The Abu Dhabi Natural History Museum will open its doors to the public on November 22, 2025 in the Saadiyat Cultural District, which serves as a hub for art, heritage, and knowledge exchange across the local and global community, featuring major institutions like the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Cultural Foundation, the upcoming Zayed National Museum, the planned Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and also includes the Abrahamic Family House which contains a mosque, a synagogue and a church, promoting interfaith dialogue.
The museum’s opening marks a significant milestone for the city and emirate, as the largest museum of its kind in the region, it presents a new global destination for education, nature, science, inviting visitors to explore the history of life of the globe and engage in conversations about its future.
The building’s design is inspired by rock formations and has a cellular structure when viewed from above. Developed on a surface area of 35.000 - square metres, the museum is an exciting addition to the United Arab Emirates’ changing cultural landscape and it will guide visitors on an immersive journey through 13.8 billion years of natural history.
From the Big Bang, the formation of the solar system to the evolution of life, including the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, the extraordinary biodiversity of the world to the present day, with a focus on research and promoting environmental stewardship for a sustainable future, the Abu Dhabi Natural History Museum will feature interactive exhibits, rare fossils, stunning displays of biodiversity, and natural history specimens.
Among the most outstanding pieces of the museum are three travellers from ancient times. One of them is the famous specimen, affectionately known as Stan, a nearly complete skeleton of an imposing Tyrannosaurus rex, a predator that dominated the Earth 67 million years ago.
This is joined by the largest animal ever known, represented by a skeleton of a 25 - metre female blue whale suspended from the ceiling which offers an extraordinary insight into evolution, marine biodiversity and the history of life on the planet.
Rounding out the trio is the Murchison Meteorite, an artifact that witnessed the formation of the Earth and contains 7 billion - year - old grains formed even before the formation of the Solar System.
The museum’s institution of an educatotion supports scientific knowledge and conducts innovative scientific studies in zoology, paleontology, marine biology, molecular research, and earth sciences. By encouraging interaction with the natural sciences, the museum inspires future generations and contributes to a more sustainable future.
Throughout the galleries, the natural history of the Arabian Peninsula forms a central element of the museum’s narrative, highlighting the region’s unique contribution to the history of the Hearth.
Among Abu Dhabi’s most notable discoveries in an extinct species of elephant known as Stegotetrabelodon emiratus. This ancient membner of the Elephantidae family is distinguished by its tusks on both the upper and lower jaws, a rare feature never seen in modern elephants.
Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism H.E. Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak said that the opening of the museum marks an important milestone in the country to shape the cultural landscape of the emirate.
The museum offers an immersive look at the history of life of Earth, framed for the first time from an Arabic perspective, with the fauna, flora, and geological history of the region as an essential part of the visitor’s journey.
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