.: The Rihani Museum in Freike, Lebanon

In 1953 Albert Rihani founded a private museum in honor of his brother, Ameen Rihani. This museum was renovated in 1986 and now occupies the lower level of the Rihani home in Freike, Lebanon.

Among a variety of things found in the museum are his English and Arabic writings, his manuscripts, letters, works of art of his own and those presented to him by artist friends, busts sculpted of him, personal belongings, newspaper clippings, and personal gifts from World Leaders.

The Rihani Museum in Freike, Lebanon

Rihani's own caricature sketches

Bertha Case's (Rihani's wife) paintings

Oberhardt's portraits of Rihani

S. J. Woolf's portrait of Rihani

Gibran Kahlil Gibran's three portraits of Rihani

Gibran Kahlil Gibran's sketches for Rihani's The Book of Khalid

Mustafa Farroukh's portraits of Rihani

Helen Peale's portrait of Rihani

Will Simmons' chalk and pencil sketches

Troy Kenny's chalk and pencil sketches

J. Davis' oil paintings

N. Ferdinandoff's mosaic art work

Joseph Houwayek's round brass relief of Rihani's profile, and painting

Frederick Reynolds' water color painting

By Lebanese Sculpturer Joseph Houwayek - 1934

By Italian Sculpturer G. Mallozi - 1954

Bust of Rihani by Italian Sculpturer Mallozi

Compiled in 16 large volumes

Written in 25 different languages, and

Collected from 44 different countries

Among several personal items, a visitor will find the following:

His desk, New York, 1904

His bed

His typewriter and pens

His eyeglasses

His altimeter and compass used in his trips to the Arabian desert in 1922

His Western and Arab clothing, 1922-1940

His cane

His watch

His coffee pot

His passport containing visas several of which were personally issued by the rulers of Arabia, 1922

Rihani's Typewriter

Personal sword of King Abdul-Aziz, founder of Saudi Arabia

A rosary from Pope Benedict XV, a gift to Rihani's mother

A royal dagger from King Hussein the First of Hijaz

A piece of the Holy Moslem Kaaba cover, believed to be the only such gift to a Christian, presented to him by King Hussein the First of Hijaz

Two historic Persian carpets presented to him by King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia

Portrait of Walt Whitman from S. J. Woolf

Various pieces of artwork by and from: Troy Kenny, Wil Simmons, S. J. Woolf, Kahlil Gibran, William Oberhardt, Margaret White, and Helen Peale

Pictures of a pure-bred Arabian horse, called Noura, presented to him by King Abdul-Aziz