Top Places to visit in Kuwait

Kuwait, officially known as State of Kuwait, is situated in the Middle East Persian Gulf.

Most beautiful places in Kuwait.

• Kuwait Towers

Kuwait towers, group of three towers located in Arabian Gulf Street near to Kuwait City. The main tower is 187 meters high and has a Main Sphere with cafes, restaurants and reception halls, while the rotating Viewing Sphere offers a spectacular bird’s eye view of the city. Second tower is 147 meters high which has a water reservoir and third tower has an equipment to supply power to the other two towers. According to architect, these towers are the symbol of humanity and technology.

• Scientific Center

Scientific Centre is located along the waterfront In Salmiya, 20 Kilometers from Kuwait City. There are three main places of attraction inside the Science Centre, Aquarium, Discovery Palace and Imax Cinema. The Dhow Harbor is also located right along the waterfront. Aquarium is one of the largest in Middle East, has a wide variety of species in different types of environment conditions. There is also a ‘Dive with the sharks’ program in a floor-to-ceiling shark and ray tanks for visitors aged above 14 years, with a scuba diving license. The Discovery Palace has various facets of science as exhibits, kids can perform science experiments, make sand dunes or roll a piece of road. IMAX theater shows 45-minute 3D educational videos about the natural world.

• Green Island

Green Island is an artificial island located in Kuwait Arabian Gulf Street (Near Kuwait Towers) and 7 kilometers from Kuwait City. Opened in February 1988, and a popular holiday retreat of Kuwait. It is in fact, a reclaimed land, transformed into an artificial island. 785,000 sq. meters with greenery and is surrounded by natural rocks brought from Al-Fujairah to Emirates. In fact, even the sands at the beaches of the Green Island is said to have been imported from other countries. The island includes 50,000 colored shrubs and seedlings planted there, and with all colors and greeneries, it does not render the feel of being in a desert country. Visitors are welcome to have barbecues here and can hire bicycles. Along the eastern side of the island, is a swimming pool, with a depth of 2.5m to 3m. The Island offers a range of entertainment options including an Amphitheatre with a seating capacity for at least 700 people. There is a 35m tall tourist tower in the island, with an overhead water tank. On standing atop the tower, visitors can catch a glimpse of the whole island.

• Al Shaheed Park

It is a fully integrated cultural platform with cutting-edge architecture and art works located in Kuwait City. The park’s Amphitheater diversifies into different kinds of gardens (Oasis Garden, Museum Garden, Seasonal Garden and others), walkways (Visitors and Pedestrian Passages), museums, exhibition areas, outdoor theatres, and performance centers for music concerts, theatrical performances, art exhibitions, and other kinds of cultural events. The new phase includes a skate park, parkour area, tree top climbing obstacles, multipurpose youth complex, board and interactive games area, an open-air performance center and a musical fountain show.

Al Shaheed Park landscapes also hold multiple historical zones such as the Memorial zone and the Museum zone. 

Park also contains two museums: Remembrance Museum and Habitat Museum

• Shaikh Jaber Al- Ahmad Cultural Center

The Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Centre, informally known as the Kuwait Opera House, located on the Gulf Road in the capital Kuwait City. It is a prominent cultural center in Kuwait and the largest cultural center and opera house in the Middle East.

• Kuwait Zoo

Kuwait Zoo located near Farwaniya, about 15 kilometers from Kuwait City. Has a tremendous collection of rare and other animals. It contains a total number of 1606 animals including dangerous species. Besides this, rare birds are categorized in five different units and each category has at least 12 species. Spectacular environment is provided to animals in the cages. The park has a purpose to educate children about animals and the way how animals are treated. There are four sections of park naming Animal Group Section, Department of Cultural center, Services section of maintenance.

• Historical, Vintage & Classic Cars Museum

The Historical, Vintage and Classic Car Museum located in Shuwaikh, 5 kilometers from Kuwait City. You won’t believe your eyes walking into this exhibition of perfectly polished mint-condition vintage cars covering more than a century of motoring history. See two 1950s Chrysler Imperial models, one used by former US president Eisenhower and the other by Queen Elizabeth. There’s also an Aston Martin DB5, which the museum claims was used in the James Bond film Goldfinger despite international reports indicating the original vehicle is still missing after being stolen from a Florida airport hangar in 1997.

Other impressive vehicles include a rare 1956 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud used by the emir of Kuwait.

Working hours: 9 am to 1 pm and 4 pm to 8 pm all days, except Friday

• National Museum

It was the pride of Kuwait, located in Kuwait City and contained one of the most important collections of Islamic art in the world until the 1990 Iraqi invasion. Sadly, the National Museum remains a shadow of its former self and reconstruction works are still nowhere near completion. Only two rooms containing a few archaeological finds are currently open. Among the items are ancient coins, pots, a detailed Bedouin tent and a 17th-century chess game, plus ancient Qurans and a full-sized carved doorway.

The museum was ransacked and largely emptied during the invasion, and it has been under almost complete reconstruction for the past decade. Things here can only get better.

The quaint Heritage Museum is in Building 2, at the rear of the museum complex. It illustrates daily life in pre-oil Kuwait by means of a diorama of full-size figures going about their business – be sure to see the bead maker and what the museum booklet describes as the ‘men’s over-robe tailor’.

Designed by the French architect Michel Ecochard, visitors can enjoy this historical museum, which represent the Kuwaiti life in the past, their everyday activities, the rich trading history of Kuwait and its traditions.

A Planetarium is a vast place with 15 meters of a horizontal dome. After its establishment during the 1980s, it was the first of its kind in the gulf region. The dome was fully equipped with the material and technology needed. It was restored and opened to public after the Iraqi invasion. In 2007 the dome passed through another major upgrade with full dome capabilities along with Uniview to enable state of the art interactive storytelling in a 3D environment.

• KOC Ahmad Al Jaber Oil & Gas Exhibition

Located at Ahmadi 40 kilometers from Kuwait City, the most recent Kuwait Oil Company exhibition teaches visitors about Kuwait’s biggest business. Nine galleries cover themes of oil geology, exploration, extraction and exportation, plus Kuwaiti history and the devastating environmental consequences of burning oil. There are also interactive boards, plus an exciting 15-minute 4D film, with pyrotechnics and surround sound. A viewing gallery offers binoculars looking out onto Kuwait’s oil fields. Free tours run every 30 minutes and take 1½ hours.

• Mirror House

The Mirror House located at Qadsiya, 8 kilometers from Kuwait City, is also known as the Khalifa & Lidia Qattan Art Museum. It is the only house in the world completely covered with Mirror Mosaic by a single female artist! It is a Private Art Museum, with the artist who made the Mirror House, still living in it and giving private tours. The creator of the Mirror House, Lidia, is an Italian born artist and writer who moved to Kuwait when she married her husband Khalifa. She began her project of single-handedly transforming their home into a fantastic work of art in 1966. The project was worked on intermittently until it’s completion in 2006. The exterior walls of the house is covered with murals of mirror mosaic, each design symbolizing a meaning. The interior ground floor, is completely covered in mirror mosaic from floors, to walls, to ceilings, with each room carrying a theme such as the “Planet Earth” Hall, the “Zodiac” Hall, the “Universe” Hall, the “Knowledge” Hall, “My World” Hall, “Corridor of the Nations”, the “Shark Basin”, “Sea World” Hall, and “Stairs to Inspiration”. 

• Al Sadu House

Al Sadu House located in Kuwait City, was established by the Al Sadu Society in 1980 to protect the interests of the Bedouins and their ethnic handicrafts, Sadu weaving, which is an embroidery form in geometrical shapes hand woven by Bedouin people. The original house originally existed as a mud building in the early twentieth century but was destroyed during the 1936 Kuwaiti floods.

By 1984, Sadu House had registered 300 Bedouin women, producing about seventy items every week. A major tourist attraction in Kuwait City, Sadu House has several chambers each decorated with pottered motifs of houses, mosques etc.