Weapons Museum (Sharjah)


Sharjah is considered one of the most visited emirates of the UAE after Abu Dhabi and Dubai . This is primarily due to his policy of preserving and supporting historical monuments. The latter includes the Sharjah Weapons Museum, located in an ancient military fortress. It is located in the old part of the city, in which, along with the museum, a large number of historical and cultural sites are concentrated.

History of the Sharjah Weapon Museum

The fortress, in which this institution is located, was built in 1820. For a long time, the fort was used as the residence of the ruling royal family. Since the construction, the fortress has been subjected to perestroika and reconstruction. The last restoration was carried out in the 90s of last century.

Today, here is the Sharjah Weapon Museum, whose exposition is dedicated to the history of the emirate and the events important for him and the whole country.

Sharjah Museum of Weapons Collection

For a long time, on the territory of the Arab Emirates lived warlike tribes, through it passed nomad Bedouins and merchants. All these people had a kind of weakness for sharp daggers, encrusted with precious metals and stones. One of the main expositions of the Sharjah Weapons Museum is dedicated to them. Here are products from private collections and truly unique exhibits. Among them:

Many of these exhibits were brought from western and eastern countries. There are ancient exhibits and modern weapons. Each of them impresses with its originality, luxury and functionality.

What else to see in the Sharjah gun museum?

This cultural institution is interesting not only for the collection of ancient weapons. In addition to numerous daggers and huge gunpowder tanks, the museum of Sharjah weapons exhibits ancient handicraft items. Here you can see the clay, alabaster and copper exhibits found during excavations in Al-Gusays. The age of some of them totals not less than 3-4 thousand years. To visit the Sharjah Weapon Museum follows and in order to:

Visitors to the museum have the opportunity not only to get acquainted with the collection of ancient weapons, but also to look into the past of this city, which is literally enclosed in massive walls.

Leaving the building of the museum of weapons of Sharjah, you can go for a walk along the old part of the city. Here tourists visit many other thematic institutions, architectural monuments and religious buildings. Each of them acquaints the traveler with the history of the state, Islam and the Muslim worldview.

How to get to the museum of weapons in Sharjah?

To get acquainted with the amazing collection, you need to go to the west of the capital of the emirate. The Weapons Museum is located 6 km from the center of Sharjah and 300 m from the Khalid lake. You can reach it by public transport . In 300 m to the east from it there is a bus stop Rolla Square Park. In this part of the city there are a lot of shopping centers, like Capa and Rolla Mall.

With the center of Shaji, the Weapons Museum is connected by roads S103, Sheikh Majed Bin Saqr Al Qasim, Sheikh Khalid Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi and others. Following them in a southeasterly direction, you can be at your destination in about 20 minutes.