Art galleries in Muscat
Muscat, Muscat has 4 art galleries on the map. That's 4 galleries mapped around Muscat. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.
This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Muscat (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Gul Fine Artworks and Paisley, plus Omani Heritage Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Muscat's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Muscat gallery lineup
4 mapped within about 40 km:
Gul Fine Artworks
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Gul Fine Artworks is Art gallery.
Paisley
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Paisley — Art gallery on Al Bahri Road.
Al Bahri Road
Omani Heritage Gallery
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Omani Heritage Gallery is Art gallery on Al Bahri Road.
Al Bahri Road
Art Gallery
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Art Gallery — Art gallery on Taimur Street.
Taimur Street



What the map tells us about art galleries in Muscat
None of the 4 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Smaller galleries can keep irregular hours, so check the website before a special trip.
There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on Al Bahri Road, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
The Muscat gallery walk
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Gul Fine Artworks, Paisley on Al Bahri Road, Omani Heritage Gallery on Al Bahri Road, and Art Gallery on Taimur Street. That's 4 stops on the Muscat gallery walk.
Gallery tips for Muscat
A few things worth knowing before you work through Muscat's art galleries:
- The café is part of the visit at Gul Fine Artworks. If the gallery has a café, use it. Lingering over coffee after the show is half the experience.
- Buy the catalogue at Paisley. Exhibition catalogues are the affordable art book. They sell out after the show closes.
- Read the wall text. It's short and it's there to help. Even the cryptic ones give you a way into the work.
- Go to opening nights. Free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that wants to talk about the work. The best gallery experience there is.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Muscat — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Muscat can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 4, or a art gallery we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.
We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.
If you run one of the 4 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Art gallery listings for Muscat: 4 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.