{"id":7612,"date":"2017-10-07T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2017-10-07T09:24:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:24:29","slug":"etihad-museum-named-best-new-museum-in-the-middle-east-and-africa-at-the-leading-culture-destinations-awards-2017-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/etihad-museum-named-best-new-museum-in-the-middle-east-and-africa-at-the-leading-culture-destinations-awards-2017-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Etihad Museum Named &#8216;Best New Museum In The Middle East And Africa&#8217; At The Leading Culture Destinations Awards 2017 In London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai Culture &amp; Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate\u2019s dedicated entity for culture, arts and heritage, has announced that the Etihad Museum scooped top honours at The Leading Culture Destinations Awards 2017 in London, where it took home the coveted \u2018Best New Museum in the Middle East and Africa\u2019 award and also placed first runner-up in the \u2018Best Museum Architecture of the Year\u2019 category.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious award was received by Dubai Culture, which manages the Etihad Museum\u2019s day-to-day operations, permanent and temporary exhibitions, and educational programmes, and the Roads &amp; Transport Authority (RTA), which was responsible for the design and construction of the museum, during a ceremony that took place on 29<sup>th<\/sup> September at the Trafalgar St. James Hotel on London&#8217;s Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EM1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7613\" alt=\"EM1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EM1-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EM1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EM1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EM1-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai Culture &amp; Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate\u2019s dedicated entity for culture, arts and heritage, has announced that the Etihad Museum scooped top honours at The Leading Culture Destinations Awards 2017 in London, where it took home the coveted \u2018Best New Museum in the Middle East and Africa\u2019 award and also placed first runner-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7614,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions\/7614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}