Aloqilat Museum
"Al-Aqili" or "Al-Aqeilat" is the name given to the tribes and families that traded in camels, horses, sheep and food. Aloqilat Museum preserves heritage pieces that tell the history the Al-Qassim region has been through over roughly the last 100 years. It is one of the private museums whose owners care about folk heritage and take care to collect distinctive heritage pieces and old cars, out of a principle of preserving heritage and keeping history for future generations. The museum highlights the Aqeilat trade journeys, which set out from Al-Qassim and extended to Iraq, the Levant, Egypt, India and China. It also shows how the Aqeilat, through their journeys across history, helped carry Saudi culture to the countries they travelled to for trade. In a fine building that echoes the old architectural style, the museum has a map of the route the Aqeilat took in travelling to the surrounding countries, as well as more than 100 panels documenting their history and many manuscripts and letters exchanged between the founding king (may God have mercy on him) and the Aqeilat in that period. Visiting hours: the museum receives visitors from 8:30 am to 12:00 noon, and from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm. The museum is the work of Abdullatif Al Wuhaibi, who documented the history of the Aqeilat, one of the most famous modern trading journeys, which set out from the Al-Qassim region. Through the museum he founded on his own initiative and opened to visitors and researchers, he documented that histor
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