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Qatar Museums joins Paris 2024 Olympics with free exhibitions, special activations
21/07/2024 The Peninsula
Qatar Museums celebrates the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with exciting exhibitions and public events from July 24.
Anchored by two exhibitions curated by Qatar Museums and 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, the programme also includes Jiwan taking over Le Dalí at Le Meurice hotel as well as the launch of the first-ever Arabic translation of writings, “Textes Choisis”, by Pierre de Coubertin, the French historian and visionary widely regarded as the father of the modern Olympic games.
Qatar Museums’ summer programme reaffirms close ties between Qatar and France and establishes new links based on a shared love of sport. The programme is organised as a legacy of Qatar-France 2020 Year of Culture, a year-long programme of collaborations between institutions across both countries. In 2014, State of Qatar and the French Republic signed a significant Cultural Agreement.
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