Qatar Museums announces diverse Fall 2025 Exhibitions and events launching October 23

Qatar Museums (QM) revealed a comprehensive schedule of activities and exhibitions that will debut starting on October 23, 2025, during the fall season, showcasing the great range and diversity of QM's institutions.

Established in 2005, Qatar Museums is chaired by H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.  

Highlights of Qatar Museums’ fall exhibition season include “A Nation’s Legacy, A People’s Memory: Fifty Years Told” at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ). The exhibition chronicles the Museum’s journey from its 1975 opening in a historic palace—the first institution of its kind in the Gulf—to its current home in Jean Nouvel’s internationally acclaimed architectural masterpiece.

Another key exhibition, “Countryside: A Place to Live, Not Leave,” presented at NMoQ and Qatar Preparatory School in collaboration with Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), showcases an international research project led by architects Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, exploring the future of rural living across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

The fall season also features “I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture,” the first full-scale retrospective organised by M+ in partnership with Qatar Museums, on view at Al Riwaq. The exhibition presents original drawings, sketches, models, and rarely seen archival material celebrating the life and legacy of the renowned Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019). Concurrently, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) and the upcoming Art Mill Museum (AMM) will host “I. M. Pei and the Making of the Museum of Islamic Art: From Square to Octagon and Octagon to Circle” at MIA, highlighting Pei’s architectural vision behind the iconic museum.