Must-see attractions in Dubai

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    Wafi City

    Bur Dubai

    Ancient Egypt gets a Dubai-style makeover at this lavishly designed hotel, residential, restaurant and shopping complex, complete with pyramids,…

  • Coffee Museum

    Bur Dubai

    This cute private museum in a historic Emirati home offers an aromatic bean-based journey around the world and back in time. Learn about the importance of…

  • Coin Museum

    Bur Dubai

    This is a highly specialised museum which will appeal to anyone with an interest in rare and historic coins. Located near the Diwan Mosque in the Al…

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    Dubai International Financial Centre

    Downtown Dubai

    Dubai’s stock exchange and leading international financial institutions are housed in a complex of six buildings surrounding an impressive central 80m…

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    Opera Gallery

    Downtown Dubai

    More an art showroom than a classically curated gallery, Opera caters to collectors of artistic heavyweights in genres as varied as pop art, calligraphy…

  • Pro Art Gallery

    Dubai

    This gallery seeks to make art accessible (even to collectors without seriously deep pockets) and as such sells limited edition prints alongside original…

  • Dubai Police Museum

    Dubai

    You can't miss this place, mostly thanks to the plethora of super-car police vehicles parked outside. Part of Dubai Police Academy, this small and…

  • Al Safa Park in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

    Safa Park

    Dubai

    A green oasis in the centre of the city, this pretty park hugs the new Dubai Canal (which has diminished its size somewhat) and comes with a jogging track…

  • Hindi Lane

    Bur Dubai

    Until the completion of a new temple in Abu Dhabi in 2020, only a tiny and ageing double-shrine, tucked behind the Grand Mosque since 1958, serves the UAE…

  • Al Khazzan Park

    Dubai

    One of Dubai's oldest parks, pocket-sized Al Khazzan has been given a total reboot and is now entirely solar-powered, giving it the right to the title to…

  • Creek Park

    Bur Dubai

    One of the emirate's oldest and largest parks stretches for 2.6km along Dubai Creek and is mostly popular with Bur Dubai expats, who arrive on weekends to…

  • Cartoon Art Gallery

    Downtown Dubai

    This bi-level space is the first gallery in the Middle East dedicated to cartoon and animation art from across the entire spectrum of media, from paint to…

  • Courtyard

    Downtown Dubai

    Housing an eclectic combo that includes a community theatre, edgy concept stores and galleries, this enticing cobblestoned complex wraps around its…

  • Diwan Mosque

    Bur Dubai

    The distinctive ornate flat dome and slender minaret of this snowy white mosque watch over the Al Fahidi Historic District. Non-Muslims may only visit the…

  • Grey Noise

    Downtown Dubai

    Since 2008 this contemporary gallery has built up its reputation as a go-to space for experimental and cutting-edge art from the region, South Asia and…

  • Al Ittihad Park

    Dubai Marina & Palm Jumeirah

    A lovely park for families with a 3.2km jogging track, playgrounds, an adult exercise zone and plenty of grassy areas for picnics or relaxing. There is…

  • Chi-Ka

    Downtown Dubai

    Escape the heat and bustle by stepping into this cool Japanese art space with changing exhibitions that range from exquisite silk kimonos to photography…

  • Lawrie Shabibi

    Downtown Dubai

    Lawrie Shabibi has energised the local art scene since 2011 by promoting the works of innovative contemporary talent from the Middle East and North Africa…

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    World Trade Centre

    Downtown Dubai

    Compared to its cloud-touching cousins, the 149m-high World Trade Centre seems small today, but when completed in 1979 was actually Dubai's first…

  • Children’s City

    Bur Dubai

    This colourful cluster of Lego-style buildings in Creek Park was designed for kids to playfully explore scientific concepts, the human body, space…

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