- Mainly Middle East exhibitors
- ‘Risk-sharing’ model introduced
- Newcomers determined to stay put
Standing under Stan, a $32 million Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, at Abu Dhabi’s recently opened Natural History Museum, or staring at the Blue Quran manuscript at its much anticipated Zayed National Museum, you would see that the Gulf’s cultural community had good reason to be in buoyant form at the start of this year.
The last few weeks had also seen the opening of the modernist-inspired Lawh Wa Qalam Museum in Doha and…





