Bidiya Museum

Founded in 2008 across the road from the fort, this private museum fills a two-storey stone-and-mud building in the Omani style. Seven galleries hold rifles, khanjars, coins, costumes, copper and pottery, and the oldest pieces are Stone Age trays.

The upper floor looks over the oases and the fort. Allow twenty minutes, more if the owner is there to tell the stories behind the objects.