The Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation is the first of its kind in the UAE.

Situated in the heart of Sharjah on the Majarrah Waterfront, this spectacular new museum, which started its life as a traditional Middle Eastern souq (indoor market), offers a peaceful and tranquil retreat from the outside world.

Managed by the Sharjah Museums Department, the museum has 3 floors of exhibition space housing an amazing permanent collection of exhibits and artefacts detailing the history of Islamic art, history, science and culture.

The design work for the transformation of the souk into a stunning new museum, was carried out by Leicester based Haley Sharpe Design, with much of the internal fit-out work carried out by UK contractors Realm Studios and Beck Interiors. All of the permanent gallery showcases were supplied and installed by ClickNetherfield, the parent company of TESS Demountable.

In addition to the permanent galleries, there is a huge Temporary Exhibition gallery, used to stage exhibitions of all shapes and sizes. The gallery required a totally flexible and sustainable showcasing solution, which TESS provided in the form of our Evolution Modular system, complimented by the PrismHD low-level system. A huge number of Evolution modules were supplied, complete with fully interchangeable fibre optic lighting and glass top headers, numerous glass shelves along with sets of joining rails to create larger cases, and purpose made storage crates. The cases are used to display large 3D exhibits and are regularly reconfigured to suit the ever-changing nature of the exhibition space.

TESS PrismHD manuscript cases with internal LED lighting were also supplied. These are used to display smaller artefacts along with precious books, documents and manuscripts, such as the exhibition staged through the summer of 2009 entitled "Eternal Letters" from the Abdul Rahman Al Owais Islamic Calligraphy Collection.