This
digital open-educational resource presents an abridged historiography
of state-sponsored museums in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since the late
twentieth century. This non-exhaustive historical tracing of public
museums in the Kingdom proposes critical engagement with the role of
government patronage, resource rent, and state-building through
education and sponsorship of public cultural institutions.
The purpose of this resource is to bring together digitized historic
documents, images, and publicly accessible media sources to create a
digital history project. Altogether, these materials accompanied by
subject-specific texts are meant to help users shape their own
understanding of the public history of museums in Saudi Arabia, and
whether a museum ecosystem has come to be in Saudi.
This
non-exhaustive collection of resources is a conglomeration of
government sponsored reports, documents, and archival images that
visualize the textual component of this resource. Note that the "Open
Data by the Ministry of Culture (Reimagined)" resource collection is
based on data gathered by the Ministry of Culture on cultural
institutions, sites, and establishments. They are presented in a more
digitally, and visually, legible manner in this Resource Collection.
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