Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani (FBQ) Museum is to open a new section featuring classical, vintage and sports cars such as Ferrari and Lamborghini.

The facility will debut right before the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar, featuring a collection of over 500 antique vehicles, according to museum director Claudio Cravero.

“The collection will count around 500 cars, but will showcase 120 vehicles in a visitor journey through the evolution of car manufacturing globally and in parallel with Qatar’s development – a sort of narrative journey that goes from the beginning of motorisation/mobilisation in the Gulf region up to the latest brand-new models that you can see in the streets of Doha,” he explained.

“It will include classical, vintage and sports cars like Ferrari and Lamborghini. A depot-like display of up 200 cars will also be on show.”

The ‘car museum’ will be the latest addition to FBQ Museum’s other sections such as the carpet section and clothing hall, among others, as well as the Q’uran room, which houses a huge number of Q’urans.

Other sections of the museum display traditional musical instruments, furniture, photographs, artworks and other antique pieces from various parts of the world.

Established in 1998, Cravero noted that FBQ Museum is one of the biggest private museums globally, which has a private collection of more than 30,000 objects on display.

“They range from the Jurassic era and pre-historic times to pre-Islamic era up to the present day, crossing geographies and boundaries. The pieces on display are actually real and a concentration of influences between cultures.

Sheikh Faisal’s passion for collecting dates back to when he was 10 years old and he is still collecting extensively so we received pieces that have been acquired from other collections or from auction houses, they are brought to the museum and put on display,” he added.

Almost 25 years old, the FBQ Museum is one of the oldest private museums in the Middle East and its uniqueness is reflected in the diversity and variety of the objects it keeps. ✤

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