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Please scroll down for a short film introducing Dubai Moving Image Museum

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Museum Introduction a Film by Karien Mulder

Narrator and Collector Akram Miknas

Curator and Script Pierre Patau

Since the earliest days of civilisation, man has been fascinated with the concept of capturing movement. The Moving Image Museum is one of only a handful of museums in the world focusing on the history of the moving image, and is the only museum of it’s kind in the Middle East.

Housing the private collection of Mr. Akram Miknas, which he has accumulated over twenty-five years, the Moving Image Museum was born out of Mr. Miknas’ wish to share his collection with the public, hoping to inspire and educate the region with an exhilarating part of history.

Throughout the Moving Image Museum, visitors will find numerous interactive features, allowing guests of all ages to fully experience the rich history by viewing and interacting with objects such as peeping into an eighteenth century Dutch peepbox viewer, or turning the reel of an early twentieth century mutoscope to see the flicker effect.

Film Credits:

Script: Pierre Patau and Akram Miknas
Narrator: Akram Miknas
Cinematography, direction and editing: Karien Mulder
Sound: Nic Mulder
Music: Shedneryan by Roger Subirana & Royalty Free Grand Piano Work Theme

Filmed on a Lomokino, 8mm Application and Canon 5D Mark III

Here is the design for our admission ticket, inspired by an old movie theatre ticket. We have hired more staff and Maria is joining us next week, we’ll be offering extended opening hours very soon and we’ll announce them here.

OPENING HOURS

Our opening hours are Sunday to Thursday 11:00 to 19:00, Friday close, Saturday 12:00 to 19:00. Visits are available at other time by appointment.

The museum is available for hire for meetings and conferences, networking events, private parties, exhibitions, and other special events.  Make your event unique by hosting it in Dubai’s newest cultural destination.

The museum is also hosting children’s birthday parties.

ADMISSION

Adults 50 AED, Children 25 AED (under 3 free), Group and School rates available

Today we had our first school visit, it was great to see the kids reacting to our museum. All had great fun, the adults as well as the kids, wonderful!

SMILE

LAUGHTER

PLAYING

FASCINATED 

We have received our stock and the shop is now taking shape, thank you to Andy from opticaltoys.com for the wonderful items.

Here are some images of our display at the ATM in Dubai, we are very grateful to Alpha Tours and Mr. Ghassan Aridi for hosting us and providing us with the space to promote the museum. Sheikh Maktoum, Sheikh Mohammed son and Deputy Ruler of Dubai who is also the Patron of Arts in Dubai showed a lot of interest in our museum and asked Akram Miknas to organise a visit for Him, we are honoured by his interest.

Akram Miknas with Mandy the museum manager