Abstract
The article describes how the optics section of the Museum on the History of Arabic Sciences, soon to be opened in Muscat, has been conceived. The visitor follows a path that presents the historical development of optics from the Hellenistic age to al-Farisi’s thirteenth century studies on the rainbow. The exhibits are presented with photographs and brief remarks on history and science to narrate the stages of the development of optics in the Islamic world. The interactive aspect of the exhibits, together with the historical itinerary, relate the ideas and experiments that progressively modified old views without arriving at definitive conclusions: at the end, the subject is suspended, open to new views.
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