We are honored and proud to announce that Akram Miknas the owner of our museum has been awarded the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Patrons of Arts Award for his on-going support and commitment to the museum of moving image and Dubai art scene. Akram Miknas will receive this recognition on May 13, 2013
Enas who accompanied us for 4 months during the setting up period has now moved to new projects and we are pleased to welcome Mandy who will be in charge of the day to day running as well as the development of the museum.
Mandy holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the City University of New York–Brooklyn
College and has found her dream job here in Dubai, we wish her great success with this very exciting project.
The Moving Image Museum has had the pleasure of welcoming Gulf Film Festival delegates. Participants from all over the globe came to tour and experience our rich collection of pre-cinema history. It was a wonderful experience speaking with international film makers, professors, directors, photographers, and film students about our collection. The delegates enjoyed hearing about the prehistory of their industry and had lots of fun interacting with our exhibits.
This year’s is the sixth annual Gulf Film Festival, and it will be going on until the 17th of April in Festival City, Dubai. We are expecting more visits from delegates and we hope they’ll enjoy visiting our museum as much as we enjoyed setting it up!
We are very pleased to be associated with the Gulf Film Festival in Dubai, we are looking forward to showing the festival delegates around our museum.
More info about the GFF on their site http://www.gulffilmfest.com
Here is the table in the third area of the museum where we have a number of reproduction optical toys for visitors to play with, we hope that a hands on approach will help visitors and particularly children to understand how the movement is created.
At the week end we had our first young visitor, Danyaal, it was wonderful to see how a child reacted to our exhibits, it makes all this work worth it. By the way we are not open yet, do not imagine that we only get grown ups and that we had to wait for a child to walk through our door…
After the visit he wanted to sit down in the office and “make some notes” he said so I had to spell a few of the optical toys complicated names!
I am back in Dubai, today is the 2nd of December UAE National Day, tomorrow back to work to finish setting up the Museum. For those of you following us from colder regions of the world this is what the 2nd of December looks like here…
The cabinets have been assembled and spray painted, I am now back in London and unfortunately I could not take any pictures before leaving Dubai as the cabinets where in the middle of the rooms and partly covered in plastic sheeting to protect the white interior whilst the colour were applied.
Next step will be fitting all the glass which is being manufactured right now.
I am going back to Dubai on the 30th of November when the lighting will be fitted and the collection put in place.
Hafez the incredible building project manager is supervising the move of 400 people to MCN Hive this week and yet he will be finding the time to keep an eye on the fitting out of the Museum: Final paint coat to the ceiling, final resin coat to the floor etc.
latest News:
Almost all the collection is now in Dubai waiting for my return and Enas Abusidu has been appointed Museum manager, she is starting work on the 1st of December.
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