The office of founder of modern day Kuwait, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah (1896 to 1915).

When Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah came to power, this house was his headquarters, and he used it to control taxes, solve problems, supervise trade and deal with citizens.

This office is preserved quite well.

Mubarak signed the Anglo-Kuwaiti Treaty with Great Britain on 23 November 1899, pledging himself and his successors not to receive foreign agents or representatives or to cede or sell territory without the approval of the British government; with this agreement, and the guarantee it represented to Kuwait and the Al-Sabah family, he is regarded as the founder of modern-day Kuwait. German explorer Hermann Burchardt photographed Mubarak in 1903, in what is now an iconic photograph (second picture).