Civil Engineering and Architecture 10(3A): 86-92, 2022 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/cea.2022.101311 Potential of Adapting Smart Cultural Model related to Contemporary Art: The Case of Jeddah Open-Air Sculpture Museum Sema Refae Department of Architecture, College of Architecture and Design, Effat University, Qasr Khuzam St., Kilo. 2, Old Mecca Road. P.O.BOX 34689, Jeddah 21478, Saudi Arabia Received September 15, 2021; Revised March 15, 2022; Accepted April 19, 2022 Cite This Paper in the following Citation Styles (a): [1] Sema Refae , "Potential of Adapting Smart Cultural Model related to Contemporary Art: The Case of Jeddah Open-Air Sculpture Museum," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 10, No. 3A, pp. 86 - 92, 2022. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2022.101311. (b): Sema Refae (2022). Potential of Adapting Smart Cultural Model related to Contemporary Art: The Case of Jeddah Open-Air Sculpture Museum. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 10(3A), 86 - 92. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2022.101311. Copyright©2022 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract Jeddah city has a great relationship with art and sculptures since 1973 after the economy booming as an outcome from the oil industry. Since then, Jeddah has been branded as a ―City of Art‖ where famous international artists display their sculptures around the squares and streets. Municipalities and private authorities manage the maintenance of these artifacts due to the environmental and weather conditions. After four years of implementing a massive project and creating an open space, the cultural park museum now displays 20 sculptures. The objective of this paper was to find and investigate a smart global practice in museum, parks and find potentials of adapting smart cultural vision towards Jeddah open park Sculpture Museum as an intelligent platform. Searching for the optimum solution will add value to the social and public communities by communicating and sharing a smart social platform, especially in the open sculptural museum in Jeddah and uplifting the social and cultural impacts. Keywords Smart Vision, Smart Trend, Smart Cultural Platform, Open Museum 1. Introduction Although Mediterranean immigrants flooded into European cities due to high quality of life and many other reasons, Jeddah still maintains an artistic history [1]. The history of art in Jeddah city has a great relationship with art and sculptures since 1973 when decided to blend art within the development process by ordering and selecting sculptures for famous international artists and distribute around 600 artistic pieces around the squares, streets, and boulevards to enhance the urban space of Jeddah city [2-4]. Branding Jeddah city as ―City of Art‖ was a reflection of the art and artist booming in Saudi Arabia after graduating the first batch from the Institute of Art in Riyadh that enhanced the appearance of artist communities in the same period a s the Saudi Community for Culture & Art at the 70s and the Saudi center for fine art in the 80s. In the last ten years, many other art associations and art galleries in Jeddah appears like Ather and Hafiz gallery and Art Jameel [5]. At present, the Jeddah sculptures need maintenance through the last 40 years due to the environmental and weather conditions. Accordingly, the decision by the Jeddah municipality along with the volunteering of Art Jameel was taken to restore the sculptures and rearrange 20 restored artworks in a new settlement by creating an open-air museum in a seven-square kilometer park along the Jeddah Corniche, known locally as ‗Al Hamraa'. The project was launched in September 2013 to community recognition [5, 6]. Lately, the ―21,39‖ Jeddah Arts initiative was organized by the Saudi Art Council by a group of local artist that