Heritage House it is one of the best renovated old traditional buildings in Dubai. In 1890 the rich Iranian merchant Mattar bin Saeed bin Muzaaina built his house on
Deira side of Dubai Creek. The couple of years later the property has been acquired by the well known pearl merchant Sheikh Ahmed bin Dalmouk who’s family lived there to the beginning of 1960′s.
In 1994 the Dubai Government after complex renovation has changed the house into the museum, which shows the everyday’s live of typical emirate family at the beginning of 20th century.
The museum is hosted in the typical courtyard house with wind towers with ten rooms on two levels.
The central place in the house is occupied by the living room majlis for meeting the friends but also the strangers, so it is separated form the rest of the living quarter.
The room called Al-Machzan was the place, where the whole family met and talk during the meals.
In th Bride Room (Al-Hijla) where new married couples enjoyed some more extra privacy, today you can see the traditional dress of Emirate husband and wife.
There was also the women part, where no man could enter, women also enjoyed their own majlis, for sewing the clothes, making the coffee, or henna body decoration.
The videos and mannequins in the museum present the interior and the purpose of the rooms, and explain the use of traditional items from house inventory.
Heritage House
Al Khor St Al Ras , Deira
28 Sikka Street
phone: 04 226 0286
Opened: Sat-Thu 8.00 -19.30 Fri 14.30-19.30
Free Entry
[photo by lost bob photos]