Visit the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s “Picturing the Cosmos” exhibition which is held at the in-house Children’s Museum. Running for two years until June 2025, it was created in collaboration with the UAE Space Agency and the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre. The exhibition features the first ever two loans from the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi (NHMAD). These are a lunar meteorite found in north-west Africa and the 7 billion year old Murchison meteorite discovered in 1969 near the Australian town of Murchison.

Louvre Abu Dhabi – Picturing the Cosmos
– book tickets on the official website
– Join the ultimate space adventure!
Exhibition opens 20.07.2023 until June 2025
Kids go free
Ages 4+

The National – 19 July 2023 – Louvre Abu Dhabi Children’s Museum shoots for the stars with space exhibition

To find out more about the Murchison meteorite visit these links:

Smithsonian Magazine – 13 January 2020 – Meteorite Grains Are the Oldest Known Solid Material on Earth –  by Jay Bennett
The oldest dust sample, perhaps 7 billion years old, predates the formation of our planet and the sun.

Stardust memories: 50 years of the Murchison meteorite – a lecture on YouTube by Dermot Henry (Deputy Director, Sciences, Division of Research and Collections at Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia) – 20 November 2019
When a meteorite exploded in the atmosphere over Murchison, about 160km north of Melbourne, on 28 September 1969, it sounded like the roar of an express train. Mineralogist Dermot Henry will explain why its composition is so significant making it one of the most extensively studied meteorites in the world.