• Dubai Museum in Al Fahidi Fort

Constructed within the marvelously reinstated Al Fahidi Fort, which was built around 1787 to protect the city against attacks and invasion, the diverse collection of exhibits restored in the museum offers a close glance into the rich culture and historical heritage. It got refurbished in 1971 for being used as a museum and its colorful panoramas vividly depict everyday life during the days before oil’s discovery took place. Scenes from the Creek, mosques, date farms, deserts, marine life and traditional Arab houses are recreated by galleries. Some exhibits also portray pearl diving including weights of pearl merchants, their scales and sheaves. Plus, there are some timeless artifacts from various excavations in the emirate that were recovered from the graves that dated back to the third millennium BC.

• Heritage and Diving Village

Located near the mouth of Creek, this traditional heritage village has been created where the crafts of potters and weavers are displayed. Here, Dubai’s heritage can be witnessed by the visitors magnificently in a splendid aura by taking a glance at the previous era of time. The Diving Village holds a very important part of the plan of ambitions to convert the entire area of Shindagha into a cultural and ethnic hub giving a make over to the lifestyle and recreating a living as it was in the history.

• Al Ahmadiya School

Al-Ahmadiya School, being the oldest school in Dubai was built in 1912. This school was inaugurated by a pearl merchant who happened to be a philanthropist and his name was Ahmed Bin Dalmouk. Initially, Al-Ahmadiya School used to teach only a limited number of subjects like basic math, Arabic language and grammar and Islamic studies to about 200 boys, however, later, many other languages were also taught. Seating arrangement for students were made in such a way that the students used to sit on mats made from the leaves of palm trees. As the time passed by, with the opening of other schools around 1920s, Al-Ahmadiya school was closed and then got re-opened in 1930s. Later, in 1965, the school got closed officially and since then, it has been restored as a museum of education of public.

It is indeed hard to imagine a place anywhere else in the world with this much swiftness in development, or travel and tourism in Dubai.