Collecting practices of the Al-Thani Family the project. The Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum was opened in 1998 and currently showcases over 15,000 artifacts that were collected by Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani over a span of several years. Besides largely contributing to the construction of new museums, Al-Thani Family is involved in a wide range of art events. In 2010, Qatar funded the exhibition of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, known as Murakami-Ego and shown at the Palace of Versailles in 2010. The exhibition was later shown in Doha in 2012. The Museum of Islamic Art was initially proposed, yet the Japanese artist
Roman Catholic Diocese of Surat Thani Roman Catholic Diocese of Surat Thani The (Roman Catholic) Diocese of Surat Thani ("Dioecesis Suratthanensis", ) in southern Thailand was founded in 1969, when it was split off from the Diocese of Ratchaburi by the papal bull "Qui Regno Christi". It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Bangkok. The area of Surat Thani was evangelized by the Salesians of Don Bosco in the 1930s. The diocese covers an area of 76,562 km², covering all of the southern provinces of Thailand, including Prachuap Khiri Khan as its northernmost province. As of 2001, of its nine million citizens, 6,682 or