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• How Zayed National Museum helps us understand UAE's Founding Father  The National
  
• Bringing history to life: Abu Dhabi’s Zayed National Museum is becoming a major research hub  The Art Newspaper
  
• 300,000 years of history: inside Abu Dhabi’s new landmark museum  The Times
  
• Zayed National Museum traces the UAE’s connections across Asia and beyond  ArtReview
  
• What the Land Holds: On the Zayed National Museum  ArtAsiaPacific
  

Zayed National Museum (Arabic: مَتْحَف زَايِد ٱلْوَطَنِي, romanized: Matḥaf Zāyid Al-Waṭanī) is a museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is designed as a memorial to the late Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father and first president of the UAE. The museum is the centrepiece of the Saadiyat Island Cultural District, and showcases the history, culture, and economic transformation of the Emirates. Zayed National Museum, the national museum of the United Arab Emirates located in the heart of Saadiyat Cultural District, was opened to the public on 3 December 2025 and cost AED 2.5 billion or US$ 680 million to be built. An entrance ticket is around AED 70 for adults, 35 AED for university students and teachers, and free for under-18s. It is 123 m high.

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