"The city of Al Ain was chosen to build this museum due to the numerous and diverse archaeological sites it houses, dating back (5,000) five thousand years. It is the oldest oasis in which man settled and built his civilization. At first, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan selected the fort of Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan to be the headquarters of the museum, after he had ordered its restoration in 1969 with the same local materials with which the fort was built, that are naturally available in the environment. Then, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ordered the construction of a new building in 1970 that contained only two halls. It was inaugurated in 1971. Two halls were then added in 1975 to accommodate the large number of antiquities that had been discovered in Al Ain." https://abudhabiculture.ae/en/heritage-records/heritage-and-cultural-sites/al-ain-museum