Louvre Abu Dhabi explains the ‘omission’ of Qatar from Children’s Museum map

Louvre Abu Dhabi, a branch of the famed Parisian museum Louvre which recently opened its doors, has brought out an explanation regarding the omission of Qatar from a map it had placed in the museum.

The omission attracted a lot of hue and cry from people around the world and the museum was forced to replace the map with a more accurate one.

Louvre Abu Dhabi has now completed a review of its mediation materials, following the removal of a map in the Children Museum, which had a number of inaccuracies, misrepresenting the shoreline of the Arabian Peninsula and the modern national borders, reported the Emirates News Agency.

The museum said that a failure in the commissioning process was responsible for Qatar being omitted from a map displayed in the Children’s Museum. The map was replaced after it emerged that it failed to show Qatar, reported UAE-based newspaper The National.

Louvre Abu Dhabi has more than 40 major maps throughout its permanent galleries, each geographically detailed. Each of the 12 principal galleries is introduced by an animated map, which presents some of the objects on display.

On several of those maps, the geography of the Arabian Peninsula is illustrated accurately, reported Arabian Business.

The Louvre Abu Dhabi was inaugurated in November by French President Emmanuel Macron and Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.