Tuesday 10 / March / 2026
Muscat: The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth today launched the 2026 Excellence Competition for Libraries and Private Cultural Centers 2026. The contest, themed "Digital Innovation Award for Libraries and Private Cultural Centers", coincides with the celebration of Arab Library Day, which falls on 10 March every year.
The competition seeks to attract ideas for developing an integrated vision of future digital innovation in a manner that upgrades library services and improves modern technologies’ user experience.
The competition focuses on proposed or "unimplemented" ideas or initiatives aimed at developing services, activities or methods of communication with users or digital solutions applicable in the environment of libraries and cultural centres. Rather than having the idea implemented, the competition welcomes ideas that are presented in a documented manner defining goals and envisaged impact.
Subscription to the competition must be done through the electronic form available via a link on the Ministry’s website, between 10 and 20 March 2026. The deadline for receiving entries will be 1 August 2026.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth has allocated monetary prizes for the winners: OMR3,000 is set for first place winner, while second and third place winners get OMR2,000 and OMR1,000 respectively.
