When you go for sightseeing in Kuwait then you must visit the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait. This museum was the brain child of Tareq Sayed Rajab and his wife Jehan Wellborne. Tareq Rajab served as the first Director of the Department of Antiquities and Museums of Kuwait, and he resigned in 1969 and in 1980, after long tours of travelling and collecting articles they finally were able to open a museum for the public. In their search for antique exhibits they travelled more than half of the world and collected artefacts. Thus now the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait has a collection of over thirty thousand items, of which about ten thousand are permanently on for public display.
On your visit to the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait, while on a trip to Kuwait you will find that the museum is divided into two areas. In one area that is Area A you will find calligraphy, manuscripts, miniatures, ceramics, metalwork, glass, jade, wood and stone-carvings. In the Area B you will find costumes, textiles, jewellery and musical instruments that were used in the Islamic world during the last 250 years. There is a reference library also in the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait. This library can be regarded as a 'goldmine of information' for the benefit of those who want to learn about the culture and heritage of the Islamic and the Arab world.
During the Iraqi invasion in 1990, most of the belongings of the one side of the museum was packed away in boxes and then locked off in a safe place. Since all the belongings could not be packed away therefore the side where exhibits were still present was blocked off from the place where the boxes containing exhibits was kept. The reference library was used as a bomb shelter during the aerial warfare. The Museum was reopened in September 1991.
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