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Across these sites the museum showcases their collections to a wide range of audiences and aims to champion design and creativity in all its forms.  \n  \nThe V&A has specialised in collecting art and design from the Islamic world since the 1850s, and it was the first institution in the world to collect Islamic art in a systematic fashion. The museum's founders believed that Islamic ideas about structuring patterns and matching decoration to shape and function could improve British design. The collection grew to become the most significant in its field. Outstanding works include the AH 10th / AD 16th-century Ardabil carpet from Iran, a rock crystal ewer from AH 5th / AD 11th-century Egypt, and the world’s greatest collections of Islamic ceramics. The museum also houses the national collection of Islamic textiles.","city":"London","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nSW7 2RL  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 207 9422000"},"1db535b6-0ad9-580c-b2d0-66605f9e9d44":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Lisbon**  \nAncient Patriarch’s Palace, now Casa do Gaiato  \nArmy Museum  \nCalouste Gulbenkian Museum  \nChurch of St. Domingos de Benfica  \nLisbon’s Holy House of Mercy/Museum of São Roque  \nMacau Scientific and Cultural Centre Museum  \nMaritime Museum  \nNational Coach Museum  \nNational Library of Portugal  \nNational Museum of Ancient Art  \nPharmacy Museum  \n  \n**Alpiarça**  \nPatudos House, Alpiarça Museum  \n  \n**Alcobaça**  \nAlcobaça Monastery  \n  \n**Arouca**  \nSacred Art Museum of Arouca  \n  \n**Beja**  \nQueen Leonor Museum, Districtal Museum of Beja  \n  \n**Braga**  \nBraga Cathedral  \n  \n**Coimbra**  \nMachado de Castro National Museum  \nMuseum of Physics, University of Coimbra  \n  \n**Ílhavo**  \nVista Alegre Historic Museum  \n  \n**Oeiras**  \nOeiras Town Hall  \n  \n**Óbidos**  \nMunicipal Museum of Óbidos  \n  \n**Porto**  \nSoares dos Reis National Museum  \n  \n**Sardoal**  \nSardoal’s Holy House of Mercy  \n  \n**Viana do Castelo**  \nMuseum of Art and Archeology of Viana do Castelo  \n  \n**Vila Verde dos Francos**  \nOur Lady of the Visitation Convent  \n  \n**Vila Viçosa**  \nMuseum and Library of the House of Braganza  \n  \n**Viseu**  \nGrão Vasco Museum"},"2a23d23f-5624-56f3-828f-3db6b5689a95":{"name":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","description":"The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City – The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.  \n  \nSince it was founded in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum’s galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.  \n  \nThe Met Fifth Avenue  \n1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)  \nNew York, NY 10028  \n+1 212 535 7710  \nSunday–Thursday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nFriday and Saturday: 10:00am–9:00pm  \n  \nThe Met Breuer  \n945 Madison Avenue  \nNew York, NY 10021  \n+1 212 731 1675  \nClosed Monday  \nTuesday and Wednesday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nThursday and Friday: 10:00am–9:00pm  \nSaturday and Sunday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \n  \nThe Met Cloisters  \n99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park  \nNew York, NY 10040  \n+1 212 923 3700  \nMarch–October: 10:00am–5:15pm  \nMay 27–September 2, 2016: Open late on Fridays until 7:30pm  \nNovember–February: 10:00am–4:45pm  \n  \nAll locations closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, and January 1. The Met Fifth Avenue closed the first Monday in May.","city":"New York","address":"The Met Fifth Avenue  \n1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)  \nNew York, NY 10028  \nSunday–Thursday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nFriday and Saturday: 10:00am–9:00pm","website":"http://www.metmuseum.org","phone":"+1 212 535 7710"},"2cdbceaa-4a4e-5e2e-9417-264e733de097":{"name":"Austrian Military Museum / Institute of Military History","description":"The Museum of Military History, one of the most important history museums in the world, is situated right in the centre of the Arsenal. In five major sections the museum shows the history of the Habsburg Empire from the end of the 16th century until 1918 and Austria's fate after the dissolution of the monarchy up to the year 1945. About 500 years of Austrian and European history are depicted in the collections exhibited in the main building, which, to the present day, has kept its character of an artistic synthesis, making visible, by means of thousands of original exhibits, a part of world cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe Military History Museum was built according to plans of Ludwig Foerster and Theophil Hansen from 1850 to 1856 and was thus the first Viennese museum. The styles of this town's oldest historic building range from Byzantine, Hispano-Moorish to Neo-Gothic.","city":"Vienna","address":"Arsenal Object, 1A  \n1030 Wien  \nAustria","website":"www.hgm.at/en/","phone":"+43 1 79561 0","email":"contact@hgm.at"},"325b7505-1527-5442-99ea-6a40f8c43d3f":{"name":"Islamic Museum at Al-Aqsa Mosque","description":"The museum was officially inaugurated in AH 1341 / AD 1922. In AH 1348 / AD 1929, it was transferred to its present site in the southwestern corner of the Haram al-Sharif. The museum is administered through the Department of Islamic Awqaf in Jerusalem, under the auspices of the Ministry of Jordanian Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Places.  \n  \nThe museum comprises three buildings with an exhibition space of over 1,000 square m. The oldest hall is from the AH 6th / AD 12th century and is a rare Crusader monument in the holy city. The second hall was an Ayyubid mosque (AH 7th / AD 13th century) historically known as al-Malikiya mosque or the Jami’a al-Mughariba. The third hall is known as the *al-Fakhriya* corner and its history goes back to the Mamluk period (AH 8th / AD 14th century).  \n  \nThe collection consists of artefacts and remains from the Islamic and non-Islamic epochs, representing various facets of Islamic civilisation ranging in geography, theme and period. Most of the artefacts represent the heritage of al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem and Palestine at large including cities such as Hebron and Nablus.  \n  \nThe museum contains woodwork from different Islamic eras, the oldest dating to the Umayyad period. Metalwork in iron, copper and silver includes the iron enclosure from the Dome of the Rock, candlesticks, swords, daggers, daises, incense burners, coins, rings and memorial pieces. The collection includes marble and glazed tiles that panelled the the Dome of the Rock in the period of Sultan Sülayman the Magnificent (r. AH 926–74 / AD 1520–66) and his successors. There is a collection of earthenware, inscriptions on stone from different Islamic periods and its precursors, and columns and capitals from the Roman and Byzantine periods. There is a valuable collection of Qur’ans, the oldest from the AH 9th / AD 15 th century, and many Mamluk manuscripts whose themes deal with social and economic life in the holy city. The museum displays part of its textile collection, with costumes, grave coverings, pieces from the *kiswa* (covering) of the Ka’ba and pieces of carpet.","city":"Jerusalem","address":"Al-Haram al-Sharif  \nAmro  \nP.O. Box 75085  \nJerusalem","website":"http://www.facebook.com/islamic.museum1922/","phone":"02 6283286","email":"jerusalem.museum@gmail.com"},"33f89573-8b54-5c1a-86ba-1663e604740f":{"name":"Jordan Archaeological Museum","description":"The museum was founded in 1951 by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan on the Citadel of Amman on a hill called Jabal al-Qal’a. The building has a total measurement of 525 m2 on two floors. The ground floor is used for storage, and the first floor comprises the display area, which consists of three exhibition halls, and administrative offices.  \n  \nThe museum holds many artefacts found in various archaeological sites in Jordan representing the path of civilization in this area throughout its long history. The extensive collection is arranged chronologically by historical periods, from the Stone Ages to the Islamic periods.  \n  \nThe Islamic art collection is displayed in an exhibition hall in eleven showcases that consist of: pottery vessels from the Umayyad period to the Mamluk period; glazed vessels from the Mamluk period to the Ottoman period; steatite vessels from the Umayyad period; coins of all types and periods; metalwork and pottery vessels from the Umayyad to Mamluk periods; iron shields and swords from the Mamluk period; carved stones from the Umayyad period; four plaster replicas of architectural elements from Khirbat al-Mafjar Palace in Jericho (windows, lintel and a dome from the bath).  \n  \nLack of space prohibits the display of temporary exhibitions; however, the museum participates in many local and international exhibitions held in Jordan and abroad to show the history and archaeology of Jordan throughout the ages.  \n  \nThree curators sharing the responsibility of looking after the whole collection of the museum.","city":"Amman","address":"Citadel of Amman  \nP.O. Box 88  \nAmman, Jordan","phone":"+962 6 463 8795"},"36670bdc-150b-5f89-8906-79b8e4e2518d":{"name":"The David Collection","description":"The David Collection was founded by C. L. David (1878-1960), a prominent Danish attorney, who had begun to collect fine and decorative art in the 1910s. In this last field, he was aided by directors of the Danish Museum of Art and Design, who gradually also guided him to another area that had previously attracted little interest in Denmark: Islamic art. The Islamic part of David’s collection was, however, still rather modest at the time of his death in 1960.  \n  \nA bachelor and childless, C. L. David left his Copenhagen townhouse and works of art to a private foundation, along with financial means that made it possible to expand his collections. From the 1970s, a decision was consequently made to place increasing emphasis on expanding the Islamic holdings. The Islamic Collection has grown to become not only the museum’s most important, with over 4,000 objects, but also Scandinavia’s most significant in its field.  \n  \nThe Islamic Collection has been built up in keeping with the classical pattern for Western collections of this kind. It embodies works of art from Spain in the west to India in the east, but not works from Sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia. Chronologically, the collection ranges from works dating to shortly after the advent of Islam to the middle of the 19th century. The collection encompasses all types of materials, but since the small rooms of 19th-century buildings like C. L. David’s townhouse, now the museum’s home, make it impossible to exhibit large objects, the museum consequently has only a modest collection of carpets, and they are either of small size or fragments of larger carpets.  \n  \nFollowing the museum’s refurbishment and reinstallation of its collections in 2009, the David Collection is now divided into three parts: European 18th-Century Art, Danish Early Modern Art, and Islamic Art. The collection of Islamic Art is presented in a new, contemporary setting, enhanced by digital and other modern techniques used to elucidate the objects on display. The backbone of the collection is 20 chronological/geographical sections, but the display also contains special galleries for light-sensitive materials as well as others dedicated to themes such as cultural history and artistic techniques.","city":"Copenhagen","address":"Kronprinsessegade, 30  \nCopenhagen  \nDenmark  \n  \nPostal address: Kronprinsessegade 30-32","website":"http://www.davidmus.dk/en","phone":"+45 33734949","email":"museum@davidmus.dk"},"38b8a503-bba9-5234-b7db-0bbb2a054c57":{"name":"Qatar Museums","description":"Qatar Museums connects the museums, cultural institutions and heritage sites in Qatar and creates the conditions for them to thrive and flourish. It centralises resources and provides a comprehensive organisation for the development of museums and cultural projects, with a long term ambition of creating a strong and sustainable cultural infrastructure for Qatar. Under the patronage of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and led by its Chairperson, Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, QM is consolidating Qatar’s efforts to become a vibrant centre for the arts, culture and education, in the Middle East and beyond.  \n  \nSince its foundation in 2005, QM has overseen the development of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and the Al Zubarah World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. The QM also manages the QM Gallery at Katara and the ALRIWAQ DOHA Exhibition Space. Future projects include the opening of the Fire Station: Artists in Residence in 2014 and the launch of the highly anticipated National Museum of Qatar and the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum.  \n  \nQM is committed to instigating Qatar’s future generation of arts, heritage and museum professionals. At its core is a commitment to nurturing artistic talent, creating opportunities and developing the skills to service Qatar’s emerging art economy. By means of a multi-faceted program and public art initiatives, QM seeks to push the boundaries of the traditional museum model, and create cultural experiences that spill out onto the streets and seek to involve the widest possible audiences. Through a strong emphasis on originating art and culture from within and fostering a spirit of national participation, QM is helping Qatar find its own distinctive voice in today’s global cultural debates.","city":"Doha","address":"Al-Dafna, Doha  \nQM Tower  \nP.O Box 2777  \nDoha, State of Qatar","website":"www.qm.org.qa/en","phone":"+974 4452 5555"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"The British Museum","description":"The British Museum was established by Act of Parliament in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all “studious and curious persons”. The founding collection was that of Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy physician and collector. The original British Museum comprised three departments: Printed Books; Manuscripts (including coins); and Natural and Artificial Productions, which included everything from sculpture to mineral samples and zoological specimens. In January 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public.  \n  \nAs a product of the Enlightenment, the museum's job was to be a storehouse of knowledge for the use and benefit of the public, advancing all fields of scholarship. The museum therefore aimed to collect all kinds of material; it remains one of the few places in the world in which it is possible to see the world under one roof. During the 19th century the museum acquired representative collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, as well as material from across the Islamic world.  \n  \nThe museum itself had to grow to offer space to display the growing collections. Between 1823 and 1847 the original building was replaced by four large wings built around a central courtyard. In 1854 construction began on the iconic Round Reading Room in the central courtyard. The natural history collections were given their own home in the new Museum of Natural History in 1881. By 1973 the British Library and British Museum were administratively separated, and in 1999 the new British Library building opened at St Pancras. The British Museum site was expanded and modernised. In 2000 the Great Court opened, envisioned as a sunny piazza at the centre of the building, with up-to-date facilities such as lecture theatres, an education centre and facilities for school children, as well as restaurants and shops. In 2014 the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre opened to the public, offering state-of-the-art facilities to care for, manage, research and display the collections.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"42fb6391-e1f6-527a-85db-f9638b02d667":{"name":"Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia, University of Manouba","description":"The Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia (ISHCT) is a research centre for contemporary history in Tunisia. It houses a microfilm archive, audio-visual witness records, a collection of photographs and a library available on request to researchers, journalists, activists and students wishing to conduct in-depth research into the history of the colonisation and decolonisation of Tunisia. There are four research and study units (UER) bringing together historical researchers dedicated to using the different resources to improve understanding of this period of Tunisian history: UER Archives, UER Repositories of Memory and Museums, UER Oral History and UER History. Through the publication of a review (RAWAFID), conference papers, seminars and scientific meetings, memories from witnesses and document collections, ISHCT hopes to enhance the university library in line with advances in documentation and  methodology, thereby helping to stimulate research into this historical period by setting up scientific exchanges in Tunisia and abroad.","city":"Tunis","address":"Campus Universitaire de la Manouba,  \n2010 La Manouba  \nTunis  \nTunisia","phone":"+216 716 009 50","email":"ishmn@ishmn.rnu.tn"},"5a99ecbe-b976-5037-8760-a07c629142f6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia - from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are housed in the Neue Burg (i.e. the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury), and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Vienna","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"6001ff30-e9b6-573e-a38c-5ac23b472e6c":{"name":"Saint Louis Art Museum","description":"Mission  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum collects, presents, interprets, and conserves works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures; educates, inspires discovery, and elevates the human spirit; and preserves a legacy of artistic achievement for the people of St. Louis and the world.  \n  \nHistory  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States. This Museum’s comprehensive collections bear witness to the inspirational and educational goals to which its founder aspired and the moral and democratic imperatives he embraced. What began as a collection of assorted plaster casts, electrotype reproductions, and other examples of good design in various media rapidly gave way to a great and varied collection of original works of art spanning five millennia and six continents. Today the quality and breadth of the Museum’s collection secure for it a place among the very best institutions of its kind.  \n  \n(*Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collection*)**","city":"Saint Louis","address":"1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park  \nSt. Louis, Missouri 63110","website":"http://www.slam.org","phone":"+1 314.721.0072","email":"info@slam.org"},"64c2796c-d403-5a23-958e-760dfdfdff22":{"name":"Sharjah Museums Authority","description":"The Sharjah Museums Authority was established in 2006 as an independent government department by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah.  \n  \nSharjah Museums Authority includes 16 museums covering Islamic art and culture, Arab and International, modern and contemporary art, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life and the history of Sharjah and the region.  \n  \nThe museum collections featured in this project come from: the Sharjah Art Museum, opened in April 1997 and the largest art museum in the Gulf with both temporary exhibitions and permanent collections by renowned artists; the Sharjah Heritage Museum, re-opened in the Heritage Area (Heart of Sharjah) in 2012 and dedicated to highlighting Sharjah’s rich traditions, customs and culture as a source of pride and inspiration to the people of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its visitors; the Sharjah Maritime Museum, first opened in the Heritage Area in early 2003 to highlight the maritime life of the UAE and – in improved and expanded form – relocated to the Al Khan area in 2009 due to the importance of the sea and its significance in the region’s heritage; and the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, opened in 2008 as the first of its kind in the UAE, featuring more than 5,000 artefacts from all over the Islamic World, arranged to celebrate Islamic Faith, Science and Technology and Art.  \n  \nThe purpose of the Sharjah Museums Authority as a whole is to deliver the highest quality of museums services for the people of the Emirate of Sharjah and all its visitors, through its facilities, exhibitions, programmes of learning, research and community outreach. Sharjah Museums Authority aims to achieve locally and internationally an understanding, appreciation and respect for Sharjah’s identity and for the value of its cultural and natural heritage.","city":"Sharjah","address":"Al-Layyeh, Sharjah  \nP.O. Box 39939  \nTurkey","website":"www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+971 65 56 60 02","email":"info@smd.gov.ae"},"71396e5b-ca3a-5c08-b428-1959e047ae57":{"name":"Jordan Folklore Museum","description":"The museum is located in the western section of Amman’s Roman theatre. Founded by the Department of Antiquities, it opened in 1975. The museum exhibits items of daily life in the cities and villages and of the Badu (Bedouin) groups who lived on the West and East Bank during the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Musical instruments, vessels and tools for domestic activities and craftsmanship illustrate traditional daily life and economic activities of the time. Tents, domestic furniture and items to prepare coffee illustrate the way of life, work and the rules of hospitality among Bedouin men and women. As well as the traditional products of the local society and economy, imported weapons and objects testify to how local communities came into contact with the inventions and commercial products that were changing the world in the 19th and early 20th century.","city":"Amman","address":"Quraysh Street  \nAmman","website":"goo.gl/DNPGbL"},"7712e497-33e4-5529-91c3-47abff00f87c":{"name":"National Archaeological Museum","description":"The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional or MAN) is Spain’s most important museum of history. It preserves, researches and presents its collections of archaeology, art and history to the public. In doing so, the museum aspires to offer all visitors an accurate, attractive, interesting and critical interpretation of the meaning of objects from the past, in the hopes that a deeper knowledge of history will help them to better analyse and understand the reality of today. Given the relevance and scope of its collections, the National Archaeological Museum is comparable in its specialty to prominent Spanish museums (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía or the Royal Collections Gallery), by showing our country’s diversity and affluence in terms of cultural history.  \n  \nThe museum occupies a monumental building in the heart of the Salamanca quarter, one of Madrid’s busiest shopping and leisure districts, and is strategically positioned along the Recoletos-Prado artery, which boasts the highest concentration of art and culture institutions in the city. The museum’s magnificent building in the heart of Madrid offers a historical infrastructure — complete with building, garden and fence —which is fully renovated and accessible.  \n  \nThe MAN has grown and evolved constantly since it was created in 1867, almost 160 years ago, and is still changing today to meet the needs of the 21st century. After a complete overhaul between 2008 and 2014, the institution reopened in April 2014 with a brand-new look and layout, claiming its place among Europe’s most modern museums. The renovated building is divided into six floors and has a total surface area of nearly 30,000 m2, of which 18,304 m2 are reserved for public use (the permanent exhibition alone occupies 9,239 m2). The museum has also been fitted out with different service areas, including a spacious vestibule, café, shop and activity rooms.  \n  \nThe MAN’s extraordinary collection, which includes a large number of priceless historical and cultural artefacts, comprises over one million archaeological, historical and artistic objects.  \n  \nIts holdings are vast and varied: Palaeolithic bifaces, practically the only tool in existence for millennia; delicate ivory carvings that combine aesthetic appeal with practical functionality; prehistoric engravings found in the Cave of El Castillo, evidence of humanity’s earliest artistic and symbolic expressions; the abstract aesthetics of the “Idol of Extremadura”; the classical, timeless beauty of the Lady of Elche; ancient Roman sculptures; the extraordinary treasure of Guarrazar; the Romanesque crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha; the lovely equestrian figure of Hector by Il Filarete; and the ornamental paintings of Luis Paret on a Baroque armchair are just some of the treasures it houses.  \n  \nThe Museum's Islamic Art collection largely comes from the different historical periods of Al-Andalus, the name that the Muslims gave to the territory they conquered in the Iberian Peninsula. The aesthetic quality achieved by Andalusian art is demonstrated in the capitals, arches, marble panels and alabaster and plaster decorations of the period, especially from the Caliphate of Córdoba. Added to this is the museum's collection of decorative and highly refined objects made in the Andalusian palace workshops, such as metal, ivory and glazed ceramics. Likewise, a large collection of objects is preserved that show the symbiosis of Hispano-Islamic and Christian forms in the Iberian Peninsula, as the dome of the Torrijos Palace.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001  \nMadrid, Spain","website":"http://www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"89f613d2-8723-5be8-8e46-487f9dae46f4":{"name":"Swiss National Museum","description":"Three museums – the National Museum Zurich, the Château de Prangins and the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz – as well as the collections centre in Affoltern am Albis – are united under the umbrella of the Swiss National Museum (SNM). The permanent exhibitions at the museums present Swiss history from its beginnings to the present, and give an insight into Swiss identities and the rich tapestry of our country’s history and culture. Temporary exhibitions on current topics add to the experience.","city":"Zurich","address":"Swiss National Museum  \nMuseumstrasse, 2  \nP.O. Box 8021  \nZurich  \nSwitzerland","website":"http://www.nationalmuseum.ch","phone":"+41 44 218 65 11","email":"info@nationalmuseum.ch"},"8cde1ffe-e1cc-52a8-9261-ee16bcaac48f":{"name":"National Museum of Romanian History","description":"The National Museum of Romanian History is Romania's most important museum, being the holder of the most valuable objects in the country's historical heritage. It was founded in 1970 and inaugurated two years later. The palace that hosts the museum is a neoclassical construction built between 1894 and 1900 by the Romanian architect Alexandru Savulescu and used until 1970 by the Romanian Postal Service.  \n  \nThe museum has a collection of 687,579 objects, constantly enriched through acquisitions, donations and new archeological discoveries. Because it is currently under renovation, most of the museum is closed to the public, who can visit only a part of its permanent exhibition, the Historical Treasure of Romania, which contains golden hoards and jewellery dating from Antiquity until the 20th century; Trajan's Column – a replica of the monument found in Rome, whose bas-reliefs tell the story of the Daco-Roman wars (101–102, 105–106 AD), which ended with Dacia (a province that was in present-day Romania's territory) being conquered by the Romans; and the Lapidarium – a collection of sculptures, architectural elements, different types of stone engravings (civil, honorific, funerary, votive monuments) from Antiquity to the 19th century. In addition, temporary exhibitions on various subjects are periodically organised, some of them in collaboration with other Romanian museums and cultural institutions or with foreign partners.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Victoria Avenue, 12, sector 3  \n030026 Bucharest  \nRomania","website":"http://www.mnir.ro/","phone":"+40 21 315 82 07","email":"direct@mnir.ro"},"8ea7243d-fe8e-5011-a9ca-75ebd26660ac":{"name":"Ministry of Culture, Directorate for Cultural Heritage","description":"The Directorate of Cultural Heritage is part of the Ministry of Culture. Its mission is to ensure the protection, conservation, restoration, maintenance and promotion of the architectural, archaeological and ethnographic heritage. It is also in charge of the country’s museums and its various artistic treasures.","city":"Rabat","address":"Avenue Michlifen, 17  \nAgdal, Rabat  \nMorocco","website":"www.minculture.gov.ma","phone":"+212 537 274 001 / 03"},"95483cda-d367-5af3-ad0e-2779b97409cb":{"name":"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah","description":"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (DAI) is a cultural organisation based on a Kuwaiti private art collection owned by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, founder of The al-Sabah Collection and his wife, DAI director general and co-founder Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah.  \n  \nEstablished in 1983, DAI was created to manage The al-Sabah Collection, an esteemed collection of Islamic art on permanent loan to the State of Kuwait under the auspices of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. The collection preserves and presents all aspects of Islamic art and includes more than 20,000 pieces extending from Spain to China, from the 1st – 13th centuries AH/7th – 19th centuries AD.  \n  \nSince its inception, DAI has grown from a single focus organisation to an internationally recognised cultural organisation. DAI’s main activities include:  \n  \n• An annual Cultural Season (lectures, music concerts, forum, workshops, children’s programme, quarterly magazine/journal, quarterly newsletter, cultural expeditions)  \n• Travelling exhibitions and loans  \n• Conservation training programmes  \n• Research and excavation projects  \n  \nWith a highly specialised library, DAI is also involved in the publication of scholarly books on Islamic art and culture.  \n  \nWhile the rehabilitation project of DAI’s buildings at the Kuwait National Museum is underway, the Amricani Cultural Centre is the temporary home of DAI. The Amricani Cultural Centre is the ground for most of the organization’s activities and events, including local temporary exhibitions and DAI’s cultural season events.","city":"Kuwait City","address":"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah  \nAmricani Cultural Centre  \nP.O. BOX: 23996 Safat 13100 Kuwait","website":"https://daralatharalislamiyyah.com/en/home-page-en/","phone":"+965 2240 0992","email":"info@darmuseumkw.org"},"a05b0a22-d90a-5e08-85e3-53fd66868e26":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is a pioneering project spotlighting the cultural vision of the State of Qatar, both in the region and across the world. Under the guiding vision of His Excellency, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the project is the cornerstone for the State of Qatar in its establishment as a global capital of culture.  \n  \nThe 35,500 sq. m museum was designed by I.M. Pei, taking inspiration from the 13th-century *sabil* (ablutions fountain) of the 9th-century Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun in Cairo. The museum comprises a five-level main building and a two-storey Education Wing, connected across a fountain courtyard. The main building’s angular planes form ascending pinnacles, rising around an atrium. Inside, a dome is revealed, concealed from outside view by the walls of a central tower. A window on the building’s north side rises to a height of 54 m., providing dramatic views from all five floors. The ground floor is home to a temporary gallery space for touring international exhibitions and the café, giftshop and Information Services. The museum’s permanent exhibition is installed on two floors of galleries designed by the French firm Jean-Michel Wilmotte & Associés. The fourth floor contains temporary galleries showcasing the research topics of museum staff, using items either not seen in the permanent galleries or with new information to see them in a new way.  \n  \n**Overview of the collections**  \nThe MIA houses artefacts highlighting the creative achievements of the Islamic world's richest cultures and spanning nearly a thousand years. The collection represents the full scope of Islamic art in all media, from manuscripts to ceramics, metalwork, glass, stone, ivory, textiles, wood, precious stones and jewellery.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition of *c.* 850 artefacts offers an insight into the diverse art of the Islamic world. Two floors are dedicated to the exploration of historical eras and interpretation of the themes of Islamic art and material culture, from the 8th century to the cusp of the 19th century.  \n  \nThe MIA also holds thousands more objects, some destined to be seen in future displays and others providing a resource for education and research.  \n  \nHighlights of the collection include: a distinguished group of carpets and textiles, a range of Ayyubid and Mamluk metalwork and enamelled glass, an outstanding strength in early ceramics, a comprehensive collection of astrolabes and scientific instruments, masterpieces of Mughal jewellery and rare manuscripts and miniatures.  \n  \n**The Department of Education and Information**  \nThe department’s main goal is to create materials, programmes and workshops that will engage the public, allowing them to explore the world through Islamic art, promoting a culture of learning within an atmosphere of knowledge and entertainment.  \n  \n**The Curatorial Department**  \nThe department of internationally trained curators is committed to studying, documenting and publicising the MIA’s collection and establishing the MIA as a world-class centre of scholarly research.  \n  \n**The Conservation Department**  \nSet to become a leading regional service centre for museums, the department is committed to restoring, preserving and caring for the collection through the application of innovative scientific methods.  \n  \n**International partnerships**  \nThe MIA is committed to building a network of partnerships around the world and offering institutes and museums collective access to information, research and images. It has strong ties with many world-class museums and collections, including the Louvre, France, the British Museum, UK, the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA, the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Germany, the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, the Gulbenkian, Portugal, and the National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art, Algeria.","city":"Doha","address":"Museum of Islamic Art roundabout, the Corniche  \nPostal Address: P.O. Box 2777  \nDoha, Qatar","website":"http://mia.org.qa/","phone":"+974 4422 4444","email":"infomia@qma.org.qa; educationmia@qma.org.qa; librarymia@qma.org.qa"},"a3753de5-842a-5f0b-a8c7-50bb2e312ce6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia – from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections are housed in the Neue Burg (the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury) and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the KHM.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"b3d5e8a5-90ae-5442-bf21-9067f8e77ed1":{"name":"Cerralbo Museum","description":"Cerralbo Palace, now Museum, was built between 1884 and 1892 in a historicist style with classical echoes, also shared by its garden. It contains the collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17th Marquis of Cerralbo (1845–1922), a politician, historian, collector and pioneer of archaeology in Spain. After his death, he bequeathed his collection to the Spanish state. Paintings, furniture, clocks, porcelain, lamps, sculptures, arms and armour, textiles, books, coins and archaeological objects are displayed in the various rooms where the first inhabitants of the palace led their daily lives. Cerralbo Museum also has the distinction of being one of the few buildings in Madrid that shows the original decorative ambience of an aristocratic residence, thoroughly restored in the first decade of the 21st century.","city":"Madrid","address":"C / Ventura Rodríguez, 17  \n28008 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museocerralbo.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 915 47 36 46 / 47","email":"museo.cerralbo@mecd.es"},"b43ae2c6-2060-5819-bd1c-dd9ca66b9f11":{"name":"Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)","description":"With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors annually.  \n  \nLACMA’s seven-building complex is located on twenty acres in the heart of Los Angeles, halfway between the ocean and downtown. The campus is undergoing a ten-year expansion and renovation known as the Transformation and designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.  \n  \nLACMA’s collections encompass the geographic world and virtually the entire history of art. The museum houses a highly significant collection of Islamic art. These widely diverse arts, from an area extending from southern Spain to Central Asia, trace the distinctive visual imagination of Islamic artists over a period of fourteen hundred years. The collection consists of over 1,700 works, of which some 150 examples are on view; these include glazed ceramics, inlaid metalwork, enameled glass, carved wood and stone, and manuscript illustration, illumination, and calligraphy. Particular strengths of the collection are glazed pottery and tiles from Iran and Turkey; glass, especially from the late seventh to the mid-thirteenth century; and Persian and Turkish arts of the book.  \n  \nThe museum began to concentrate seriously on Islamic art in 1973, with the acquisition of the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, the generous gift of Joan Palevsky. Although the Heeramaneck collection forms the nucleus of the Islamic holdings, the focus and scope of the collection have developed considerably since 1973. Two important additions, both gifts, occurred in the 1980s. In 1985 the noted collector Edwin Binney, 3rd, bequeathed more than one hundred works, in particular examples of the arts of the book and ceramics of the Ottoman period. Approximately fifty glass objects, primarily of the early Islamic period, from Hans and Varya Cohn's splendid collection were given to the museum in 1988. The collection has been augmented further over the past two decades through gift and purchase, most notably the acquisition in 2002 of the Madina Collection of Islamic Art, made possible in large part by a generous gift from longtime LACMA benefactor and Trustee Camilla Chandler Frost. Its addition has created a new international focus on Los Angeles and on LACMA.","city":"Los Angeles","address":"5905 Wilshire Boulevard  \nLos Angeles, CA 90036","website":"http://www.lacma.org/","phone":"323 857 6000","email":"publicinfo@lacma.org"},"bb94125a-04ef-5227-b3bb-8ebc7dfdafbe":{"name":"Jordan Museum for Costumes and Jewellery","description":"In the eastern section of Amman’s Roman theatre, the museum exhibits a comprehensive collection of clothing, textiles and silver jewellery from the West and East Bank. Founded in 1971 by the Department of Antiquities, the museum illustrates in detail the variety of traditional costumes of men and women from cities, villages and Bedouin communities. The exhibition gives the visitor the opportunity to know more about daily and domestic life, work and traditional craftsmanship, illustrating through textiles, embroidery and costume the meaning of decorative patterns, revealing the trousseau each woman prepared since childhood for her marriage and showing the importance of jewellery in relation to events such as marriage and dowry. The costumes and jewellery are also important examples of how local craftsmanship was a significant source of trade and income.","city":"Amman","address":"Quraysh Street  \nAmman","website":"goo.gl/joSyZT"},"c8825cec-041d-5069-bbce-82c394d5e619":{"name":"National Museum Oman","description":"The National Museum of the Sultanate of Oman, established by royal decree in 2013 and opened July 30, 2016, is the Sultanate's flagship cultural institution, showcasing the nation’s heritage from the earliest human settlement in the Oman Peninsula some two million years ago through to the present day. As a national institution with global outreach, the museum is dedicated to ensuring that Oman’s cultural heritage is understood and appreciated not only within the Sultanate, but also internationally. Further, it aims to provide opportunities for cultural expression, innovation, and the transfer of traditional skills and knowledge from one generation to the next.  \n  \nThe museum is located in the heart of Muscat in a purpose-designed building. The total area of the building is 13,700 square metres (147,000 sq ft), including 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) allocated for 14 permanent galleries – The Land and the People Gallery, Maritime History Gallery, Arms and Armour Gallery, Aflaj Gallery, Currency Gallery, Prehistory and Ancient History Galleries, Splendours of Islam Gallery, Oman and the World Gallery, Intangible Heritage Gallery and Renaissance Gallery, among others. A further 400 square metres (4,300 sq ft) are allocated for temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nThe National Museum houses 5,466 objects and offers 43 digital immersive experiences, a fully equipped Learning Centre, conservation facilities, an ultra-high definition cinema, and discovery areas for children. It features an integrated infrastructure for special needs and is the first museum in the Middle East to adopt Arabic Braille script for the visually impaired. The museum contains a voluminous collection of prehistoric metallic artefacts. It also houses the region’s first open-plan museum storage concept, where visitors can learn about the various processes that artefacts go through before they are put on display.","city":"Muscat","address":"P.O.Box: (1105)  \n113 Muscat","website":"https://www.nm.gov.om/","email":"booking@nm.gov.om"},"d9f6c12d-ca03-5d6e-b33c-c1a37daec1fa":{"name":"Glasgow Museums","description":"Although not the capital, Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland. It prides itself on its multi-cultural scene with a prosperous Muslim community representing the largest non-white Scottish group in the city and in Scotland. The Glasgow Museums collection is the biggest managed by any local authority in the United Kingdom and one of a handful of municipal collections that are recognized to have national importance. This service was founded in 1854 with the McLellan collection of European paintings, which was donated to the people of Glasgow by Archibald McLellan together with a building to house it. At present Glasgow manages thirteen public museums covering a wide range of subjects.  \n  \nGlasgow’s Islamic collections come from all over the world with objects from Africa, Spain, the Middle East and Central Asia. The oldest items date back to the 10th and 11th centuries. The earliest objects to enter the museums’ collections were donated in the 1870s. Though many of these are private donations, some were purchased by the museum service. The Islamic collections are mainly housed at The Burrell Collection, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  \n  \nThe main strength of the Islamic collections lies in the large donation of Sir William Burrell and his wife, who gifted their massive and varied collection to Glasgow in 1944. It includes Iranian and Mughal Indian ceramics and carpets, Turkish and Uzbek textiles and embroideries, and Hispano-Moresque lustrewares. The other Islamic collections of Glasgow Museums include objects from Mughal India, Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt and Syria, the Ottoman Middle East, and 19th century Berber and Arab North Africa. In addition to all of the above, Glasgow Museums is interested in developing its contemporary Islamic collections by welcoming donations of modern Islamic arts and crafts, as well as strengthening the other areas within its Islamic collections.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550"},"de2dbebd-e2b6-5434-b061-c35adc183958":{"name":"Udayas Museum (National Museum of Jewellery)","description":"**Historical Description**  \n  \nCreated in 1915, the Oudayas Museum is one of the oldest public museums in Morocco, along with the Batha Museum in Fez. The Oudayas Museum contains one of the largest museum collections in the country.  \n  \nA landmark in the history of Morocco, the Oudayas Casbah was originally a fort built by the Almoravids (10th–12th centuries) on the cliff overlooking the Bouregreg estuary. In the 12th century, under the Almohads, Abdelmoumen renovated the fort into a royal residence and defensive post in support of the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. In 1609, Philip II of Spain expelled nearly one million Moriscos – descendants of Muslims who at that time were living in Spain under Christian rule. Among these were 2,000 Arabic-speaking Muslims, the Hornacheros, who settled in the Oudayas Casbah and established an independent republic that engaged in piracy. The turbulent history of the Bouregreg estuary ended with the Alaouite Sidi Mohammed bin Abdellah (1757–89).  \n  \nThroughout its history the Oudayas Casbah has been the site of major construction works, including Bab el-Kebir, the monumental Almohad gate; the rampart of the Alaouite sultan Moulay Rachid; and the princely residence of Moulay Ismaïl (1672–1727).  \n  \n**The Museum**  \n  \nBuilt in the former pavilions of the sultan Moulay Ismaïl, the Oudayas Museum is an Andalusian-inspired architectural masterpiece. Initially comprising private collections (Libert: ceramics, brass and carved wood; Besancenot: silver jewels), it has been continuously enriched by new acquisitions. All currently displayed collections of manuscripts, coins, astrolabes, clothing, carpets, cabinetry, weapons, and so on, are from the Islamic period.  \n  \nThe first room features silver and gold-plated jewellery from the High Atlas, Middle Atlas, Anti-Atlas and the Sahara. Two loggias house blue or polychrome enamelled ceramics from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Clothing and ceremonial accessories of city-dwellers follow, and finally there is a collection of gold ornaments of high aesthetic and historical value.","city":"Rabat","address":"Musée National des Bijoux (Ancien musée des Oudayas)  \nCasbah des Oudayas  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 731537"},"e0e750b1-944e-5ed9-b290-6a31c17d5cff":{"name":"Numismatic Museum (Ahli Bank)","description":"The Numismatic Museum of Jordan Ahli Bank was established in 1999, securing Dr. Nayef G. Goussous’ knowledge and expertise as its curator, and ensuring the continuity and preservation of the collection and its passing on to future generation.  \n  \nThe bank museum is the first of its kind in the country, with collections numbering well over 40,000 coins. The ideals of the collector and the wisdom and generosity of a banking institution come together to produce an excellent educational legacy beneficial to society.  \n  \nThe Jordan Ahli Bank Numismatic Museum is a specialised museum containing coin collections spanning nearly 2,500 years, the earliest dating back to 600 BC and the latest coming from recent commemorative issues. The museum boasts one of the best Umayyad copper coin collections in the world, published in Dr Goussous’ *Rare and Inedited Copper Umayyad Coins* (2004). In addition, the museum has an outstanding collection of Mesopotamian, Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic weights. Furthermore, the museum has extensive collections of Nabataean coins and from Decapolis and provincial Arabia, many of which are still unpublished.  \n  \nThere are more than 4,500 coins and artefacts displayed in 25 cabinets. The museum is open to the public. The visitors can enjoy seeing the collections and learning about their history from the coins. The specialist certainly benefits from the coin collections and the library, with many graduate college students and numismatists regularly visiting the museum where they are welcomed and assisted.  \n  \nThere is continuing academic work on unpublished coins numbering well over 1,200 coins. Two volumes of rare and unpublished coins, dated to Ancient, Classical and Nabataen periods as well as Islamic periods, from the museum collection are in press.","city":"Amman","address":"Shmeisani – Queen Nour st.  \n11181 Amman  \nP.O. Box 3103  \nJordan","website":"https://ahli.com/the-numismatic-museum/","phone":"+962 6 5687090"},"f0c1b6b9-8198-5a97-9aea-8ebedfa90ca3":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"At the order of Khedive Ismail Pasha in 1880 the collection of archaeological rarities from the Islamic era was begun in the mosque of Al- Hakim. The Council for the Preservation of Arab Antiquities, created in 1881 in association with the Ministry of Awqaf, supervised the House of Arab Antiquities, as it was then known, until 1930 when the museum was taken into the Ministry of Education.  \n  \nThe museum acquired only from mosques and public buildings in its first 20 years. Then it undertook its first excavation in 1910 in the vicinity of Doronka in Upper Egypt and a second excavation south of Cairo uncovering a section of the city of Fustat (first Islamic capital of Egypt).  \n  \nThe museum acquired many items through donations. King Fu’ad I gave a valuable collection of textiles, scales and seals as did King Farouk, Amir Muhammad Ali and Amir Yusuf Kamal. Amir Kamal al-Din Hussein, Yakub Artin Pasha and Ali Ibrahim Pasha also donated complete collections.  \n  \nThe collections, amounting to 7082 artefacts, were transferred to their current building, when the present museum was inaugurated in December 1903. In 1952, the name of the museum was changed to the ‘Museum of Islamic Art’ to reflect the scope of the collection: objects produced in the Islamic world and dating from the beginning of the Islamic era (AD 7th century) to the end of the AD 19th century. The number of recorded objects has now reached 103,000.  \n  \nThe collections include enamelled glass lamps, Egyptian ceramics and a rare collection of filigree waterpot filters of unpainted earthenware renowned for their lacework designs. There are also collections of woodwork, textiles and stones with inscriptions, while the collection of carpets is considered to be one of the greatest of its kind. Collections of scientific instruments display the extent to which Islamic civilisation has contributed to knowledge in many different fields. There is also an extraordinary collection of seals, weights, measures, gold, silver and copper coins.  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art, having one of the most comprehensive and complete Islamic art collections in the world continues to develop and expand its collections and to modernise the building with its 25 halls, facilities and archaeological garden.","city":"Cairo","website":"https://www.miaegypt.org/","phone":"+20 2 2390 1520"},"f5c11bd8-33ca-5552-a5d9-8437afd6ee27":{"name":"The Lebanese University","description":"The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. The university has 17 faculties across Lebanon and serves various cultural, religious and social groups of students and teachers.  \n  \nThe independent university enjoys administrative, academic and financial freedom. Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and essential education to allow students to enter various professions.  \n  \nIn spite of the crisis in the region that has existed since 1975, leaving wounds and tragedies, the Lebanese University has remained the national home of science. Rivalling the most prestigious universities in Lebanon and abroad, and leading the process of human development that spread all over the country, its graduates became ambassadors of Lebanon in all the corners of the earth.  \n  \nOur university respects the national demand for academic freedom, which has become a right of scholars and specialists, based on laws and international conventions and regional organisations and sometimes more, applying the important rules of human rights: the right of learning and seeking knowledge with higher education and participation in international projects to develop academic programmes and exchange of research.The university has maintained the quality of higher education, although we seek more contact with the spirit of this modern age and its promising accomplishments by increasing relations and agreements with other universities and institutions all over the world. In spite of the political pressures on the people of the university and attempts to split them into factions, the majority of them have remained faithful to the spirit of the national organisation and the struggles of the early pioneers who insisted on building the edifice of national higher education, in the framework of the values of freedom and justice.","city":"Beirut","address":"Central Administration, Museum, Beirut  \n  \nPostal address: P.O. Box 6573/14 Badaro, Museum  \nBeirut  \nLebanon","website":"http://www.ul.edu.lb/","phone":"+961 1 612830; 1 612831","email":"ibady@ul.edu.lb"},"f6a3053d-d710-547e-be54-96097d448f7a":{"name":"National Museum of Damascus","description":"The National Museum in Damascus was established under the supervision of the Ministry of Education in 1919. The original core of this museum's contents was initially kept at the Madrasa al-'Adiliya. The collection gradually increased and the discovery of the Umayyad palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi in the Syrian desert in 1936 further spurred into action plans for a newer and bigger museum. A building located next to Al-Takiyya al-Sulaymaniya was chosen for the establishment of the National Museum of Damascus.  \n  \nQasr Al-Hayr Al-Gharbi added new emphasis to the importance of devoting more attention to the Islamic period and the Directors of Antiquities decided to incorporate these palatial finds into the National Museum of Damascus. After much hard work and technical expertise, the front façade of the Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi was transposed and carefully reconstructed as the National Museum's main entrance. The side halls and the second floor were designated for the most important artistic finds of this early Islamic palace. The completion of the display took several years and the official opening was celebrated in 1950.  \n  \nIn 1953 a three-storey wing was added to house and display ancient oriental antiquities, the Islamic period, modern Syrian art, and temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nOne of the more recent extensions included three double halls for the Islamic period, a new lecture hall and a library. The lecture hall was furnished as a 19th-century Damascene reception hall, a masterpiece of late decoration and ornamentation in its own right. The opening of this extension took place in 1963.  \n  \nIn 1974 there were further additions, this time devoted to the Palaeolithic period. And lastly, in 2004, the temporary exhibition wing was transformed into a permanent collection of Neolithic antiquities.  \n  \nAt present, the National Museum of Damascus consists of the following sections:  \n  \n1\\. Palaeolithic.  \n2\\. Neolithic.  \n3\\. Ancient Syrian Oriental.  \n4\\. Classical.  \n5\\. Islamic.  \n6\\. Modern Arts.","city":"Damascus","address":"Qasr el-Heir Street  \nDamascus, Syria","phone":"+963 11 2234331","email":"sam.orient@mail.sy"},"fea32901-ad4a-5972-8043-fd04f11ab0ee":{"name":"Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia","description":"Interest in Islamic art has grown enormously in recent years. Reflecting this awareness, in December 1998 Malaysia became home to Southeast Asia’s largest museum of Islamic art. The building occupies 30,000 square metres, situated amid the leafy surroundings of central Kuala Lumpur’s Lake Gardens.  \n  \nThe Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia houses more than ten thousand artefacts, as well as an exceptional library of Islamic art books. The art objects on display range from the tiniest pieces of jewellery to one of the world’s largest scale models of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The aim is to create a collection that is truly representative of the Islamic world. Instead of concentrating on works from the heartlands of Persia and the Middle East, IAMM also puts the emphasis on Asia. China and Southeast Asia are especially well represented. The third component of the Malaysian melting pot is India, which is also given special status. India, China and the Malay World are in an exceptional category. Other parts of the collection are displayed according to type rather than geographical origins in the museum’s 12 galleries.  \n  \nIranian tile workers transformed the iwan-style entrance into a ceramic tapestry that frames a welcoming verse from the Qur’an. On the roof, these artisans turned the dome-construction traditions of Central Asia into the building’s crowning glory. The turquoise-coloured domes are now a landmark on the Kuala Lumpur skyline.  \n  \nInside the building, the angularity of 21st century design is contrasted with the soft, rounded forms of the five domes that dominate the museum’s interior. Laboured over by craftsmen from Uzbekistan, these imposing features help form an ambience that is both airy and harmony. The seamless continuity of light and space is maintained throughout the galleries and into other areas of the museum, such as the library and the restaurant.","city":"Kuala Lumpur","address":"Jalan Lembah Perdana  \n50480 Kuala Lumpur  \nMalaysia","website":"http://www.iamm.org.my","phone":"+603 20927070; +603 22742020","email":"info@iamm.org.my"}}
+{"01ed0e00-4aed-5afc-bdea-937514669d4b":{"name":"Victoria and Albert Museum","description":"The Victoria and Albert (V&A) is the world’s leading museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. When the museum opened to the public in 1852, its mission was to reform design by making works of art available to all, improving the public’s understanding of the subject and providing inspiration for designers and manufacturers. Today, the V&A’s collections span over 5,000 years of human creativity in virtually every medium and from many parts of the world.  \n  \nThe V&A comprises a family of sites, including the V&A in South Kensington, Young V&A located in Bethnal Green, V&A Dundee in Scotland, the V&A Wedgwood Collection housed in Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, V&A Gallery at Design Society in Shekou, China, and opening in 2024/25 will be V&A East located within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford. Across these sites the museum showcases their collections to a wide range of audiences and aims to champion design and creativity in all its forms.  \n  \nThe V&A has specialised in collecting art and design from the Islamic world since the 1850s, and it was the first institution in the world to collect Islamic art in a systematic fashion. The museum's founders believed that Islamic ideas about structuring patterns and matching decoration to shape and function could improve British design. The collection grew to become the most significant in its field. Outstanding works include the AH 10th / AD 16th-century Ardabil carpet from Iran, a rock crystal ewer from AH 5th / AD 11th-century Egypt, and the world’s greatest collections of Islamic ceramics. The museum also houses the national collection of Islamic textiles.","city":"London","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nSW7 2RL  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 207 9422000","fax":"+44 207 9422335"},"1db535b6-0ad9-580c-b2d0-66605f9e9d44":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Lisbon**  \nAncient Patriarch’s Palace, now Casa do Gaiato  \nArmy Museum  \nCalouste Gulbenkian Museum  \nChurch of St. Domingos de Benfica  \nLisbon’s Holy House of Mercy/Museum of São Roque  \nMacau Scientific and Cultural Centre Museum  \nMaritime Museum  \nNational Coach Museum  \nNational Library of Portugal  \nNational Museum of Ancient Art  \nPharmacy Museum  \n  \n**Alpiarça**  \nPatudos House, Alpiarça Museum  \n  \n**Alcobaça**  \nAlcobaça Monastery  \n  \n**Arouca**  \nSacred Art Museum of Arouca  \n  \n**Beja**  \nQueen Leonor Museum, Districtal Museum of Beja  \n  \n**Braga**  \nBraga Cathedral  \n  \n**Coimbra**  \nMachado de Castro National Museum  \nMuseum of Physics, University of Coimbra  \n  \n**Ílhavo**  \nVista Alegre Historic Museum  \n  \n**Oeiras**  \nOeiras Town Hall  \n  \n**Óbidos**  \nMunicipal Museum of Óbidos  \n  \n**Porto**  \nSoares dos Reis National Museum  \n  \n**Sardoal**  \nSardoal’s Holy House of Mercy  \n  \n**Viana do Castelo**  \nMuseum of Art and Archeology of Viana do Castelo  \n  \n**Vila Verde dos Francos**  \nOur Lady of the Visitation Convent  \n  \n**Vila Viçosa**  \nMuseum and Library of the House of Braganza  \n  \n**Viseu**  \nGrão Vasco Museum"},"2a23d23f-5624-56f3-828f-3db6b5689a95":{"name":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","description":"The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City – The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.  \n  \nSince it was founded in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum’s galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.  \n  \nThe Met Fifth Avenue  \n1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)  \nNew York, NY 10028  \n+1 212 535 7710  \nSunday–Thursday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nFriday and Saturday: 10:00am–9:00pm  \n  \nThe Met Breuer  \n945 Madison Avenue  \nNew York, NY 10021  \n+1 212 731 1675  \nClosed Monday  \nTuesday and Wednesday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nThursday and Friday: 10:00am–9:00pm  \nSaturday and Sunday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \n  \nThe Met Cloisters  \n99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park  \nNew York, NY 10040  \n+1 212 923 3700  \nMarch–October: 10:00am–5:15pm  \nMay 27–September 2, 2016: Open late on Fridays until 7:30pm  \nNovember–February: 10:00am–4:45pm  \n  \nAll locations closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, and January 1. The Met Fifth Avenue closed the first Monday in May.","city":"New York","address":"The Met Fifth Avenue  \n1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)  \nNew York, NY 10028  \nSunday–Thursday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nFriday and Saturday: 10:00am–9:00pm","website":"http://www.metmuseum.org","phone":"+1 212 535 7710"},"2cdbceaa-4a4e-5e2e-9417-264e733de097":{"name":"Austrian Military Museum / Institute of Military History","description":"The Museum of Military History, one of the most important history museums in the world, is situated right in the centre of the Arsenal. In five major sections the museum shows the history of the Habsburg Empire from the end of the 16th century until 1918 and Austria's fate after the dissolution of the monarchy up to the year 1945. About 500 years of Austrian and European history are depicted in the collections exhibited in the main building, which, to the present day, has kept its character of an artistic synthesis, making visible, by means of thousands of original exhibits, a part of world cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe Military History Museum was built according to plans of Ludwig Foerster and Theophil Hansen from 1850 to 1856 and was thus the first Viennese museum. The styles of this town's oldest historic building range from Byzantine, Hispano-Moorish to Neo-Gothic.","city":"Vienna","address":"Arsenal Object, 1A  \n1030 Wien  \nAustria","website":"www.hgm.at/en/","phone":"+43 1 79561 0","fax":"+43 1 79561 10 17707","email":"contact@hgm.at"},"325b7505-1527-5442-99ea-6a40f8c43d3f":{"name":"Islamic Museum at Al-Aqsa Mosque","description":"The museum was officially inaugurated in AH 1341 / AD 1922. In AH 1348 / AD 1929, it was transferred to its present site in the southwestern corner of the Haram al-Sharif. The museum is administered through the Department of Islamic Awqaf in Jerusalem, under the auspices of the Ministry of Jordanian Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Places.  \n  \nThe museum comprises three buildings with an exhibition space of over 1,000 square m. The oldest hall is from the AH 6th / AD 12th century and is a rare Crusader monument in the holy city. The second hall was an Ayyubid mosque (AH 7th / AD 13th century) historically known as al-Malikiya mosque or the Jami’a al-Mughariba. The third hall is known as the *al-Fakhriya* corner and its history goes back to the Mamluk period (AH 8th / AD 14th century).  \n  \nThe collection consists of artefacts and remains from the Islamic and non-Islamic epochs, representing various facets of Islamic civilisation ranging in geography, theme and period. Most of the artefacts represent the heritage of al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem and Palestine at large including cities such as Hebron and Nablus.  \n  \nThe museum contains woodwork from different Islamic eras, the oldest dating to the Umayyad period. Metalwork in iron, copper and silver includes the iron enclosure from the Dome of the Rock, candlesticks, swords, daggers, daises, incense burners, coins, rings and memorial pieces. The collection includes marble and glazed tiles that panelled the the Dome of the Rock in the period of Sultan Sülayman the Magnificent (r. AH 926–74 / AD 1520–66) and his successors. There is a collection of earthenware, inscriptions on stone from different Islamic periods and its precursors, and columns and capitals from the Roman and Byzantine periods. There is a valuable collection of Qur’ans, the oldest from the AH 9th / AD 15 th century, and many Mamluk manuscripts whose themes deal with social and economic life in the holy city. The museum displays part of its textile collection, with costumes, grave coverings, pieces from the *kiswa* (covering) of the Ka’ba and pieces of carpet.","city":"Jerusalem","address":"Al-Haram al-Sharif  \nAmro  \nP.O. Box 75085  \nJerusalem","website":"http://www.facebook.com/islamic.museum1922/","phone":"02 6283286","fax":"02 6283286","email":"jerusalem.museum@gmail.com"},"33f89573-8b54-5c1a-86ba-1663e604740f":{"name":"Jordan Archaeological Museum","description":"The museum was founded in 1951 by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan on the Citadel of Amman on a hill called Jabal al-Qal’a. The building has a total measurement of 525 m2 on two floors. The ground floor is used for storage, and the first floor comprises the display area, which consists of three exhibition halls, and administrative offices.  \n  \nThe museum holds many artefacts found in various archaeological sites in Jordan representing the path of civilization in this area throughout its long history. The extensive collection is arranged chronologically by historical periods, from the Stone Ages to the Islamic periods.  \n  \nThe Islamic art collection is displayed in an exhibition hall in eleven showcases that consist of: pottery vessels from the Umayyad period to the Mamluk period; glazed vessels from the Mamluk period to the Ottoman period; steatite vessels from the Umayyad period; coins of all types and periods; metalwork and pottery vessels from the Umayyad to Mamluk periods; iron shields and swords from the Mamluk period; carved stones from the Umayyad period; four plaster replicas of architectural elements from Khirbat al-Mafjar Palace in Jericho (windows, lintel and a dome from the bath).  \n  \nLack of space prohibits the display of temporary exhibitions; however, the museum participates in many local and international exhibitions held in Jordan and abroad to show the history and archaeology of Jordan throughout the ages.  \n  \nThree curators sharing the responsibility of looking after the whole collection of the museum.","city":"Amman","address":"Citadel of Amman  \nP.O. Box 88  \nAmman, Jordan","phone":"+962 6 463 8795","fax":"+962 6 461 9768"},"36670bdc-150b-5f89-8906-79b8e4e2518d":{"name":"The David Collection","description":"The David Collection was founded by C. L. David (1878-1960), a prominent Danish attorney, who had begun to collect fine and decorative art in the 1910s. In this last field, he was aided by directors of the Danish Museum of Art and Design, who gradually also guided him to another area that had previously attracted little interest in Denmark: Islamic art. The Islamic part of David’s collection was, however, still rather modest at the time of his death in 1960.  \n  \nA bachelor and childless, C. L. David left his Copenhagen townhouse and works of art to a private foundation, along with financial means that made it possible to expand his collections. From the 1970s, a decision was consequently made to place increasing emphasis on expanding the Islamic holdings. The Islamic Collection has grown to become not only the museum’s most important, with over 4,000 objects, but also Scandinavia’s most significant in its field.  \n  \nThe Islamic Collection has been built up in keeping with the classical pattern for Western collections of this kind. It embodies works of art from Spain in the west to India in the east, but not works from Sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia. Chronologically, the collection ranges from works dating to shortly after the advent of Islam to the middle of the 19th century. The collection encompasses all types of materials, but since the small rooms of 19th-century buildings like C. L. David’s townhouse, now the museum’s home, make it impossible to exhibit large objects, the museum consequently has only a modest collection of carpets, and they are either of small size or fragments of larger carpets.  \n  \nFollowing the museum’s refurbishment and reinstallation of its collections in 2009, the David Collection is now divided into three parts: European 18th-Century Art, Danish Early Modern Art, and Islamic Art. The collection of Islamic Art is presented in a new, contemporary setting, enhanced by digital and other modern techniques used to elucidate the objects on display. The backbone of the collection is 20 chronological/geographical sections, but the display also contains special galleries for light-sensitive materials as well as others dedicated to themes such as cultural history and artistic techniques.","city":"Copenhagen","address":"Kronprinsessegade, 30  \nCopenhagen  \nDenmark  \n  \nPostal address: Kronprinsessegade 30-32","website":"http://www.davidmus.dk/en","phone":"+45 33734949","fax":"+45 33734948","email":"museum@davidmus.dk"},"38b8a503-bba9-5234-b7db-0bbb2a054c57":{"name":"Qatar Museums","description":"Qatar Museums connects the museums, cultural institutions and heritage sites in Qatar and creates the conditions for them to thrive and flourish. It centralises resources and provides a comprehensive organisation for the development of museums and cultural projects, with a long term ambition of creating a strong and sustainable cultural infrastructure for Qatar. Under the patronage of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and led by its Chairperson, Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, QM is consolidating Qatar’s efforts to become a vibrant centre for the arts, culture and education, in the Middle East and beyond.  \n  \nSince its foundation in 2005, QM has overseen the development of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and the Al Zubarah World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. The QM also manages the QM Gallery at Katara and the ALRIWAQ DOHA Exhibition Space. Future projects include the opening of the Fire Station: Artists in Residence in 2014 and the launch of the highly anticipated National Museum of Qatar and the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum.  \n  \nQM is committed to instigating Qatar’s future generation of arts, heritage and museum professionals. At its core is a commitment to nurturing artistic talent, creating opportunities and developing the skills to service Qatar’s emerging art economy. By means of a multi-faceted program and public art initiatives, QM seeks to push the boundaries of the traditional museum model, and create cultural experiences that spill out onto the streets and seek to involve the widest possible audiences. Through a strong emphasis on originating art and culture from within and fostering a spirit of national participation, QM is helping Qatar find its own distinctive voice in today’s global cultural debates.","city":"Doha","address":"Al-Dafna, Doha  \nQM Tower  \nP.O Box 2777  \nDoha, State of Qatar","website":"www.qm.org.qa/en","phone":"+974 4452 5555","fax":"+974 4452 5556"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"The British Museum","description":"The British Museum was established by Act of Parliament in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all “studious and curious persons”. The founding collection was that of Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy physician and collector. The original British Museum comprised three departments: Printed Books; Manuscripts (including coins); and Natural and Artificial Productions, which included everything from sculpture to mineral samples and zoological specimens. In January 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public.  \n  \nAs a product of the Enlightenment, the museum's job was to be a storehouse of knowledge for the use and benefit of the public, advancing all fields of scholarship. The museum therefore aimed to collect all kinds of material; it remains one of the few places in the world in which it is possible to see the world under one roof. During the 19th century the museum acquired representative collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, as well as material from across the Islamic world.  \n  \nThe museum itself had to grow to offer space to display the growing collections. Between 1823 and 1847 the original building was replaced by four large wings built around a central courtyard. In 1854 construction began on the iconic Round Reading Room in the central courtyard. The natural history collections were given their own home in the new Museum of Natural History in 1881. By 1973 the British Library and British Museum were administratively separated, and in 1999 the new British Library building opened at St Pancras. The British Museum site was expanded and modernised. In 2000 the Great Court opened, envisioned as a sunny piazza at the centre of the building, with up-to-date facilities such as lecture theatres, an education centre and facilities for school children, as well as restaurants and shops. In 2014 the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre opened to the public, offering state-of-the-art facilities to care for, manage, research and display the collections.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","fax":"+44 20 7323 8616","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"42fb6391-e1f6-527a-85db-f9638b02d667":{"name":"Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia, University of Manouba","description":"The Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia (ISHCT) is a research centre for contemporary history in Tunisia. It houses a microfilm archive, audio-visual witness records, a collection of photographs and a library available on request to researchers, journalists, activists and students wishing to conduct in-depth research into the history of the colonisation and decolonisation of Tunisia. There are four research and study units (UER) bringing together historical researchers dedicated to using the different resources to improve understanding of this period of Tunisian history: UER Archives, UER Repositories of Memory and Museums, UER Oral History and UER History. Through the publication of a review (RAWAFID), conference papers, seminars and scientific meetings, memories from witnesses and document collections, ISHCT hopes to enhance the university library in line with advances in documentation and  methodology, thereby helping to stimulate research into this historical period by setting up scientific exchanges in Tunisia and abroad.","city":"Tunis","address":"Campus Universitaire de la Manouba,  \n2010 La Manouba  \nTunis  \nTunisia","phone":"+216 716 009 50","fax":"+216 716 002 77","email":"ishmn@ishmn.rnu.tn"},"5a99ecbe-b976-5037-8760-a07c629142f6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia - from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are housed in the Neue Burg (i.e. the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury), and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Vienna","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"6001ff30-e9b6-573e-a38c-5ac23b472e6c":{"name":"Saint Louis Art Museum","description":"Mission  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum collects, presents, interprets, and conserves works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures; educates, inspires discovery, and elevates the human spirit; and preserves a legacy of artistic achievement for the people of St. Louis and the world.  \n  \nHistory  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States. This Museum’s comprehensive collections bear witness to the inspirational and educational goals to which its founder aspired and the moral and democratic imperatives he embraced. What began as a collection of assorted plaster casts, electrotype reproductions, and other examples of good design in various media rapidly gave way to a great and varied collection of original works of art spanning five millennia and six continents. Today the quality and breadth of the Museum’s collection secure for it a place among the very best institutions of its kind.  \n  \n(*Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collection*)**","city":"Saint Louis","address":"1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park  \nSt. Louis, Missouri 63110","website":"http://www.slam.org","phone":"+1 314.721.0072","fax":"+1 314.721.6172","email":"info@slam.org"},"64c2796c-d403-5a23-958e-760dfdfdff22":{"name":"Sharjah Museums Authority","description":"The Sharjah Museums Authority was established in 2006 as an independent government department by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah.  \n  \nSharjah Museums Authority includes 16 museums covering Islamic art and culture, Arab and International, modern and contemporary art, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life and the history of Sharjah and the region.  \n  \nThe museum collections featured in this project come from: the Sharjah Art Museum, opened in April 1997 and the largest art museum in the Gulf with both temporary exhibitions and permanent collections by renowned artists; the Sharjah Heritage Museum, re-opened in the Heritage Area (Heart of Sharjah) in 2012 and dedicated to highlighting Sharjah’s rich traditions, customs and culture as a source of pride and inspiration to the people of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its visitors; the Sharjah Maritime Museum, first opened in the Heritage Area in early 2003 to highlight the maritime life of the UAE and – in improved and expanded form – relocated to the Al Khan area in 2009 due to the importance of the sea and its significance in the region’s heritage; and the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, opened in 2008 as the first of its kind in the UAE, featuring more than 5,000 artefacts from all over the Islamic World, arranged to celebrate Islamic Faith, Science and Technology and Art.  \n  \nThe purpose of the Sharjah Museums Authority as a whole is to deliver the highest quality of museums services for the people of the Emirate of Sharjah and all its visitors, through its facilities, exhibitions, programmes of learning, research and community outreach. Sharjah Museums Authority aims to achieve locally and internationally an understanding, appreciation and respect for Sharjah’s identity and for the value of its cultural and natural heritage.","city":"Sharjah","address":"Al-Layyeh, Sharjah  \nP.O. Box 39939  \nTurkey","website":"www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+971 65 56 60 02","fax":"+971 65 56 60 03","email":"info@smd.gov.ae"},"71396e5b-ca3a-5c08-b428-1959e047ae57":{"name":"Jordan Folklore Museum","description":"The museum is located in the western section of Amman’s Roman theatre. Founded by the Department of Antiquities, it opened in 1975. The museum exhibits items of daily life in the cities and villages and of the Badu (Bedouin) groups who lived on the West and East Bank during the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Musical instruments, vessels and tools for domestic activities and craftsmanship illustrate traditional daily life and economic activities of the time. Tents, domestic furniture and items to prepare coffee illustrate the way of life, work and the rules of hospitality among Bedouin men and women. As well as the traditional products of the local society and economy, imported weapons and objects testify to how local communities came into contact with the inventions and commercial products that were changing the world in the 19th and early 20th century.","city":"Amman","address":"Quraysh Street  \nAmman","website":"goo.gl/DNPGbL"},"7712e497-33e4-5529-91c3-47abff00f87c":{"name":"National Archaeological Museum","description":"The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional or MAN) is Spain’s most important museum of history. It preserves, researches and presents its collections of archaeology, art and history to the public. In doing so, the museum aspires to offer all visitors an accurate, attractive, interesting and critical interpretation of the meaning of objects from the past, in the hopes that a deeper knowledge of history will help them to better analyse and understand the reality of today. Given the relevance and scope of its collections, the National Archaeological Museum is comparable in its specialty to prominent Spanish museums (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía or the Royal Collections Gallery), by showing our country’s diversity and affluence in terms of cultural history.  \n  \nThe museum occupies a monumental building in the heart of the Salamanca quarter, one of Madrid’s busiest shopping and leisure districts, and is strategically positioned along the Recoletos-Prado artery, which boasts the highest concentration of art and culture institutions in the city. The museum’s magnificent building in the heart of Madrid offers a historical infrastructure — complete with building, garden and fence —which is fully renovated and accessible.  \n  \nThe MAN has grown and evolved constantly since it was created in 1867, almost 160 years ago, and is still changing today to meet the needs of the 21st century. After a complete overhaul between 2008 and 2014, the institution reopened in April 2014 with a brand-new look and layout, claiming its place among Europe’s most modern museums. The renovated building is divided into six floors and has a total surface area of nearly 30,000 m2, of which 18,304 m2 are reserved for public use (the permanent exhibition alone occupies 9,239 m2). The museum has also been fitted out with different service areas, including a spacious vestibule, café, shop and activity rooms.  \n  \nThe MAN’s extraordinary collection, which includes a large number of priceless historical and cultural artefacts, comprises over one million archaeological, historical and artistic objects.  \n  \nIts holdings are vast and varied: Palaeolithic bifaces, practically the only tool in existence for millennia; delicate ivory carvings that combine aesthetic appeal with practical functionality; prehistoric engravings found in the Cave of El Castillo, evidence of humanity’s earliest artistic and symbolic expressions; the abstract aesthetics of the “Idol of Extremadura”; the classical, timeless beauty of the Lady of Elche; ancient Roman sculptures; the extraordinary treasure of Guarrazar; the Romanesque crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha; the lovely equestrian figure of Hector by Il Filarete; and the ornamental paintings of Luis Paret on a Baroque armchair are just some of the treasures it houses.  \n  \nThe Museum's Islamic Art collection largely comes from the different historical periods of Al-Andalus, the name that the Muslims gave to the territory they conquered in the Iberian Peninsula. The aesthetic quality achieved by Andalusian art is demonstrated in the capitals, arches, marble panels and alabaster and plaster decorations of the period, especially from the Caliphate of Córdoba. Added to this is the museum's collection of decorative and highly refined objects made in the Andalusian palace workshops, such as metal, ivory and glazed ceramics. Likewise, a large collection of objects is preserved that show the symbiosis of Hispano-Islamic and Christian forms in the Iberian Peninsula, as the dome of the Torrijos Palace.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001  \nMadrid, Spain","website":"http://www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","fax":"+34 91 432 68 40","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"89f613d2-8723-5be8-8e46-487f9dae46f4":{"name":"Swiss National Museum","description":"Three museums – the National Museum Zurich, the Château de Prangins and the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz – as well as the collections centre in Affoltern am Albis – are united under the umbrella of the Swiss National Museum (SNM). The permanent exhibitions at the museums present Swiss history from its beginnings to the present, and give an insight into Swiss identities and the rich tapestry of our country’s history and culture. Temporary exhibitions on current topics add to the experience.","city":"Zurich","address":"Swiss National Museum  \nMuseumstrasse, 2  \nP.O. Box 8021  \nZurich  \nSwitzerland","website":"http://www.nationalmuseum.ch","phone":"+41 44 218 65 11","fax":"+41 44 211 29 49","email":"info@nationalmuseum.ch"},"8cde1ffe-e1cc-52a8-9261-ee16bcaac48f":{"name":"National Museum of Romanian History","description":"The National Museum of Romanian History is Romania's most important museum, being the holder of the most valuable objects in the country's historical heritage. It was founded in 1970 and inaugurated two years later. The palace that hosts the museum is a neoclassical construction built between 1894 and 1900 by the Romanian architect Alexandru Savulescu and used until 1970 by the Romanian Postal Service.  \n  \nThe museum has a collection of 687,579 objects, constantly enriched through acquisitions, donations and new archeological discoveries. Because it is currently under renovation, most of the museum is closed to the public, who can visit only a part of its permanent exhibition, the Historical Treasure of Romania, which contains golden hoards and jewellery dating from Antiquity until the 20th century; Trajan's Column – a replica of the monument found in Rome, whose bas-reliefs tell the story of the Daco-Roman wars (101–102, 105–106 AD), which ended with Dacia (a province that was in present-day Romania's territory) being conquered by the Romans; and the Lapidarium – a collection of sculptures, architectural elements, different types of stone engravings (civil, honorific, funerary, votive monuments) from Antiquity to the 19th century. In addition, temporary exhibitions on various subjects are periodically organised, some of them in collaboration with other Romanian museums and cultural institutions or with foreign partners.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Victoria Avenue, 12, sector 3  \n030026 Bucharest  \nRomania","website":"http://www.mnir.ro/","phone":"+40 21 315 82 07","fax":"+40 21 311 33 56","email":"direct@mnir.ro"},"8ea7243d-fe8e-5011-a9ca-75ebd26660ac":{"name":"Ministry of Culture, Directorate for Cultural Heritage","description":"The Directorate of Cultural Heritage is part of the Ministry of Culture. Its mission is to ensure the protection, conservation, restoration, maintenance and promotion of the architectural, archaeological and ethnographic heritage. It is also in charge of the country’s museums and its various artistic treasures.","city":"Rabat","address":"Avenue Michlifen, 17  \nAgdal, Rabat  \nMorocco","website":"www.minculture.gov.ma","phone":"+212 537 274 001 / 03","fax":"+212 537 274 002"},"95483cda-d367-5af3-ad0e-2779b97409cb":{"name":"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah","description":"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (DAI) is a cultural organisation based on a Kuwaiti private art collection owned by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, founder of The al-Sabah Collection and his wife, DAI director general and co-founder Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah.  \n  \nEstablished in 1983, DAI was created to manage The al-Sabah Collection, an esteemed collection of Islamic art on permanent loan to the State of Kuwait under the auspices of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. The collection preserves and presents all aspects of Islamic art and includes more than 20,000 pieces extending from Spain to China, from the 1st – 13th centuries AH/7th – 19th centuries AD.  \n  \nSince its inception, DAI has grown from a single focus organisation to an internationally recognised cultural organisation. DAI’s main activities include:  \n  \n• An annual Cultural Season (lectures, music concerts, forum, workshops, children’s programme, quarterly magazine/journal, quarterly newsletter, cultural expeditions)  \n• Travelling exhibitions and loans  \n• Conservation training programmes  \n• Research and excavation projects  \n  \nWith a highly specialised library, DAI is also involved in the publication of scholarly books on Islamic art and culture.  \n  \nWhile the rehabilitation project of DAI’s buildings at the Kuwait National Museum is underway, the Amricani Cultural Centre is the temporary home of DAI. The Amricani Cultural Centre is the ground for most of the organization’s activities and events, including local temporary exhibitions and DAI’s cultural season events.","city":"Kuwait City","address":"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah  \nAmricani Cultural Centre  \nP.O. BOX: 23996 Safat 13100 Kuwait","website":"https://daralatharalislamiyyah.com/en/home-page-en/","phone":"+965 2240 0992","fax":"+965 2246 7770","email":"info@darmuseumkw.org"},"a05b0a22-d90a-5e08-85e3-53fd66868e26":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is a pioneering project spotlighting the cultural vision of the State of Qatar, both in the region and across the world. Under the guiding vision of His Excellency, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the project is the cornerstone for the State of Qatar in its establishment as a global capital of culture.  \n  \nThe 35,500 sq. m museum was designed by I.M. Pei, taking inspiration from the 13th-century *sabil* (ablutions fountain) of the 9th-century Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun in Cairo. The museum comprises a five-level main building and a two-storey Education Wing, connected across a fountain courtyard. The main building’s angular planes form ascending pinnacles, rising around an atrium. Inside, a dome is revealed, concealed from outside view by the walls of a central tower. A window on the building’s north side rises to a height of 54 m., providing dramatic views from all five floors. The ground floor is home to a temporary gallery space for touring international exhibitions and the café, giftshop and Information Services. The museum’s permanent exhibition is installed on two floors of galleries designed by the French firm Jean-Michel Wilmotte & Associés. The fourth floor contains temporary galleries showcasing the research topics of museum staff, using items either not seen in the permanent galleries or with new information to see them in a new way.  \n  \n**Overview of the collections**  \nThe MIA houses artefacts highlighting the creative achievements of the Islamic world's richest cultures and spanning nearly a thousand years. The collection represents the full scope of Islamic art in all media, from manuscripts to ceramics, metalwork, glass, stone, ivory, textiles, wood, precious stones and jewellery.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition of *c.* 850 artefacts offers an insight into the diverse art of the Islamic world. Two floors are dedicated to the exploration of historical eras and interpretation of the themes of Islamic art and material culture, from the 8th century to the cusp of the 19th century.  \n  \nThe MIA also holds thousands more objects, some destined to be seen in future displays and others providing a resource for education and research.  \n  \nHighlights of the collection include: a distinguished group of carpets and textiles, a range of Ayyubid and Mamluk metalwork and enamelled glass, an outstanding strength in early ceramics, a comprehensive collection of astrolabes and scientific instruments, masterpieces of Mughal jewellery and rare manuscripts and miniatures.  \n  \n**The Department of Education and Information**  \nThe department’s main goal is to create materials, programmes and workshops that will engage the public, allowing them to explore the world through Islamic art, promoting a culture of learning within an atmosphere of knowledge and entertainment.  \n  \n**The Curatorial Department**  \nThe department of internationally trained curators is committed to studying, documenting and publicising the MIA’s collection and establishing the MIA as a world-class centre of scholarly research.  \n  \n**The Conservation Department**  \nSet to become a leading regional service centre for museums, the department is committed to restoring, preserving and caring for the collection through the application of innovative scientific methods.  \n  \n**International partnerships**  \nThe MIA is committed to building a network of partnerships around the world and offering institutes and museums collective access to information, research and images. It has strong ties with many world-class museums and collections, including the Louvre, France, the British Museum, UK, the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA, the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Germany, the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, the Gulbenkian, Portugal, and the National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art, Algeria.","city":"Doha","address":"Museum of Islamic Art roundabout, the Corniche  \nPostal Address: P.O. Box 2777  \nDoha, Qatar","website":"http://mia.org.qa/","phone":"+974 4422 4444","fax":"+974 4422 4447","email":"infomia@qma.org.qa; educationmia@qma.org.qa; librarymia@qma.org.qa"},"a3753de5-842a-5f0b-a8c7-50bb2e312ce6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia – from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections are housed in the Neue Burg (the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury) and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the KHM.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"b3d5e8a5-90ae-5442-bf21-9067f8e77ed1":{"name":"Cerralbo Museum","description":"Cerralbo Palace, now Museum, was built between 1884 and 1892 in a historicist style with classical echoes, also shared by its garden. It contains the collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17th Marquis of Cerralbo (1845–1922), a politician, historian, collector and pioneer of archaeology in Spain. After his death, he bequeathed his collection to the Spanish state. Paintings, furniture, clocks, porcelain, lamps, sculptures, arms and armour, textiles, books, coins and archaeological objects are displayed in the various rooms where the first inhabitants of the palace led their daily lives. Cerralbo Museum also has the distinction of being one of the few buildings in Madrid that shows the original decorative ambience of an aristocratic residence, thoroughly restored in the first decade of the 21st century.","city":"Madrid","address":"C / Ventura Rodríguez, 17  \n28008 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museocerralbo.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 915 47 36 46 / 47","fax":"+34 915 59 11 71","email":"museo.cerralbo@mecd.es"},"b43ae2c6-2060-5819-bd1c-dd9ca66b9f11":{"name":"Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)","description":"With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors annually.  \n  \nLACMA’s seven-building complex is located on twenty acres in the heart of Los Angeles, halfway between the ocean and downtown. The campus is undergoing a ten-year expansion and renovation known as the Transformation and designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.  \n  \nLACMA’s collections encompass the geographic world and virtually the entire history of art. The museum houses a highly significant collection of Islamic art. These widely diverse arts, from an area extending from southern Spain to Central Asia, trace the distinctive visual imagination of Islamic artists over a period of fourteen hundred years. The collection consists of over 1,700 works, of which some 150 examples are on view; these include glazed ceramics, inlaid metalwork, enameled glass, carved wood and stone, and manuscript illustration, illumination, and calligraphy. Particular strengths of the collection are glazed pottery and tiles from Iran and Turkey; glass, especially from the late seventh to the mid-thirteenth century; and Persian and Turkish arts of the book.  \n  \nThe museum began to concentrate seriously on Islamic art in 1973, with the acquisition of the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, the generous gift of Joan Palevsky. Although the Heeramaneck collection forms the nucleus of the Islamic holdings, the focus and scope of the collection have developed considerably since 1973. Two important additions, both gifts, occurred in the 1980s. In 1985 the noted collector Edwin Binney, 3rd, bequeathed more than one hundred works, in particular examples of the arts of the book and ceramics of the Ottoman period. Approximately fifty glass objects, primarily of the early Islamic period, from Hans and Varya Cohn's splendid collection were given to the museum in 1988. The collection has been augmented further over the past two decades through gift and purchase, most notably the acquisition in 2002 of the Madina Collection of Islamic Art, made possible in large part by a generous gift from longtime LACMA benefactor and Trustee Camilla Chandler Frost. Its addition has created a new international focus on Los Angeles and on LACMA.","city":"Los Angeles","address":"5905 Wilshire Boulevard  \nLos Angeles, CA 90036","website":"http://www.lacma.org/","phone":"323 857 6000","email":"publicinfo@lacma.org"},"bb94125a-04ef-5227-b3bb-8ebc7dfdafbe":{"name":"Jordan Museum for Costumes and Jewellery","description":"In the eastern section of Amman’s Roman theatre, the museum exhibits a comprehensive collection of clothing, textiles and silver jewellery from the West and East Bank. Founded in 1971 by the Department of Antiquities, the museum illustrates in detail the variety of traditional costumes of men and women from cities, villages and Bedouin communities. The exhibition gives the visitor the opportunity to know more about daily and domestic life, work and traditional craftsmanship, illustrating through textiles, embroidery and costume the meaning of decorative patterns, revealing the trousseau each woman prepared since childhood for her marriage and showing the importance of jewellery in relation to events such as marriage and dowry. The costumes and jewellery are also important examples of how local craftsmanship was a significant source of trade and income.","city":"Amman","address":"Quraysh Street  \nAmman","website":"goo.gl/joSyZT"},"c8825cec-041d-5069-bbce-82c394d5e619":{"name":"National Museum Oman","description":"The National Museum of the Sultanate of Oman, established by royal decree in 2013 and opened July 30, 2016, is the Sultanate's flagship cultural institution, showcasing the nation’s heritage from the earliest human settlement in the Oman Peninsula some two million years ago through to the present day. As a national institution with global outreach, the museum is dedicated to ensuring that Oman’s cultural heritage is understood and appreciated not only within the Sultanate, but also internationally. Further, it aims to provide opportunities for cultural expression, innovation, and the transfer of traditional skills and knowledge from one generation to the next.  \n  \nThe museum is located in the heart of Muscat in a purpose-designed building. The total area of the building is 13,700 square metres (147,000 sq ft), including 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) allocated for 14 permanent galleries – The Land and the People Gallery, Maritime History Gallery, Arms and Armour Gallery, Aflaj Gallery, Currency Gallery, Prehistory and Ancient History Galleries, Splendours of Islam Gallery, Oman and the World Gallery, Intangible Heritage Gallery and Renaissance Gallery, among others. A further 400 square metres (4,300 sq ft) are allocated for temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nThe National Museum houses 5,466 objects and offers 43 digital immersive experiences, a fully equipped Learning Centre, conservation facilities, an ultra-high definition cinema, and discovery areas for children. It features an integrated infrastructure for special needs and is the first museum in the Middle East to adopt Arabic Braille script for the visually impaired. The museum contains a voluminous collection of prehistoric metallic artefacts. It also houses the region’s first open-plan museum storage concept, where visitors can learn about the various processes that artefacts go through before they are put on display.","city":"Muscat","address":"P.O.Box: (1105)  \n113 Muscat","website":"https://www.nm.gov.om/","email":"booking@nm.gov.om"},"d9f6c12d-ca03-5d6e-b33c-c1a37daec1fa":{"name":"Glasgow Museums","description":"Although not the capital, Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland. It prides itself on its multi-cultural scene with a prosperous Muslim community representing the largest non-white Scottish group in the city and in Scotland. The Glasgow Museums collection is the biggest managed by any local authority in the United Kingdom and one of a handful of municipal collections that are recognized to have national importance. This service was founded in 1854 with the McLellan collection of European paintings, which was donated to the people of Glasgow by Archibald McLellan together with a building to house it. At present Glasgow manages thirteen public museums covering a wide range of subjects.  \n  \nGlasgow’s Islamic collections come from all over the world with objects from Africa, Spain, the Middle East and Central Asia. The oldest items date back to the 10th and 11th centuries. The earliest objects to enter the museums’ collections were donated in the 1870s. Though many of these are private donations, some were purchased by the museum service. The Islamic collections are mainly housed at The Burrell Collection, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  \n  \nThe main strength of the Islamic collections lies in the large donation of Sir William Burrell and his wife, who gifted their massive and varied collection to Glasgow in 1944. It includes Iranian and Mughal Indian ceramics and carpets, Turkish and Uzbek textiles and embroideries, and Hispano-Moresque lustrewares. The other Islamic collections of Glasgow Museums include objects from Mughal India, Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt and Syria, the Ottoman Middle East, and 19th century Berber and Arab North Africa. In addition to all of the above, Glasgow Museums is interested in developing its contemporary Islamic collections by welcoming donations of modern Islamic arts and crafts, as well as strengthening the other areas within its Islamic collections.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550","fax":"+44 141 2872597"},"de2dbebd-e2b6-5434-b061-c35adc183958":{"name":"Udayas Museum (National Museum of Jewellery)","description":"**Historical Description**  \n  \nCreated in 1915, the Oudayas Museum is one of the oldest public museums in Morocco, along with the Batha Museum in Fez. The Oudayas Museum contains one of the largest museum collections in the country.  \n  \nA landmark in the history of Morocco, the Oudayas Casbah was originally a fort built by the Almoravids (10th–12th centuries) on the cliff overlooking the Bouregreg estuary. In the 12th century, under the Almohads, Abdelmoumen renovated the fort into a royal residence and defensive post in support of the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. In 1609, Philip II of Spain expelled nearly one million Moriscos – descendants of Muslims who at that time were living in Spain under Christian rule. Among these were 2,000 Arabic-speaking Muslims, the Hornacheros, who settled in the Oudayas Casbah and established an independent republic that engaged in piracy. The turbulent history of the Bouregreg estuary ended with the Alaouite Sidi Mohammed bin Abdellah (1757–89).  \n  \nThroughout its history the Oudayas Casbah has been the site of major construction works, including Bab el-Kebir, the monumental Almohad gate; the rampart of the Alaouite sultan Moulay Rachid; and the princely residence of Moulay Ismaïl (1672–1727).  \n  \n**The Museum**  \n  \nBuilt in the former pavilions of the sultan Moulay Ismaïl, the Oudayas Museum is an Andalusian-inspired architectural masterpiece. Initially comprising private collections (Libert: ceramics, brass and carved wood; Besancenot: silver jewels), it has been continuously enriched by new acquisitions. All currently displayed collections of manuscripts, coins, astrolabes, clothing, carpets, cabinetry, weapons, and so on, are from the Islamic period.  \n  \nThe first room features silver and gold-plated jewellery from the High Atlas, Middle Atlas, Anti-Atlas and the Sahara. Two loggias house blue or polychrome enamelled ceramics from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Clothing and ceremonial accessories of city-dwellers follow, and finally there is a collection of gold ornaments of high aesthetic and historical value.","city":"Rabat","address":"Musée National des Bijoux (Ancien musée des Oudayas)  \nCasbah des Oudayas  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 731537","fax":"Not available"},"e0e750b1-944e-5ed9-b290-6a31c17d5cff":{"name":"Numismatic Museum (Ahli Bank)","description":"The Numismatic Museum of Jordan Ahli Bank was established in 1999, securing Dr. Nayef G. Goussous’ knowledge and expertise as its curator, and ensuring the continuity and preservation of the collection and its passing on to future generation.  \n  \nThe bank museum is the first of its kind in the country, with collections numbering well over 40,000 coins. The ideals of the collector and the wisdom and generosity of a banking institution come together to produce an excellent educational legacy beneficial to society.  \n  \nThe Jordan Ahli Bank Numismatic Museum is a specialised museum containing coin collections spanning nearly 2,500 years, the earliest dating back to 600 BC and the latest coming from recent commemorative issues. The museum boasts one of the best Umayyad copper coin collections in the world, published in Dr Goussous’ *Rare and Inedited Copper Umayyad Coins* (2004). In addition, the museum has an outstanding collection of Mesopotamian, Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic weights. Furthermore, the museum has extensive collections of Nabataean coins and from Decapolis and provincial Arabia, many of which are still unpublished.  \n  \nThere are more than 4,500 coins and artefacts displayed in 25 cabinets. The museum is open to the public. The visitors can enjoy seeing the collections and learning about their history from the coins. The specialist certainly benefits from the coin collections and the library, with many graduate college students and numismatists regularly visiting the museum where they are welcomed and assisted.  \n  \nThere is continuing academic work on unpublished coins numbering well over 1,200 coins. Two volumes of rare and unpublished coins, dated to Ancient, Classical and Nabataen periods as well as Islamic periods, from the museum collection are in press.","city":"Amman","address":"Shmeisani – Queen Nour st.  \n11181 Amman  \nP.O. Box 3103  \nJordan","website":"https://ahli.com/the-numismatic-museum/","phone":"+962 6 5687090","fax":"+962 6 5685848"},"f0c1b6b9-8198-5a97-9aea-8ebedfa90ca3":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"At the order of Khedive Ismail Pasha in 1880 the collection of archaeological rarities from the Islamic era was begun in the mosque of Al- Hakim. The Council for the Preservation of Arab Antiquities, created in 1881 in association with the Ministry of Awqaf, supervised the House of Arab Antiquities, as it was then known, until 1930 when the museum was taken into the Ministry of Education.  \n  \nThe museum acquired only from mosques and public buildings in its first 20 years. Then it undertook its first excavation in 1910 in the vicinity of Doronka in Upper Egypt and a second excavation south of Cairo uncovering a section of the city of Fustat (first Islamic capital of Egypt).  \n  \nThe museum acquired many items through donations. King Fu’ad I gave a valuable collection of textiles, scales and seals as did King Farouk, Amir Muhammad Ali and Amir Yusuf Kamal. Amir Kamal al-Din Hussein, Yakub Artin Pasha and Ali Ibrahim Pasha also donated complete collections.  \n  \nThe collections, amounting to 7082 artefacts, were transferred to their current building, when the present museum was inaugurated in December 1903. In 1952, the name of the museum was changed to the ‘Museum of Islamic Art’ to reflect the scope of the collection: objects produced in the Islamic world and dating from the beginning of the Islamic era (AD 7th century) to the end of the AD 19th century. The number of recorded objects has now reached 103,000.  \n  \nThe collections include enamelled glass lamps, Egyptian ceramics and a rare collection of filigree waterpot filters of unpainted earthenware renowned for their lacework designs. There are also collections of woodwork, textiles and stones with inscriptions, while the collection of carpets is considered to be one of the greatest of its kind. Collections of scientific instruments display the extent to which Islamic civilisation has contributed to knowledge in many different fields. There is also an extraordinary collection of seals, weights, measures, gold, silver and copper coins.  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art, having one of the most comprehensive and complete Islamic art collections in the world continues to develop and expand its collections and to modernise the building with its 25 halls, facilities and archaeological garden.","city":"Cairo","website":"https://www.miaegypt.org/","phone":"+20 2 2390 1520"},"f5c11bd8-33ca-5552-a5d9-8437afd6ee27":{"name":"The Lebanese University","description":"The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. The university has 17 faculties across Lebanon and serves various cultural, religious and social groups of students and teachers.  \n  \nThe independent university enjoys administrative, academic and financial freedom. Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and essential education to allow students to enter various professions.  \n  \nIn spite of the crisis in the region that has existed since 1975, leaving wounds and tragedies, the Lebanese University has remained the national home of science. Rivalling the most prestigious universities in Lebanon and abroad, and leading the process of human development that spread all over the country, its graduates became ambassadors of Lebanon in all the corners of the earth.  \n  \nOur university respects the national demand for academic freedom, which has become a right of scholars and specialists, based on laws and international conventions and regional organisations and sometimes more, applying the important rules of human rights: the right of learning and seeking knowledge with higher education and participation in international projects to develop academic programmes and exchange of research.The university has maintained the quality of higher education, although we seek more contact with the spirit of this modern age and its promising accomplishments by increasing relations and agreements with other universities and institutions all over the world. In spite of the political pressures on the people of the university and attempts to split them into factions, the majority of them have remained faithful to the spirit of the national organisation and the struggles of the early pioneers who insisted on building the edifice of national higher education, in the framework of the values of freedom and justice.","city":"Beirut","address":"Central Administration, Museum, Beirut  \n  \nPostal address: P.O. Box 6573/14 Badaro, Museum  \nBeirut  \nLebanon","website":"http://www.ul.edu.lb/","phone":"+961 1 612830; 1 612831","email":"ibady@ul.edu.lb"},"f6a3053d-d710-547e-be54-96097d448f7a":{"name":"National Museum of Damascus","description":"The National Museum in Damascus was established under the supervision of the Ministry of Education in 1919. The original core of this museum's contents was initially kept at the Madrasa al-'Adiliya. The collection gradually increased and the discovery of the Umayyad palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi in the Syrian desert in 1936 further spurred into action plans for a newer and bigger museum. A building located next to Al-Takiyya al-Sulaymaniya was chosen for the establishment of the National Museum of Damascus.  \n  \nQasr Al-Hayr Al-Gharbi added new emphasis to the importance of devoting more attention to the Islamic period and the Directors of Antiquities decided to incorporate these palatial finds into the National Museum of Damascus. After much hard work and technical expertise, the front façade of the Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi was transposed and carefully reconstructed as the National Museum's main entrance. The side halls and the second floor were designated for the most important artistic finds of this early Islamic palace. The completion of the display took several years and the official opening was celebrated in 1950.  \n  \nIn 1953 a three-storey wing was added to house and display ancient oriental antiquities, the Islamic period, modern Syrian art, and temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nOne of the more recent extensions included three double halls for the Islamic period, a new lecture hall and a library. The lecture hall was furnished as a 19th-century Damascene reception hall, a masterpiece of late decoration and ornamentation in its own right. The opening of this extension took place in 1963.  \n  \nIn 1974 there were further additions, this time devoted to the Palaeolithic period. And lastly, in 2004, the temporary exhibition wing was transformed into a permanent collection of Neolithic antiquities.  \n  \nAt present, the National Museum of Damascus consists of the following sections:  \n  \n1\\. Palaeolithic.  \n2\\. Neolithic.  \n3\\. Ancient Syrian Oriental.  \n4\\. Classical.  \n5\\. Islamic.  \n6\\. Modern Arts.","city":"Damascus","address":"Qasr el-Heir Street  \nDamascus, Syria","phone":"+963 11 2234331","fax":"+963 11 2247983","email":"sam.orient@mail.sy"},"fea32901-ad4a-5972-8043-fd04f11ab0ee":{"name":"Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia","description":"Interest in Islamic art has grown enormously in recent years. Reflecting this awareness, in December 1998 Malaysia became home to Southeast Asia’s largest museum of Islamic art. The building occupies 30,000 square metres, situated amid the leafy surroundings of central Kuala Lumpur’s Lake Gardens.  \n  \nThe Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia houses more than ten thousand artefacts, as well as an exceptional library of Islamic art books. The art objects on display range from the tiniest pieces of jewellery to one of the world’s largest scale models of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The aim is to create a collection that is truly representative of the Islamic world. Instead of concentrating on works from the heartlands of Persia and the Middle East, IAMM also puts the emphasis on Asia. China and Southeast Asia are especially well represented. The third component of the Malaysian melting pot is India, which is also given special status. India, China and the Malay World are in an exceptional category. Other parts of the collection are displayed according to type rather than geographical origins in the museum’s 12 galleries.  \n  \nIranian tile workers transformed the iwan-style entrance into a ceramic tapestry that frames a welcoming verse from the Qur’an. On the roof, these artisans turned the dome-construction traditions of Central Asia into the building’s crowning glory. The turquoise-coloured domes are now a landmark on the Kuala Lumpur skyline.  \n  \nInside the building, the angularity of 21st century design is contrasted with the soft, rounded forms of the five domes that dominate the museum’s interior. Laboured over by craftsmen from Uzbekistan, these imposing features help form an ambience that is both airy and harmony. The seamless continuity of light and space is maintained throughout the galleries and into other areas of the museum, such as the library and the restaurant.","city":"Kuala Lumpur","address":"Jalan Lembah Perdana  \n50480 Kuala Lumpur  \nMalaysia","website":"http://www.iamm.org.my","phone":"+603 20927070; +603 22742020","fax":"+603 22740529","email":"info@iamm.org.my"}}

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Los fundadores del museo creían que las ideas Islámicas sobre la estructuración de patrones y la combinación de la decoración con la forma y la función podrían mejorar el diseño Británico. La colección creció hasta convertirse en la más significativa en su campo. Entre las obras más destacadas se incluyen la alfombra Ardabil de Irán del siglo X / XVI d. C., una jarra de cristal de roca del Egipto del siglo V d. C. / XI d. C. y las mayores colecciones de cerámica islámica del mundo. El museo también alberga la colección nacional de textiles Islámicos.","city":"Londres","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nSW7 2RL  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 207 9422000"},"325b7505-1527-5442-99ea-6a40f8c43d3f":{"name":"Museo islámico en la mezquita de Al-Aqsa","description":"El museo fue inaugurado oficialmente en 1341 AH / 1922 AD. En 1348 AH / 1929 AD, fue trasladado a su sitio actual en la esquina suroeste del Haram al-Sharif. El museo es administrado por el Departamento de Awqaf Islámico en Jerusalén, bajo los auspicios del Ministerio de Awqaf, Asuntos Islámicos y Lugares Santos de Jordania.  \n  \nEl museo consta de tres edificios con un espacio expositivo que mide más de 1.000 metros cuadrados. La sala más antigua data del siglo VI / XII d. C. y es un raro monumento cruzado en la ciudad santa. La segunda sala era una mezquita ayubí (siglo VII / XIII d. C.) conocida históricamente como mezquita al-Malikiya o Jami’a al-Mughariba. La tercera sala se conoce como la esquina de al-Fakhriya y su historia se remonta al período mameluco (siglo VIII / XIV d. C.).  \n  \nLa colección consta de artefactos y restos de las épocas islámica y no islámica, representando varias facetas de la civilización islámica que varían según la geografía, el tema y el período. La mayoría de los artefactos representan el patrimonio de al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalén y Palestina en general, incluyendo ciudades como Hebrón y Nablus.  \n  \nEl museo contiene trabajos en madera de diferentes épocas islámicas; la más antigua data del período omeya. La orfebrería en hierro, cobre y plata incluye el cerramiento de hierro de la Cúpula de la Roca, candelabros, espadas, dagas, margaritas, quemadores de incienso, monedas, anillos y piezas conmemorativas. La colección incluye mármol y baldosas vidriadas que revestían la Cúpula de la Roca en el período del sultán Süleyman el Magnífico (r. 926-74 AH / 1520-1566 d. C.) y sus sucesores. Hay una colección de loza, inscripciones en piedra de diferentes períodos islámicos y sus precursores, mientras que las columnas y capiteles provienen de los períodos romano y bizantino. Existe una valiosa colección del Corán, la más antigua del siglo IX / XV d. C., y muchos manuscritos mamelucos cuyos temas tratan de la vida social y económica en la ciudad santa. El museo exhibe parte de su colección textil, con disfraces, tapices, piezas del kiswa (revestimiento) de la Kaaba y trozos de alfombra.","city":"Jerusalén","address":"Al-Haram al-Sharif  \nAmro  \nP.O. Box 75085  \nJerusalem","website":"http://www.facebook.com/islamic.museum1922/","phone":"02 6283286","email":"jerusalem.museum@gmail.com"},"33f89573-8b54-5c1a-86ba-1663e604740f":{"name":"Museo Arqueológico de Jordania","description":"El museo fue fundado en 1951 por el Departamento de Antigüedades de Jordania en la Ciudadela de Ammán en una colina llamada Jabal al-Qal’a. El edificio tiene una medida total de 525 m2 en dos plantas. La planta baja se utiliza para almacenamiento y el primer piso comprende el área de exposición, que consta de tres salas y oficinas administrativas.  \n  \nEl museo contiene muchos artefactos encontrados en varios sitios arqueológicos de Jordania que representan el camino de la civilización en esta área a lo largo de su larga historia. La extensa colección está ordenada cronológicamente por períodos históricos, desde la Edad de Piedra hasta los períodos islámicos.  \n  \nLa colección de arte islámico se exhibe en una sala de exposiciones en once vitrinas que consisten en: vasijas de cerámica desde el período omeya hasta el período mameluco; vasijas vidriadas desde el período mameluco hasta el período otomano; vasijas de esteatita del período omeya; monedas de todo tipo y época; vasijas de orfebrería y cerámica desde los períodos omeya hasta mameluco; escudos y espadas de hierro del período mameluco; piedras talladas del período omeya; cuatro réplicas de yeso de elementos arquitectónicos del Palacio Khirbat al-Mafjar en Jericó (ventanas, dintel y una cúpula del baño).  \n  \nLa falta de espacio no permite exposiciones temporales; sin embargo, el museo participa en muchas exposiciones nacionales e internacionales para difundir el conocimiento de la historia y de la arqueología de Jordania a lo largo de los siglos.  \n  \nTres conservadores comparten la responsabilidad de toda la colección del museo.","city":"Amman","address":"Citadel of Amman  \nP.O. Box 88  \nAmman, Jordan","phone":"+962 6 463 8795"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"El Museo Británico","description":"El Museo Británico fue establecido por Ley del Parlamento en 1753, el primer museo público nacional del mundo. Desde el principio concedió entrada gratuita a todos los “estudiosos y curiosos”. La colección fundadora fue la de Sir Hans Sloane, un rico médico y coleccionista. El Museo Británico original constaba de tres departamentos: Libros impresos; Manuscritos (incluidas monedas); y Producciones Naturales y Artificiales, que incluían desde esculturas hasta muestras minerales y especímenes zoológicos. En enero de 1759 el Museo Británico abrió sus puertas al público.  \n  \nComo producto de la Ilustración, el trabajo del museo era ser un almacén de conocimiento para el uso y beneficio del público, avanzando en todos los campos de la erudición. Por tanto, el museo tenía como objetivo recopilar todo tipo de material; sigue siendo uno de los pocos lugares del mundo en el que es posible ver el mundo bajo un mismo techo. Durante el siglo XIX, el museo adquirió colecciones representativas de antigüedades Griegas, Romanas, Egipcias y Asirias, así como material de todo el mundo Islámico.  \n  \nEl museo en sí tuvo que crecer para ofrecer espacio para exhibir las crecientes colecciones. Entre 1823 y 1847, el edificio original fue reemplazado por cuatro grandes alas construidas alrededor de un patio central. En 1854 se inició la construcción de la icónica Sala de Lectura Redonda en el patio central. Las colecciones de historia natural recibieron su propio hogar en el nuevo Museo de Historia Natural en 1881. En 1973, la Biblioteca Británica y el Museo Británico se separaron administrativamente, y en 1999 se inauguró el nuevo edificio de la Biblioteca Británica en St Pancras. El sitio del Museo Británico se amplió y modernizó. En 2000 se inauguró el Gran Patio, concebido como una plaza soleada en el centro del edificio, con instalaciones actualizadas como salas de conferencias, un centro educativo e instalaciones para escolares, así como restaurantes y tiendas. En 2014, el Centro Mundial de Exposiciones y Conservación se abrió al público, ofreciendo instalaciones de última generación para cuidar, administrar, investigar y exhibir las colecciones.","city":"Londres","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"7712e497-33e4-5529-91c3-47abff00f87c":{"name":"Museo Arqueológico Nacional","description":"El Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN) es el museo de historia más relevante de España. Conserva, investiga y presenta al público sus colecciones de arqueología, historia y arte, con el fin de ofrecer a todos los visitantes una interpretación rigurosa, atractiva, interesante y crítica del significado de los objetos del pasado, de manera que el conocimiento de su historia les sea útil para analizar y comprender la realidad actual. Por la relevancia y amplitud de sus colecciones, el MAN es equiparable en su especialidad a grandes museos españoles (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía o Galería de las Colecciones Reales), al mostrar la diversidad y riqueza de nuestro país en materia de historia cultural. El Museo se ubica en un monumental edificio, en pleno barrio de Salamanca, una de las zonas comerciales y de ocio más transitadas de la ciudad, perfectamente integrado en el eje Recoletos-Prado, donde se concentra la mayor oferta cultural de la ciudad. El magnífico edificio del MAN ofrece, en el corazón de Madrid, una infraestructura histórica —dotada de edificio, jardín y verja—, totalmente renovada y accesible.  \n  \nCreado en 1867, y cerca de cumplir 160 años, el MAN no ha cesado de crecer y evolucionar transformándose para dar cabida a las necesidades del siglo XXI. Tras la profunda obra de reforma desarrollada entre 2008 y 2014, reabrió sus puertas en abril de 2014 renovado íntegramente, convirtiéndose en uno de los museos más modernos de Europa. Distribuido en seis plantas, con una superficie total de casi 30.000 m2, el edificio del MAN cuenta con 18.304 m2 destinados a usos públicos (9.239 m2 dedicados a la exposición permanente). El Museo se ha dotado de diversas áreas de servicio, como un amplio vestíbulo, cafetería, tienda y salas de actividades.  \n  \nSu extraordinaria colección, en la que figuran un elevado número de piezas de incalculable valor histórico y cultural, está formada por más de un millón de objetos de carácter arqueológico, histórico y artístico. Sus fondos albergan desde el bifaz paleolítico que durante milenios fue casi la única herramienta, a los delicados marfiles que aúnan el gusto estético con la función para la que fueron creados; de los grabados prehistóricos de la Cueva del Castillo, muestra de las primeras expresiones artísticas y simbólicas de la humanidad, pasando por la estética abstracta del llamado Ídolo de Extremadura, hasta la belleza clásica y permanente de la Dama de Elche; de las esculturas romanas, del extraordinario tesoro de Guarrazar o el crucifijo románico de Don Fernando y Doña Sancha hasta el bello Héctor ecuestre de Filarete o las pinturas de Luis Paret que ornan la barroca silla de mano.  \n  \nLa colección de Arte y cultura Islámica del Museo procede en gran medida de los diferentes periodos históricos de Al-Ándalus, nombre que los musulmanes dieron al territorio que conquistaron en la Península Ibérica. La calidad estética alcanzada por la cultura andalusí queda demostrada en los capiteles, arcos, paneles de mármol y decoraciones de alabastro y yeso de la época, especialmente del Califato de Córdoba. A esto se suma la colección del museo de objetos decorativos y de gran refinamiento elaborados en los talleres palaciegos andaluces, como metales, marfiles y cerámica vidriada. Asimismo, se conserva una importante colección de objetos que muestran la simbiosis de las formas andalusíes y cristianas en la Península Ibérica, como la cúpula del Palacio de Torrijos.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001  \nMadrid, Spain","website":"http://www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"a3753de5-842a-5f0b-a8c7-50bb2e312ce6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"d9f6c12d-ca03-5d6e-b33c-c1a37daec1fa":{"name":"Museos de Glasgow","description":"Aunque no es la capital, Glasgow es la ciudad más grande de Escocia. Se enorgullece de su escena multicultural que representa una comunidad musulmana tan grande como próspera. La colección de los Museos de Glasgow es la más grande gestionada por cualquier autoridad local en el Reino Unido y una de las pocas colecciones municipales que son reconocidas por tener importancia nacional. Este servicio fue fundado en 1854 con la colección de pintura europea McLellan, que fue donada a la gente de Glasgow por Archibald McLellan junto con un edificio para albergarlo. En la actualidad, Glasgow gestiona trece museos públicos que cubren una amplia gama de temas.  \n  \nLas colecciones islámicas de Glasgow proceden de todo el mundo con objetos de África, España, Oriente Medio y Asia Central. Los elementos más antiguos se remontan a los siglos X y XI. Los primeros objetos que entraron en las colecciones de los museos fueron donados en la década de 1870. Aunque muchos de estos son donaciones privadas, algunos fueron adquiridos por el servicio del museo. Las colecciones islámicas se encuentran principalmente en The Burrell Collection, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre y Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  \n  \nLa principal fortaleza de las colecciones Islámicas radica en la gran donación de Sir William Burrell y su esposa, quienes obsequiaron su enorme y variada colección a Glasgow en 1944. Incluye cerámica y alfombras Iraníes y Mogoles, textiles y bordados Turcos y Uzbecos, y Lustrewares Hispano-Moriscos. Las otras colecciones Islámicas de los museos de Glasgow incluyen objetos de la India Mogol, los Fatimíes y Mamelucos de Egipto y Siria, el Oriente Medio Otomano y los Bereberes y Árabes del norte de África del siglo XIX. Además de todo lo anterior, los museos de Glasgow están interesados en desarrollar sus colecciones Islámicas contemporáneas dando la bienvenida a las donaciones de artes y artesanías Islámicas modernas, así como en el fortalecimiento de las otras áreas dentro de sus colecciones Islámicas.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550"},"de2dbebd-e2b6-5434-b061-c35adc183958":{"name":"Udayas Museum (National Museum of Jewelry)","description":"**Descripción histórica**  \n  \nFundado en 1915, el Museo de los Udayas es uno de los museos públicos más antiguos en Marruecos, junto con el Museo Batha en Fez. Este museo contiene una de las mayores colecciones museísticas del país.  \n  \nLa alcazaba de los Udayas, un lugar emblemático en la historia de Marruecos, fue originalmente una fortaleza construida por los almorávides (siglos X al XII) sobre el acantilado que se eleva sobre la desembocadura del Bu Ragrag. En el siglo XII, una vez bajo el control almohade, Abd al-Mumin reformó la fortaleza para convertirla en una residencia real y puesto defensivo para apoyar la conquista de la Península Ibérica. En 1609, Felipe II de España expulsó a casi un millón de moriscos – descendientes de musulmanes que en esa época vivían en España bajo el régimen cristiano. De entre ellos, aproximadamente 2,000 musulmanes de habla árabe, los ‘hornacheros’, se establecieron en la alcazaba de los Udayas, formando una república independiente que se dedicó a la piratería. La turbulenta historia de la desembocadura del Bu Ragrag terminó con el alawí Sidi Mohamed ibn Abdallah (1757-1789).  \n  \nA lo largo de su historia, la alcazaba de los Udayas ha sido objeto de importantes proyectos de construcción, como la monumental puerta almohade Bab al-Kabir, la muralla del sultán alawí Mulay Rachid y la residencia principesca de Mulay Ismail (1672-1727).  \n  \n**El museo**  \n  \nConstruido en los antiguos pabellones del sultán Mulay Ismail, el Museo de los Udayas es una obra maestra de arquitectura con inspiración andalusí. Si bien al principio estaba compuesto por colecciones privadas (Libert: cerámicas, latón y madera tallada; Besancenot: joyas de plata), se ha ido enriqueciendo de manera constante con nuevas adquisiciones. Todas las colecciones actualmente en exhibición sobre manuscritos, monedas, astrolabios, ropa, alfombras, ebanistería, armas, etc., corresponden al período islámico.  \n  \nEn la primera sala se expone joyería de plata y oro del Alto Atlas, el Medio Atlas, el Anti-Atlas y el Sahara. Dos logias alojan cerámica esmaltada azul y policromada del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Seguidamente, se exponen vestimentas y accesorios ceremoniales de los habitantes de la ciudad y, por último, una colección de adornos de oro de notable valor estético e histórico.","city":"Rabat","address":"Musée National des Bijoux (Ancien musée des Oudayas)  \nCasbah des Oudayas  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 731537"},"f0c1b6b9-8198-5a97-9aea-8ebedfa90ca3":{"name":"Museo de Arte Islámico","description":"Por orden del jedive Ismail Pasha en 1880, la colección de rarezas arqueológicas de la era islámica se inició en la mezquita de Al-Hakim. El Municipio para la Conservación de Antigüedades Árabes—creado en 1881 en asociación con el Ministerio de Awqaf—supervisó la Casa de Antigüedades Árabes, como se la conocía entonces, hasta 1930, cuando el museo pasó a manos del Ministerio de Educación.  \n  \nEl museo solo adquirió artículos de mezquitas y edificios públicos en sus primeros veinte años. Luego emprendió su primera excavación en 1910 en las cercanías de Doronka en el Alto Egipto y una segunda excavación al sur de El Cairo descubriendo una sección de la ciudad de Fustat (la primera capital islámica de Egipto).  \n  \nEl museo adquirió muchos artículos a través de donaciones. El rey Fu'ad I regaló una valiosa colección de textiles, escamas y sellos, al igual que el rey Faruq, Amir Muhammad Ali y Amir Yusuf Kamal. Amir Kamal al-Din Hussein, Yakub Artin Pasha y Ali Ibrahim Pasha también donaron colecciones completas.  \n  \nLas colecciones, que ascienden a 7.082 artefactos, se transfirieron a su edificio actual cuando el museo existente se inauguró en diciembre de 1903. En 1952, el nombre del museo se cambió a \"Museo de Arte Islámico\" para reflejar el alcance de la colección: objetos producidos en el mundo islámico que datan del comienzo de la era islámica (siglo VII d.C.) hasta finales del siglo XIX d.C. El número de objetos registrados ha llegado a 103.000.  \n  \nLas colecciones incluyen lámparas de vidrio esmaltado, cerámica egipcia y una rara colección de filtros de agua de filigrana de loza sin pintar reconocida por sus diseños de encaje. También hay colecciones de artesanía en madera, textiles y piedras con inscripciones, mientras que la colección de alfombras está considerada como una de las más grandes de su clase. Las colecciones de instrumentos científicos muestran hasta qué punto la civilización islámica ha contribuido al conocimiento en muchos campos diferentes. También hay una colección extraordinaria de sellos, pesas, metros, monedas de oro, plata y cobre.  \n  \nEl Museo de Arte Islámico, que tiene una de las colecciones de arte islámico más extensas y completas del mundo, continúa desarrollando y ampliando sus colecciones y modernizando el edificio con sus veinticinco salas, instalaciones y jardín arqueológico.","city":"El Cairo","website":"https://www.miaegypt.org/","phone":"+20 2 2390 1520"},"f6a3053d-d710-547e-be54-96097d448f7a":{"name":"Museo Nacional de Damasco","description":"El Museo Nacional de Damasco se estableció bajo la supervisión del Ministerio de Educación en 1919. El núcleo original del contenido de este museo se mantuvo inicialmente en la Madrasa al-'Adiliya. La colección aumentó gradualmente y el descubrimiento del palacio Omeya de Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi en el desierto sirio en 1936 impulsó aún más los planes de acción para un museo más nuevo y más grande. Se eligió un edificio ubicado junto a Al-Takiyya al-Sulaymaniya para el establecimiento del Museo Nacional de Damasco.  \n  \nQasr Al-Hayr Al-Gharbi agregó un nuevo énfasis a la importancia de dedicar más atención al período Islámico y los directores de antigüedades decidieron incorporar estos hallazgos palaciegos en el Museo Nacional de Damasco. Después de mucho trabajo y experiencia técnica, la fachada frontal de Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi se traspuso y reconstruyó cuidadosamente como la entrada principal del Museo Nacional. Los pasillos laterales y el segundo piso fueron designados para los hallazgos artísticos más importantes de este antiguo palacio Islámico. La finalización de la exhibición tomó varios años y la inauguración oficial se celebró en 1950.  \n  \nEn 1953 se añadió un ala de tres pisos para albergar y exhibir antiguas antigüedades orientales, el período islámico, el arte sirio moderno y exposiciones temporales.  \n  \nUna de las ampliaciones más recientes incluyó tres salas dobles para el período islámico, una nueva sala de conferencias y una biblioteca. La sala de conferencias fue amueblada como una sala de recepción damasquinada del siglo XIX, una obra maestra de la decoración y ornamentación tardía por derecho propio. La apertura de esta ampliación tuvo lugar en 1963.  \n  \nEn 1974 hubo más adiciones, esta vez dedicada al período Paleolítico. Y por último, en 2004, el ala de exposiciones temporales se transformó en una colección permanente de antigüedades neolíticas.  \n  \nEn la actualidad, el Museo Nacional de Damasco consta de las siguientes secciones:  \n  \n1\\. Paleolítico.  \n2\\. Neolítico.  \n3\\. Oriental Sirio Antiguo.  \n4\\. Clásico.  \n5\\. Islámico.  \n6\\. Artes Modernas.","city":"Damasco","address":"Qasr el-Heir Street  \nDamascus, Syria","phone":"+963 11 2234331","email":"sam.orient@mail.sy"}}
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Los fundadores del museo creían que las ideas Islámicas sobre la estructuración de patrones y la combinación de la decoración con la forma y la función podrían mejorar el diseño Británico. La colección creció hasta convertirse en la más significativa en su campo. Entre las obras más destacadas se incluyen la alfombra Ardabil de Irán del siglo X / XVI d. C., una jarra de cristal de roca del Egipto del siglo V d. C. / XI d. C. y las mayores colecciones de cerámica islámica del mundo. El museo también alberga la colección nacional de textiles Islámicos.","city":"Londres","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nSW7 2RL  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 207 9422000","fax":"+44 207 9422335"},"325b7505-1527-5442-99ea-6a40f8c43d3f":{"name":"Museo islámico en la mezquita de Al-Aqsa","description":"El museo fue inaugurado oficialmente en 1341 AH / 1922 AD. En 1348 AH / 1929 AD, fue trasladado a su sitio actual en la esquina suroeste del Haram al-Sharif. El museo es administrado por el Departamento de Awqaf Islámico en Jerusalén, bajo los auspicios del Ministerio de Awqaf, Asuntos Islámicos y Lugares Santos de Jordania.  \n  \nEl museo consta de tres edificios con un espacio expositivo que mide más de 1.000 metros cuadrados. La sala más antigua data del siglo VI / XII d. C. y es un raro monumento cruzado en la ciudad santa. La segunda sala era una mezquita ayubí (siglo VII / XIII d. C.) conocida históricamente como mezquita al-Malikiya o Jami’a al-Mughariba. La tercera sala se conoce como la esquina de al-Fakhriya y su historia se remonta al período mameluco (siglo VIII / XIV d. C.).  \n  \nLa colección consta de artefactos y restos de las épocas islámica y no islámica, representando varias facetas de la civilización islámica que varían según la geografía, el tema y el período. La mayoría de los artefactos representan el patrimonio de al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalén y Palestina en general, incluyendo ciudades como Hebrón y Nablus.  \n  \nEl museo contiene trabajos en madera de diferentes épocas islámicas; la más antigua data del período omeya. La orfebrería en hierro, cobre y plata incluye el cerramiento de hierro de la Cúpula de la Roca, candelabros, espadas, dagas, margaritas, quemadores de incienso, monedas, anillos y piezas conmemorativas. La colección incluye mármol y baldosas vidriadas que revestían la Cúpula de la Roca en el período del sultán Süleyman el Magnífico (r. 926-74 AH / 1520-1566 d. C.) y sus sucesores. Hay una colección de loza, inscripciones en piedra de diferentes períodos islámicos y sus precursores, mientras que las columnas y capiteles provienen de los períodos romano y bizantino. Existe una valiosa colección del Corán, la más antigua del siglo IX / XV d. C., y muchos manuscritos mamelucos cuyos temas tratan de la vida social y económica en la ciudad santa. El museo exhibe parte de su colección textil, con disfraces, tapices, piezas del kiswa (revestimiento) de la Kaaba y trozos de alfombra.","city":"Jerusalén","address":"Al-Haram al-Sharif  \nAmro  \nP.O. Box 75085  \nJerusalem","website":"http://www.facebook.com/islamic.museum1922/","phone":"02 6283286","fax":"02 6283286","email":"jerusalem.museum@gmail.com"},"33f89573-8b54-5c1a-86ba-1663e604740f":{"name":"Museo Arqueológico de Jordania","description":"El museo fue fundado en 1951 por el Departamento de Antigüedades de Jordania en la Ciudadela de Ammán en una colina llamada Jabal al-Qal’a. El edificio tiene una medida total de 525 m2 en dos plantas. La planta baja se utiliza para almacenamiento y el primer piso comprende el área de exposición, que consta de tres salas y oficinas administrativas.  \n  \nEl museo contiene muchos artefactos encontrados en varios sitios arqueológicos de Jordania que representan el camino de la civilización en esta área a lo largo de su larga historia. La extensa colección está ordenada cronológicamente por períodos históricos, desde la Edad de Piedra hasta los períodos islámicos.  \n  \nLa colección de arte islámico se exhibe en una sala de exposiciones en once vitrinas que consisten en: vasijas de cerámica desde el período omeya hasta el período mameluco; vasijas vidriadas desde el período mameluco hasta el período otomano; vasijas de esteatita del período omeya; monedas de todo tipo y época; vasijas de orfebrería y cerámica desde los períodos omeya hasta mameluco; escudos y espadas de hierro del período mameluco; piedras talladas del período omeya; cuatro réplicas de yeso de elementos arquitectónicos del Palacio Khirbat al-Mafjar en Jericó (ventanas, dintel y una cúpula del baño).  \n  \nLa falta de espacio no permite exposiciones temporales; sin embargo, el museo participa en muchas exposiciones nacionales e internacionales para difundir el conocimiento de la historia y de la arqueología de Jordania a lo largo de los siglos.  \n  \nTres conservadores comparten la responsabilidad de toda la colección del museo.","city":"Amman","address":"Citadel of Amman  \nP.O. Box 88  \nAmman, Jordan","phone":"+962 6 463 8795","fax":"+962 6 461 9768"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"El Museo Británico","description":"El Museo Británico fue establecido por Ley del Parlamento en 1753, el primer museo público nacional del mundo. Desde el principio concedió entrada gratuita a todos los “estudiosos y curiosos”. La colección fundadora fue la de Sir Hans Sloane, un rico médico y coleccionista. El Museo Británico original constaba de tres departamentos: Libros impresos; Manuscritos (incluidas monedas); y Producciones Naturales y Artificiales, que incluían desde esculturas hasta muestras minerales y especímenes zoológicos. En enero de 1759 el Museo Británico abrió sus puertas al público.  \n  \nComo producto de la Ilustración, el trabajo del museo era ser un almacén de conocimiento para el uso y beneficio del público, avanzando en todos los campos de la erudición. Por tanto, el museo tenía como objetivo recopilar todo tipo de material; sigue siendo uno de los pocos lugares del mundo en el que es posible ver el mundo bajo un mismo techo. Durante el siglo XIX, el museo adquirió colecciones representativas de antigüedades Griegas, Romanas, Egipcias y Asirias, así como material de todo el mundo Islámico.  \n  \nEl museo en sí tuvo que crecer para ofrecer espacio para exhibir las crecientes colecciones. Entre 1823 y 1847, el edificio original fue reemplazado por cuatro grandes alas construidas alrededor de un patio central. En 1854 se inició la construcción de la icónica Sala de Lectura Redonda en el patio central. Las colecciones de historia natural recibieron su propio hogar en el nuevo Museo de Historia Natural en 1881. En 1973, la Biblioteca Británica y el Museo Británico se separaron administrativamente, y en 1999 se inauguró el nuevo edificio de la Biblioteca Británica en St Pancras. El sitio del Museo Británico se amplió y modernizó. En 2000 se inauguró el Gran Patio, concebido como una plaza soleada en el centro del edificio, con instalaciones actualizadas como salas de conferencias, un centro educativo e instalaciones para escolares, así como restaurantes y tiendas. En 2014, el Centro Mundial de Exposiciones y Conservación se abrió al público, ofreciendo instalaciones de última generación para cuidar, administrar, investigar y exhibir las colecciones.","city":"Londres","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","fax":"+44 20 7323 8616","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"7712e497-33e4-5529-91c3-47abff00f87c":{"name":"Museo Arqueológico Nacional","description":"El Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN) es el museo de historia más relevante de España. Conserva, investiga y presenta al público sus colecciones de arqueología, historia y arte, con el fin de ofrecer a todos los visitantes una interpretación rigurosa, atractiva, interesante y crítica del significado de los objetos del pasado, de manera que el conocimiento de su historia les sea útil para analizar y comprender la realidad actual. Por la relevancia y amplitud de sus colecciones, el MAN es equiparable en su especialidad a grandes museos españoles (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía o Galería de las Colecciones Reales), al mostrar la diversidad y riqueza de nuestro país en materia de historia cultural. El Museo se ubica en un monumental edificio, en pleno barrio de Salamanca, una de las zonas comerciales y de ocio más transitadas de la ciudad, perfectamente integrado en el eje Recoletos-Prado, donde se concentra la mayor oferta cultural de la ciudad. El magnífico edificio del MAN ofrece, en el corazón de Madrid, una infraestructura histórica —dotada de edificio, jardín y verja—, totalmente renovada y accesible.  \n  \nCreado en 1867, y cerca de cumplir 160 años, el MAN no ha cesado de crecer y evolucionar transformándose para dar cabida a las necesidades del siglo XXI. Tras la profunda obra de reforma desarrollada entre 2008 y 2014, reabrió sus puertas en abril de 2014 renovado íntegramente, convirtiéndose en uno de los museos más modernos de Europa. Distribuido en seis plantas, con una superficie total de casi 30.000 m2, el edificio del MAN cuenta con 18.304 m2 destinados a usos públicos (9.239 m2 dedicados a la exposición permanente). El Museo se ha dotado de diversas áreas de servicio, como un amplio vestíbulo, cafetería, tienda y salas de actividades.  \n  \nSu extraordinaria colección, en la que figuran un elevado número de piezas de incalculable valor histórico y cultural, está formada por más de un millón de objetos de carácter arqueológico, histórico y artístico. Sus fondos albergan desde el bifaz paleolítico que durante milenios fue casi la única herramienta, a los delicados marfiles que aúnan el gusto estético con la función para la que fueron creados; de los grabados prehistóricos de la Cueva del Castillo, muestra de las primeras expresiones artísticas y simbólicas de la humanidad, pasando por la estética abstracta del llamado Ídolo de Extremadura, hasta la belleza clásica y permanente de la Dama de Elche; de las esculturas romanas, del extraordinario tesoro de Guarrazar o el crucifijo románico de Don Fernando y Doña Sancha hasta el bello Héctor ecuestre de Filarete o las pinturas de Luis Paret que ornan la barroca silla de mano.  \n  \nLa colección de Arte y cultura Islámica del Museo procede en gran medida de los diferentes periodos históricos de Al-Ándalus, nombre que los musulmanes dieron al territorio que conquistaron en la Península Ibérica. La calidad estética alcanzada por la cultura andalusí queda demostrada en los capiteles, arcos, paneles de mármol y decoraciones de alabastro y yeso de la época, especialmente del Califato de Córdoba. A esto se suma la colección del museo de objetos decorativos y de gran refinamiento elaborados en los talleres palaciegos andaluces, como metales, marfiles y cerámica vidriada. Asimismo, se conserva una importante colección de objetos que muestran la simbiosis de las formas andalusíes y cristianas en la Península Ibérica, como la cúpula del Palacio de Torrijos.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001  \nMadrid, Spain","website":"http://www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","fax":"+34 91 432 68 40","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"a3753de5-842a-5f0b-a8c7-50bb2e312ce6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"d9f6c12d-ca03-5d6e-b33c-c1a37daec1fa":{"name":"Museos de Glasgow","description":"Aunque no es la capital, Glasgow es la ciudad más grande de Escocia. Se enorgullece de su escena multicultural que representa una comunidad musulmana tan grande como próspera. La colección de los Museos de Glasgow es la más grande gestionada por cualquier autoridad local en el Reino Unido y una de las pocas colecciones municipales que son reconocidas por tener importancia nacional. Este servicio fue fundado en 1854 con la colección de pintura europea McLellan, que fue donada a la gente de Glasgow por Archibald McLellan junto con un edificio para albergarlo. En la actualidad, Glasgow gestiona trece museos públicos que cubren una amplia gama de temas.  \n  \nLas colecciones islámicas de Glasgow proceden de todo el mundo con objetos de África, España, Oriente Medio y Asia Central. Los elementos más antiguos se remontan a los siglos X y XI. Los primeros objetos que entraron en las colecciones de los museos fueron donados en la década de 1870. Aunque muchos de estos son donaciones privadas, algunos fueron adquiridos por el servicio del museo. Las colecciones islámicas se encuentran principalmente en The Burrell Collection, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre y Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  \n  \nLa principal fortaleza de las colecciones Islámicas radica en la gran donación de Sir William Burrell y su esposa, quienes obsequiaron su enorme y variada colección a Glasgow en 1944. Incluye cerámica y alfombras Iraníes y Mogoles, textiles y bordados Turcos y Uzbecos, y Lustrewares Hispano-Moriscos. Las otras colecciones Islámicas de los museos de Glasgow incluyen objetos de la India Mogol, los Fatimíes y Mamelucos de Egipto y Siria, el Oriente Medio Otomano y los Bereberes y Árabes del norte de África del siglo XIX. Además de todo lo anterior, los museos de Glasgow están interesados en desarrollar sus colecciones Islámicas contemporáneas dando la bienvenida a las donaciones de artes y artesanías Islámicas modernas, así como en el fortalecimiento de las otras áreas dentro de sus colecciones Islámicas.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550","fax":"+44 141 2872597"},"de2dbebd-e2b6-5434-b061-c35adc183958":{"name":"Udayas Museum (National Museum of Jewelry)","description":"**Descripción histórica**  \n  \nFundado en 1915, el Museo de los Udayas es uno de los museos públicos más antiguos en Marruecos, junto con el Museo Batha en Fez. Este museo contiene una de las mayores colecciones museísticas del país.  \n  \nLa alcazaba de los Udayas, un lugar emblemático en la historia de Marruecos, fue originalmente una fortaleza construida por los almorávides (siglos X al XII) sobre el acantilado que se eleva sobre la desembocadura del Bu Ragrag. En el siglo XII, una vez bajo el control almohade, Abd al-Mumin reformó la fortaleza para convertirla en una residencia real y puesto defensivo para apoyar la conquista de la Península Ibérica. En 1609, Felipe II de España expulsó a casi un millón de moriscos – descendientes de musulmanes que en esa época vivían en España bajo el régimen cristiano. De entre ellos, aproximadamente 2,000 musulmanes de habla árabe, los ‘hornacheros’, se establecieron en la alcazaba de los Udayas, formando una república independiente que se dedicó a la piratería. La turbulenta historia de la desembocadura del Bu Ragrag terminó con el alawí Sidi Mohamed ibn Abdallah (1757-1789).  \n  \nA lo largo de su historia, la alcazaba de los Udayas ha sido objeto de importantes proyectos de construcción, como la monumental puerta almohade Bab al-Kabir, la muralla del sultán alawí Mulay Rachid y la residencia principesca de Mulay Ismail (1672-1727).  \n  \n**El museo**  \n  \nConstruido en los antiguos pabellones del sultán Mulay Ismail, el Museo de los Udayas es una obra maestra de arquitectura con inspiración andalusí. Si bien al principio estaba compuesto por colecciones privadas (Libert: cerámicas, latón y madera tallada; Besancenot: joyas de plata), se ha ido enriqueciendo de manera constante con nuevas adquisiciones. Todas las colecciones actualmente en exhibición sobre manuscritos, monedas, astrolabios, ropa, alfombras, ebanistería, armas, etc., corresponden al período islámico.  \n  \nEn la primera sala se expone joyería de plata y oro del Alto Atlas, el Medio Atlas, el Anti-Atlas y el Sahara. Dos logias alojan cerámica esmaltada azul y policromada del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Seguidamente, se exponen vestimentas y accesorios ceremoniales de los habitantes de la ciudad y, por último, una colección de adornos de oro de notable valor estético e histórico.","city":"Rabat","address":"Musée National des Bijoux (Ancien musée des Oudayas)  \nCasbah des Oudayas  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 731537","fax":"Not available"},"f0c1b6b9-8198-5a97-9aea-8ebedfa90ca3":{"name":"Museo de Arte Islámico","description":"Por orden del jedive Ismail Pasha en 1880, la colección de rarezas arqueológicas de la era islámica se inició en la mezquita de Al-Hakim. El Municipio para la Conservación de Antigüedades Árabes—creado en 1881 en asociación con el Ministerio de Awqaf—supervisó la Casa de Antigüedades Árabes, como se la conocía entonces, hasta 1930, cuando el museo pasó a manos del Ministerio de Educación.  \n  \nEl museo solo adquirió artículos de mezquitas y edificios públicos en sus primeros veinte años. Luego emprendió su primera excavación en 1910 en las cercanías de Doronka en el Alto Egipto y una segunda excavación al sur de El Cairo descubriendo una sección de la ciudad de Fustat (la primera capital islámica de Egipto).  \n  \nEl museo adquirió muchos artículos a través de donaciones. El rey Fu'ad I regaló una valiosa colección de textiles, escamas y sellos, al igual que el rey Faruq, Amir Muhammad Ali y Amir Yusuf Kamal. Amir Kamal al-Din Hussein, Yakub Artin Pasha y Ali Ibrahim Pasha también donaron colecciones completas.  \n  \nLas colecciones, que ascienden a 7.082 artefactos, se transfirieron a su edificio actual cuando el museo existente se inauguró en diciembre de 1903. En 1952, el nombre del museo se cambió a \"Museo de Arte Islámico\" para reflejar el alcance de la colección: objetos producidos en el mundo islámico que datan del comienzo de la era islámica (siglo VII d.C.) hasta finales del siglo XIX d.C. El número de objetos registrados ha llegado a 103.000.  \n  \nLas colecciones incluyen lámparas de vidrio esmaltado, cerámica egipcia y una rara colección de filtros de agua de filigrana de loza sin pintar reconocida por sus diseños de encaje. También hay colecciones de artesanía en madera, textiles y piedras con inscripciones, mientras que la colección de alfombras está considerada como una de las más grandes de su clase. Las colecciones de instrumentos científicos muestran hasta qué punto la civilización islámica ha contribuido al conocimiento en muchos campos diferentes. También hay una colección extraordinaria de sellos, pesas, metros, monedas de oro, plata y cobre.  \n  \nEl Museo de Arte Islámico, que tiene una de las colecciones de arte islámico más extensas y completas del mundo, continúa desarrollando y ampliando sus colecciones y modernizando el edificio con sus veinticinco salas, instalaciones y jardín arqueológico.","city":"El Cairo","website":"https://www.miaegypt.org/","phone":"+20 2 2390 1520"},"f6a3053d-d710-547e-be54-96097d448f7a":{"name":"Museo Nacional de Damasco","description":"El Museo Nacional de Damasco se estableció bajo la supervisión del Ministerio de Educación en 1919. El núcleo original del contenido de este museo se mantuvo inicialmente en la Madrasa al-'Adiliya. La colección aumentó gradualmente y el descubrimiento del palacio Omeya de Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi en el desierto sirio en 1936 impulsó aún más los planes de acción para un museo más nuevo y más grande. Se eligió un edificio ubicado junto a Al-Takiyya al-Sulaymaniya para el establecimiento del Museo Nacional de Damasco.  \n  \nQasr Al-Hayr Al-Gharbi agregó un nuevo énfasis a la importancia de dedicar más atención al período Islámico y los directores de antigüedades decidieron incorporar estos hallazgos palaciegos en el Museo Nacional de Damasco. Después de mucho trabajo y experiencia técnica, la fachada frontal de Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi se traspuso y reconstruyó cuidadosamente como la entrada principal del Museo Nacional. Los pasillos laterales y el segundo piso fueron designados para los hallazgos artísticos más importantes de este antiguo palacio Islámico. La finalización de la exhibición tomó varios años y la inauguración oficial se celebró en 1950.  \n  \nEn 1953 se añadió un ala de tres pisos para albergar y exhibir antiguas antigüedades orientales, el período islámico, el arte sirio moderno y exposiciones temporales.  \n  \nUna de las ampliaciones más recientes incluyó tres salas dobles para el período islámico, una nueva sala de conferencias y una biblioteca. La sala de conferencias fue amueblada como una sala de recepción damasquinada del siglo XIX, una obra maestra de la decoración y ornamentación tardía por derecho propio. La apertura de esta ampliación tuvo lugar en 1963.  \n  \nEn 1974 hubo más adiciones, esta vez dedicada al período Paleolítico. Y por último, en 2004, el ala de exposiciones temporales se transformó en una colección permanente de antigüedades neolíticas.  \n  \nEn la actualidad, el Museo Nacional de Damasco consta de las siguientes secciones:  \n  \n1\\. Paleolítico.  \n2\\. Neolítico.  \n3\\. Oriental Sirio Antiguo.  \n4\\. Clásico.  \n5\\. Islámico.  \n6\\. Artes Modernas.","city":"Damasco","address":"Qasr el-Heir Street  \nDamascus, Syria","phone":"+963 11 2234331","fax":"+963 11 2247983","email":"sam.orient@mail.sy"}}

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Il changea à nouveau de nom en 1899 pour s’appeler Victoria and Albert Museum, en l’honneur de la reine régnante et de son époux le prince Albert.  \n  \nPour les fondateurs du musée, l’art du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord islamiques incarnait nombre des principes d’excellence qu’ils souhaitaient promouvoir en matière de dessin, et au cours des 150 années qui suivirent, le musée réunit l’une des plus importantes collections d’art islamique au monde. Aujourd’hui, elle comprend plus de 10 000 objets, qui vont du VIIe au XIXe siècle et du Maroc à l’Asie centrale. Parmi d’autres chefs-d’œuvre, il faut signaler le tapis iranien d’Ardabil (XVIe siècle), une aiguière égyptienne en cristal de roche (XIe siècle), et l’une des plus grandes collections de céramique islamiques. Le musée abrite également la collection nationale de textiles islamiques.  \n  \nActuellement, le musée procède à la restructuration de sa principale galerie d’art islamique moyen-oriental, autrement dit la Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, qui ouvrira à l’été 2006. La nouvelle présentation a été conçue pour mettre en valeur les qualités visuelles de l’art islamique tant admiré au XIXe siècle, mais elle replacera aussi les objets dans leur contexte historique et social grâce à des supports pédagogiques interactifs. Elle mettra en scène une introduction thématique à l’art islamique et comportera des sections consacrées à l’empire ottoman et à l’Iran safavide et qajar. Une vitrine sera réservée aux expositions temporaires.","city":"London","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nSW7 2RL  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 207 9422000"},"325b7505-1527-5442-99ea-6a40f8c43d3f":{"name":"Musée  islamique et bibliothèque Al-Aqsa","description":"Officiellement fondé en 1922, le musée a été transféré à son emplacement actuel dans l’angle sud-ouest du Haram al-Charif en 1929. Le musée est administré par le département des Fondations pieuses de Jérusalem, sous les auspices du ministère jordanien des Fondations pieuses.  \n  \nLe musée comprend trois salles principales, pour une aire d’exposition de 1 000 mètres carrés.  \n  \nLa pièce la plus ancienne, l’un des rares vestiges de l’époque des Croisés dans la Ville sainte, date du XIIe siècle. La deuxième était une mosquée ayyoubide (XIIIe siècle), connue dans l’histoire sous l’appellation de mosquée al-Malikiya ou jami’a al-Moughariba. La troisième pièce, connue sous le nom d’espace al-Fakhriya, remonte à la période mamelouke (XIVe siècle).  \n  \nLes collections se composent d’objets et de vestiges d’époques islamiques et non islamiques, et invitent à découvrir différents aspects de la civilisation islamique, classés d’après l’origine géographique, le thème et la période. La plupart des objets représentent l’héritage du Haram al-Charif, de Jérusalem et de la Palestine tout entière, y compris des villes comme Hébron et Naplouse.  \n  \nLe musée abrite des œuvres en bois de plusieurs périodes islamiques, la plus ancienne remontant à la période omeyyade. Le travail du métal est bien représenté, avec notamment une grille de fer de l’époque des Croisés, des chandeliers, épées, poignards, dais, encensoirs, pièces de monnaie, bagues et pièces commémoratives. Le musée possède aussi une collection de marbres provenant de la partie inférieure des murs octogonaux du Dôme du Rocher et des carreaux de faïence décoratifs datant des restaurations de la période ottomane. La collection d’inscriptions sur pierre couvre différentes périodes islamiques et préislamiques, tandis que les colonnes et les chapiteaux proviennent des périodes romaine, byzantine et islamique. Le musée peut également s’enorgueillir d’une riche collection de corans, le plus ancien étant du IXe siècle, et de quelque 1 000 documents mamelouks relatifs à la vie économique et sociale dans la Ville sainte. Le musée expose une partie de ses collections de textiles avec des costumes, des couvertures de tombeaux et des fragments de la kiswa, le voile qui recouvre la Kaaba; mais il y a aussi de nombreux tapis qui ne sont pas exposés.","city":"Jerusalem","address":"Al-Haram al-Sharif  \nAmro  \nP.O. Box 75085  \nJerusalem","website":"http://www.facebook.com/islamic.museum1922/","phone":"02 6283286","email":"jerusalem.museum@gmail.com"},"33f89573-8b54-5c1a-86ba-1663e604740f":{"name":"Musée archéologique de Jordanie","description":"Le musée a été fondé en 1951 par le Département des antiquités de Jordanie dans la Citadelle d’Amman sur une colline appelée Jabal al-Qal’a. L’édifice occupe une superficie de 525 m2 sur deux niveaux. Le rez-de-chaussée est utilisé pour les réserves, au premier étage sont distribuées les trois salles de la zone d’exposition et les bureaux de l’administration.  \n  \nLe musée possède de nombreux artefacts mis au jour dans différents sites archéologiques de Jordanie et qui sont représentatifs de la progression des civilisations dans la région tout au long de son histoire. Toute la collection est présentée chronologiquement, par périodes historiques qui vont depuis d’âge de pierre jusqu’à la période islamique.  \n  \nLa collection d’art islamique est présentée dans une salle d’exposition organisée en onze vitrines réparties comme suit: poteries de la période omeyyade; vaisselles vernissées de la période mamelouke à la période ottomane; vaisselles en stéatite de la période omeyyade; monnaies de tous types et de toutes périodes; ouvrages de métal et poteries de la période omeyyade jusqu’à la période mamelouke; boucliers et épées en fer de la période mamelouke; pierres sculptées de la période omeyyade; quatre répliques en plâtre d’éléments architecturaux du palais de Khirbat al-Mafjar à Jéricho (fenêtres, linteau et une coupole du hammam).  \n  \nLe manque de place empêche d’organiser des expositions temporaires; toutefois, le musée participe à de nombreuses expositions locales et internationales mises sur pied en Jordanie et à l’étranger pour illustrer l’histoire et l’archéologie de la Jordanie à travers les âges.  \n  \nTrois conservateurs se partagent la responsabilité de veiller à l’entière collection du musée.","city":"Amman","address":"Citadel of Amman  \nP.O. Box 88  \nAmman, Jordan","phone":"+962 6 463 8795"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"British Museum","description":"Fondé en 1753 par Acte du Parlement, le British Museum s’installait dès l’année suivante à Montagu House, une résidence aristocratique sur le site de l’actuel musée à Bloomsbury, Londres. La collection fondatrice fut cédée à la nation britannique par Sir Hans Sloane, un riche physicien et collectionneur, mort en 1753, contre paiement de 20 000 livres à ses deux filles. Outre la collection d’objets de Sloane et sa bibliothèque, le premier British Museum possédait quatre autres importantes collections de livres. C’est d’ailleurs à un bibliothécaire en chef qu’était confiée la direction des trois départements du musée: Livres imprimés (y compris la presse); Manuscrits (de même que monnaies et dessins) ; Productions naturelles et Productions artificielles, qui rassemblaient toutes sortes de pièces, de la sculpture aux échantillons minéraux, des momies aux spécimens zoologiques. En janvier 1759, le British Museum ouvrait ses portes au public.  \n  \nDans la mesure où l’Acte de 1753 incarnait les idées universalistes des Lumières, pour qui tous les arts et toutes les sciences formaient un seul et même vaste réseau de corrélations, la tâche du Musée était de faire progresser tous les champs du savoir pour les chercheurs et les “esprits curieux” – et pour le meilleur profit du grand public. En tant que dépositaire du savoir, le British Museum avait vocation à tout collectionner. Une telle position impliquait inévitablement un développement constant et la nécessité de bâtiments plus grands dans lesquels stocker des collections de plus en plus volumineuses. Entre 1823 et 1847, le bâtiment d’origine fut remplacé par quatre grandes ailes construites autour d’une cour centrale. La bibliothèque continua à s’accroître à un tel rythme qu’une nouvelle salle de lecture s’imposait. Les travaux commencèrent en 1854 par la construction, dans la cour centrale, de la nouvelle Salle de lecture ronde à coupole.  \n  \nDans les années 1860, le besoin d’un nouveau bâtiment capable d’héberger les collections d’histoire naturelle en plein développement était reconnu, et en 1881 le nouveau Muséum d’histoire naturelle ouvrait au public. En 1973, la British Library et le British Museum étaient séparés administrativement, et dans les années 1990, les travaux d’un nouvel édifice pour la bibliothèque furent entrepris. La nouvelle British Library ouvrit en 1999, laissant au British Museum l’opportunité de s’agrandir et de se moderniser. En 2000, le British Museum ouvrait la Great Court, conçue comme une piazza ensoleillée au centre du bâtiment, mais dotée d’équipements modernes tels que des salles de conférence, des restaurants, une cafétéria pour les scolaires et des boutiques.  \n  \nLa collection initiale du musée, qui comptait quelques objets islamiques, s’enrichit considérablement au cours des XIXe et XXe siècles par des achats, des dons et des legs. Avec le Victoria and Albert Museum, le British Museum abrite la plus importante collection de céramiques d’Iznik au monde. Les objets médiévaux en métal incrusté, les collections archéologiques, les œuvres sur papier et sur verre émaillé constituent d’autres ensembles de grande valeur. La collection, avec les pièces archéologiques, compte environ 40 000 objets.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"42fb6391-e1f6-527a-85db-f9638b02d667":{"name":"Institut Supérieur d’histoire contemporaine de la Tunisie, Université de la Manouba","description":"L’I.S.H.C.T est un centre de recherche en histoire contemporaine de la Tunisie. Il abrite un fonds d’archives microfilmées, un ensemble de témoignage audio-visuel, une collection de photographie ainsi qu’une bibliothèque ouverte aux sollicitations des chercheurs, journalistes, militants ou étudiants désireux d’effectuer des investigations approfondies sur l’histoire de la colonisation et de la décolonisation de la Tunisie. Quatre unités d’étude et de recherche groupant des chercheurs historiens se consacrent à l’exploitation de différents matériaux pour une meilleure connaissance de cette période de l’histoire de la Tunisie : U.E.R archivistique, U.E.R. Lieux de mémoire et musées, U.E.R. Histoire Orale, U.E.R. Historique. A travers la publication d’une revue (RAWAFID), des actes de colloques, séminaires et journées scientifiques, des mémoires de témoins et de collections de documents, l’ISHCT espère enrichir la bibliothèque universitaire au fur et à mesure de ces avancées documentaires et méthodologiques et contribuer ainsi à doter cette période historique d’une dynamique de recherche en suscitant les échanges scientifiques en Tunisie et à l’étranger.","city":"Tunis","address":"Campus Universitaire de la Manouba,  \n2010 La Manouba  \nTunis  \nTunisia","phone":"+216 716 009 50","email":"ishmn@ishmn.rnu.tn"},"7712e497-33e4-5529-91c3-47abff00f87c":{"name":"Musée archéologique national","description":"Le musée archéologique national (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, ou MAN) est le musée d’histoire le plus important d’Espagne. Il conserve, recherche et présente ses collections archéologiques, artistiques et historiques au grand public. Ce faisant, le musée a à cœur d’offrir à tous ses visiteurs une interprétation précise, attrayante, intéressante et critique de la signification que portent les objets du passé, avec l’espoir qu’une connaissance plus profonde de l’histoire les aidera à mieux analyser et mieux comprendre la réalité du monde d’aujourd’hui. Grâce à la pertinence et la portée de ses collections, le musée archéologique national est comparable, dans sa spécialité, aux éminents musées d’Espagne (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofia ou encore Galerie des collections royales) ; faisant découvrir la diversité et la richesse de l'histoire culturelle du pays.  \n  \nLe musée se trouve dans un impressionnant bâtiment au cœur du Salamanca, un des arrondissements de Madrid les plus animés en matière de shopping et de loisirs ; et est parfaitement placé sur l’artère Recoletos-Prado, qui revendique la plus grande concentration d’institutions artistiques et culturelles de la ville. Situé en plein cœur de Madrid, le magnifique bâtiment du musée offre une infrastructure historique complètement rénovée et accessible, comprenant bâtiment, jardin et palissades.  \n  \nLe MAN n’a cessé de croître et d’évoluer depuis sa création en 1867, il y a près de 160 ans, et continue aujourd’hui de se transformer pour répondre aux besoins du 21e siècle. Complètement réorganisée entre 2008 et 2014, l’institution a rouvert ses portes le 21 avril 2014, révélant une toute nouvelle apparence et un nouvel aménagement et prenant ainsi sa place parmi les musées les plus modernes d’Europe. Le bâtiment rénové a une surface totale d’environ 30 000 m2 répartis sur six étages, dont 18 304 m2 sont consacrés à un usage public (l’exposition permanente occupe à elle seule 9 239 m2). Le musée dispose également de différentes zones de services, comme un hall d’entrée spacieux, un café, un magasin et des salles dédiées aux activités.  \n  \nL’extraordinaire collection du MAN, qui comprend un grand nombre d’œuvres d’art historiques et culturels inestimables, compte plus d’un million d’objets archéologiques, historiques et artistiques. Ses fonds sont vastes et variées : des bifaces du Paléolithique, pratiquement le seul outil existant pendant des millénaires ; des sculptures en ivoire délicat qui combinent esthétique et praticité ; des gravures préhistoriques découvertes dans la grotte d'El Castillo, preuve de l’expression artistique et symbolique précoce de l’humanité ; l'esthétique abstraite de l'Idole de l'Estrémadure ; la beauté classique et intemporelle de la Dame d'Elche ; d’anciennes sculptures romaines ; l’extraordinaire trésor de Guarrazar ; le romanesque Crucifix de Ferdinand et Sancha ; la magnifique figure équestre d’Hector par Le Filarète ; et les peintures ornementales de Luis Paret sur un fauteuil baroque ne sont que quelques-uns des trésors que le musée abrite.  \n  \nLa collection d’art islamique du musée vient principalement des différentes périodes historiques d’Al-Andalus, nom que les musulmans donnèrent au territoire qu’ils avaient conquis dans la péninsule ibérique. La qualité esthétique de l’art andalous s’observe dans les chapiteaux, les arcs, les panneaux de marbre et les décorations en albâtre et en plâtre de l’époque, notamment au Califat de Cordoue. En outre, le musée offre une collection d’objets décoratifs et hautement raffinés fabriqués dans les ateliers du palais andalous, tels que le métal, l’ivoire et les céramiques en émail. De même, une vaste collection d’objets montre la symbiose des mondes hispanico-islamique et chrétien dans la péninsule ibérique, tel que le dôme du palais de Torrijos.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001  \nMadrid, Spain","website":"http://www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"89f613d2-8723-5be8-8e46-487f9dae46f4":{"name":"Musée National Suisse","description":"Le Musée national suisse regroupe trois musées: le Musée national Zurich, le Château de Prangins et le Forum de l’histoire suisse à Schwyz, ainsi que le centre des collections d’Affoltern am Albis. Les musées consacrent leurs expositions à l’histoire de la Suisse, depuis les époques les plus reculées jusqu’à aujourd’hui ; ils fournissent ainsi leur contribution à l’étude des identités suisses et des contrastes et de la variété qui marquent notre histoire et notre culture.","city":"Zurich","address":"Swiss National Museum  \nMuseumstrasse, 2  \nP.O. Box 8021  \nZurich  \nSwitzerland","website":"http://www.nationalmuseum.ch","phone":"+41 44 218 65 11","email":"info@nationalmuseum.ch"},"d9f6c12d-ca03-5d6e-b33c-c1a37daec1fa":{"name":"Musées de Glasgow","description":"Bien qu’elle n’en soit pas la capitale, Glasgow est la plus grande ville d’Écosse, et s’enorgueillit d’un panorama multiculturel, avec notamment une communauté musulmane aussi importante que prospère. La collection des Musées de Glasgow est la plus importante à dépendre d’une autorité de tutelle locale au Royaume-Uni, et l’une des rares collections municipales réputée d’importance nationale. Ce secteur fut fondé en 1854 avec la collection McLellan de peintures européennes, offerte à la population de Glasgow par Archibald McLellan en même temps qu’un bâtiment destiné à l’abriter. Aujourd’hui, Glasgow gère treize musées publics dévolus à une grande variété de sujets.  \n  \nLes collections islamiques de Glasgow proviennent du monde entier, avec des objets d’Afrique, d’Espagne, du Moyen-Orient et d’Asie centrale, dont les plus anciens remontent aux Xe et XIe siècles. Bien que nombre de pièces proviennent de donations privées, certaines ont été achetées par les services du musée. Les collections islamiques sont essentiellement conservées au sein de la Burrell Collection, au Musée St Mungo de vie et d’art religieux, au Centre de ressources des musées de Glasgow et au Musée-galerie d’art de Kelvingrove.  \n  \nLa partie la plus consistante des collections islamiques est issue de la vaste donation de Sir William Burrell et de son épouse, qui léguèrent leur énorme collection à Glasgow en 1944. Elle comprend des céramiques et des tapis iraniens et moghols, des broderies et textiles turcs et ouzbeks, et des céramiques à reflets métalliques hispano-maghrébines. Les autres collections islamiques des musées de Glasgow comportent des objets de l’Inde moghole, de l’Égypte et de la Syrie fatimides et mameloukes, du Proche-Orient ottoman et de l’Afrique du Nord berbère et arabe du XIXe siècle. Par ailleurs, les musées de Glasgow s’attachent à développer leurs collections islamiques contemporaines en accueillant des donations d’art et d’artisanat islamiques modernes, et en renforçant les autres domaines de ses collections islamiques.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550"},"de2dbebd-e2b6-5434-b061-c35adc183958":{"name":"Musée des Oudayas","description":"**Présentation Historique**  \n  \nCréé en 1915, le musée des Oudayas constitue, avec le musée Batha de Fès, la plus ancienne institution muséale publique du Maroc, et regroupe une des plus importantes collections muséographiques du pays.  \n  \nHaut lieu de l’histoire du Maroc, la Casbah des Oudayas était à l’origine un fort édifié par les Almoravides (Xe-XIIe siècle) sur la falaise dominant l’estuaire du Bouregreg. Sous les Almohades (XIIe siècle), Abdelmoumen réaménage le fort en résidence princière et appui défensif pour les besoins de la conquête de la péninsule Ibérique. Lorsque Philippe II d’Espagne expulse en 1609 près d’un million de Morisques, 2000 Hornacheros s’installent dans la Casbah et finissent par instaurer une République indépendante qui s’adonne à la piraterie. L’histoire agitée de l’estuaire du Bouregreg trouve sa fin avec l’Alaouite Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah (1757-1789). Au cours de son histoire, la Casbah des Oudayas a connu de grands travaux de construction, notamment Bab el-Kebir, la porte monumentale almohade; le rempart du sultan alaouite Moulay Rachid ; la résidence princière de Moulay Ismaïl (1672-1727).  \n  \n**Le Musée**  \n  \nAménagé en 1915 dans les anciens pavillons du sultan Moulay Ismaïl, le musée des Oudayas est à lui seul un chef-d’œuvre architectural d’inspiration andalouse. Initialement constitué à partir de collections particulières (Libert: céramiques, cuivres et bois ouvragés; Besancenot: bijoux d’argent), il s’est continuellement enrichi de nouvelles acquisitions. Actuellement, toutes les collections de manuscrits, monnaies, astrolabes, costumes, tapis, ébénisterie, armes, etc., sont de la période islamique.  \n  \nLa première salle présente des bijoux en argent et en argent doré du Haut-Atlas, du Moyen-Atas, de l’Anti-Atlas et du Sahara. Les deux loggias abritent des céramiques émaillées bleues ou polychromes du XIXe et du début XXe. Viennent ensuite les costumes et accessoires d’apparat, surtout citadins, et enfin une collection de parures en or d’une grande valeur esthétique et historique.","city":"Rabat","address":"Musée National des Bijoux (Ancien musée des Oudayas)  \nCasbah des Oudayas  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 731537"},"f0c1b6b9-8198-5a97-9aea-8ebedfa90ca3":{"name":"Musée d’art islamique","description":"C’est le khédive Ismaïl Pacha qui initia à la mosquée al-Hakim la collection de curiosités d’époque islamique. Et c’est le Conseil pour la préservation des antiquités arabes, créé en 1881 en association avec le ministère des Fondations pieuses (Awqaf), qui fut en charge de la Maison des antiquités arabes, comme on l’appelait alors, jusqu’en 1930, date à laquelle le musée passa au ministère de l’Éducation.  \n  \nAu cours de ses 20 premières années, les acquisitions du musée ne provenaient que des mosquées et des bâtiments publics. Plus tard, le musée entreprit sa première fouille en 1910 dans les environs de Doronka en Haute Égypte, puis une seconde au sud du Caire, mettant au jour une section de la ville de Fustat (première capitale islamique d’Égypte).  \n  \nLe musée a acquis de nombreuses pièces grâce à des dons. Le roi Fouad Ier a légué une collection de textiles, de balances et de sceaux de grande valeur, tout comme le roi Farouk, l’émir Muhammad Ali et l’émir Youssouf Kamal. L’émir Kamal al-Din Hussein ainsi que Yakoub Artin Pacha et Ali Ibrahim Pacha ont également offert des collections complètes.  \n  \nLes collections, riches de 7 082 pièces, ont été transférées dans leur bâtiment actuel en décembre 1903 à l’occasion de l’inauguration du présent musée. En 1952, le musée a été rebaptisé “Musée d’art islamique” pour refléter l’ampleur des collections : des objets produits dans le monde islamique et couvrant une période allant du début de l’ère islamique (VIIe siècle) à la fin du XIXe siècle. Le nombre de pièces enregistrées atteint maintenant les 103 000.  \n  \nLes collections comprennent des lampes en verre émaillé, des céramiques égyptiennes et une rare collection de filtres de gargoulettes en filigrane à décor peint sous glaçure, ces pièces étant célèbres pour leurs motifs d’entrelacs. À noter également des collections de bois, de textiles et de pierres à inscriptions, et une collection de tapis qui est considérée comme l’une des plus importantes de sa catégorie. Les collections d’instruments scientifiques montrent bien à quel point la civilisation islamique a contribué à la connaissance dans des domaines aussi nombreux que différents. Il y a aussi une extraordinaire collection de sceaux, poids et mesures, et de pièces de monnaies en or, argent, et cuivre.  \n  \nRiche de l’une des plus importantes collections d’art islamique au monde, le Musée d’art islamique continue à développer ses collections, et à moderniser le bâtiment avec ses 25 pièces, ses bureaux et son jardin archéologique.","city":"Cairo","website":"https://www.miaegypt.org/","phone":"+20 2 2390 1520"},"f6a3053d-d710-547e-be54-96097d448f7a":{"name":"Musée national de Damas","description":"Le Musée national de Damas fut fondé en 1919 et placé sous la responsabilité du ministère de l’Éducation. Le noyau originel de ses collections était initialement conservé à la madrasa al-'Adiliya. La collection s’enrichit progressivement, et la découverte du palais omeyyade de al-Hayr al-Gharbi dans le désert syrien en 1936 accéléra encore les projets d’agrandissement et de rénovation du musée. Un bâtiment situé près de la takiyya al-Sulaymaniya fut retenu pour l’établissement du futur Musée national de Damas.  \n  \nQasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi montra à quel point il importait de consacrer encore plus d’attention à la période islamique, et les directeurs des Antiquités décidèrent d’intégrer ces découvertes palatiales au Musée national de Damas. Après un travail considérable et une expertise technique approfondie, la façade principale de Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi fut transférée et soigneusement reconstruite comme entrée principale du Musée national. Les salles latérales et le second niveau furent affectés aux plus importantes trouvailles artistiques de ce palais datant des débuts de la période islamique. L’ensemble de l’opération prit plusieurs années et l’ouverture officielle eut lieu en 1950.  \n  \nEn 1953, une aile de trois niveaux fut ajoutée pour abriter et exposer les antiquités orientales, la période islamique et l’art syrien moderne, ainsi que les expositions temporaires.  \n  \nL’une des plus récentes extensions comprenait trois doubles salles dédiées à la période islamique, une nouvelle salle de lecture et une bibliothèque. La salle de lecture fut meublée comme un salon de réception damascène du XIXe siècle, et c’est en soi un chef-d’œuvre de décoration et d’ornementation tardive. L’inauguration de cet agrandissement date de 1963.  \n  \nEn 1974 intervinrent de nouvelles adjonctions, consacrées cette fois à la période paléolithique. Et dernièrement, en 2004, l’aile dédiée aux expositions temporaires fut transformée et réservée à la collection permanente d’antiquités néolithiques.  \n  \nAujourd’hui, le Musée national de Damas comprend les sections suivantes:  \n  \n1\\. Paléolithique.  \n2\\. Néolithique.  \n3\\. Antiquités syriennes orientales.  \n4\\. Classique.  \n5\\. Islamique.  \n6\\. Arts modernes.","city":"Damascus","address":"Qasr el-Heir Street  \nDamascus, Syria","phone":"+963 11 2234331","email":"sam.orient@mail.sy"}}
+{"01ed0e00-4aed-5afc-bdea-937514669d4b":{"name":"Victoria and Albert Museum","description":"L’histoire du Victoria and Albert Museum remonte aux années 1830, à une époque où des préoccupations sur la piètre qualité du dessin industriel britannique conduisirent à la fondation d’une école d’arts appliqués financée par le gouvernement. Les collections d’origine étaient tout simplement constituées des objets rassemblés à titre de modèles pour les étudiants. L’inquiétude grandit encore avec la Grande Exposition tenue à Londres en 1851, une manifestation qui connut un succès extraordinaire, et qui dévoila à quel point le dessin britannique était en retard sur les autres nations. En réaction, le gouvernement réorganisa l’école comme un musée traditionnel. Fondé en 1852, le musée fut transféré vers son lieu actuel en 1857 et rebaptisé South Kensington Museum. Il changea à nouveau de nom en 1899 pour s’appeler Victoria and Albert Museum, en l’honneur de la reine régnante et de son époux le prince Albert.  \n  \nPour les fondateurs du musée, l’art du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord islamiques incarnait nombre des principes d’excellence qu’ils souhaitaient promouvoir en matière de dessin, et au cours des 150 années qui suivirent, le musée réunit l’une des plus importantes collections d’art islamique au monde. Aujourd’hui, elle comprend plus de 10 000 objets, qui vont du VIIe au XIXe siècle et du Maroc à l’Asie centrale. Parmi d’autres chefs-d’œuvre, il faut signaler le tapis iranien d’Ardabil (XVIe siècle), une aiguière égyptienne en cristal de roche (XIe siècle), et l’une des plus grandes collections de céramique islamiques. Le musée abrite également la collection nationale de textiles islamiques.  \n  \nActuellement, le musée procède à la restructuration de sa principale galerie d’art islamique moyen-oriental, autrement dit la Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, qui ouvrira à l’été 2006. La nouvelle présentation a été conçue pour mettre en valeur les qualités visuelles de l’art islamique tant admiré au XIXe siècle, mais elle replacera aussi les objets dans leur contexte historique et social grâce à des supports pédagogiques interactifs. Elle mettra en scène une introduction thématique à l’art islamique et comportera des sections consacrées à l’empire ottoman et à l’Iran safavide et qajar. Une vitrine sera réservée aux expositions temporaires.","city":"London","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nSW7 2RL  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 207 9422000","fax":"+44 207 9422335"},"325b7505-1527-5442-99ea-6a40f8c43d3f":{"name":"Musée  islamique et bibliothèque Al-Aqsa","description":"Officiellement fondé en 1922, le musée a été transféré à son emplacement actuel dans l’angle sud-ouest du Haram al-Charif en 1929. Le musée est administré par le département des Fondations pieuses de Jérusalem, sous les auspices du ministère jordanien des Fondations pieuses.  \n  \nLe musée comprend trois salles principales, pour une aire d’exposition de 1 000 mètres carrés.  \n  \nLa pièce la plus ancienne, l’un des rares vestiges de l’époque des Croisés dans la Ville sainte, date du XIIe siècle. La deuxième était une mosquée ayyoubide (XIIIe siècle), connue dans l’histoire sous l’appellation de mosquée al-Malikiya ou jami’a al-Moughariba. La troisième pièce, connue sous le nom d’espace al-Fakhriya, remonte à la période mamelouke (XIVe siècle).  \n  \nLes collections se composent d’objets et de vestiges d’époques islamiques et non islamiques, et invitent à découvrir différents aspects de la civilisation islamique, classés d’après l’origine géographique, le thème et la période. La plupart des objets représentent l’héritage du Haram al-Charif, de Jérusalem et de la Palestine tout entière, y compris des villes comme Hébron et Naplouse.  \n  \nLe musée abrite des œuvres en bois de plusieurs périodes islamiques, la plus ancienne remontant à la période omeyyade. Le travail du métal est bien représenté, avec notamment une grille de fer de l’époque des Croisés, des chandeliers, épées, poignards, dais, encensoirs, pièces de monnaie, bagues et pièces commémoratives. Le musée possède aussi une collection de marbres provenant de la partie inférieure des murs octogonaux du Dôme du Rocher et des carreaux de faïence décoratifs datant des restaurations de la période ottomane. La collection d’inscriptions sur pierre couvre différentes périodes islamiques et préislamiques, tandis que les colonnes et les chapiteaux proviennent des périodes romaine, byzantine et islamique. Le musée peut également s’enorgueillir d’une riche collection de corans, le plus ancien étant du IXe siècle, et de quelque 1 000 documents mamelouks relatifs à la vie économique et sociale dans la Ville sainte. Le musée expose une partie de ses collections de textiles avec des costumes, des couvertures de tombeaux et des fragments de la kiswa, le voile qui recouvre la Kaaba; mais il y a aussi de nombreux tapis qui ne sont pas exposés.","city":"Jerusalem","address":"Al-Haram al-Sharif  \nAmro  \nP.O. Box 75085  \nJerusalem","website":"http://www.facebook.com/islamic.museum1922/","phone":"02 6283286","fax":"02 6283286","email":"jerusalem.museum@gmail.com"},"33f89573-8b54-5c1a-86ba-1663e604740f":{"name":"Musée archéologique de Jordanie","description":"Le musée a été fondé en 1951 par le Département des antiquités de Jordanie dans la Citadelle d’Amman sur une colline appelée Jabal al-Qal’a. L’édifice occupe une superficie de 525 m2 sur deux niveaux. Le rez-de-chaussée est utilisé pour les réserves, au premier étage sont distribuées les trois salles de la zone d’exposition et les bureaux de l’administration.  \n  \nLe musée possède de nombreux artefacts mis au jour dans différents sites archéologiques de Jordanie et qui sont représentatifs de la progression des civilisations dans la région tout au long de son histoire. Toute la collection est présentée chronologiquement, par périodes historiques qui vont depuis d’âge de pierre jusqu’à la période islamique.  \n  \nLa collection d’art islamique est présentée dans une salle d’exposition organisée en onze vitrines réparties comme suit: poteries de la période omeyyade; vaisselles vernissées de la période mamelouke à la période ottomane; vaisselles en stéatite de la période omeyyade; monnaies de tous types et de toutes périodes; ouvrages de métal et poteries de la période omeyyade jusqu’à la période mamelouke; boucliers et épées en fer de la période mamelouke; pierres sculptées de la période omeyyade; quatre répliques en plâtre d’éléments architecturaux du palais de Khirbat al-Mafjar à Jéricho (fenêtres, linteau et une coupole du hammam).  \n  \nLe manque de place empêche d’organiser des expositions temporaires; toutefois, le musée participe à de nombreuses expositions locales et internationales mises sur pied en Jordanie et à l’étranger pour illustrer l’histoire et l’archéologie de la Jordanie à travers les âges.  \n  \nTrois conservateurs se partagent la responsabilité de veiller à l’entière collection du musée.","city":"Amman","address":"Citadel of Amman  \nP.O. Box 88  \nAmman, Jordan","phone":"+962 6 463 8795","fax":"+962 6 461 9768"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"British Museum","description":"Fondé en 1753 par Acte du Parlement, le British Museum s’installait dès l’année suivante à Montagu House, une résidence aristocratique sur le site de l’actuel musée à Bloomsbury, Londres. La collection fondatrice fut cédée à la nation britannique par Sir Hans Sloane, un riche physicien et collectionneur, mort en 1753, contre paiement de 20 000 livres à ses deux filles. Outre la collection d’objets de Sloane et sa bibliothèque, le premier British Museum possédait quatre autres importantes collections de livres. C’est d’ailleurs à un bibliothécaire en chef qu’était confiée la direction des trois départements du musée: Livres imprimés (y compris la presse); Manuscrits (de même que monnaies et dessins) ; Productions naturelles et Productions artificielles, qui rassemblaient toutes sortes de pièces, de la sculpture aux échantillons minéraux, des momies aux spécimens zoologiques. En janvier 1759, le British Museum ouvrait ses portes au public.  \n  \nDans la mesure où l’Acte de 1753 incarnait les idées universalistes des Lumières, pour qui tous les arts et toutes les sciences formaient un seul et même vaste réseau de corrélations, la tâche du Musée était de faire progresser tous les champs du savoir pour les chercheurs et les “esprits curieux” – et pour le meilleur profit du grand public. En tant que dépositaire du savoir, le British Museum avait vocation à tout collectionner. Une telle position impliquait inévitablement un développement constant et la nécessité de bâtiments plus grands dans lesquels stocker des collections de plus en plus volumineuses. Entre 1823 et 1847, le bâtiment d’origine fut remplacé par quatre grandes ailes construites autour d’une cour centrale. La bibliothèque continua à s’accroître à un tel rythme qu’une nouvelle salle de lecture s’imposait. Les travaux commencèrent en 1854 par la construction, dans la cour centrale, de la nouvelle Salle de lecture ronde à coupole.  \n  \nDans les années 1860, le besoin d’un nouveau bâtiment capable d’héberger les collections d’histoire naturelle en plein développement était reconnu, et en 1881 le nouveau Muséum d’histoire naturelle ouvrait au public. En 1973, la British Library et le British Museum étaient séparés administrativement, et dans les années 1990, les travaux d’un nouvel édifice pour la bibliothèque furent entrepris. La nouvelle British Library ouvrit en 1999, laissant au British Museum l’opportunité de s’agrandir et de se moderniser. En 2000, le British Museum ouvrait la Great Court, conçue comme une piazza ensoleillée au centre du bâtiment, mais dotée d’équipements modernes tels que des salles de conférence, des restaurants, une cafétéria pour les scolaires et des boutiques.  \n  \nLa collection initiale du musée, qui comptait quelques objets islamiques, s’enrichit considérablement au cours des XIXe et XXe siècles par des achats, des dons et des legs. Avec le Victoria and Albert Museum, le British Museum abrite la plus importante collection de céramiques d’Iznik au monde. Les objets médiévaux en métal incrusté, les collections archéologiques, les œuvres sur papier et sur verre émaillé constituent d’autres ensembles de grande valeur. La collection, avec les pièces archéologiques, compte environ 40 000 objets.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","fax":"+44 20 7323 8616","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"42fb6391-e1f6-527a-85db-f9638b02d667":{"name":"Institut Supérieur d’histoire contemporaine de la Tunisie, Université de la Manouba","description":"L’I.S.H.C.T est un centre de recherche en histoire contemporaine de la Tunisie. Il abrite un fonds d’archives microfilmées, un ensemble de témoignage audio-visuel, une collection de photographie ainsi qu’une bibliothèque ouverte aux sollicitations des chercheurs, journalistes, militants ou étudiants désireux d’effectuer des investigations approfondies sur l’histoire de la colonisation et de la décolonisation de la Tunisie. Quatre unités d’étude et de recherche groupant des chercheurs historiens se consacrent à l’exploitation de différents matériaux pour une meilleure connaissance de cette période de l’histoire de la Tunisie : U.E.R archivistique, U.E.R. Lieux de mémoire et musées, U.E.R. Histoire Orale, U.E.R. Historique. A travers la publication d’une revue (RAWAFID), des actes de colloques, séminaires et journées scientifiques, des mémoires de témoins et de collections de documents, l’ISHCT espère enrichir la bibliothèque universitaire au fur et à mesure de ces avancées documentaires et méthodologiques et contribuer ainsi à doter cette période historique d’une dynamique de recherche en suscitant les échanges scientifiques en Tunisie et à l’étranger.","city":"Tunis","address":"Campus Universitaire de la Manouba,  \n2010 La Manouba  \nTunis  \nTunisia","phone":"+216 716 009 50","fax":"+216 716 002 77","email":"ishmn@ishmn.rnu.tn"},"7712e497-33e4-5529-91c3-47abff00f87c":{"name":"Musée archéologique national","description":"Le musée archéologique national (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, ou MAN) est le musée d’histoire le plus important d’Espagne. Il conserve, recherche et présente ses collections archéologiques, artistiques et historiques au grand public. Ce faisant, le musée a à cœur d’offrir à tous ses visiteurs une interprétation précise, attrayante, intéressante et critique de la signification que portent les objets du passé, avec l’espoir qu’une connaissance plus profonde de l’histoire les aidera à mieux analyser et mieux comprendre la réalité du monde d’aujourd’hui. Grâce à la pertinence et la portée de ses collections, le musée archéologique national est comparable, dans sa spécialité, aux éminents musées d’Espagne (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofia ou encore Galerie des collections royales) ; faisant découvrir la diversité et la richesse de l'histoire culturelle du pays.  \n  \nLe musée se trouve dans un impressionnant bâtiment au cœur du Salamanca, un des arrondissements de Madrid les plus animés en matière de shopping et de loisirs ; et est parfaitement placé sur l’artère Recoletos-Prado, qui revendique la plus grande concentration d’institutions artistiques et culturelles de la ville. Situé en plein cœur de Madrid, le magnifique bâtiment du musée offre une infrastructure historique complètement rénovée et accessible, comprenant bâtiment, jardin et palissades.  \n  \nLe MAN n’a cessé de croître et d’évoluer depuis sa création en 1867, il y a près de 160 ans, et continue aujourd’hui de se transformer pour répondre aux besoins du 21e siècle. Complètement réorganisée entre 2008 et 2014, l’institution a rouvert ses portes le 21 avril 2014, révélant une toute nouvelle apparence et un nouvel aménagement et prenant ainsi sa place parmi les musées les plus modernes d’Europe. Le bâtiment rénové a une surface totale d’environ 30 000 m2 répartis sur six étages, dont 18 304 m2 sont consacrés à un usage public (l’exposition permanente occupe à elle seule 9 239 m2). Le musée dispose également de différentes zones de services, comme un hall d’entrée spacieux, un café, un magasin et des salles dédiées aux activités.  \n  \nL’extraordinaire collection du MAN, qui comprend un grand nombre d’œuvres d’art historiques et culturels inestimables, compte plus d’un million d’objets archéologiques, historiques et artistiques. Ses fonds sont vastes et variées : des bifaces du Paléolithique, pratiquement le seul outil existant pendant des millénaires ; des sculptures en ivoire délicat qui combinent esthétique et praticité ; des gravures préhistoriques découvertes dans la grotte d'El Castillo, preuve de l’expression artistique et symbolique précoce de l’humanité ; l'esthétique abstraite de l'Idole de l'Estrémadure ; la beauté classique et intemporelle de la Dame d'Elche ; d’anciennes sculptures romaines ; l’extraordinaire trésor de Guarrazar ; le romanesque Crucifix de Ferdinand et Sancha ; la magnifique figure équestre d’Hector par Le Filarète ; et les peintures ornementales de Luis Paret sur un fauteuil baroque ne sont que quelques-uns des trésors que le musée abrite.  \n  \nLa collection d’art islamique du musée vient principalement des différentes périodes historiques d’Al-Andalus, nom que les musulmans donnèrent au territoire qu’ils avaient conquis dans la péninsule ibérique. La qualité esthétique de l’art andalous s’observe dans les chapiteaux, les arcs, les panneaux de marbre et les décorations en albâtre et en plâtre de l’époque, notamment au Califat de Cordoue. En outre, le musée offre une collection d’objets décoratifs et hautement raffinés fabriqués dans les ateliers du palais andalous, tels que le métal, l’ivoire et les céramiques en émail. De même, une vaste collection d’objets montre la symbiose des mondes hispanico-islamique et chrétien dans la péninsule ibérique, tel que le dôme du palais de Torrijos.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001  \nMadrid, Spain","website":"http://www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","fax":"+34 91 432 68 40","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"89f613d2-8723-5be8-8e46-487f9dae46f4":{"name":"Musée National Suisse","description":"Le Musée national suisse regroupe trois musées: le Musée national Zurich, le Château de Prangins et le Forum de l’histoire suisse à Schwyz, ainsi que le centre des collections d’Affoltern am Albis. Les musées consacrent leurs expositions à l’histoire de la Suisse, depuis les époques les plus reculées jusqu’à aujourd’hui ; ils fournissent ainsi leur contribution à l’étude des identités suisses et des contrastes et de la variété qui marquent notre histoire et notre culture.","city":"Zurich","address":"Swiss National Museum  \nMuseumstrasse, 2  \nP.O. Box 8021  \nZurich  \nSwitzerland","website":"http://www.nationalmuseum.ch","phone":"+41 44 218 65 11","fax":"+41 44 211 29 49","email":"info@nationalmuseum.ch"},"d9f6c12d-ca03-5d6e-b33c-c1a37daec1fa":{"name":"Musées de Glasgow","description":"Bien qu’elle n’en soit pas la capitale, Glasgow est la plus grande ville d’Écosse, et s’enorgueillit d’un panorama multiculturel, avec notamment une communauté musulmane aussi importante que prospère. La collection des Musées de Glasgow est la plus importante à dépendre d’une autorité de tutelle locale au Royaume-Uni, et l’une des rares collections municipales réputée d’importance nationale. Ce secteur fut fondé en 1854 avec la collection McLellan de peintures européennes, offerte à la population de Glasgow par Archibald McLellan en même temps qu’un bâtiment destiné à l’abriter. Aujourd’hui, Glasgow gère treize musées publics dévolus à une grande variété de sujets.  \n  \nLes collections islamiques de Glasgow proviennent du monde entier, avec des objets d’Afrique, d’Espagne, du Moyen-Orient et d’Asie centrale, dont les plus anciens remontent aux Xe et XIe siècles. Bien que nombre de pièces proviennent de donations privées, certaines ont été achetées par les services du musée. Les collections islamiques sont essentiellement conservées au sein de la Burrell Collection, au Musée St Mungo de vie et d’art religieux, au Centre de ressources des musées de Glasgow et au Musée-galerie d’art de Kelvingrove.  \n  \nLa partie la plus consistante des collections islamiques est issue de la vaste donation de Sir William Burrell et de son épouse, qui léguèrent leur énorme collection à Glasgow en 1944. Elle comprend des céramiques et des tapis iraniens et moghols, des broderies et textiles turcs et ouzbeks, et des céramiques à reflets métalliques hispano-maghrébines. Les autres collections islamiques des musées de Glasgow comportent des objets de l’Inde moghole, de l’Égypte et de la Syrie fatimides et mameloukes, du Proche-Orient ottoman et de l’Afrique du Nord berbère et arabe du XIXe siècle. Par ailleurs, les musées de Glasgow s’attachent à développer leurs collections islamiques contemporaines en accueillant des donations d’art et d’artisanat islamiques modernes, et en renforçant les autres domaines de ses collections islamiques.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550","fax":"+44 141 2872597"},"de2dbebd-e2b6-5434-b061-c35adc183958":{"name":"Musée des Oudayas","description":"**Présentation Historique**  \n  \nCréé en 1915, le musée des Oudayas constitue, avec le musée Batha de Fès, la plus ancienne institution muséale publique du Maroc, et regroupe une des plus importantes collections muséographiques du pays.  \n  \nHaut lieu de l’histoire du Maroc, la Casbah des Oudayas était à l’origine un fort édifié par les Almoravides (Xe-XIIe siècle) sur la falaise dominant l’estuaire du Bouregreg. Sous les Almohades (XIIe siècle), Abdelmoumen réaménage le fort en résidence princière et appui défensif pour les besoins de la conquête de la péninsule Ibérique. Lorsque Philippe II d’Espagne expulse en 1609 près d’un million de Morisques, 2000 Hornacheros s’installent dans la Casbah et finissent par instaurer une République indépendante qui s’adonne à la piraterie. L’histoire agitée de l’estuaire du Bouregreg trouve sa fin avec l’Alaouite Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah (1757-1789). Au cours de son histoire, la Casbah des Oudayas a connu de grands travaux de construction, notamment Bab el-Kebir, la porte monumentale almohade; le rempart du sultan alaouite Moulay Rachid ; la résidence princière de Moulay Ismaïl (1672-1727).  \n  \n**Le Musée**  \n  \nAménagé en 1915 dans les anciens pavillons du sultan Moulay Ismaïl, le musée des Oudayas est à lui seul un chef-d’œuvre architectural d’inspiration andalouse. Initialement constitué à partir de collections particulières (Libert: céramiques, cuivres et bois ouvragés; Besancenot: bijoux d’argent), il s’est continuellement enrichi de nouvelles acquisitions. Actuellement, toutes les collections de manuscrits, monnaies, astrolabes, costumes, tapis, ébénisterie, armes, etc., sont de la période islamique.  \n  \nLa première salle présente des bijoux en argent et en argent doré du Haut-Atlas, du Moyen-Atas, de l’Anti-Atlas et du Sahara. Les deux loggias abritent des céramiques émaillées bleues ou polychromes du XIXe et du début XXe. Viennent ensuite les costumes et accessoires d’apparat, surtout citadins, et enfin une collection de parures en or d’une grande valeur esthétique et historique.","city":"Rabat","address":"Musée National des Bijoux (Ancien musée des Oudayas)  \nCasbah des Oudayas  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 731537","fax":"Not available"},"f0c1b6b9-8198-5a97-9aea-8ebedfa90ca3":{"name":"Musée d’art islamique","description":"C’est le khédive Ismaïl Pacha qui initia à la mosquée al-Hakim la collection de curiosités d’époque islamique. Et c’est le Conseil pour la préservation des antiquités arabes, créé en 1881 en association avec le ministère des Fondations pieuses (Awqaf), qui fut en charge de la Maison des antiquités arabes, comme on l’appelait alors, jusqu’en 1930, date à laquelle le musée passa au ministère de l’Éducation.  \n  \nAu cours de ses 20 premières années, les acquisitions du musée ne provenaient que des mosquées et des bâtiments publics. Plus tard, le musée entreprit sa première fouille en 1910 dans les environs de Doronka en Haute Égypte, puis une seconde au sud du Caire, mettant au jour une section de la ville de Fustat (première capitale islamique d’Égypte).  \n  \nLe musée a acquis de nombreuses pièces grâce à des dons. Le roi Fouad Ier a légué une collection de textiles, de balances et de sceaux de grande valeur, tout comme le roi Farouk, l’émir Muhammad Ali et l’émir Youssouf Kamal. L’émir Kamal al-Din Hussein ainsi que Yakoub Artin Pacha et Ali Ibrahim Pacha ont également offert des collections complètes.  \n  \nLes collections, riches de 7 082 pièces, ont été transférées dans leur bâtiment actuel en décembre 1903 à l’occasion de l’inauguration du présent musée. En 1952, le musée a été rebaptisé “Musée d’art islamique” pour refléter l’ampleur des collections : des objets produits dans le monde islamique et couvrant une période allant du début de l’ère islamique (VIIe siècle) à la fin du XIXe siècle. Le nombre de pièces enregistrées atteint maintenant les 103 000.  \n  \nLes collections comprennent des lampes en verre émaillé, des céramiques égyptiennes et une rare collection de filtres de gargoulettes en filigrane à décor peint sous glaçure, ces pièces étant célèbres pour leurs motifs d’entrelacs. À noter également des collections de bois, de textiles et de pierres à inscriptions, et une collection de tapis qui est considérée comme l’une des plus importantes de sa catégorie. Les collections d’instruments scientifiques montrent bien à quel point la civilisation islamique a contribué à la connaissance dans des domaines aussi nombreux que différents. Il y a aussi une extraordinaire collection de sceaux, poids et mesures, et de pièces de monnaies en or, argent, et cuivre.  \n  \nRiche de l’une des plus importantes collections d’art islamique au monde, le Musée d’art islamique continue à développer ses collections, et à moderniser le bâtiment avec ses 25 pièces, ses bureaux et son jardin archéologique.","city":"Cairo","website":"https://www.miaegypt.org/","phone":"+20 2 2390 1520"},"f6a3053d-d710-547e-be54-96097d448f7a":{"name":"Musée national de Damas","description":"Le Musée national de Damas fut fondé en 1919 et placé sous la responsabilité du ministère de l’Éducation. Le noyau originel de ses collections était initialement conservé à la madrasa al-'Adiliya. La collection s’enrichit progressivement, et la découverte du palais omeyyade de al-Hayr al-Gharbi dans le désert syrien en 1936 accéléra encore les projets d’agrandissement et de rénovation du musée. Un bâtiment situé près de la takiyya al-Sulaymaniya fut retenu pour l’établissement du futur Musée national de Damas.  \n  \nQasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi montra à quel point il importait de consacrer encore plus d’attention à la période islamique, et les directeurs des Antiquités décidèrent d’intégrer ces découvertes palatiales au Musée national de Damas. Après un travail considérable et une expertise technique approfondie, la façade principale de Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi fut transférée et soigneusement reconstruite comme entrée principale du Musée national. Les salles latérales et le second niveau furent affectés aux plus importantes trouvailles artistiques de ce palais datant des débuts de la période islamique. L’ensemble de l’opération prit plusieurs années et l’ouverture officielle eut lieu en 1950.  \n  \nEn 1953, une aile de trois niveaux fut ajoutée pour abriter et exposer les antiquités orientales, la période islamique et l’art syrien moderne, ainsi que les expositions temporaires.  \n  \nL’une des plus récentes extensions comprenait trois doubles salles dédiées à la période islamique, une nouvelle salle de lecture et une bibliothèque. La salle de lecture fut meublée comme un salon de réception damascène du XIXe siècle, et c’est en soi un chef-d’œuvre de décoration et d’ornementation tardive. L’inauguration de cet agrandissement date de 1963.  \n  \nEn 1974 intervinrent de nouvelles adjonctions, consacrées cette fois à la période paléolithique. Et dernièrement, en 2004, l’aile dédiée aux expositions temporaires fut transformée et réservée à la collection permanente d’antiquités néolithiques.  \n  \nAujourd’hui, le Musée national de Damas comprend les sections suivantes:  \n  \n1\\. Paléolithique.  \n2\\. Néolithique.  \n3\\. Antiquités syriennes orientales.  \n4\\. Classique.  \n5\\. Islamique.  \n6\\. Arts modernes.","city":"Damascus","address":"Qasr el-Heir Street  \nDamascus, Syria","phone":"+963 11 2234331","fax":"+963 11 2247983","email":"sam.orient@mail.sy"}}

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