The Dickson House Cultural Centre
The British Political Agency in Kuwait was based in a house that had been built in 1870 for a Kuwaiti merchant.[citation needed] The Dicksons moved into the house in 1929, and the building served as the British political agency until 1935.[citation needed] Dickson lived there until his death in 1959 and Dame Violet until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when she was evacuated to Britain. Sadly, Dame Violet died before the liberation of Kuwait. The house was ransacked during the invasion, but has since been restored by the Kuwaiti National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, and is now a tourist attraction. It is one of few surviving examples of nineteenth century Kuwaiti architecture, with thirty rooms on two floors.[
Address: Arabian Gulf St, Al Kuwayt
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