The sister of Qatar’s ruling emir, Al-Mayassa is chair of Qatar Museums, giving her authority over a string of venues (including Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Islamic Art) and public art (such as the recently unveiled monumental sculpture by Rashid Johnson installed outside Doha International Airport) in the Gulf state. Soon to be added to this portfolio are the Lusail Museum, which will house the world’s largest collection of Orientalist paintings, and Doha’s Art Mill Museum (both slated to open in 2030), which will be ‘part global think tank and part art museum’ and feature international modern and contemporary work. The latter is already programming, co-organising Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices during the Venice Biennale with Mathaf and the Doha Film Institute (also under Al-Mayassa’s purview), an exhibition featuring the moving image work of 40 MENA-based artists. While in Venice, Qatar Museums signed a ‘protocol of co-operation’ to invest in Venetian heritage projects.