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\n\tSheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation and a member of the Sharjawi royal family, has been appointed as president of the Sharjah Museums Authority. In her post, she will oversee 16 museums across Sharjah with purviews including Islamic art and culture, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life, and history.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe appointment\u2014issued by Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah\u2014applies to an enterprise founded in 2006 as an autonomous government authority. Part of its mission statement reads: \u201cOur vision is to be a cultural beacon that enhances Sharjah\u2019s identity locally and internationally and contribute in nurturing a community aware of museums\u2019 importance as a cultural, educational and enjoyable destination.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAs reported by Abu Dhabi\u2013based newspaper the National<\/em>, under Sheikha Hoor\u2019s leadership the Sharjah Art Foundation, behind the closely watched Sharjah Biennial, \u201chas grown into one of the region\u2019s most important contemporary art institutions, with a programme that includes exhibitions, commissions, residencies, publications, performances, screenings and education initiatives.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tSheikha Hoor is also affiliated with the Sharjah Architecture Triennial; The Africa Institute, Global Studies University; and University of the Arts Sharjah. Internationally, she has served as artistic director of the Aichi Triennale 2025 in Japan and the 2026 Sydney Biennale in Australia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/sheikha-hoor-al-qasimi-sharjah-museums-authority-1234791741\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hoor_Al_Qasimi.jpg?w=1024″] Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation and a member of the Sharjawi royal family, has been appointed as president of the Sharjah Museums Authority. In her post, she will oversee 16 museums across Sharjah with purviews including Islamic art and culture, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2036333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}