry of Culture) in the Bahraini capital, Manama. The Museum exhibitions cover roughly 7,000 years of Bahrain history and house a rich collection of artefacts from the ancient Dilmun and Tylos civilizations, the Islamic period, modern political and administrative history, and ethnology. The exhibition halls include a traditional handicrafts hall, customs and traditions hall, natural history hall, burial mounds hall, ancient documents and manuscripts hall, Tylos hall and Islamic period hall, and the Art Gallery (Bahrain National Museum, exhibition wall label), and the layout of the whole Museum creates a chronologically bound route for the visitor. As the largest and oldest museum in Bahrain, the National Museum is promoted as a major tourist attraction in the Kingdom and an important transmitter of national history and heritage (Bahrain National Museum 1989: 2).
