The Fire Station in Doha is a former base for the Qatari Civil Defense Authority repurposed for the Artists in Residence programme of the Qatar Museums.

Building 
The building was constructed in 1982 and was used as a residence by the Civil Defense Authority of Qatar until 2012. The 2014 renovation, designed by the Qatari Architect Ibrahim Al Jaidah, retained many features of the building, like the honeycomb exterior or the firefighter pole. While the yellow fire engine doors were also conserved, they lost their original use as entry or exit ways after a wall was built on the inside of them to create additional space for artworks.

Outside of the gallery spaces, studios and workspaces the renovated building also contains a fabrication lab with a laser cutter, the Fire Station Cinema, a café called Café 999 and an art supply shop. An annex containing facilities for the public as well as the artists was also added to the complex.

The building was opened in 2015 alongside the 555 exhibition.

Residency programmes 
The Artists in Residence programme was launched in 2015 and selected Qatari and Qatari-based artists to take part in a 9-month long programme. The programme wants to give these artists a chance to collaborate and cooperate with other artist within the programme, work with professional artists, meet curators as well as provide mentoring session to help them develop their art. 

In 2017 the Paris Art Residency in the Cite Internationale des Art in Paris was started. The artists stayed in the complex for three months while working on their art and exploring the Parisian art scene. A year later a residency at the Studio 209 NY in New York was announced, starting with the two artist Fatima Mohammed and Sarah Al Oabidli in January 2019.

A Curatorial Residency was established in 2020. The curators are selected trough an open call and provided with a workspace in the Fire Station as well as access to sessions with local curators and artists, Open Studio events and public programmes.

Exhibitions 
Exhibitions at the Fire Station include:

 "555", March 2015 to July 2015
 "German Encounters: Contemporary Masterworks", October 2017 to January 2018
 "Russian Seasons", October 2018 to October 2018
 "Picasso's Studios", July 2020 to November 2020
 "Grey Times", June 2020 to August 2020
 "Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech", November 2021 to March 2022
 "Nasser al-Thani: Esspresso 4 the Road", May 2022 to July 2022
 "Yousef Bahzad: Earth Metal", May 2022 to July 2022
 "Abeer Al-Tamimi: Beyond the Rules", July 2022 to September 2022
 "Abstraction: Subverting Reality", July 2022 to September 2022
 Birthday Ceremony", February 2023 to March 2023
 "Experience Al Jazeera", November 2022 to March 2023
 "Eduardo Navarro: Free Spirits of Wild Horses", Fire Station May 2023 to June 2023.

References 

Arab art scene
Museums in Qatar
Museums established in 2014
2014 establishments in Qatar