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-{"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"},"15c3f796-e9e4-5984-a07b-97ea019d9da5":{"name":"Istanbul Archaeological Museums","description":"The name Istanbul Archaeological Museums denotes three museums under the same administration: the Archaeological Museum, the Ancient Orient Museum and the Tiled Kiosk Museum. The museum, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is located in Sultanahmet, on the Osman Hamdi Bey slope connecting Gülhane Park with the Topkapı Palace.  \n  \nIstanbul Archaeological Museums, displaying artifacts from civilisations of different historical periods, is one of the ten most important world-class museums designed and used as a museum building. It is also the first institution in Turkey arranged as a museum. Besides its spectacular collections, the architectural aspects of the buildings and beautiful gardens in which they are situated are of historical and natural importance.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Alemdar Caddesi,  \nOsman Hamdi Bey Yokuşu Sokak,  \n34122 Gülhane/Fatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/arkeoloji","phone":"+90 212 520 77 40-41","email":"info@istanbularkeoloji.gov.tr"},"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"},"1dc4a129-85b0-57d5-9622-15c790c4333f":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"Zisa Museum  \nAddress: Piazza Zisa, 1  \n90100 - Palermo  \nTel: +39 091 65 20 269  \n  \nCappella Palatina  \nAddress: P.zza del Risorgimento  \n90100 Palermo  \nTel: +39 091 6961111","city":"Palermo"},"2300bb0e-fc9f-55c5-ae2e-20f619a46cce":{"name":"Weltmuseum Wien","description":"The Weltmuseum Wien – formerly the Museum of Ethnology – houses comprehensive collections of ethnographic objects, historical photographs, and books on non-European civilisations, making it one of the world’s leading ethnographic museums. Its roots can be traced back to 1806, when the \"Imperial and Royal Ethnographic Collection\" was established as part of the combined Imperial and Royal Court Cabinet of Natural Objects, following the partial acquisition of the \"Cook Collection\" at a London auction. The continuously growing collections were transferred to the newly created “Department of Anthropology and Ethnography” of the Royal Court Museum of Natural History in 1876. Limited space and a goal of developing ethnology as a cultural science convinced political decision-makers to establish a unified, cohesive Museum of Ethnology. The “Museum of Ethnology” opened formally in 1928 taking up the entire building of the “Corps de Logis” in Neue Burg.  \n  \nIn 2001 the Museum of Ethnology was incorporated into the KHM-Museum Association. In April 2013 the Museum of Ethnology became the \"Weltmuseum Wien\" – a site of world cultures – at Vienna’s Heldenplatz. In October 2017, after extensive reparation and modernisation of the historical building, the Museum reopened in its entirety with 14 completely revised permanent exhibition galleries. The Museum’s collection, meanwhile, has expanded to well over 200,000 inventory numbers.","city":"Vienna","address":"Heldenplatz  \n1010 Vienna","website":"http://www.weltmuseumwien.at","phone":"+43 1 534 30-5052","email":"info@weltmuseumwien.at"},"2850ad3d-5837-53f2-9df3-168b86ffb478":{"name":"Museum of Civilisations | Museum of Oriental Art (EIAC)","description":"The ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ Museum of Oriental Art opened to the public in 1958 and houses finds from several Italian archaeological missions conducted in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. As well as this are numerous objects purchased on the antique market, particularly those by Giuseppe Tucci during his voyages in Nepal and Tibet between 1928 and 1954.  \n  \nThe museum’s Islamic wing includes a rich collection of objects sourced from both archaeological excavations and private purchases. The provenance of the collection is wide-ranging including the items from the geographical territories that now make up the countries of Spain, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and India. Chronologically the material covers an extensive period from the 8th to 19th centuries CE. The collection is arranged along different classes of production including; ceramics, metal works, miniatures, manuscripts, numismatics, jewellery, textile art, glass, arms & armour and wood.  \n  \nOf particular importance is the collection of archaeological finds from the palace of the Ghaznavid Sultan, Mas’ud III (1099-1115 CE) in Ghazni, Afghanistan. The archaeology of the site and its associated finds was brought to light by excavations conducted by the Archaeological Mission of the IsMEO (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente) in the 1960’s. These consist mainly of elements of architectural decorations in brick and marble, marble funerary stones, ceramics and metals.  \n  \nThe museum's collection of Persian objects can be dated from the 8th to the 19th centuries. Ceramics from the Samanid (9th- 10th century) and Seljuk (11th -12th century) periods are well represented in the Museum collections. Ilkhanid period ceramics (13th -14th century), known for their use of ‘lajvardina’ glaze technique is also visible in the collections. The majority of metal objects within the Islamic collection stem from the Khorasan region of Eastern Iran and Western Afghanistan, a well-known historic centre for metallurgical production.  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \nSince September 2016, the National Museum of Oriental Art in Rome has merged into the new Museum of Civilisation, definitively closing in October 2017 for the transfer to its new headquarters in the Palazzo delle Scienze. While awaiting the definitive re-arrangement planned for the end of 2021, a temporary exhibition called “Open for Works” exhibits over 650 objects from the Oriental Museum (of which about 60 is considered Islamic Art) in the rooms of the Pigorini Museum.","city":"Rome","address":"Museo delle Civiltà | Museo d’arte orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”  \nPiazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Rome, Italy","website":"https://www.museodellecivilta.it/","phone":"+39 06 549521","email":"mu-civ@cultura.gov.it"},"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"},"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"},"3acfd33c-e4e0-5b37-a94a-380f38913853":{"name":"National Museum of Aleppo","description":"The earliest collection of art and archaeological artefacts for the National Museum of Aleppo dates back to 1928 and the museum was formally inaugurated in1931. Initially it was devoted to the pre-Greco-Roman era, with works no later than 333 BC, most of which were based on finds from Tell Halaf. It was decided to move the collection from its original location in an Ottoman period building, which had become overcrowded, into a modern purpose-built museum, begun in 1967 and formally opened in 1972. It includes the following wings:  \n  \nPre-historic art: dedicated to finds such as bones and pottery from the regions of Syria and the Euphrates Valley. Some items are about a million years old and the most recent piece dates to no later than 3,200 BC, after which writing was developed and art became historic.  \n  \nAncient Near Eastern art from Syria: one of the most important sections containing pieces from Tell Halaf, Mari, Ugarit, Ebla and other significant sites of early Near Eastern civilisations, all displayed in chronological order in three large wings.  \n  \nClassical art from the Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods: pottery, coins, a number of limestone funerary carvings from the ancient city of Mambij, and a collection of Roman and Byzantine glass flasks used for perfume, eye-kohl and drugs are some of this section's main features, all displayed chronologically.  \n  \nArab Islamic art: The method of display here is based on the item's function and medium, such as pottery, ceramics, metalwork and glass of the various Islamic dynasties as well as a collection of gold and silver coins of the Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. A stone cenotaph carved in floriated kufic calligraphy is a masterpiece of this hall. Medieval military equipment and an Ottoman wooden ceiling featured in a side chamber are also presented.  \n  \nModern art: paintings by Syrian artists, particularly Aleppines, expressed in various styles such as realism, cubism, expressionism.","city":"Aleppo","address":"Al-Ma'arri Street  \nAleppo, Syria","phone":"+963 21 2122400"},"3eb798ec-9543-5a63-ba38-c22270fbbe84":{"name":"University Museum of Islamic Art | The Bumiller Collection","description":"An exceptional collection of early Islamic bronzes is housed in a historical town-house in the heart of the old city of Bamberg. The objects mostly originate from the Persianate world what is today Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. The collection is completed by a significant number of ceramics, glass and ivory objects as well as numismatics and manuscripts. The many-sided compilation includes nearly all objects of daily life. Writing equipment, cosmetic utensils, jugs, bowls, trays, fumigating vessels, oil lamps, jewellery, mirrors and the like give a fascinating insight into the life along the Silk Road in the Middle Ages. The exhibition shows the development of forms as well as the high standard of metallurgy mastered by medieval craftsmen in the region. The most ambitious décor and production techniques such as repoussé, punching, engraving and damascening that Islamic art put forth during the centuries are represented among the objects of the collection.  \n  \nIt is the Bumiller Art Foundation's concern to present most diverse products of Islamic metallurgy and to make them available for research and learning. The museum continuously serves as a venue for researchers, students and all those interested in Islamic art.","city":"Bamberg","address":"Austraße 29  \n96047 Bamberg  \nGermany","website":"http://www.the-bumiller-collection.com","phone":"+49 951 25954","email":"info@the-bumiller-collection.com"},"4456ae4f-8839-5955-824e-44355a235903":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Bologna**  \n  \nArt Collection of the Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna  \n[http://www.fondazionecarisbo.it/](http://www.fondazionecarisbo.it/)  \n  \nCivic Museum of the Risorgimento, Certosa of Bologna  \n[http://www.comune.bologna.it/museorisorgimento/](http://www.comune.bologna.it/museorisorgimento/)  \n[http://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/certosa](http://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/certosa)  \n  \nEcclesiastical Cultural Heritage Office of the Diocese of Bologna  \n  \nInternational Museum and Music Library  \n[http://www.museomusicabologna.it/](http://www.museomusicabologna.it/)  \n  \nMuseums at Palazzo Poggi, University of Bologna  \n[http://www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it/](http://www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it/)","city":"Bologna"},"53724213-926c-5852-9d55-d58f73ce9266":{"name":"Pepoli Museum","description":"The Pepoli Museum is located in the 14th century palace of the ‘300’ which was the seat of the convent of the Carmelite Fathers.  \n  \nWithin the museum, the most important section is that attributed to the private collections of Count Agostino Pepoli, to whom the museum was attributed to when it was built in the 1900s.  \n  \nTo the museum collections were later added works from the Fardelliana art gallery which constituted paintings from the Neapolitan school as well as other works from Trapani religious organisations. Other important aspects within the museum constitute the collections of applied arts from patrons such as Count Hernandez of Erice and the Hospice Sieri Pepoli.  \n  \nAlongside its collections of paintings and sculptures, the Pepoli museum showcases the development of figurative arts within the region; nativity paintings, corals, gold and silver objects, ecclesiastical furnishings, sacred hangings, majolica pottery, archaeological finds, coins and historical relics of the city of Trapani.  \n  \nIn regard to Islamic art, the museum contains a noteworthy collection of epigraphs with Kufic inscriptions upon its ground floor.","city":"Trapani","address":"Via Conte Agostino Pepoli, 180  \n91100  \nTrapani, Italy","website":"http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/museopepoli/MuseoPepoli.html","phone":"+39 0923 553269","email":"museo.pepoli@regione.sicilia.it"},"559ab197-7289-5af4-a295-1118bde9afce":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, State Museums","description":"**The Museum of Islamic Art is closed from October 2023 to March 2027 due to renovation and expansion works.**  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Berlin is the only institution of its kind in Germany, the oldest in the West and with its c. 93,000 pieces it houses one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from nearly all regions of Islamic rule.  \n  \nIts collections are especially rich in objects from an architectural context including the monumental façade of the caliphal palace of Mshatta (Jordan), dating from the mid-8th century. It is the largest artefact of Islamic Art in any museum worldwide. The unique dome from the Alhambra Palace in Granada (Spain) and 13th-century prayer niches from Kashan (Iran) and Konya (Turkey) are among the highlights. Most loved by our visitors is the finely painted wooden panelling of an upper-class house from Aleppo (Syria) from the early 17th century – it is the oldest surviving exemplar from the Ottoman World. Among the several archaeological groups from major excavations in the Islamic world the finds from the 9th-century caliphal capital of Samarra (Iraq) stand out. The collection also has a large number of important Ottoman and Persian carpets and bibliographical works of art, including numerous miniatures from the Mughal Empire.  \n  \nThe collection is displayed chronologically, allowing the visitor to follow the different stylistic phases of Islamic art and to develop a notion of the complex Islamic history and its artistic merits. Because of the large number of visitors (up to 900,000 yearly), only a small number of the most important works of art are on display. The museum will move inside Pergamon-Museum and will triple its exhibition space (3,000sq.m) by 2020. The layout and concept will discover new and innovative ways to present the cultural legacy.  \n  \nWith its rich art and archaeological collection, the Museum of Islamic Art is one of the leading research institutions dedicated to the material culture of the Middle East and neighbouring regions. Our many research, conservation and exhibition projects amount to a probing investigation of the urban legacies of the Near and Middle East. The institution houses important collections of archival photographs on Islamic art and architecture as well as an internationally outstanding library focused on art, architecture and archaeology in the world of Islam.","city":"Berlin","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"70de1706-9586-5047-bb4b-f1cf7fb14120":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Tavira Municipal Museum**  \nTavira, Faro, Portugal  \n  \n**National Museum of Ancient Art**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Moura Municipal Museum**  \nMoura, Beja, Portugal  \n  \n**Santarém Municipal Museum**  \nSantarém, Portugal  \n  \n**Lisbon Cathedral**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Carmo Museum of Archaeology**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**City Museum**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Cathedral of Braga Treasury**  \nBraga, Portugal  \n  \n**Infante D. Henrique Archaeological and Lapidary Museum**  \nFaro, Portugal  \n  \n**Évora Museum**  \nÉvora, Portugal  \n  \n**National Museum of Archaeology**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Queen Leonor Regional Museum**  \nBeja, Portugal  \n  \n**Machado de Castro National Museum**  \nCoimbra, Portugal"},"71715b75-3521-53ee-8c85-91fca0b977d0":{"name":"National Museums Scotland","description":"The collections of what is now National Museums Scotland were built over more than two centuries, with two strands of history coming together in the story of the organisation’s development. First the desire to have a museum reflecting Scottish history and second the wish to have a museum demonstrating international cultures, natural and physical sciences, and decorative art for Scotland.  \n  \nThe Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in 1780, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment, to collect the archaeology of Scotland. Its collections passed into public ownership in 1851 as the original collections of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. In 1985 the National Museum of Antiquities was amalgamated with the Royal Scottish Museum. The latter was founded in 1854 as the Industrial Museum of Scotland and reflected the impetus of Victorian ideals of education. It started international collecting and research as well as forming close links to the collections and teaching of Edinburgh University, which continue today. Renamed the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, it opened in its first bespoke buildings, designed by Francis Fowke, on Chambers Street in 1866. The 1985 amalgamation created the largest multi-disciplinary museum in Scotland, with 12 million items in its collections and the largest body of curatorial and conservation expertise in the country. Today, National Museums Scotland includes the National Museum of Scotland, the National War Museum, and the National Museums Collections Centre - a research, storage, and conservation facility in Edinburgh, as well as the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian, and the National Museum of Rural Life in Lanarkshire.  \n  \nNational Museums Scotland started acquiring material culture from West Asia and North Africa in 1854. Today, material from West Asia comprises more than 4,000 items from a geographical area that spans from Turkey to Central Asia to Yemen, alongside over 500 objects in our collections from North African countries. Dating from the 7th to the 21st centuries, they give an insight into the past and the present of the people living in these regions, particularly through representations of their different crafts, and the skills and social values associated with them. The museum’s collections reflect British and Scottish collectors’ interests in the Islamic world and embody entangled colonial histories and interrelations.","city":"Edinburgh","address":"Chambers Street,  \nEdinburgh EH1 1JF","website":"http://www.nms.ac.uk","phone":"+ 44 (0)300 123 6789","email":"info@nms.ac.uk"},"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"},"85fff507-bb71-531b-85a8-f2b6d6324d8e":{"name":"Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art","description":"Built in Honolulu, Hawai'i from 1936–1938, Shangri La overlooks the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Head and houses Doris Duke’s (1912–1993) collection of Islamic art. Of the many homes that Duke inhabited, Shangri La is the only one that she built from the ground up and filled from the inside out.  \n  \nThe five-acre complex integrates a 14,000-square-foot house, a Playhouse, and a pool, comprising a series of interlocking spaces, both indoors and out: rooms, courtyards, lanais, terraces, gardens, and numerous water features. While design and early construction were underway, Duke traveled extensively in the Middle East, visiting historical monuments and providing the architect with photographs of architectural decoration to be incorporated into Shangri La's design. She also placed large commissions with contemporary artisans in India, Morocco, Iran, and Syria to create art and architectural elements, utilizing traditional forms, patterns, and means of fabrication.  \n  \nFor nearly 60 years, Doris Duke continued to collect Islamic art, ultimately forming a collection of about 2,500 objects, many of which are embedded into the structure of the house. Iranian ceramic tile panels, carved and painted ceilings from Morocco, jali (perforated screen) doors and windows, and textiles and carpets create a living environment of Islamic art and architectural decoration.  \n  \nThe later centuries of production (c. 1600–1940) are better represented, and ceramics, metalwork, wood, glass and textiles are favored over the arts of the book and works on paper. The collection ranges from items of the finest artistic quality, including medieval Persian tilework and painted interiors from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Damascus, to ethnographic objects such as leather saddles and a bedouin-style tent, reflecting Duke's broad and inclusive sense of aesthetics.  \n  \nToday, Shangri La is nationally recognized for its high artistic value and as one of Hawai'i's most architecturally significant homes. It is open to the public for guided tours and educational programs such as lectures, performances and occasional symposia. Shangri La also supports residencies for contemporary artists and for scholars researching Islamic art.","city":"Honolulu","address":"4055 Papu Circle  \nHonolulu, HI 96816","website":"http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/","phone":"(808) 734-1941","email":"shangrilahawaii@ddcf.org"},"8a41ae85-1217-5a1f-a8f2-68da1d74234d":{"name":"National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art","description":"The National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa. The collection was set up in 1835, five years after the French occupation, by the then Governor General Marshal Clauzel who appointed Adrien Berbrugger as its first curator. From 1838 onward, the early museum hosted pieces, of Algerian provenance, from Antiquity up until the Ottoman periods. Between 1838 and 1896, this early museum occupied different places of the lower Casbah, before settling in a beautiful park located on the heights of Mustapha Pasha - now known as the Park of Liberty - where it was officially inaugurated in 1897.  \n  \nSince then these two divisions of the museum’s collection, Antiquity and Islamic, have continued to grow. This collection makes it possible to exhibit the history of Algeria from its Libyan-Punic era through to the 20th century. The objects are displayed in two separate buildings: one houses the pre-Islamic collection whilst the other houses the collection of Islamic art, which was inaugurated in May 2003.  \n  \nThe ancient collection is very rich and includes collections of mosaics, sculptures, Libyan and Latin inscriptions, coins and medals, bronze, ivory, bone, ceramics and wooden objects.  \n  \nThe Islamic section was formed from the first collection of 1854, which included Algerian and Oriental objects. It has gradually been enriched by pieces uncovered through archaeological excavations carried throughout the country. This wide-ranging collection includes sculpted plasterboard from 10th century Sedrata, marble or plaster sculptures of the 11th century Qal'a of Beni Hammad as well as the chairs of the 11th century Almoravid mosques in Algiers and the 12th century mosque of Nedroma.  \n  \nThe furniture arts of North Africa is also widely represented in this museum. Shop windows contain Ottoman-era embroidery, clothing, ceramics, weapons, jewellery, chiselled brass and worked repoussé that comes from the urban centres as well as rural areas. Manuscripts and miniatures complete the collection.  \n  \nThe museum’s numismatic collection is exhibited in a reading room that was inaugurated in May 2006.","city":"Algiers","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"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"},"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"},"b01aedf8-4844-5526-8c45-e7dc4bd7a559":{"name":"Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation","description":"The Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation aims to display, interpret, research and further develop the museum's collections for a wide range of local, national and international audiences, and to stimulate knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of Islamic art, history, science and culture.  \n  \nThe magnificent building that houses the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation first opened in 1987 as the Souq al-Majarrah and quickly became a popular landmark, both among the people of Sharjah themselves and visiting tourists. The building was only the second of its kind in the Gulf region, after Sharjah’s “’New”’ or “Central’’ Souq constructed in 1977, to use traditional, Arab-Islamic design elements in its ground-plan and décor. The building with its impressive architecture and attractive design features was subsequently renovated and reopened in 2008 as the Museum of Islamic Civilisation. Its most outstanding feature is its majestic, gilt central dome, decorated on the inside with an intricate mosaic depicting the night sky and the signs of the zodiac.  \n  \nThe building now transformed into a state-of-the art cultural venue, the new **Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation**, houses more than five thousand exquisite Islamic artefacts from all over the Islamic World, arranged according to themes over seven spacious galleries and display areas.  \n  \nOn the ground floor you can visit the **Abu Bakr Gallery of Islamic Faith**, the **Ibn al Haitham Gallery of Islamic Science and Innovation**, a prominent display of **Islamic Coinage**, and the **Al Majarrah Gallery for temporary exhibitions** which is scheduled to hold regular exhibitions of international standing.  \n  \nThe entire first floor of the **Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation** is devoted to **Islamic Art**. Four spacious galleries take the visitor on a journey of artistic discovery which starts in the early Islamic period and leads all the way to modern times. Start your explorations with a visit to our state-of-the-art audiovisual show. Enjoy stunning images from all over the Muslim world and learn about the artistic achievements of its calligraphers and artisans.","city":"Sharjah","address":"Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, Corniche Road, Al Majarrah Area, Sharjah.  \nPostal address: P.O.BOX 39939, Sharjah.","website":"https://www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+97165655455","email":"info@islamicmuseum.ae"},"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"},"c0c2fa4f-c38c-578e-8cc1-4703cc60b8a9":{"name":"Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts","description":"The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts was the first museum in Turkey to bring together works of Islamic art. It was founded in 1914 as the Museum of Islamic Foundations and housed in the Imaret building of the Süleymaniye Complex, built by the great Turkish architect Sinan in the 16th century. The museum was renamed the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts after the declaration of the republic and moved to its present location in the 16th-century Ibrahim Paşa Palace in 1983.  \n  \nThe core collection of the museum comprises Islamic artworks collected from across the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. These works include carpets, manuscripts, metalwork, glassware, ceramics, woodwork and ethnographic materials. The collection represents an extensive period ranging from the rise of Islam to the 20th century and the vast geographical area ruled by the Ottoman Empire.  \n  \nThe carpets, numbering some 1,700, in their quality and variety constitute one of the most important collections of carpets in the world, so that the museum is sometimes thought of as a carpet museum. But the museum also has other outstanding collections: the manuscripts collection represents all the ruling Islamic states from the AH 1st / AD 7th century to the 20th century across a wide geographical area. The metalwork collection allows visitors to follow the development of Turkish metalwork in Anatolia and the rich collection of woodwork ranges from the AH 3rd / AD 9th century to the Ottoman period. The glassware and pottery collections include artefacts recovered during excavations at renowned Abbasid centres such as Samarra and Keshan (Iran) and Raqqa (Syria) as well as artefacts from the Anatolian Turkish period. The stonework, most bearing inscriptions, includes examples from the Umayyad, Abbasid, Mamluk, Seljuq and Ottoman periods. The ethnographic department is the newest section.  \n  \nThe museum also organises, hosts and participates in temporary national and international exhibitions.  \n  \nAfter the grand restoration works The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts re-opened in April 2014, exactly 100 years after its foundation, with special exhibitions to celebrate its hundredth anniversary.","city":"İstanbul","address":"İbrahim Paşa Sarayı Atmeydanı Sok. No: 46  \nSultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/tiem","phone":"+90 212 518 18 05 / 06","email":"tiem@tiem.gov.tr"},"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"},"cc176d16-7f00-5907-8a82-b1f3d06b7d4d":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Zagreb**  \nCity Museum  \nCroatian History Museum  \nDiocese Museum of the Zagreb Archdiocese  \nMetropolitan Library, Valvasor Collection of prints and drawings  \nStrossmayer Gallery of Old Masters  \nZagreb Cathedral Treasury  \n  \n**Dubrovnik**  \nDubrovnik Cultural History Museum  \nMuseum of Icons of the Serbian Orthodox Church Community  \n  \n**Ilok**  \nCity Museum  \n  \n**Klanjec**  \nFranciscan Monastery  \n  \n**Osijek**  \nGallery of Fine Arts  \n  \n**Požega**  \nDiocese Museum of the Požega Diocese  \n  \n**Trakošćan**  \nTrakošćan Castle  \n  \n**Varaždin**  \nCity Museum"},"ce4d8147-795e-5a50-9c18-cf90561d29e5":{"name":"Rabat Archaeological Museum","description":"**Historical Description**  \n  \nWith 550 objects on display and thousands more in storage, the Rabat Archaeological Museum, founded in 1928, is one of the most prestigious national museums. It traces the history of Morocco from prehistoric times to the Islamic era. It is the culmination of a series of expansions and improvements that have made possible the inclusion of prehistoric, ancient and Islamic collections. A museum tour developed after renovations in 2003–04 highlights objects from excavations of the Almohad Tinmel Mosque and around the Koutoubia Mosque of Marrakesh.  \n  \n**Museum Collections**  \n  \nThe exhibits are displayed in three rooms, a patio and a garden.  \n  \n– On the ground floor, a chronological tour retraces the history of pre-Islamic Morocco: prehistoric civilisations, and then the Phoenician, Mauritanian and Roman eras, each represented by characteristic tools and objects.  \n  \n– Upstairs, the Islamic collections are organised by themes. Coins come from successive dynasties in Morocco. Ceramics display different techniques specific to the Islamic period, such *cuerda seca* (dry cord), stamping, metallic or polychrome glazes. Housing is represented both in its structural and decorative aspects: concrete work, but also murals, painted or engraved wood, capitals, trellises, stucco, and more.  \n  \n– The second themed section highlights antique marble statuary, with different artistic movements from Mauritania Tingitana (a Roman province). Prestigious works illustrate mythology and the history and public life of the Roman Empire: Venus, Theseus Slaying the Minotaur, Ephebe Pouring Drink, an imposing head of Juno, and busts of Juba II and Cato are among many pieces of inestimable scientific and aesthetic value.  \n  \n– The third section has a collection of inscriptions and rock carvings.  \n  \n*The Rabat Archaeological Museum is known today as the Museum of History and Civilisations.*","city":"Rabat","address":"23, rue Brihi  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 70 19 19"},"dcd4bbe2-60f3-5f7f-8e3a-0eba386ac5bf":{"name":"Sidi Kacem al-Jalizi Museum","description":"Built during the 9th / 15th century by Sidi Kacem, the mausoleum has been transformed into a museum of ceramics. It consists of an entrance hall leading to a ceramics workshop, and to a patio surrounded by rooms and a funeral space. The courtyard galleries and alcoves have been converted into exhibition spaces for ceramic objects. This collection traces different eras of Muslim history in Tunisia, and also includes objects of Persian origin.  \n  \nCeramic objects dating back to the Aghlabid era can be identified by the use of metallic lustre, archaic Kufic script, and stylised zoomorphic and anthropomorphic drawings as decoration. The pieces dating back to the Fatimid period are illustrated with animated scenes in blue on a white background.  \n  \nHafsid ceramics are distinguished by the absence of illustrated scenes in favour of geometric motifs with floral decoration in which cobalt blue and manganese brown dominate. There are also ceramic tiles dating back to the Ottoman era, some of which are decorated with bouquets of flowers.","city":"Tunis","address":"Musée de Sidi Kacem Al-Jalizi  \nrue du 9 Avril  \nTunis, Tunisia","phone":"+216 71 321452"},"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"},"e4a45e50-1dd1-5680-88c5-cd761132d6ed":{"name":"Regional Gallery of Sicily - Abatellis Palace","description":"The Regional Gallery of Sicily showcases the evolution of the figurative arts within Palermo and Western Sicily from the 12th to 18th centuries. The palace that houses the museum was built in 1495 as the residence of Francesco Abatellis, Master of Sicily’s ports, and stands as an important representative of Gothic-Catalan architecture within the region. After the death of Abatellis, part of the building adjoining the palace was converted in 1527 into a convent for the Benedictine Nuns of the church of Santa Maria della Pietà. This was then later turned into a Dominican Monastery. During the Second World War, the palace sustained considerable bombing damage in 1943, leading to initiatives for its complete restoration. The museum was finally opened to the public on the 23rd of June 1954.  \n  \nThe present layout of the museum is the result of collaborative efforts between the curator Giorgio Vigni and the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa throughout the years 1953-54.  \n  \nThe permanent museum exhibition is divided into two sections; sculpture is located on the ground floor whilst paintings are located on the upper floor.  \n  \nThe Gallery's collections come from acquisitions, donations and confiscations of property belonging to suppressed religious organisations. Before being grouped together in the current headquarters, these works were part of the Royal University Pinacoteca, then collections of the National Museum of Palermo. The works of Islamic art preserved in the Gallery come mainly from the city of Palermo where they were recovered during restoration works and architectural restructuring of the most important Arab-Norman sites. These include the Norman Palace (later the Royal Palace), the church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio called the Martorana, the church of San Giacomo la Mazzara (which no longer exists) and the Casa Maturano, a building adjacent to the church of Martorana. Other objects, particularly wood and ceramics, were purchased mainly from the Egyptian antiquities market by the then director of the Royal Museum, Antonio Salinas, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.","city":"Palermo","address":"Via Alloro, 4  \n90133  \nPalermo, Italy","website":"http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/palazzoabatellis/","phone":"+39 091 6230011","email":"gall.abatellis@regione.sicilia.it"},"ee0a71f8-dc12-5d5d-b02a-4402969e8274":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Arts of Kairouan is located in Raqqada, in a former presidential palace that was converted into a cultural and educational centre in 1986. It contains four rooms on the main floor and upstairs.  \n  \nOn the ground floor are:  \n– The ceramics room, which houses objects dating back to the Aghlabid, Fatimid and Hafsid eras. Those of the Aghlabid era are characterised by the use of metallic lustre glazes, archaic Kufic script and stylised zoomorphic and anthropomorphic images. This room displays a collection of blue Iznik ceramic tiles from Anatolia.  \n  \n– The hall of the Great Mosque, which houses religious objects such as friezes with floral and epigraphic motifs that form part of the roofing. There is also a reconstruction of the *mihrab* from the mosque and the door of the *maqsoura* (private enclosure).  \n  \n– The Lapidary Inscriptions Room, which is under development, will house flat, prismatic and column-barrel gravestones from the Kairouan Cemetery. It will also contain the inscription of the foundation of the city of Sabra al-Mansouriya, characterised by its writing style and its imposing size.  \n  \n\\- The Sabra al-Mansouriya Hall, expected to receive objects from the Sabra excavation, now contains the casting furnace found on the same site.  \n  \nUpstairs:  \nThe glass cases of the coin and jewellery room hold a large collection of coins dating back to the Aghlabid, Fatimid, Hafsid and Ottoman eras, showing their evolution over time. This room also contains glass objects from the Sabra site and the lantern from al-Mouiz.  \n  \nThe manuscript room contains a rich collection of parchment Qur’an folios from the library of the Great Mosque of Kairouan displaying the evolution of writing and ornamentation styles (3rd / 9th to the 13th / 19th century). The collection owes its unique reputation to the famous “blue parchment” of the 4th / 10th century. Enclosing these folios are leather bindings embossed with floral and geometric designs.  \n  \nAn exhibition such as this one helps us interpret the history of the city of Kairouan. The newer Sabra Hall, the Hall of Lapidary Inscriptions and the Hall of the Great Mosque of Kairouan will further our understanding.","city":"Kairouan","address":"Musée des arts islamiques  \nKairouan-Raqqada","phone":"+216 77 228126"},"f533d81d-c3e7-57c1-955a-e9aac47d7bb3":{"name":"Hungarian National Gallery","description":"The Hungarian National Gallery (HNG) is the largest public collection documenting and presenting the rise and development of fine arts in Hungary. It has operated as an independent institution since 1957 moving to its present location, the former Royal Palace of Buda, in 1975.  \n  \nIn 1957 a new museum, the Hungarian National Gallery, was created for the collection and display of specifically Hungarian art. The basis of its collection was the New Hungarian Picture Gallery at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, and the Hungarian material belonging to that museum’s collections of modern sculpture, medals, and prints and drawings. The holdings of the new institution included approximately 6,000 paintings, 2,100 sculptures, 3,100 medals, 11,000 drawings and 5,000 prints. The HNG opened in Budapest on 5 October 1957, in a building that formerly housed the Supreme Court.  \n  \nIn 1975 the HNG moved to Buda Palace, into buildings B, C and D, which had been specially refurbished. In October of that year it opened its exhibitions in a provisional form. Its holdings were augmented with items from the Department of Old Hungarian Art at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, making it possible to show the entire history of art in Hungary, with works from the 11th century to the present.  \n  \nOver subsequent years other permanent exhibitions have been added: Panel Paintings and Wooden Sculptures from the Mediaeval Period and Baroque Art in Hungary in 1979; Late Gothic Winged Altarpieces opened in the former throne-room of the palace in 1982; and Mediaeval and Renaissance Stone Carvings opened in 1985.  \n  \nInside the museum, on the ground floor of Building C, the crypt of the Habsburg palatines (viceroys) was opened to the public in 1989, and in 2005, the HNG’s exhibition spaces were further augmented by the acquisition of Building A of Buda Castle.","city":"Budapest","address":"Szent György tér 2  \nH-1014 Budapest  \nHungary  \n  \nPOSTAL ADDRESS:  \nH-1250 Budapest  \nPO Box 31  \nHungary","website":"http://www.mng.hu","phone":"+36 1 375 8858","email":"mng@mng.hu"}}
+{"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"},"15c3f796-e9e4-5984-a07b-97ea019d9da5":{"name":"Istanbul Archaeological Museums","description":"The name Istanbul Archaeological Museums denotes three museums under the same administration: the Archaeological Museum, the Ancient Orient Museum and the Tiled Kiosk Museum. The museum, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is located in Sultanahmet, on the Osman Hamdi Bey slope connecting Gülhane Park with the Topkapı Palace.  \n  \nIstanbul Archaeological Museums, displaying artifacts from civilisations of different historical periods, is one of the ten most important world-class museums designed and used as a museum building. It is also the first institution in Turkey arranged as a museum. Besides its spectacular collections, the architectural aspects of the buildings and beautiful gardens in which they are situated are of historical and natural importance.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Alemdar Caddesi,  \nOsman Hamdi Bey Yokuşu Sokak,  \n34122 Gülhane/Fatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/arkeoloji","phone":"+90 212 520 77 40-41","fax":"+90 212 527 43 00","email":"info@istanbularkeoloji.gov.tr"},"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"},"1dc4a129-85b0-57d5-9622-15c790c4333f":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"Zisa Museum  \nAddress: Piazza Zisa, 1  \n90100 - Palermo  \nTel: +39 091 65 20 269  \n  \nCappella Palatina  \nAddress: P.zza del Risorgimento  \n90100 Palermo  \nTel: +39 091 6961111","city":"Palermo"},"2300bb0e-fc9f-55c5-ae2e-20f619a46cce":{"name":"Weltmuseum Wien","description":"The Weltmuseum Wien – formerly the Museum of Ethnology – houses comprehensive collections of ethnographic objects, historical photographs, and books on non-European civilisations, making it one of the world’s leading ethnographic museums. Its roots can be traced back to 1806, when the \"Imperial and Royal Ethnographic Collection\" was established as part of the combined Imperial and Royal Court Cabinet of Natural Objects, following the partial acquisition of the \"Cook Collection\" at a London auction. The continuously growing collections were transferred to the newly created “Department of Anthropology and Ethnography” of the Royal Court Museum of Natural History in 1876. Limited space and a goal of developing ethnology as a cultural science convinced political decision-makers to establish a unified, cohesive Museum of Ethnology. The “Museum of Ethnology” opened formally in 1928 taking up the entire building of the “Corps de Logis” in Neue Burg.  \n  \nIn 2001 the Museum of Ethnology was incorporated into the KHM-Museum Association. In April 2013 the Museum of Ethnology became the \"Weltmuseum Wien\" – a site of world cultures – at Vienna’s Heldenplatz. In October 2017, after extensive reparation and modernisation of the historical building, the Museum reopened in its entirety with 14 completely revised permanent exhibition galleries. The Museum’s collection, meanwhile, has expanded to well over 200,000 inventory numbers.","city":"Vienna","address":"Heldenplatz  \n1010 Vienna","website":"http://www.weltmuseumwien.at","phone":"+43 1 534 30-5052","email":"info@weltmuseumwien.at"},"2850ad3d-5837-53f2-9df3-168b86ffb478":{"name":"Museum of Civilisations | Museum of Oriental Art (EIAC)","description":"The ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ Museum of Oriental Art opened to the public in 1958 and houses finds from several Italian archaeological missions conducted in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. As well as this are numerous objects purchased on the antique market, particularly those by Giuseppe Tucci during his voyages in Nepal and Tibet between 1928 and 1954.  \n  \nThe museum’s Islamic wing includes a rich collection of objects sourced from both archaeological excavations and private purchases. The provenance of the collection is wide-ranging including the items from the geographical territories that now make up the countries of Spain, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and India. Chronologically the material covers an extensive period from the 8th to 19th centuries CE. The collection is arranged along different classes of production including; ceramics, metal works, miniatures, manuscripts, numismatics, jewellery, textile art, glass, arms & armour and wood.  \n  \nOf particular importance is the collection of archaeological finds from the palace of the Ghaznavid Sultan, Mas’ud III (1099-1115 CE) in Ghazni, Afghanistan. The archaeology of the site and its associated finds was brought to light by excavations conducted by the Archaeological Mission of the IsMEO (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente) in the 1960’s. These consist mainly of elements of architectural decorations in brick and marble, marble funerary stones, ceramics and metals.  \n  \nThe museum's collection of Persian objects can be dated from the 8th to the 19th centuries. Ceramics from the Samanid (9th- 10th century) and Seljuk (11th -12th century) periods are well represented in the Museum collections. Ilkhanid period ceramics (13th -14th century), known for their use of ‘lajvardina’ glaze technique is also visible in the collections. The majority of metal objects within the Islamic collection stem from the Khorasan region of Eastern Iran and Western Afghanistan, a well-known historic centre for metallurgical production.  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \nSince September 2016, the National Museum of Oriental Art in Rome has merged into the new Museum of Civilisation, definitively closing in October 2017 for the transfer to its new headquarters in the Palazzo delle Scienze. While awaiting the definitive re-arrangement planned for the end of 2021, a temporary exhibition called “Open for Works” exhibits over 650 objects from the Oriental Museum (of which about 60 is considered Islamic Art) in the rooms of the Pigorini Museum.","city":"Rome","address":"Museo delle Civiltà | Museo d’arte orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”  \nPiazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Rome, Italy","website":"https://www.museodellecivilta.it/","phone":"+39 06 549521","fax":"+39 06 54952310","email":"mu-civ@cultura.gov.it"},"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"},"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"},"3acfd33c-e4e0-5b37-a94a-380f38913853":{"name":"National Museum of Aleppo","description":"The earliest collection of art and archaeological artefacts for the National Museum of Aleppo dates back to 1928 and the museum was formally inaugurated in1931. Initially it was devoted to the pre-Greco-Roman era, with works no later than 333 BC, most of which were based on finds from Tell Halaf. It was decided to move the collection from its original location in an Ottoman period building, which had become overcrowded, into a modern purpose-built museum, begun in 1967 and formally opened in 1972. It includes the following wings:  \n  \nPre-historic art: dedicated to finds such as bones and pottery from the regions of Syria and the Euphrates Valley. Some items are about a million years old and the most recent piece dates to no later than 3,200 BC, after which writing was developed and art became historic.  \n  \nAncient Near Eastern art from Syria: one of the most important sections containing pieces from Tell Halaf, Mari, Ugarit, Ebla and other significant sites of early Near Eastern civilisations, all displayed in chronological order in three large wings.  \n  \nClassical art from the Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods: pottery, coins, a number of limestone funerary carvings from the ancient city of Mambij, and a collection of Roman and Byzantine glass flasks used for perfume, eye-kohl and drugs are some of this section's main features, all displayed chronologically.  \n  \nArab Islamic art: The method of display here is based on the item's function and medium, such as pottery, ceramics, metalwork and glass of the various Islamic dynasties as well as a collection of gold and silver coins of the Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. A stone cenotaph carved in floriated kufic calligraphy is a masterpiece of this hall. Medieval military equipment and an Ottoman wooden ceiling featured in a side chamber are also presented.  \n  \nModern art: paintings by Syrian artists, particularly Aleppines, expressed in various styles such as realism, cubism, expressionism.","city":"Aleppo","address":"Al-Ma'arri Street  \nAleppo, Syria","phone":"+963 21 2122400","fax":"+963 21 2122402"},"3eb798ec-9543-5a63-ba38-c22270fbbe84":{"name":"University Museum of Islamic Art | The Bumiller Collection","description":"An exceptional collection of early Islamic bronzes is housed in a historical town-house in the heart of the old city of Bamberg. The objects mostly originate from the Persianate world what is today Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. The collection is completed by a significant number of ceramics, glass and ivory objects as well as numismatics and manuscripts. The many-sided compilation includes nearly all objects of daily life. Writing equipment, cosmetic utensils, jugs, bowls, trays, fumigating vessels, oil lamps, jewellery, mirrors and the like give a fascinating insight into the life along the Silk Road in the Middle Ages. The exhibition shows the development of forms as well as the high standard of metallurgy mastered by medieval craftsmen in the region. The most ambitious décor and production techniques such as repoussé, punching, engraving and damascening that Islamic art put forth during the centuries are represented among the objects of the collection.  \n  \nIt is the Bumiller Art Foundation's concern to present most diverse products of Islamic metallurgy and to make them available for research and learning. The museum continuously serves as a venue for researchers, students and all those interested in Islamic art.","city":"Bamberg","address":"Austraße 29  \n96047 Bamberg  \nGermany","website":"http://www.the-bumiller-collection.com","phone":"+49 951 25954","email":"info@the-bumiller-collection.com"},"4456ae4f-8839-5955-824e-44355a235903":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Bologna**  \n  \nArt Collection of the Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna  \n[http://www.fondazionecarisbo.it/](http://www.fondazionecarisbo.it/)  \n  \nCivic Museum of the Risorgimento, Certosa of Bologna  \n[http://www.comune.bologna.it/museorisorgimento/](http://www.comune.bologna.it/museorisorgimento/)  \n[http://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/certosa](http://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/certosa)  \n  \nEcclesiastical Cultural Heritage Office of the Diocese of Bologna  \n  \nInternational Museum and Music Library  \n[http://www.museomusicabologna.it/](http://www.museomusicabologna.it/)  \n  \nMuseums at Palazzo Poggi, University of Bologna  \n[http://www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it/](http://www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it/)","city":"Bologna"},"53724213-926c-5852-9d55-d58f73ce9266":{"name":"Pepoli Museum","description":"The Pepoli Museum is located in the 14th century palace of the ‘300’ which was the seat of the convent of the Carmelite Fathers.  \n  \nWithin the museum, the most important section is that attributed to the private collections of Count Agostino Pepoli, to whom the museum was attributed to when it was built in the 1900s.  \n  \nTo the museum collections were later added works from the Fardelliana art gallery which constituted paintings from the Neapolitan school as well as other works from Trapani religious organisations. Other important aspects within the museum constitute the collections of applied arts from patrons such as Count Hernandez of Erice and the Hospice Sieri Pepoli.  \n  \nAlongside its collections of paintings and sculptures, the Pepoli museum showcases the development of figurative arts within the region; nativity paintings, corals, gold and silver objects, ecclesiastical furnishings, sacred hangings, majolica pottery, archaeological finds, coins and historical relics of the city of Trapani.  \n  \nIn regard to Islamic art, the museum contains a noteworthy collection of epigraphs with Kufic inscriptions upon its ground floor.","city":"Trapani","address":"Via Conte Agostino Pepoli, 180  \n91100  \nTrapani, Italy","website":"http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/museopepoli/MuseoPepoli.html","phone":"+39 0923 553269","fax":"+39 0923 535444","email":"museo.pepoli@regione.sicilia.it"},"559ab197-7289-5af4-a295-1118bde9afce":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, State Museums","description":"**The Museum of Islamic Art is closed from October 2023 to March 2027 due to renovation and expansion works.**  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Berlin is the only institution of its kind in Germany, the oldest in the West and with its c. 93,000 pieces it houses one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from nearly all regions of Islamic rule.  \n  \nIts collections are especially rich in objects from an architectural context including the monumental façade of the caliphal palace of Mshatta (Jordan), dating from the mid-8th century. It is the largest artefact of Islamic Art in any museum worldwide. The unique dome from the Alhambra Palace in Granada (Spain) and 13th-century prayer niches from Kashan (Iran) and Konya (Turkey) are among the highlights. Most loved by our visitors is the finely painted wooden panelling of an upper-class house from Aleppo (Syria) from the early 17th century – it is the oldest surviving exemplar from the Ottoman World. Among the several archaeological groups from major excavations in the Islamic world the finds from the 9th-century caliphal capital of Samarra (Iraq) stand out. The collection also has a large number of important Ottoman and Persian carpets and bibliographical works of art, including numerous miniatures from the Mughal Empire.  \n  \nThe collection is displayed chronologically, allowing the visitor to follow the different stylistic phases of Islamic art and to develop a notion of the complex Islamic history and its artistic merits. Because of the large number of visitors (up to 900,000 yearly), only a small number of the most important works of art are on display. The museum will move inside Pergamon-Museum and will triple its exhibition space (3,000sq.m) by 2020. The layout and concept will discover new and innovative ways to present the cultural legacy.  \n  \nWith its rich art and archaeological collection, the Museum of Islamic Art is one of the leading research institutions dedicated to the material culture of the Middle East and neighbouring regions. Our many research, conservation and exhibition projects amount to a probing investigation of the urban legacies of the Near and Middle East. The institution houses important collections of archival photographs on Islamic art and architecture as well as an internationally outstanding library focused on art, architecture and archaeology in the world of Islam.","city":"Berlin","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","fax":"+49 30 266 42 5202","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"70de1706-9586-5047-bb4b-f1cf7fb14120":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Tavira Municipal Museum**  \nTavira, Faro, Portugal  \n  \n**National Museum of Ancient Art**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Moura Municipal Museum**  \nMoura, Beja, Portugal  \n  \n**Santarém Municipal Museum**  \nSantarém, Portugal  \n  \n**Lisbon Cathedral**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Carmo Museum of Archaeology**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**City Museum**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Cathedral of Braga Treasury**  \nBraga, Portugal  \n  \n**Infante D. Henrique Archaeological and Lapidary Museum**  \nFaro, Portugal  \n  \n**Évora Museum**  \nÉvora, Portugal  \n  \n**National Museum of Archaeology**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Queen Leonor Regional Museum**  \nBeja, Portugal  \n  \n**Machado de Castro National Museum**  \nCoimbra, Portugal"},"71715b75-3521-53ee-8c85-91fca0b977d0":{"name":"National Museums Scotland","description":"The collections of what is now National Museums Scotland were built over more than two centuries, with two strands of history coming together in the story of the organisation’s development. First the desire to have a museum reflecting Scottish history and second the wish to have a museum demonstrating international cultures, natural and physical sciences, and decorative art for Scotland.  \n  \nThe Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in 1780, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment, to collect the archaeology of Scotland. Its collections passed into public ownership in 1851 as the original collections of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. In 1985 the National Museum of Antiquities was amalgamated with the Royal Scottish Museum. The latter was founded in 1854 as the Industrial Museum of Scotland and reflected the impetus of Victorian ideals of education. It started international collecting and research as well as forming close links to the collections and teaching of Edinburgh University, which continue today. Renamed the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, it opened in its first bespoke buildings, designed by Francis Fowke, on Chambers Street in 1866. The 1985 amalgamation created the largest multi-disciplinary museum in Scotland, with 12 million items in its collections and the largest body of curatorial and conservation expertise in the country. Today, National Museums Scotland includes the National Museum of Scotland, the National War Museum, and the National Museums Collections Centre - a research, storage, and conservation facility in Edinburgh, as well as the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian, and the National Museum of Rural Life in Lanarkshire.  \n  \nNational Museums Scotland started acquiring material culture from West Asia and North Africa in 1854. Today, material from West Asia comprises more than 4,000 items from a geographical area that spans from Turkey to Central Asia to Yemen, alongside over 500 objects in our collections from North African countries. Dating from the 7th to the 21st centuries, they give an insight into the past and the present of the people living in these regions, particularly through representations of their different crafts, and the skills and social values associated with them. The museum’s collections reflect British and Scottish collectors’ interests in the Islamic world and embody entangled colonial histories and interrelations.","city":"Edinburgh","address":"Chambers Street,  \nEdinburgh EH1 1JF","website":"http://www.nms.ac.uk","phone":"+ 44 (0)300 123 6789","email":"info@nms.ac.uk"},"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"},"85fff507-bb71-531b-85a8-f2b6d6324d8e":{"name":"Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art","description":"Built in Honolulu, Hawai'i from 1936–1938, Shangri La overlooks the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Head and houses Doris Duke’s (1912–1993) collection of Islamic art. Of the many homes that Duke inhabited, Shangri La is the only one that she built from the ground up and filled from the inside out.  \n  \nThe five-acre complex integrates a 14,000-square-foot house, a Playhouse, and a pool, comprising a series of interlocking spaces, both indoors and out: rooms, courtyards, lanais, terraces, gardens, and numerous water features. While design and early construction were underway, Duke traveled extensively in the Middle East, visiting historical monuments and providing the architect with photographs of architectural decoration to be incorporated into Shangri La's design. She also placed large commissions with contemporary artisans in India, Morocco, Iran, and Syria to create art and architectural elements, utilizing traditional forms, patterns, and means of fabrication.  \n  \nFor nearly 60 years, Doris Duke continued to collect Islamic art, ultimately forming a collection of about 2,500 objects, many of which are embedded into the structure of the house. Iranian ceramic tile panels, carved and painted ceilings from Morocco, jali (perforated screen) doors and windows, and textiles and carpets create a living environment of Islamic art and architectural decoration.  \n  \nThe later centuries of production (c. 1600–1940) are better represented, and ceramics, metalwork, wood, glass and textiles are favored over the arts of the book and works on paper. The collection ranges from items of the finest artistic quality, including medieval Persian tilework and painted interiors from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Damascus, to ethnographic objects such as leather saddles and a bedouin-style tent, reflecting Duke's broad and inclusive sense of aesthetics.  \n  \nToday, Shangri La is nationally recognized for its high artistic value and as one of Hawai'i's most architecturally significant homes. It is open to the public for guided tours and educational programs such as lectures, performances and occasional symposia. Shangri La also supports residencies for contemporary artists and for scholars researching Islamic art.","city":"Honolulu","address":"4055 Papu Circle  \nHonolulu, HI 96816","website":"http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/","phone":"(808) 734-1941","fax":"(808) 732-4361","email":"shangrilahawaii@ddcf.org"},"8a41ae85-1217-5a1f-a8f2-68da1d74234d":{"name":"National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art","description":"The National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa. The collection was set up in 1835, five years after the French occupation, by the then Governor General Marshal Clauzel who appointed Adrien Berbrugger as its first curator. From 1838 onward, the early museum hosted pieces, of Algerian provenance, from Antiquity up until the Ottoman periods. Between 1838 and 1896, this early museum occupied different places of the lower Casbah, before settling in a beautiful park located on the heights of Mustapha Pasha - now known as the Park of Liberty - where it was officially inaugurated in 1897.  \n  \nSince then these two divisions of the museum’s collection, Antiquity and Islamic, have continued to grow. This collection makes it possible to exhibit the history of Algeria from its Libyan-Punic era through to the 20th century. The objects are displayed in two separate buildings: one houses the pre-Islamic collection whilst the other houses the collection of Islamic art, which was inaugurated in May 2003.  \n  \nThe ancient collection is very rich and includes collections of mosaics, sculptures, Libyan and Latin inscriptions, coins and medals, bronze, ivory, bone, ceramics and wooden objects.  \n  \nThe Islamic section was formed from the first collection of 1854, which included Algerian and Oriental objects. It has gradually been enriched by pieces uncovered through archaeological excavations carried throughout the country. This wide-ranging collection includes sculpted plasterboard from 10th century Sedrata, marble or plaster sculptures of the 11th century Qal'a of Beni Hammad as well as the chairs of the 11th century Almoravid mosques in Algiers and the 12th century mosque of Nedroma.  \n  \nThe furniture arts of North Africa is also widely represented in this museum. Shop windows contain Ottoman-era embroidery, clothing, ceramics, weapons, jewellery, chiselled brass and worked repoussé that comes from the urban centres as well as rural areas. Manuscripts and miniatures complete the collection.  \n  \nThe museum’s numismatic collection is exhibited in a reading room that was inaugurated in May 2006.","city":"Algiers","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","fax":"+213 0 21 68 12 56","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"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"},"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"},"b01aedf8-4844-5526-8c45-e7dc4bd7a559":{"name":"Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation","description":"The Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation aims to display, interpret, research and further develop the museum's collections for a wide range of local, national and international audiences, and to stimulate knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of Islamic art, history, science and culture.  \n  \nThe magnificent building that houses the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation first opened in 1987 as the Souq al-Majarrah and quickly became a popular landmark, both among the people of Sharjah themselves and visiting tourists. The building was only the second of its kind in the Gulf region, after Sharjah’s “’New”’ or “Central’’ Souq constructed in 1977, to use traditional, Arab-Islamic design elements in its ground-plan and décor. The building with its impressive architecture and attractive design features was subsequently renovated and reopened in 2008 as the Museum of Islamic Civilisation. Its most outstanding feature is its majestic, gilt central dome, decorated on the inside with an intricate mosaic depicting the night sky and the signs of the zodiac.  \n  \nThe building now transformed into a state-of-the art cultural venue, the new **Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation**, houses more than five thousand exquisite Islamic artefacts from all over the Islamic World, arranged according to themes over seven spacious galleries and display areas.  \n  \nOn the ground floor you can visit the **Abu Bakr Gallery of Islamic Faith**, the **Ibn al Haitham Gallery of Islamic Science and Innovation**, a prominent display of **Islamic Coinage**, and the **Al Majarrah Gallery for temporary exhibitions** which is scheduled to hold regular exhibitions of international standing.  \n  \nThe entire first floor of the **Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation** is devoted to **Islamic Art**. Four spacious galleries take the visitor on a journey of artistic discovery which starts in the early Islamic period and leads all the way to modern times. Start your explorations with a visit to our state-of-the-art audiovisual show. Enjoy stunning images from all over the Muslim world and learn about the artistic achievements of its calligraphers and artisans.","city":"Sharjah","address":"Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, Corniche Road, Al Majarrah Area, Sharjah.  \nPostal address: P.O.BOX 39939, Sharjah.","website":"https://www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+97165655455","fax":"+97165652988","email":"info@islamicmuseum.ae"},"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"},"c0c2fa4f-c38c-578e-8cc1-4703cc60b8a9":{"name":"Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts","description":"The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts was the first museum in Turkey to bring together works of Islamic art. It was founded in 1914 as the Museum of Islamic Foundations and housed in the Imaret building of the Süleymaniye Complex, built by the great Turkish architect Sinan in the 16th century. The museum was renamed the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts after the declaration of the republic and moved to its present location in the 16th-century Ibrahim Paşa Palace in 1983.  \n  \nThe core collection of the museum comprises Islamic artworks collected from across the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. These works include carpets, manuscripts, metalwork, glassware, ceramics, woodwork and ethnographic materials. The collection represents an extensive period ranging from the rise of Islam to the 20th century and the vast geographical area ruled by the Ottoman Empire.  \n  \nThe carpets, numbering some 1,700, in their quality and variety constitute one of the most important collections of carpets in the world, so that the museum is sometimes thought of as a carpet museum. But the museum also has other outstanding collections: the manuscripts collection represents all the ruling Islamic states from the AH 1st / AD 7th century to the 20th century across a wide geographical area. The metalwork collection allows visitors to follow the development of Turkish metalwork in Anatolia and the rich collection of woodwork ranges from the AH 3rd / AD 9th century to the Ottoman period. The glassware and pottery collections include artefacts recovered during excavations at renowned Abbasid centres such as Samarra and Keshan (Iran) and Raqqa (Syria) as well as artefacts from the Anatolian Turkish period. The stonework, most bearing inscriptions, includes examples from the Umayyad, Abbasid, Mamluk, Seljuq and Ottoman periods. The ethnographic department is the newest section.  \n  \nThe museum also organises, hosts and participates in temporary national and international exhibitions.  \n  \nAfter the grand restoration works The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts re-opened in April 2014, exactly 100 years after its foundation, with special exhibitions to celebrate its hundredth anniversary.","city":"İstanbul","address":"İbrahim Paşa Sarayı Atmeydanı Sok. No: 46  \nSultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/tiem","phone":"+90 212 518 18 05 / 06","fax":"+90 212 518 18 07","email":"tiem@tiem.gov.tr"},"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"},"cc176d16-7f00-5907-8a82-b1f3d06b7d4d":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Zagreb**  \nCity Museum  \nCroatian History Museum  \nDiocese Museum of the Zagreb Archdiocese  \nMetropolitan Library, Valvasor Collection of prints and drawings  \nStrossmayer Gallery of Old Masters  \nZagreb Cathedral Treasury  \n  \n**Dubrovnik**  \nDubrovnik Cultural History Museum  \nMuseum of Icons of the Serbian Orthodox Church Community  \n  \n**Ilok**  \nCity Museum  \n  \n**Klanjec**  \nFranciscan Monastery  \n  \n**Osijek**  \nGallery of Fine Arts  \n  \n**Požega**  \nDiocese Museum of the Požega Diocese  \n  \n**Trakošćan**  \nTrakošćan Castle  \n  \n**Varaždin**  \nCity Museum"},"ce4d8147-795e-5a50-9c18-cf90561d29e5":{"name":"Rabat Archaeological Museum","description":"**Historical Description**  \n  \nWith 550 objects on display and thousands more in storage, the Rabat Archaeological Museum, founded in 1928, is one of the most prestigious national museums. It traces the history of Morocco from prehistoric times to the Islamic era. It is the culmination of a series of expansions and improvements that have made possible the inclusion of prehistoric, ancient and Islamic collections. A museum tour developed after renovations in 2003–04 highlights objects from excavations of the Almohad Tinmel Mosque and around the Koutoubia Mosque of Marrakesh.  \n  \n**Museum Collections**  \n  \nThe exhibits are displayed in three rooms, a patio and a garden.  \n  \n– On the ground floor, a chronological tour retraces the history of pre-Islamic Morocco: prehistoric civilisations, and then the Phoenician, Mauritanian and Roman eras, each represented by characteristic tools and objects.  \n  \n– Upstairs, the Islamic collections are organised by themes. Coins come from successive dynasties in Morocco. Ceramics display different techniques specific to the Islamic period, such *cuerda seca* (dry cord), stamping, metallic or polychrome glazes. Housing is represented both in its structural and decorative aspects: concrete work, but also murals, painted or engraved wood, capitals, trellises, stucco, and more.  \n  \n– The second themed section highlights antique marble statuary, with different artistic movements from Mauritania Tingitana (a Roman province). Prestigious works illustrate mythology and the history and public life of the Roman Empire: Venus, Theseus Slaying the Minotaur, Ephebe Pouring Drink, an imposing head of Juno, and busts of Juba II and Cato are among many pieces of inestimable scientific and aesthetic value.  \n  \n– The third section has a collection of inscriptions and rock carvings.  \n  \n*The Rabat Archaeological Museum is known today as the Museum of History and Civilisations.*","city":"Rabat","address":"23, rue Brihi  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 70 19 19"},"dcd4bbe2-60f3-5f7f-8e3a-0eba386ac5bf":{"name":"Sidi Kacem al-Jalizi Museum","description":"Built during the 9th / 15th century by Sidi Kacem, the mausoleum has been transformed into a museum of ceramics. It consists of an entrance hall leading to a ceramics workshop, and to a patio surrounded by rooms and a funeral space. The courtyard galleries and alcoves have been converted into exhibition spaces for ceramic objects. This collection traces different eras of Muslim history in Tunisia, and also includes objects of Persian origin.  \n  \nCeramic objects dating back to the Aghlabid era can be identified by the use of metallic lustre, archaic Kufic script, and stylised zoomorphic and anthropomorphic drawings as decoration. The pieces dating back to the Fatimid period are illustrated with animated scenes in blue on a white background.  \n  \nHafsid ceramics are distinguished by the absence of illustrated scenes in favour of geometric motifs with floral decoration in which cobalt blue and manganese brown dominate. There are also ceramic tiles dating back to the Ottoman era, some of which are decorated with bouquets of flowers.","city":"Tunis","address":"Musée de Sidi Kacem Al-Jalizi  \nrue du 9 Avril  \nTunis, Tunisia","phone":"+216 71 321452","fax":"+216 71 562452"},"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"},"e4a45e50-1dd1-5680-88c5-cd761132d6ed":{"name":"Regional Gallery of Sicily - Abatellis Palace","description":"The Regional Gallery of Sicily showcases the evolution of the figurative arts within Palermo and Western Sicily from the 12th to 18th centuries. The palace that houses the museum was built in 1495 as the residence of Francesco Abatellis, Master of Sicily’s ports, and stands as an important representative of Gothic-Catalan architecture within the region. After the death of Abatellis, part of the building adjoining the palace was converted in 1527 into a convent for the Benedictine Nuns of the church of Santa Maria della Pietà. This was then later turned into a Dominican Monastery. During the Second World War, the palace sustained considerable bombing damage in 1943, leading to initiatives for its complete restoration. The museum was finally opened to the public on the 23rd of June 1954.  \n  \nThe present layout of the museum is the result of collaborative efforts between the curator Giorgio Vigni and the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa throughout the years 1953-54.  \n  \nThe permanent museum exhibition is divided into two sections; sculpture is located on the ground floor whilst paintings are located on the upper floor.  \n  \nThe Gallery's collections come from acquisitions, donations and confiscations of property belonging to suppressed religious organisations. Before being grouped together in the current headquarters, these works were part of the Royal University Pinacoteca, then collections of the National Museum of Palermo. The works of Islamic art preserved in the Gallery come mainly from the city of Palermo where they were recovered during restoration works and architectural restructuring of the most important Arab-Norman sites. These include the Norman Palace (later the Royal Palace), the church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio called the Martorana, the church of San Giacomo la Mazzara (which no longer exists) and the Casa Maturano, a building adjacent to the church of Martorana. Other objects, particularly wood and ceramics, were purchased mainly from the Egyptian antiquities market by the then director of the Royal Museum, Antonio Salinas, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.","city":"Palermo","address":"Via Alloro, 4  \n90133  \nPalermo, Italy","website":"http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/palazzoabatellis/","phone":"+39 091 6230011","fax":"+39 091 6165305","email":"gall.abatellis@regione.sicilia.it"},"ee0a71f8-dc12-5d5d-b02a-4402969e8274":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Arts of Kairouan is located in Raqqada, in a former presidential palace that was converted into a cultural and educational centre in 1986. It contains four rooms on the main floor and upstairs.  \n  \nOn the ground floor are:  \n– The ceramics room, which houses objects dating back to the Aghlabid, Fatimid and Hafsid eras. Those of the Aghlabid era are characterised by the use of metallic lustre glazes, archaic Kufic script and stylised zoomorphic and anthropomorphic images. This room displays a collection of blue Iznik ceramic tiles from Anatolia.  \n  \n– The hall of the Great Mosque, which houses religious objects such as friezes with floral and epigraphic motifs that form part of the roofing. There is also a reconstruction of the *mihrab* from the mosque and the door of the *maqsoura* (private enclosure).  \n  \n– The Lapidary Inscriptions Room, which is under development, will house flat, prismatic and column-barrel gravestones from the Kairouan Cemetery. It will also contain the inscription of the foundation of the city of Sabra al-Mansouriya, characterised by its writing style and its imposing size.  \n  \n\\- The Sabra al-Mansouriya Hall, expected to receive objects from the Sabra excavation, now contains the casting furnace found on the same site.  \n  \nUpstairs:  \nThe glass cases of the coin and jewellery room hold a large collection of coins dating back to the Aghlabid, Fatimid, Hafsid and Ottoman eras, showing their evolution over time. This room also contains glass objects from the Sabra site and the lantern from al-Mouiz.  \n  \nThe manuscript room contains a rich collection of parchment Qur’an folios from the library of the Great Mosque of Kairouan displaying the evolution of writing and ornamentation styles (3rd / 9th to the 13th / 19th century). The collection owes its unique reputation to the famous “blue parchment” of the 4th / 10th century. Enclosing these folios are leather bindings embossed with floral and geometric designs.  \n  \nAn exhibition such as this one helps us interpret the history of the city of Kairouan. The newer Sabra Hall, the Hall of Lapidary Inscriptions and the Hall of the Great Mosque of Kairouan will further our understanding.","city":"Kairouan","address":"Musée des arts islamiques  \nKairouan-Raqqada","phone":"+216 77 228126","fax":"+216 77 228469"},"f533d81d-c3e7-57c1-955a-e9aac47d7bb3":{"name":"Hungarian National Gallery","description":"The Hungarian National Gallery (HNG) is the largest public collection documenting and presenting the rise and development of fine arts in Hungary. It has operated as an independent institution since 1957 moving to its present location, the former Royal Palace of Buda, in 1975.  \n  \nIn 1957 a new museum, the Hungarian National Gallery, was created for the collection and display of specifically Hungarian art. The basis of its collection was the New Hungarian Picture Gallery at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, and the Hungarian material belonging to that museum’s collections of modern sculpture, medals, and prints and drawings. The holdings of the new institution included approximately 6,000 paintings, 2,100 sculptures, 3,100 medals, 11,000 drawings and 5,000 prints. The HNG opened in Budapest on 5 October 1957, in a building that formerly housed the Supreme Court.  \n  \nIn 1975 the HNG moved to Buda Palace, into buildings B, C and D, which had been specially refurbished. In October of that year it opened its exhibitions in a provisional form. Its holdings were augmented with items from the Department of Old Hungarian Art at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, making it possible to show the entire history of art in Hungary, with works from the 11th century to the present.  \n  \nOver subsequent years other permanent exhibitions have been added: Panel Paintings and Wooden Sculptures from the Mediaeval Period and Baroque Art in Hungary in 1979; Late Gothic Winged Altarpieces opened in the former throne-room of the palace in 1982; and Mediaeval and Renaissance Stone Carvings opened in 1985.  \n  \nInside the museum, on the ground floor of Building C, the crypt of the Habsburg palatines (viceroys) was opened to the public in 1989, and in 2005, the HNG’s exhibition spaces were further augmented by the acquisition of Building A of Buda Castle.","city":"Budapest","address":"Szent György tér 2  \nH-1014 Budapest  \nHungary  \n  \nPOSTAL ADDRESS:  \nH-1250 Budapest  \nPO Box 31  \nHungary","website":"http://www.mng.hu","phone":"+36 1 375 8858","fax":"+36 1 375 8898","email":"mng@mng.hu"}}

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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"},"1dc4a129-85b0-57d5-9622-15c790c4333f":{"name":"Otros museos asociados","description":"Museo de la Zisa  \nDirección:  \nPiazza Zisa, 1  \n90100 - Palermo  \nTel: +39 091 65 20 269  \n  \nCapilla Palatina  \nDirección:  \nP.zza del Risorgimento  \n90100 Palermo  \nTel: +39 091 6961111","city":"Palermo"},"2850ad3d-5837-53f2-9df3-168b86ffb478":{"name":"Museo de Civilizaciones | Museo de Arte Oriental","description":"El Museo de Arte Oriental \"Giuseppe Tucci\" se abrió al público en 1958 y alberga hallazgos de varias misiones arqueológicas italianas realizadas en Irán, Pakistán y Afganistán. Además de esto, hay numerosos objetos comprados en el mercado de antigüedades, en particular los de Giuseppe Tucci durante sus viajes por Nepal y el Tíbet entre 1928 y 1954.  \n  \nEl ala islámica del museo incluye una rica colección de objetos procedentes tanto de excavaciones arqueológicas como de compras privadas. La procedencia de la colección es amplia, incluyendo los elementos de los territorios geográficos que ahora componen los países de España, Egipto, Turquía, Irak, Irán, Afganistán, Asia Central e India. Cronológicamente, el material cubre un extenso período desde el siglo VIII al XIX EC. La colección se organiza a lo largo de diferentes clases de producción que incluyen; cerámica, trabajos en metal, miniaturas, manuscritos, numismática, joyería, arte textil, vidrio, armas y armaduras y madera.  \n  \nDe particular importancia es la colección de hallazgos arqueológicos del palacio del sultán Ghaznavid, Mas’ud III (1099-1115 EC) en Ghazni, Afganistán. La arqueología del sitio y sus hallazgos asociados fueron revelados por las excavaciones realizadas por la Misión Arqueológica del IsMEO (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente) en la década de 1960. Estos consisten principalmente en elementos de decoración arquitectónica en ladrillo y mármol, piedras funerarias de mármol, cerámica y metales.  \n  \nLa colección de objetos persas del museo se remonta a los siglos VIII al XIX. Las cerámicas de los períodos Samanid (siglos IX-X) y Seljuk (siglos XI-XII) están bien representadas en las colecciones del Museo. La cerámica del período iljanida (siglos XIII-XIV), conocida por su uso de la técnica de esmalte \"lajvardina\", también es visible en las colecciones. La mayoría de los objetos metálicos de la colección islámica proceden de la región de Khorasan en el este de Irán y el oeste de Afganistán, un conocido centro histórico de producción metalúrgica.  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \nDesde septiembre de 2016, el Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental de Roma se ha fusionado en el nuevo Museo de la Civilización, cerrando definitivamente en octubre de 2017 para el traslado a su nueva sede en el Palazzo delle Scienze. A la espera de la reorganización definitiva prevista para finales de 2021, una exposición temporal llamada \"Abierto para obras\" exhibe más de 650 objetos del Museo Oriental (de los cuales unos 60 se consideran arte islámico) en las salas del Museo Pigorini.","city":"Roma","address":"Museo delle Civiltà | Museo d’arte orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”  \nPiazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Rome, Italy","website":"https://www.museodellecivilta.it/","phone":"+39 06 549521","email":"mu-civ@cultura.gov.it"},"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"},"3acfd33c-e4e0-5b37-a94a-380f38913853":{"name":"Museo Nacional de Alepo","description":"La colección más antigua de arte y artefactos arqueológicos del Museo Nacional de Alepo data del 1928; la inauguración oficial del museo ocurrió en 1931. Inicialmente se dedicó a la época pre-grecorromana con obras que se remontan no más tarde de 333 a. C., la mayoría de las cuales fueron parte de los hallazgos de Tell Halaf. Se decidió mover la colección de su localización original, en un edificio del periodo otomano que estaba abarrotado, a un museo moderno construido específicamente para ella, comenzado en 1967 e inaugurado formalmente en 1972. Incluye las siguientes alas:  \n  \nArte prehistórico: Es dedicado a hallazgos como huesos y cerámica de las regiones de Siria y el valle del Éufrates. Algunos objetos tienen un millón de años y la pieza más reciente se remonta no más tarde de 3,200 a. C., después del cual la escritura fue desarrollada y el arte se volvió histórico.  \n  \nArte antiguo del Cercano Oriente en Siria: Es una de las secciones más importantes que contienen piezas de Tell Halaf, Mari, Ugarit, Ebla y otros sitios importantes de las primeras civilizaciones del Cercano Oriente, todas exhibidas en orden cronológico en tres alas grandes.  \n  \nArte clásica de los periodos griego, romano y bizantino: Cerámica, monedas, un número de tallas funerarias en piedra caliza de la antigua ciudad de Mambij y una colección de botellas de cristal romanas y bizantinas utilizadas para perfume, kohl y medicinas, todas exhibidas en orden cronológico.  \n  \nArte islámica árabe: Aquí los objetos representan diferentes dinastías islámicas y son exhibidos según la función del objeto y el material, como la alfarería, la cerámica, la metalistería y el vidrio. Además, hay una colección de monedas de oro y plata de los periodos omeya, abasí, ayubí y mameluco. Un cenotafio de piedra tallada en caligrafía cúfica floreada es la obra maestra de esta sala. También se presentan un equipo militar medieval y un techo de madera otomano en una cámara lateral.  \n  \nArte moderno: Pinturas realizadas por artistas sirios, particularmente de Alepo, que reflejan diversos estilos de expresión como el realismo, el cubismo y el expresionismo.","city":"Alepo","address":"Al-Ma'arri Street  \nAleppo, Syria","phone":"+963 21 2122400"},"53724213-926c-5852-9d55-d58f73ce9266":{"name":"Museo Regional Agostino Pepoli","description":"El museo Pepoli está localizado en un edificio del siglo XIV que sirvió como sede del convento de los Padres Carmelitas.  \n  \nLa sección más importante dentro del museo es aquella asignada a las colecciones privadas del Conde Agostino Pepoli, a quien se debe la construcción del museo en los años 1900.  \n  \nSe agregaron a las colecciones del museo obras de la galería de arte Fardelliana, particularmente las pinturas de la escuela napolitana, así como otras obras de organizaciones religiosas de Trapani. Otros aspectos importantes dentro del museo incluyen las colecciones de arte aplicada de patrocinadores como el Conde Hernandez de Erice y el hospicio Sieri Pepoli.  \n  \nJunto a las colecciones de pinturas y esculturas, el museo Pepoli documenta el desarrollo del arte figurativo dentro de la región. Además de las pinturas de la natividad, los corales, las piezas de oro y plata, se exhiben muebles eclesiásticos, tapices sagrados, cerámicas mayólicas, hallazgos arqueológicos, monedas y reliquias históricas de la ciudad de Trapani.  \n  \nEn cuanto al arte islámico, el museo posee una colección notable de epígrafes con inscripciones cúficas en su planta baja.","city":"Trapani","address":"Via Conte Agostino Pepoli, 180  \n91100  \nTrapani, Italy","website":"http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/museopepoli/MuseoPepoli.html","phone":"+39 0923 553269","email":"museo.pepoli@regione.sicilia.it"},"559ab197-7289-5af4-a295-1118bde9afce":{"name":"Museo de Arte Islámico en el Museo de Pérgamo, Museos Estatales","description":"**El Museo de Arte Islámico está cerrado desde octubre de 2023 hasta marzo de 2027 debido a obras de renovación y ampliación.**  \n  \nEl Museo de Arte Islámico en el Museo de Pérgamo de Berlín es la única institución de este tipo en Alemania, la más antigua de Occidente y con sus 93.000 piezas alberga una de las mejores colecciones de arte islámico del mundo proveniente de casi todas las regiones del dominio islámico.  \n  \nSus colecciones son especialmente ricas en objetos procedentes de conjuntos arquitectónicos como la fachada monumental del palacio califal de Mshatta (Jordania), que data de mediados del siglo VIII. Es el artefacto más grande de arte islámico en cualquier museo del mundo. La singular cúpula del palacio de la Alhambra en Granada (España) y los nichos de oración del siglo XIII de Kashan (Irán) y Konya (Turquía) se encuentran entre las obras más destacadas. La obra que más atrae a nuestros visitantes es el revestimiento de madera finamente pintado de una casa de clase alta de Alepo (Siria) de principios del siglo XVII. Es el ejemplar más antiguo del mundo otomano que se conserva. Entre los varios grupos arqueológicos de excavaciones en el mundo islámico, se destacan los hallazgos de la capital califal del siglo IX, Samarra (Irak). La colección también tiene una gran cantidad de importantes alfombras otomanas y persas y obras de arte bibliográficas, incluidas numerosas miniaturas del Imperio mogol.  \n  \nLa colección se exhibe en orden cronológico, lo cual permite al visitante seguir las diferentes fases estilísticas del arte islámico y desarrollar una noción de la compleja historia islámica y sus méritos artísticos. Debido al gran número de visitantes (hasta 900.000 al año), solo se exhibe una pequeña cantidad de las obras de arte más importantes. El museo se trasladará dentro del Museo de Pérgamo y triplicará su espacio de exposición (3.000 metros cuadrados) para 2020. El diseño y el concepto descubrirán formas nuevas e innovadoras de presentar el legado cultural.  \n  \nCon su rica colección de arte y arqueología, el Museo de Arte Islámico es una de las principales instituciones de investigación dedicadas a la cultura material del Medio Oriente y las regiones vecinas. Nuestros numerosos proyectos de investigación, conservación y exhibición equivalen a una investigación profunda de los legados urbanos del Cercano y Medio Oriente. La institución alberga importantes colecciones de fotografías de archivo sobre el arte y la arquitectura islámicos, así como una biblioteca de renombre internacional centrada en el arte, la arquitectura y la arqueología en el mundo del Islam.","city":"Berlín","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"70de1706-9586-5047-bb4b-f1cf7fb14120":{"name":"Otros museos asociados","description":"**Museo Municipal de Tavira**  \nTavira, Faro, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Nacional de Arte Antiguo**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Municipal de Moura**  \nMoura, Beja, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Municipal de Santarém**  \nSantarém, Portugal  \n  \n**Catedral de Lisboa**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Arqueológico de Carmo**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo de la Ciudad**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Tesoro de la Catedral de Braga**  \nBraga, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Arqueológico y Lapidario Infante D. Henrique**  \nFaro, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo de Évora**  \nÉvora, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Nacional de Arqueología**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Regional Reina Doña Leonor**  \nBeja, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Nacional Machado de Castro**  \nCoimbra, Portugal"},"71715b75-3521-53ee-8c85-91fca0b977d0":{"name":"Museos nacionales Escocia","description":"Las colecciones de los Museos Nacionales de Escocia (NMS) se acumularon durante más de dos siglos. Inicialmente fueron atendidos por dos instituciones separadas, el Museo Nacional de Antigüedades de Escocia, con sus orígenes en la fundación en 1780 de la Sociedad de Anticuarios de Escocia, y el Museo Real de Escocia, fundado en 1854 como Museo Industrial de Escocia. En 1985, estas dos organizaciones se fusionaron para formar los Museos Nacionales de Escocia. Hoy, el NMS funciona en siete sitios. Dentro de Edimburgo, los NMS incorporan el Museo Real, el Museo de Escocia, el Museo Nacional de la Guerra y el Centro Granton, una instalación de investigación, almacenamiento y conservación. Más lejos se encuentran el Museo del Vuelo, el Museo del Traje Shambellie House y el Museo de la Vida Rural Escocesa.  \n  \nLas colecciones del mundo musulmán se encuentran en gran parte en el Museo Real. Iniciadas en 1854, ahora son quizás las más completas fuera de Londres con ca. 5.000 piezas histórico-artísticas y etnográficas de importancia nacional o internacional, adquiridas mediante donación, legado, compra y trabajo de campo. Las colecciones, que datan del siglo IX al XX, comprenden cerámica, azulejos, vidrio, orfebrería, armas y armaduras, instrumentos musicales, pinturas, lacas, textiles, alfombras, vestidos, joyas y monedas del norte de África, Egipto, Arabia Península, Siria, Turquía, Irán, Afganistán y Asia Central.  \n  \nLas colecciones Iraníes son particularmente sólidas gracias al general de división Sir Robert Murdoch Smith KCMG (1885-1900), quien se convirtió en director del museo en 1885 después de una carrera en el Departamento de Telégrafos Indoeuropeos en Persia. Coleccionó una variedad de artefactos para el museo, que datan de los siglos XVI y XIX. Turquía también está particularmente bien representada con, entre otros, una excelente colección de cerámica de Iznik, un grupo importante de fragmentos de prendas de vestir otomanas tempranas y un conjunto significativo de material etnográfico del siglo XX del centro y sureste de Turquía.","city":"Edimburgo","address":"Chambers Street,  \nEdinburgh EH1 1JF","website":"http://www.nms.ac.uk","phone":"+ 44 (0)300 123 6789","email":"info@nms.ac.uk"},"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"},"8a41ae85-1217-5a1f-a8f2-68da1d74234d":{"name":"Museo Nacional de Antigüedades y de Arte Islámico","description":"El Museo Nacional de Antigüedades y de Arte Islámico es el museo más antiguo de Argelia y de toda África. La colección fue creada en el año 1835, cinco años después de la ocupación francesa, por el gobierno del General Mariscal Clauzel, quien designó a Adrien Berburgger como Primer Curador. Desde 1838 en adelante el museo exponía piezas de la Antigüedad de procedencia argelina y piezas posteriores hasta el final del Imperio Otomano. Entre 1838 y 1896 este museo ocupó diferentes ubicaciones en la baja kasbah, antes de establecerse en un hermoso parque, localizado en las propiedades de Mustafa Pasha, que ahora se conocen como *el Parque de la Libertad*, donde se inauguró oficialmente en el año 1897.  \n  \nDesde entonces las dos divisiones de la colección del museo, la de la Antigüedad y la Islámica se enriquecieron. Esta colección hace visible una exposición de la historia de Argelia desde el Periodo Libio-Púnico hasta el siglo XX. Las piezas se exhiben en dos edificios distintos: uno alberga la Colección Pre Islámica y el segundo la Colección del Arte Islámico y se inauguró en mayo de 2003.  \n  \nLa Colección de la Antigüedad es muy suntuosa, compuesta por mosaicos, esculturas, inscripciones libias y latinas, monedas y metales, bronce, marfil, objetos en hueso, cerámicas y obras en madera.  \n  \nLa selección Islámica creó la primera colección en el año 1854, incluyendo piezas argelinas y orientales. Gradualmente la colección se fue enriqueciendo tras el descubrimiento de nuevas piezas en excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas en diferentes partes del país. Esta variada colección incluye pladur esculpido de Serdata del siglo X, esculturas de mármol o yeso de Qal’a de Beni Hammad del siglo XI, así como sillas del siglo XI de las mezquitas almorávides de Argel y de la mezquita Nedroma del siglo XII.  \n  \nEl arte mobiliario norteafricano esta muy bien representado en este museo. Las coleciones cuentan con ropa bordada de la época otomana, cerámica, armas, joyería, obras en latón y en otros metales, procedentes de centros urbanos y rurales. La colección se completa con manuscritos y miniaturas.  \n  \nLa colección numismática del museo se expone desde mayo de 2006 en una sala de lectura.","city":"Argel","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"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"},"c0c2fa4f-c38c-578e-8cc1-4703cc60b8a9":{"name":"Museo de Artes Turcas e Islámicas","description":"El Museo de Arte Turco e Islámico fue el primer museo de Turquía que reunió obras de arte islámico. Fue fundado en 1914 como el Museo de Fundaciones Islámicas y se encuentra en el edificio Imaret del Complejo Süleymaniye, construido por el gran arquitecto turco Sinan en el siglo XVI. El museo pasó a llamarse Museo de Artes Turcas e Islámicas después de la declaración de la república y se trasladó a su ubicación actual en el Palacio Ibrahim Paşa del siglo XVI en 1983.  \n  \nLa colección principal del museo comprende obras de arte Islámicas recopiladas de todo el Imperio Otomano a principios del siglo XX. Estos trabajos incluyen alfombras, manuscritos, orfebrería, cristalería, cerámica, carpintería y materiales etnográficos. La colección representa un período extenso que va desde el surgimiento del Islam hasta el siglo XX y la vasta área geográfica gobernada por el Imperio Otomano.  \n  \nLas alfombras, que suman unas 1.700, en su calidad y variedad constituyen una de las colecciones de alfombras más importantes del mundo, por lo que el museo a veces se considera un museo de alfombras. Pero el museo también tiene otras colecciones destacadas: la colección de manuscritos representa a todos los estados islámicos gobernantes desde el siglo I / VII d.C. hasta el siglo XX en una amplia zona geográfica. La colección de trabajos en metal permite a los visitantes seguir el desarrollo del trabajo en metal turco en Anatolia y la rica colección de trabajos en madera abarca desde el siglo III / IX d.C. hasta el período otomano. Las colecciones de cristalería y cerámica incluyen artefactos recuperados durante excavaciones en centros abasíes de renombre como Samarra y Keshan (Irán) y Raqqa (Siria), así como artefactos del período Turco de Anatolia. La mampostería, la mayoría con inscripciones, incluye ejemplos de los períodos Omeya, Abasí, Mameluco, Selyúcida y Otomano. El departamento de etnografía es la sección más nueva.  \n  \nEl museo también organiza, acoge y participa en exposiciones temporales nacionales e internacionales.  \n  \nDespués de las grandes obras de restauración, el Museo de Artes Turcas e Islámicas abrió sus puertas en abril de 2014, exactamente 100 años después de su fundación, con exposiciones especiales para celebrar su centenario.","city":"Istanbul","address":"İbrahim Paşa Sarayı Atmeydanı Sok. No: 46  \nSultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/tiem","phone":"+90 212 518 18 05 / 06","email":"tiem@tiem.gov.tr"},"ce4d8147-795e-5a50-9c18-cf90561d29e5":{"name":"Museo Arqueológico de Rabat","description":"**Descripción histórica**  \n  \nCon 550 objetos en exhibición y otros miles almacenados, el Museo Arqueológico de Rabat, fundado en 1928, es uno de los museos nacionales más prestigiosos. El museo recorre la historia de Marruecos desde la prehistoria hasta la época islámica. Es la culminación de una serie de ampliaciones y reformas que han permitido la inclusión de colecciones prehistóricas, antiguas e islámicas. Un recorrido diseñado después de las renovaciones realizadas entre 2003 y 2004 resalta los objetos procedentes de las excavaciones de la mezquita almohade de Tinmel y de los alrededores de la mezquita Kutubiya de Marrakech.  \n  \n**Colecciones del museo**  \n  \nLas colecciones están distribuidas en tres salas, un patio y un jardín.  \n  \n– En la planta baja, un recorrido cronológico reconstruye la historia del Marruecos preislámico: civilizaciones prehistóricas, seguidas de las épocas fenicia, mauritana y romana, cada una de ellas representada por herramientas y objetos característicos.  \n  \n– En la planta superior, las colecciones islámicas se organizan por temática. Aquí se presentan monedas provenientes de las sucesivas dinastías en Marruecos. La cerámica muestra diferentes técnicas propias del período islámico, como la *cuerda seca*, el estampado y los esmaltes metálicos o policromos. En cuanto a la vivienda, está conformada tanto por la estructura como por la decoración: obras de hormigón, así como murales, maderas pintadas y grabadas, capiteles, enrejados, estuco, etc.  \n  \n– La segunda sección se centra en la estatuaria de mármol antigua con diferentes movimientos artísticos de Mauritania Tingitana (una provincia romana). Diversas obras prestigiosas ilustran la mitología, la historia y la vida pública del Imperio Romano: Venus, Teseo matando al minotauro, Efebo sirviendo la bebida, una imponente cabeza de Juno y bustos de Juba II y Catón son algunas de las muchas piezas de inestimable valor científico y estético.  \n  \n– La tercera sección alberga una colección de inscripciones y grabados rupestres.  \n  \n*El Museo Arqueológico de Rabat se conoce hoy en día como el Museo de Historia y Civilizaciones.*","city":"Rabat","address":"23, rue Brihi  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 70 19 19"},"dcd4bbe2-60f3-5f7f-8e3a-0eba386ac5bf":{"name":"Sidi Kacem al-Jalizi Museum","description":"Construido durante el siglo IX / XV por Sidi Qasem, el mausoleo ha sido transformado en un museo de cerámica. Consta de un vestíbulo de entrada que conduce a un taller de cerámica y a un patio rodeado de salas y un espacio funerario. Las galerías del patio y las alcobas han sido convertidas en espacios de exposición para objetos de cerámica. Esta colección recorre diferentes épocas de la historia musulmana en Túnez, además de incluir objetos de origen persa.  \n  \nLos objetos de cerámica de la época aglabí se identifican por el uso del lustre metálico, escritura cúfica arcaica e imágenes zoomórficas y antropomórficas estilizadas como decoración. Las piezas del período fatimí están ilustradas con escenas animadas de color azul sobre un fondo blanco.  \n  \nLa cerámica hafsí se singulariza por la ausencia de escenas ilustradas en favor de motivos geométricos con decoración floral, en las que predominan el azul cobalto y el marrón manganeso. También hay azulejos de la época otomana, algunos de los cuales están decorados con ramos de flores.","city":"Tunis","address":"Musée de Sidi Kacem Al-Jalizi  \nrue du 9 Avril  \nTunis, Tunisia","phone":"+216 71 321452"},"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"},"e4a45e50-1dd1-5680-88c5-cd761132d6ed":{"name":"Galería Regional de Sicilia - Palacio Abatellis","description":"La Galería Regional de Sicilia exhibe la evolución del arte figurativo dentro de Palermo y Sicilia Occidental desde el siglo XII al XVIII. El palacio que es sede del museo fue construido en 1495 como residencia de Francesco Abatellis, maestro de los puertos de Sicilia, y sigue como una representación importante de la arquitectura catalana gótica dentro de la región. Después de la muerte de Abatellis, parte del edificio al lado del palacio fue convertido en 1527 en un convento para las monjas benedictinas de la iglesia de Santa Maria della Pietà. Después fue convertido en un monasterio dominicano. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el palacio sostuvo daños de bombardeo en 1943, por lo que fue restaurado completamente. El museo finalmente se abrió al público el 23 de junio de 1954.  \n  \nEl plano actual del museo es el resultado de la colaboración entre el conservador Giorgio Vigni y el arquitecto veneciano Carlo Scarpa durante los años 1953-54.  \n  \nLa exhibición permanente del museo se divide en dos secciones; las esculturas se encuentran en la planta baja mientras que las pinturas están en la planta más alta.  \n  \nLas colecciones de la galería provienen de adquisiciones, donaciones y confiscaciones de propiedad que pertenecen a organizaciones religiosas reprimidas. Antes de ser agrupados juntos en la sede actual, estas obras formaron parte de la pinacoteca de la Universidad Real, luego pasando a ser colecciones del Museo Nacional de Palermo. Las obras del arte islámico conservadas en la galería vienen principalmente de la ciudad de Palermo, donde fueron recuperadas durante trabajos de restauración y reestructuración arquitectónica de los sitios normando-árabes más importantes. Estos incluyen el Palacio de los Normandos (luego conocido como el Palacio Real), la iglesia de Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio llamada la Martorana, la iglesia de San Giacomo la Mazzara (el cual ya no existe) y la Casa Maturano, un edificio adyacente a la iglesia de Martorana. Otras piezas, particularmente aquellas de madera y cerámica, fueron compradas principalmente en el mercado de antigüedades egipcias por el entonces director del Museo Real, Antonio Salinas, entre el final del siglo XIX y el principio del siglo XX.","city":"Palermo","address":"Via Alloro, 4  \n90133  \nPalermo, Italy","website":"http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/palazzoabatellis/","phone":"+39 091 6230011","email":"gall.abatellis@regione.sicilia.it"},"ee0a71f8-dc12-5d5d-b02a-4402969e8274":{"name":"Museo de Arte Islámico","description":"El Museo de Artes Islámicas de Kairuán está ubicado en Raqqada, en un expalacio presidencial que fue convertido en un centro cultural y educativo en 1986. Consta de cuatro salas en la planta baja y la planta superior.  \n  \nEn la planta baja se encuentran:  \n– La sala de cerámicas, que alberga objetos pertenecientes a las épocas aglabí, fatimí y hafsí. Los objetos de la época aglabí se caracterizan por el uso de esmaltes de brillo metálico, escritura cúfica arcaica e imágenes zoomórficas y antropomórficas estilizadas. Esta sala expone una colección de azulejos de Iznik procedentes de Anatolia.  \n  \n– La sala de la Mezquita Mayor, que acoge artículos religiosos, como frisos con motivos florales y epigráficos que forman parte de su techumbre. También destaca la reconstrucción de un *mihrab* de la mezquita y la puerta de la *maqsura* (zona privada).  \n  \n– La sala de inscripciones lapidarias que, aunque está en fase de desarrollo, contendrá una serie de lápidas del cementerio de Kairuán, al igual que incluirá la inscripción de la fundación de la ciudad de Sabra al-Mansuriya, marcada por su estilo de escritura y su imponente tamaño.  \n  \n– La sala de Sabra al-Mansuriya, que se espera que reciba objetos del yacimiento de Sabra, pero que por ahora alberga el horno de fundición encontrado en dicho yacimiento.  \n  \nEn el piso superior:  \nLas vitrinas en la sala de monedas y joyería conservan una gran colección de monedas que datan de las épocas aglabí, fatimí, hafsí y otomana, evidenciando su evolución en el tiempo. Esta sala también contiene objetos de vidrio del yacimiento de Sabra y la lámpara de al-Muizz.  \n  \nLa sala de manuscritos reúne una abundante colección de folios de Corán en pergamino procedentes de la biblioteca de la Mezquita Mayor de Kairuán, los cuales permiten apreciar la evolución de los estilos de escritura y ornamentación (siglos III-XIII / IX-XIX). La colección tiene un prestigio único gracias al famoso \"Corán azul\" del siglo IV / X. Estos folios están encuadernados en cuero con diseños florales y geométricos.  \n  \nUna exposición como esta nos permite interpretar la historia de la ciudad de Kairuán. La nueva sala de Sabra, la sala de inscripciones lapidarias y la sala de la Mezquita Mayor de Kairuán contribuirán a nuestra comprensión.","city":"Kairouan","address":"Musée des arts islamiques  \nKairouan-Raqqada","phone":"+216 77 228126"}}
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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"},"1dc4a129-85b0-57d5-9622-15c790c4333f":{"name":"Otros museos asociados","description":"Museo de la Zisa  \nDirección:  \nPiazza Zisa, 1  \n90100 - Palermo  \nTel: +39 091 65 20 269  \n  \nCapilla Palatina  \nDirección:  \nP.zza del Risorgimento  \n90100 Palermo  \nTel: +39 091 6961111","city":"Palermo"},"2850ad3d-5837-53f2-9df3-168b86ffb478":{"name":"Museo de Civilizaciones | Museo de Arte Oriental","description":"El Museo de Arte Oriental \"Giuseppe Tucci\" se abrió al público en 1958 y alberga hallazgos de varias misiones arqueológicas italianas realizadas en Irán, Pakistán y Afganistán. Además de esto, hay numerosos objetos comprados en el mercado de antigüedades, en particular los de Giuseppe Tucci durante sus viajes por Nepal y el Tíbet entre 1928 y 1954.  \n  \nEl ala islámica del museo incluye una rica colección de objetos procedentes tanto de excavaciones arqueológicas como de compras privadas. La procedencia de la colección es amplia, incluyendo los elementos de los territorios geográficos que ahora componen los países de España, Egipto, Turquía, Irak, Irán, Afganistán, Asia Central e India. Cronológicamente, el material cubre un extenso período desde el siglo VIII al XIX EC. La colección se organiza a lo largo de diferentes clases de producción que incluyen; cerámica, trabajos en metal, miniaturas, manuscritos, numismática, joyería, arte textil, vidrio, armas y armaduras y madera.  \n  \nDe particular importancia es la colección de hallazgos arqueológicos del palacio del sultán Ghaznavid, Mas’ud III (1099-1115 EC) en Ghazni, Afganistán. La arqueología del sitio y sus hallazgos asociados fueron revelados por las excavaciones realizadas por la Misión Arqueológica del IsMEO (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente) en la década de 1960. Estos consisten principalmente en elementos de decoración arquitectónica en ladrillo y mármol, piedras funerarias de mármol, cerámica y metales.  \n  \nLa colección de objetos persas del museo se remonta a los siglos VIII al XIX. Las cerámicas de los períodos Samanid (siglos IX-X) y Seljuk (siglos XI-XII) están bien representadas en las colecciones del Museo. La cerámica del período iljanida (siglos XIII-XIV), conocida por su uso de la técnica de esmalte \"lajvardina\", también es visible en las colecciones. La mayoría de los objetos metálicos de la colección islámica proceden de la región de Khorasan en el este de Irán y el oeste de Afganistán, un conocido centro histórico de producción metalúrgica.  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \nDesde septiembre de 2016, el Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental de Roma se ha fusionado en el nuevo Museo de la Civilización, cerrando definitivamente en octubre de 2017 para el traslado a su nueva sede en el Palazzo delle Scienze. A la espera de la reorganización definitiva prevista para finales de 2021, una exposición temporal llamada \"Abierto para obras\" exhibe más de 650 objetos del Museo Oriental (de los cuales unos 60 se consideran arte islámico) en las salas del Museo Pigorini.","city":"Roma","address":"Museo delle Civiltà | Museo d’arte orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”  \nPiazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Rome, Italy","website":"https://www.museodellecivilta.it/","phone":"+39 06 549521","fax":"+39 06 54952310","email":"mu-civ@cultura.gov.it"},"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"},"3acfd33c-e4e0-5b37-a94a-380f38913853":{"name":"Museo Nacional de Alepo","description":"La colección más antigua de arte y artefactos arqueológicos del Museo Nacional de Alepo data del 1928; la inauguración oficial del museo ocurrió en 1931. Inicialmente se dedicó a la época pre-grecorromana con obras que se remontan no más tarde de 333 a. C., la mayoría de las cuales fueron parte de los hallazgos de Tell Halaf. Se decidió mover la colección de su localización original, en un edificio del periodo otomano que estaba abarrotado, a un museo moderno construido específicamente para ella, comenzado en 1967 e inaugurado formalmente en 1972. Incluye las siguientes alas:  \n  \nArte prehistórico: Es dedicado a hallazgos como huesos y cerámica de las regiones de Siria y el valle del Éufrates. Algunos objetos tienen un millón de años y la pieza más reciente se remonta no más tarde de 3,200 a. C., después del cual la escritura fue desarrollada y el arte se volvió histórico.  \n  \nArte antiguo del Cercano Oriente en Siria: Es una de las secciones más importantes que contienen piezas de Tell Halaf, Mari, Ugarit, Ebla y otros sitios importantes de las primeras civilizaciones del Cercano Oriente, todas exhibidas en orden cronológico en tres alas grandes.  \n  \nArte clásica de los periodos griego, romano y bizantino: Cerámica, monedas, un número de tallas funerarias en piedra caliza de la antigua ciudad de Mambij y una colección de botellas de cristal romanas y bizantinas utilizadas para perfume, kohl y medicinas, todas exhibidas en orden cronológico.  \n  \nArte islámica árabe: Aquí los objetos representan diferentes dinastías islámicas y son exhibidos según la función del objeto y el material, como la alfarería, la cerámica, la metalistería y el vidrio. Además, hay una colección de monedas de oro y plata de los periodos omeya, abasí, ayubí y mameluco. Un cenotafio de piedra tallada en caligrafía cúfica floreada es la obra maestra de esta sala. También se presentan un equipo militar medieval y un techo de madera otomano en una cámara lateral.  \n  \nArte moderno: Pinturas realizadas por artistas sirios, particularmente de Alepo, que reflejan diversos estilos de expresión como el realismo, el cubismo y el expresionismo.","city":"Alepo","address":"Al-Ma'arri Street  \nAleppo, Syria","phone":"+963 21 2122400","fax":"+963 21 2122402"},"53724213-926c-5852-9d55-d58f73ce9266":{"name":"Museo Regional Agostino Pepoli","description":"El museo Pepoli está localizado en un edificio del siglo XIV que sirvió como sede del convento de los Padres Carmelitas.  \n  \nLa sección más importante dentro del museo es aquella asignada a las colecciones privadas del Conde Agostino Pepoli, a quien se debe la construcción del museo en los años 1900.  \n  \nSe agregaron a las colecciones del museo obras de la galería de arte Fardelliana, particularmente las pinturas de la escuela napolitana, así como otras obras de organizaciones religiosas de Trapani. Otros aspectos importantes dentro del museo incluyen las colecciones de arte aplicada de patrocinadores como el Conde Hernandez de Erice y el hospicio Sieri Pepoli.  \n  \nJunto a las colecciones de pinturas y esculturas, el museo Pepoli documenta el desarrollo del arte figurativo dentro de la región. Además de las pinturas de la natividad, los corales, las piezas de oro y plata, se exhiben muebles eclesiásticos, tapices sagrados, cerámicas mayólicas, hallazgos arqueológicos, monedas y reliquias históricas de la ciudad de Trapani.  \n  \nEn cuanto al arte islámico, el museo posee una colección notable de epígrafes con inscripciones cúficas en su planta baja.","city":"Trapani","address":"Via Conte Agostino Pepoli, 180  \n91100  \nTrapani, Italy","website":"http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/museopepoli/MuseoPepoli.html","phone":"+39 0923 553269","fax":"+39 0923 535444","email":"museo.pepoli@regione.sicilia.it"},"559ab197-7289-5af4-a295-1118bde9afce":{"name":"Museo de Arte Islámico en el Museo de Pérgamo, Museos Estatales","description":"**El Museo de Arte Islámico está cerrado desde octubre de 2023 hasta marzo de 2027 debido a obras de renovación y ampliación.**  \n  \nEl Museo de Arte Islámico en el Museo de Pérgamo de Berlín es la única institución de este tipo en Alemania, la más antigua de Occidente y con sus 93.000 piezas alberga una de las mejores colecciones de arte islámico del mundo proveniente de casi todas las regiones del dominio islámico.  \n  \nSus colecciones son especialmente ricas en objetos procedentes de conjuntos arquitectónicos como la fachada monumental del palacio califal de Mshatta (Jordania), que data de mediados del siglo VIII. Es el artefacto más grande de arte islámico en cualquier museo del mundo. La singular cúpula del palacio de la Alhambra en Granada (España) y los nichos de oración del siglo XIII de Kashan (Irán) y Konya (Turquía) se encuentran entre las obras más destacadas. La obra que más atrae a nuestros visitantes es el revestimiento de madera finamente pintado de una casa de clase alta de Alepo (Siria) de principios del siglo XVII. Es el ejemplar más antiguo del mundo otomano que se conserva. Entre los varios grupos arqueológicos de excavaciones en el mundo islámico, se destacan los hallazgos de la capital califal del siglo IX, Samarra (Irak). La colección también tiene una gran cantidad de importantes alfombras otomanas y persas y obras de arte bibliográficas, incluidas numerosas miniaturas del Imperio mogol.  \n  \nLa colección se exhibe en orden cronológico, lo cual permite al visitante seguir las diferentes fases estilísticas del arte islámico y desarrollar una noción de la compleja historia islámica y sus méritos artísticos. Debido al gran número de visitantes (hasta 900.000 al año), solo se exhibe una pequeña cantidad de las obras de arte más importantes. El museo se trasladará dentro del Museo de Pérgamo y triplicará su espacio de exposición (3.000 metros cuadrados) para 2020. El diseño y el concepto descubrirán formas nuevas e innovadoras de presentar el legado cultural.  \n  \nCon su rica colección de arte y arqueología, el Museo de Arte Islámico es una de las principales instituciones de investigación dedicadas a la cultura material del Medio Oriente y las regiones vecinas. Nuestros numerosos proyectos de investigación, conservación y exhibición equivalen a una investigación profunda de los legados urbanos del Cercano y Medio Oriente. La institución alberga importantes colecciones de fotografías de archivo sobre el arte y la arquitectura islámicos, así como una biblioteca de renombre internacional centrada en el arte, la arquitectura y la arqueología en el mundo del Islam.","city":"Berlín","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","fax":"+49 30 266 42 5202","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"70de1706-9586-5047-bb4b-f1cf7fb14120":{"name":"Otros museos asociados","description":"**Museo Municipal de Tavira**  \nTavira, Faro, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Nacional de Arte Antiguo**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Municipal de Moura**  \nMoura, Beja, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Municipal de Santarém**  \nSantarém, Portugal  \n  \n**Catedral de Lisboa**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Arqueológico de Carmo**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo de la Ciudad**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Tesoro de la Catedral de Braga**  \nBraga, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Arqueológico y Lapidario Infante D. Henrique**  \nFaro, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo de Évora**  \nÉvora, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Nacional de Arqueología**  \nLisboa, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Regional Reina Doña Leonor**  \nBeja, Portugal  \n  \n**Museo Nacional Machado de Castro**  \nCoimbra, Portugal"},"71715b75-3521-53ee-8c85-91fca0b977d0":{"name":"Museos nacionales Escocia","description":"Las colecciones de los Museos Nacionales de Escocia (NMS) se acumularon durante más de dos siglos. Inicialmente fueron atendidos por dos instituciones separadas, el Museo Nacional de Antigüedades de Escocia, con sus orígenes en la fundación en 1780 de la Sociedad de Anticuarios de Escocia, y el Museo Real de Escocia, fundado en 1854 como Museo Industrial de Escocia. En 1985, estas dos organizaciones se fusionaron para formar los Museos Nacionales de Escocia. Hoy, el NMS funciona en siete sitios. Dentro de Edimburgo, los NMS incorporan el Museo Real, el Museo de Escocia, el Museo Nacional de la Guerra y el Centro Granton, una instalación de investigación, almacenamiento y conservación. Más lejos se encuentran el Museo del Vuelo, el Museo del Traje Shambellie House y el Museo de la Vida Rural Escocesa.  \n  \nLas colecciones del mundo musulmán se encuentran en gran parte en el Museo Real. Iniciadas en 1854, ahora son quizás las más completas fuera de Londres con ca. 5.000 piezas histórico-artísticas y etnográficas de importancia nacional o internacional, adquiridas mediante donación, legado, compra y trabajo de campo. Las colecciones, que datan del siglo IX al XX, comprenden cerámica, azulejos, vidrio, orfebrería, armas y armaduras, instrumentos musicales, pinturas, lacas, textiles, alfombras, vestidos, joyas y monedas del norte de África, Egipto, Arabia Península, Siria, Turquía, Irán, Afganistán y Asia Central.  \n  \nLas colecciones Iraníes son particularmente sólidas gracias al general de división Sir Robert Murdoch Smith KCMG (1885-1900), quien se convirtió en director del museo en 1885 después de una carrera en el Departamento de Telégrafos Indoeuropeos en Persia. Coleccionó una variedad de artefactos para el museo, que datan de los siglos XVI y XIX. Turquía también está particularmente bien representada con, entre otros, una excelente colección de cerámica de Iznik, un grupo importante de fragmentos de prendas de vestir otomanas tempranas y un conjunto significativo de material etnográfico del siglo XX del centro y sureste de Turquía.","city":"Edimburgo","address":"Chambers Street,  \nEdinburgh EH1 1JF","website":"http://www.nms.ac.uk","phone":"+ 44 (0)300 123 6789","email":"info@nms.ac.uk"},"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"},"8a41ae85-1217-5a1f-a8f2-68da1d74234d":{"name":"Museo Nacional de Antigüedades y de Arte Islámico","description":"El Museo Nacional de Antigüedades y de Arte Islámico es el museo más antiguo de Argelia y de toda África. La colección fue creada en el año 1835, cinco años después de la ocupación francesa, por el gobierno del General Mariscal Clauzel, quien designó a Adrien Berburgger como Primer Curador. Desde 1838 en adelante el museo exponía piezas de la Antigüedad de procedencia argelina y piezas posteriores hasta el final del Imperio Otomano. Entre 1838 y 1896 este museo ocupó diferentes ubicaciones en la baja kasbah, antes de establecerse en un hermoso parque, localizado en las propiedades de Mustafa Pasha, que ahora se conocen como *el Parque de la Libertad*, donde se inauguró oficialmente en el año 1897.  \n  \nDesde entonces las dos divisiones de la colección del museo, la de la Antigüedad y la Islámica se enriquecieron. Esta colección hace visible una exposición de la historia de Argelia desde el Periodo Libio-Púnico hasta el siglo XX. Las piezas se exhiben en dos edificios distintos: uno alberga la Colección Pre Islámica y el segundo la Colección del Arte Islámico y se inauguró en mayo de 2003.  \n  \nLa Colección de la Antigüedad es muy suntuosa, compuesta por mosaicos, esculturas, inscripciones libias y latinas, monedas y metales, bronce, marfil, objetos en hueso, cerámicas y obras en madera.  \n  \nLa selección Islámica creó la primera colección en el año 1854, incluyendo piezas argelinas y orientales. Gradualmente la colección se fue enriqueciendo tras el descubrimiento de nuevas piezas en excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas en diferentes partes del país. Esta variada colección incluye pladur esculpido de Serdata del siglo X, esculturas de mármol o yeso de Qal’a de Beni Hammad del siglo XI, así como sillas del siglo XI de las mezquitas almorávides de Argel y de la mezquita Nedroma del siglo XII.  \n  \nEl arte mobiliario norteafricano esta muy bien representado en este museo. Las coleciones cuentan con ropa bordada de la época otomana, cerámica, armas, joyería, obras en latón y en otros metales, procedentes de centros urbanos y rurales. La colección se completa con manuscritos y miniaturas.  \n  \nLa colección numismática del museo se expone desde mayo de 2006 en una sala de lectura.","city":"Argel","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","fax":"+213 0 21 68 12 56","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"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"},"c0c2fa4f-c38c-578e-8cc1-4703cc60b8a9":{"name":"Museo de Artes Turcas e Islámicas","description":"El Museo de Arte Turco e Islámico fue el primer museo de Turquía que reunió obras de arte islámico. Fue fundado en 1914 como el Museo de Fundaciones Islámicas y se encuentra en el edificio Imaret del Complejo Süleymaniye, construido por el gran arquitecto turco Sinan en el siglo XVI. El museo pasó a llamarse Museo de Artes Turcas e Islámicas después de la declaración de la república y se trasladó a su ubicación actual en el Palacio Ibrahim Paşa del siglo XVI en 1983.  \n  \nLa colección principal del museo comprende obras de arte Islámicas recopiladas de todo el Imperio Otomano a principios del siglo XX. Estos trabajos incluyen alfombras, manuscritos, orfebrería, cristalería, cerámica, carpintería y materiales etnográficos. La colección representa un período extenso que va desde el surgimiento del Islam hasta el siglo XX y la vasta área geográfica gobernada por el Imperio Otomano.  \n  \nLas alfombras, que suman unas 1.700, en su calidad y variedad constituyen una de las colecciones de alfombras más importantes del mundo, por lo que el museo a veces se considera un museo de alfombras. Pero el museo también tiene otras colecciones destacadas: la colección de manuscritos representa a todos los estados islámicos gobernantes desde el siglo I / VII d.C. hasta el siglo XX en una amplia zona geográfica. La colección de trabajos en metal permite a los visitantes seguir el desarrollo del trabajo en metal turco en Anatolia y la rica colección de trabajos en madera abarca desde el siglo III / IX d.C. hasta el período otomano. Las colecciones de cristalería y cerámica incluyen artefactos recuperados durante excavaciones en centros abasíes de renombre como Samarra y Keshan (Irán) y Raqqa (Siria), así como artefactos del período Turco de Anatolia. La mampostería, la mayoría con inscripciones, incluye ejemplos de los períodos Omeya, Abasí, Mameluco, Selyúcida y Otomano. El departamento de etnografía es la sección más nueva.  \n  \nEl museo también organiza, acoge y participa en exposiciones temporales nacionales e internacionales.  \n  \nDespués de las grandes obras de restauración, el Museo de Artes Turcas e Islámicas abrió sus puertas en abril de 2014, exactamente 100 años después de su fundación, con exposiciones especiales para celebrar su centenario.","city":"Istanbul","address":"İbrahim Paşa Sarayı Atmeydanı Sok. No: 46  \nSultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/tiem","phone":"+90 212 518 18 05 / 06","fax":"+90 212 518 18 07","email":"tiem@tiem.gov.tr"},"ce4d8147-795e-5a50-9c18-cf90561d29e5":{"name":"Museo Arqueológico de Rabat","description":"**Descripción histórica**  \n  \nCon 550 objetos en exhibición y otros miles almacenados, el Museo Arqueológico de Rabat, fundado en 1928, es uno de los museos nacionales más prestigiosos. El museo recorre la historia de Marruecos desde la prehistoria hasta la época islámica. Es la culminación de una serie de ampliaciones y reformas que han permitido la inclusión de colecciones prehistóricas, antiguas e islámicas. Un recorrido diseñado después de las renovaciones realizadas entre 2003 y 2004 resalta los objetos procedentes de las excavaciones de la mezquita almohade de Tinmel y de los alrededores de la mezquita Kutubiya de Marrakech.  \n  \n**Colecciones del museo**  \n  \nLas colecciones están distribuidas en tres salas, un patio y un jardín.  \n  \n– En la planta baja, un recorrido cronológico reconstruye la historia del Marruecos preislámico: civilizaciones prehistóricas, seguidas de las épocas fenicia, mauritana y romana, cada una de ellas representada por herramientas y objetos característicos.  \n  \n– En la planta superior, las colecciones islámicas se organizan por temática. Aquí se presentan monedas provenientes de las sucesivas dinastías en Marruecos. La cerámica muestra diferentes técnicas propias del período islámico, como la *cuerda seca*, el estampado y los esmaltes metálicos o policromos. En cuanto a la vivienda, está conformada tanto por la estructura como por la decoración: obras de hormigón, así como murales, maderas pintadas y grabadas, capiteles, enrejados, estuco, etc.  \n  \n– La segunda sección se centra en la estatuaria de mármol antigua con diferentes movimientos artísticos de Mauritania Tingitana (una provincia romana). Diversas obras prestigiosas ilustran la mitología, la historia y la vida pública del Imperio Romano: Venus, Teseo matando al minotauro, Efebo sirviendo la bebida, una imponente cabeza de Juno y bustos de Juba II y Catón son algunas de las muchas piezas de inestimable valor científico y estético.  \n  \n– La tercera sección alberga una colección de inscripciones y grabados rupestres.  \n  \n*El Museo Arqueológico de Rabat se conoce hoy en día como el Museo de Historia y Civilizaciones.*","city":"Rabat","address":"23, rue Brihi  \nRabat, Morocco","phone":"+212 537 70 19 19"},"dcd4bbe2-60f3-5f7f-8e3a-0eba386ac5bf":{"name":"Sidi Kacem al-Jalizi Museum","description":"Construido durante el siglo IX / XV por Sidi Qasem, el mausoleo ha sido transformado en un museo de cerámica. Consta de un vestíbulo de entrada que conduce a un taller de cerámica y a un patio rodeado de salas y un espacio funerario. Las galerías del patio y las alcobas han sido convertidas en espacios de exposición para objetos de cerámica. Esta colección recorre diferentes épocas de la historia musulmana en Túnez, además de incluir objetos de origen persa.  \n  \nLos objetos de cerámica de la época aglabí se identifican por el uso del lustre metálico, escritura cúfica arcaica e imágenes zoomórficas y antropomórficas estilizadas como decoración. Las piezas del período fatimí están ilustradas con escenas animadas de color azul sobre un fondo blanco.  \n  \nLa cerámica hafsí se singulariza por la ausencia de escenas ilustradas en favor de motivos geométricos con decoración floral, en las que predominan el azul cobalto y el marrón manganeso. También hay azulejos de la época otomana, algunos de los cuales están decorados con ramos de flores.","city":"Tunis","address":"Musée de Sidi Kacem Al-Jalizi  \nrue du 9 Avril  \nTunis, Tunisia","phone":"+216 71 321452","fax":"+216 71 562452"},"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"},"e4a45e50-1dd1-5680-88c5-cd761132d6ed":{"name":"Galería Regional de Sicilia - Palacio Abatellis","description":"La Galería Regional de Sicilia exhibe la evolución del arte figurativo dentro de Palermo y Sicilia Occidental desde el siglo XII al XVIII. El palacio que es sede del museo fue construido en 1495 como residencia de Francesco Abatellis, maestro de los puertos de Sicilia, y sigue como una representación importante de la arquitectura catalana gótica dentro de la región. Después de la muerte de Abatellis, parte del edificio al lado del palacio fue convertido en 1527 en un convento para las monjas benedictinas de la iglesia de Santa Maria della Pietà. Después fue convertido en un monasterio dominicano. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el palacio sostuvo daños de bombardeo en 1943, por lo que fue restaurado completamente. El museo finalmente se abrió al público el 23 de junio de 1954.  \n  \nEl plano actual del museo es el resultado de la colaboración entre el conservador Giorgio Vigni y el arquitecto veneciano Carlo Scarpa durante los años 1953-54.  \n  \nLa exhibición permanente del museo se divide en dos secciones; las esculturas se encuentran en la planta baja mientras que las pinturas están en la planta más alta.  \n  \nLas colecciones de la galería provienen de adquisiciones, donaciones y confiscaciones de propiedad que pertenecen a organizaciones religiosas reprimidas. Antes de ser agrupados juntos en la sede actual, estas obras formaron parte de la pinacoteca de la Universidad Real, luego pasando a ser colecciones del Museo Nacional de Palermo. Las obras del arte islámico conservadas en la galería vienen principalmente de la ciudad de Palermo, donde fueron recuperadas durante trabajos de restauración y reestructuración arquitectónica de los sitios normando-árabes más importantes. Estos incluyen el Palacio de los Normandos (luego conocido como el Palacio Real), la iglesia de Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio llamada la Martorana, la iglesia de San Giacomo la Mazzara (el cual ya no existe) y la Casa Maturano, un edificio adyacente a la iglesia de Martorana. Otras piezas, particularmente aquellas de madera y cerámica, fueron compradas principalmente en el mercado de antigüedades egipcias por el entonces director del Museo Real, Antonio Salinas, entre el final del siglo XIX y el principio del siglo XX.","city":"Palermo","address":"Via Alloro, 4  \n90133  \nPalermo, Italy","website":"http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/palazzoabatellis/","phone":"+39 091 6230011","fax":"+39 091 6165305","email":"gall.abatellis@regione.sicilia.it"},"ee0a71f8-dc12-5d5d-b02a-4402969e8274":{"name":"Museo de Arte Islámico","description":"El Museo de Artes Islámicas de Kairuán está ubicado en Raqqada, en un expalacio presidencial que fue convertido en un centro cultural y educativo en 1986. Consta de cuatro salas en la planta baja y la planta superior.  \n  \nEn la planta baja se encuentran:  \n– La sala de cerámicas, que alberga objetos pertenecientes a las épocas aglabí, fatimí y hafsí. Los objetos de la época aglabí se caracterizan por el uso de esmaltes de brillo metálico, escritura cúfica arcaica e imágenes zoomórficas y antropomórficas estilizadas. Esta sala expone una colección de azulejos de Iznik procedentes de Anatolia.  \n  \n– La sala de la Mezquita Mayor, que acoge artículos religiosos, como frisos con motivos florales y epigráficos que forman parte de su techumbre. También destaca la reconstrucción de un *mihrab* de la mezquita y la puerta de la *maqsura* (zona privada).  \n  \n– La sala de inscripciones lapidarias que, aunque está en fase de desarrollo, contendrá una serie de lápidas del cementerio de Kairuán, al igual que incluirá la inscripción de la fundación de la ciudad de Sabra al-Mansuriya, marcada por su estilo de escritura y su imponente tamaño.  \n  \n– La sala de Sabra al-Mansuriya, que se espera que reciba objetos del yacimiento de Sabra, pero que por ahora alberga el horno de fundición encontrado en dicho yacimiento.  \n  \nEn el piso superior:  \nLas vitrinas en la sala de monedas y joyería conservan una gran colección de monedas que datan de las épocas aglabí, fatimí, hafsí y otomana, evidenciando su evolución en el tiempo. Esta sala también contiene objetos de vidrio del yacimiento de Sabra y la lámpara de al-Muizz.  \n  \nLa sala de manuscritos reúne una abundante colección de folios de Corán en pergamino procedentes de la biblioteca de la Mezquita Mayor de Kairuán, los cuales permiten apreciar la evolución de los estilos de escritura y ornamentación (siglos III-XIII / IX-XIX). La colección tiene un prestigio único gracias al famoso \"Corán azul\" del siglo IV / X. Estos folios están encuadernados en cuero con diseños florales y geométricos.  \n  \nUna exposición como esta nos permite interpretar la historia de la ciudad de Kairuán. La nueva sala de Sabra, la sala de inscripciones lapidarias y la sala de la Mezquita Mayor de Kairuán contribuirán a nuestra comprensión.","city":"Kairouan","address":"Musée des arts islamiques  \nKairouan-Raqqada","phone":"+216 77 228126","fax":"+216 77 228469"}}