Bait Al-Zubair Muscat

... mark thought (exotic and fragrant spices and antiques are really not her thing). The same could be said for the private museum Bait Al Zubair: not much to see, really. On the other hand, the Little Owl was fascinated by the official sultan's residence Al ...

... there really was nothing else to see there anyway, so we took the day off. We next stopped at Bait Al Zubair, a private museum housing collections of traditional Omani items, including weaponry, jewelry, clothing, household items, books and photographs ...

... history. The much loved Sultan has modernized the country immensely since he took power in the 1970s. At a museum (Bait al Zubair), I saw pictures of what Muscat looked like back then - pretty much just dirt roads and shanty-looking buildings. Now it is a ...