Countryside: A Place to Live, Not to Leave

29 Oct 2025 – 29 Apr 2026
Doha, Qatar
qm.org.qa
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Qatar Museums, in collaboration with AMO under Samir Bantal and Rem Koolhaas, presents Countryside: A Place to Live, Not to Leave, a sweeping exhibition that reconsiders the rural world as a site of sustainability, innovation, and future possibility. Spanning a geographic arc from Africa through the Middle East and Central Asia to China, the project illuminates regions long linked by history and still home to most of the world’s population.

Through immersive installations and research-driven narratives, Countryside challenges the dominance of the urban lens and asks how rural life might offer more humane and ecological responses to contemporary crises. Presented across both Qatar Preparatory School (QPS) and the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), the exhibition encourages cross-generational dialogue and opens space for imagining new ways of living beyond the city.

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