Online Museum · Est. 2025

CamelMuseum

One thousand works tracing the camel across four millennia — from Bactrian Bronze Age to Ottoman manuscript.

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Works Catalogued
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Institutions
4,000+
Years of History
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Dromedary petroglyph, Jubbah UNESCO rock art site, Saudi Arabia, ca. 7000 BCE
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Camels, hunters and Thamudic inscriptions, Jubbah, Saudi Arabia
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Bronze Age petroglyphs at Tamgaly UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kazakhstan
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Camel and Thamudic inscription, Jubbah rock art site, Saudi Arabia
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Current Exhibition · No. 01

Marksin Stone

Prehistoric camel rock art from Arabia, Central Asia, North Africa and beyond — 9,000 years of the oldest camel imagery on earth.

Works98
Sites30+
Period9000–500 BCE
Continents4
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Jubbah dromedary petroglyph
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Jubbah · Saudi Arabia · ca. 7000 BCE
Dromedary Petroglyph
Camel and Thamudic inscription Jubbah
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Jubbah · Saudi Arabia
Camel + Thamudic Script
Jubbah camels hunters and inscriptions
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Jubbah · Saudi Arabia
Camels, Hunters & Inscriptions
Tamgaly Kazakhstan petroglyphs
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Tamgaly · Kazakhstan · UNESCO 2004
Bronze Age Petroglyphs
Rider on dromedary camel petroglyph Tamgaly Kazakhstan
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Tamgaly · Kazakhstan
Rider on Dromedary
Persepolis Apadana East Staircase dromedary tribute relief
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Persepolis · Iran · ca. 500 BCE
Apadana Tribute Relief
Camel petroglyph Jubbah rock art site
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Jubbah · Saudi Arabia
Camel Petroglyph
9000 BCE
Laas Geel cave paintings,
Somalia
7000 BCE
Jubbah petroglyphs,
Saudi Arabia (UNESCO)
2200 BCE
Bactrian figurines,
Oxus Civilisation
700 BCE
Dromedary arrives
in Egypt
618 CE
Tang Dynasty sancai
tomb figures

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Bactrian camel mural, Mogao Caves Dunhuang, Tang Dynasty
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Trade & Silk Road
245 works · China to Rome
Magi mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna, ca. 547 CE
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Mythology & Religion
180 works
Muybridge Animal Locomotion Plate 736 — dromedary gallop sequence 1887
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Natural History
165 works · Gesner to Muybridge
Al-Hariri Maqamat, Baghdad school, 1237 CE
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Cultural & History
310 works · Orientalism · War · Everyday Life
Dromedary petroglyph, Jubbah UNESCO rock art site, Saudi Arabia
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Rock Art
98 works · 30 sites · 4 continents

A single animal.
Every civilisation.

The Camel Museum is an online collection dedicated entirely to the representation of camels in art, science, and material culture across four thousand years of human history.

From Bronze Age Bactrian figurines in the Oxus valley, to Flemish masters who painted dromedaries into their Adoration altarpieces, to Muybridge's sequential photographs in 1887 — the camel is one of the most consistently documented animals in the history of art.

Our database spans 44 institutions across 6 continents, catalogued with full species accuracy, provenance, and curatorial notes.

Dromedary · 765 works Bactrian · 171 works Both species · 64 works CC0 / Open Access Species-accurate 44 global institutions