# Dubai Culture Summer Camps 2024: Creativity, Heritage & Learning
Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) has officially launched its 2024 summer camps, running through July and August at five iconic venues across the city. The camps — held at Al Shindagha Museum, Etihad Museum, Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, Dubai Public Libraries, and Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children — are designed to boost creativity and deepen students' familiarity with Emirati culture.
Al Shindagha Museum, Etihad Museum, and Al Fahidi Camps
The museum camps run over two weekly sessions: July 15–19 and July 22–26.
At Al Shindagha Museum, participants explore the prehistory and early history of the UAE, discover how wind towers shaped vernacular Emirati architecture, and learn the value of teamwork. Activities include travelling by Abra, a treasure hunt, sea voyages, oyster-diving lessons, and a water-taxi journey through the Dubai Creek.
The Etihad Museum camp transports children back to 1968, covering UAE geography, traditions, and national achievements. Activities include writing letters about their dreams for the country's future, simulating the negotiations behind the Union Agreement, a treasure hunt, and studying the nation's founding fathers.
At the Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood camp, children construct models of Al Fahidi Fort, learn traditional well-digging methods, practise knot work, and take on a range of adventurous outdoor tasks.
Dubai Public Library Summer Camps
Dubai Public Library is running its summer programme — themed "Our Summer Is Full Of Arts and Innovation" — across multiple branches from July 15–26 and August 5–16.
Children aged 5 to 9 explore smart farming and farm management. Older children learn to design smart-city structures, study how cities are built, and paint murals under the guidance of celebrated artists Najat Makki, Magdy Al Kafrawi, and Rabab Tantawi. Other sessions focus on product design across different cultures, logo creation, and the basics of marketing.
Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children
Al Jalila Cultural Centre runs its summer camp from July 8–19 and again from August 5–16. The programme spans ceramics, music, photography, cinema, dance, puppet theatre, and clay animation. Special highlights include sand painting — creating figures on a sandy surface — sculpting with marine materials, and a marine-art workshop.
Bilingual and Expert-Led Sessions
All sessions across every venue are conducted in both Arabic and English, with the support of specialists in each discipline. Dubai Culture has designed the programme to ensure children's safety while giving them the freedom to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
