Are those real people?

The book mentioned the mannequins in the Dubai Museum, but it was still surprising how life-like the exhibits were… You enter the fort into a large open air courtyard with rooms off to the side – one side with weapons and such and more huge wooden doors – one of them had spikes, the sort that you wouldn’t want that door slammed shut into you. The other side had more cultural items – drums and musical instruments – like a skirt covered with goat hooves that rattle when you move (looked more like a dog toy than an instrument to me, but I’m sure it makes interesting music).

The courtyard exited into a spiral ramp to the air conditioned area (WooHoo – cold air). Down the ramp you entered a room with a large screen with a video of the history of Dubai – starting with men on camels and pearl divers and moving to oil discovery with non-Arab oil drillers, and then on to the huge building projects going on today. It was in this room that I learned where all the wood came from… Through the next door there were more dark and narrow alleys with mannequins in the rooms describing the different activities of the past and present. This is where the life-like mannequins were – they were all over the place, just in the middle of the walk way or sitting on edge of the path looking like real people. Stephen wrote before me and he captured the underwater room pretty well.