Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar opens in Doha for the public. – Blog – The Design Bridge

Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar opens in Doha for the public.

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It’s been a decade in the making, but Atelier Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar has finally opened to the public in Doha.

A series of colliding discs form the external shell and define the internal programme of Atelier Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar, which is based on a mineral formation called the “desert rose”. “This is a 21st-century museum that allows you to experience the exhibits in three dimensions,” says the Pritzker prize winner architect at the museum’s inauguration