Dubai Street Museum — Jumeirah

The fourth phase of Dubai Street Museum brought murals to Jumeirah Road, with subjects drawn from the neighbourhood’s history, traditions and relationship to the sea. Fishing, childhood and local heritage became starting points for new works by international, regional and UAE artists.

The programme allowed different approaches to painting to respond to a shared context. Instead of giving every surface the same treatment, the commissions connected individual artistic languages with the stories of the area.

SAN Projects managed production within the wider government-led initiative. As in the programme’s earlier phases, the buildings remained part of an inhabited neighbourhood: the work was encountered among shops, roads and homes, giving the cultural brief a direct relationship with the place it addressed.