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Doha: The State of Qatar has not only focused on introducing authentic, inspiring, cultural, ancient, and contemporary experiences for adults in its museums, but also paid great attention to the children’s category within its growing network of world-renowned museums.
This interest was embodied in the fact that Qatar Museums — the entity responsible for supporting and developing museums and the culture sector in Qatar, announced in June 2021 the name of the newest museum dedicated to children and families in Qatar, under the name ‘Dadu: Children’s Museum of Qatar’.
Dadu is an oasis of stimulating, interactive, indoor, and outdoor experiences, and is the first national museum of its kind to provide children and their families with spaces dedicated to learning and growth through stimulating methodologies such as open play, exploration, and experiment.
It also seeks to promote the development of children, arouse their curiosity, and encourage them for fruitful cooperation and constructive dialogue, by providing the necessary tools to encourage creativity and instill a sense of social responsibility, as well as contribute effectively to achieving Qatar National Vision 2030 for human, social, economic and environmental development.
As the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 is under way, Daddu is considered as one of the most important destinations and tourist attractions that Qatar guests from all over the world can visit with their children and enjoy the unique and meaningful activities it provides.
On its website, Qatar Museums explains that the reason behind choosing the name ‘Dadu’ is a standard Arabic word related to the verb play, and is associated with other words like dada, or fun, and dwady, which refers both to swings and to the footmarks left behind after swinging, and other scribbles that children scratch on stones.
The museum adopts a constructive approach in the field of teaching and learning, where methods are developed and educational goals set in line with different learning styles and distinct stages of evolution, to encourage children to move forward in a challenging educational journey, as it is based on the foundations and concepts of child development psychology, brain science and applicable practices.
It provides all types of games, whether physical, representational, imaginative, sensory or social motor skills, in order to support the learning process of children, instil a love of exploration and creativity in them, in addition to inspiring them and providing them with the necessary skills to achieve their learning journey.
Children with disabilities have a special place in Dadu, as the museum endeavours to achieve the highest standards of accessibility to learning — whether for children or accompanying family members and reducing the level of segregation between people with different abilities.
