Oil Museum In Bahrain

Built in 1992 to mark the 60th anniversary of the discovery of oil, the Bahrain Oil Museum is housed in a grand, white-stone building quite out of keeping with the surrounding nodding donkeys and sprawling pipelines. In the shadow of Jebel ad-Dukhan (Mountain of Smoke) – Bahrain’s highest point at just 134m – the building is a befitting symbol of the country’s wealth, for it marks the point at which ‘black gold’ was struck for the first time on the Arabic side of the Gulf.

متحف النفط في البحرين — Bahrain Oil Museum

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السياح في متحف نفط البحرين — Tourists in the Bahrain Oil Museum

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Ölmuseums in Bahrain

History of the Oil Industry in Bahrain (Oil Museum in Jebel Dukhan)

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Museo del Petróleo en Bahréin

Memorial of the Discovery of the First Oil Well in Bahrain (Situated next to the Oil Museum)

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صور ومقاطع فيديو لمتحف النفط في البحرين

الوثائق القديمة في متحف نفط البحرين — Old Documents in the Bahrain Oil Museum

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The museum has exhibits, photographs and explanations about the oil industry in Bahrain. A few metres away, you can see the country’s first oil well, which was constructed in 1932.