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From the top floor there is a wonderful view of the city.  \n  \nNowadays there is a new centre, the Urbi Scalabis Interpretation Centre located in the Portas de Sol Garden, where the history of Santarém’s evolution and development is explored.  \n  \nAll these centres combine traditional methods used for museum display with interactive equipment through which visitors learn, explore and enjoy the museum experience.  \n  \nRegarding the Anselmo Braamcamp Freire House-Museum, located in the same building as the public library. Both of them came as result of the legacy left to the city by Anselmo Braamcamp Freire: the house, books, furniture and art collection. Braamcamp Freire was an early 20th-century politician and humanist. He had real concern for human rights and other cultural issues; a defender of free access to information and knowledge. This is the main reason he left his assets to the city. He believed that the whole population should have access, through a public library, to books and artworks. (Written by Helena Vicente)","city":"Santarém","address":"Praça do Município  \n2005-245","website":"http://www.cm-santarem.pt","phone":"+351 243 304 200","email":"geral@cm-santarem.pt"},"035b4efa-ef31-5692-b2e2-aea30f71fa88":{"name":"Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts – Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation (RESSF)","description":"The RESSF is a private law and public utility institution founded in 1953 as a result of Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva’s donations of the Azurara Palace and its decorative art collection. The Foundation’s mission is to protect, sponsor, disseminate and pass on knowledge and know-how in the decorative arts – movable and immovable heritage – in all aspects, musicological, academic, technical and restoration.  \n  \nThe foundation’s structure is as follows: the Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts; 18 arts and crafts workshops; the school; and a conservation and restoration department.  \n  \nThis original organic model of the institution produces a dynamic relationship between the Museum, the school and the workshops, demonstrating not only a groundbreaking spirit but also the integrated approach that is the basis of the Foundation’s establishment. Moreover, RESSF’s acknowledgement that the artistic and heritage dimensions must be inseparable from training, qualification and dissemination of know-how, has provided additional patrimonial value.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Largo das Portas do Sol, 2  \n1100-411 Lisbon  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.fress.pt","phone":"+351 21 881 46 00","email":"museu@fress.pt; geral@fress.pt"},"0568b6d0-c08b-5443-8e4a-57ba3acd5c27":{"name":"The National Museum","description":"The National Museum in Belgrade was established on 10 May 1844. It is the oldest, largest and main museum in Serbia. Intense activity in the field of collecting and collection development, exhibitions, together with research and publishing activities, has made the museum the centre of information on particular national values, but also of European cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe multifaceted museum is dedicated to the protection, interpretation and promotion of the multicul-tural heritage of the central Balkans and Europe. The museum collects, preserves and protects ob-jects and improves knowledge. It interprets historical and contemporary culture and national identity and serves as a source of knowledge and an active centre of learning in the community and environ-ment. The museum’s vision is to be the most important museological centre in the Balkans, a role model for other museums in the country and the region. It should be a national cultural centre of re-gional and global significance, a favourite destination for Serbia’s own citizens and tourists from around the world, known to the public. It should stimulate curiosity and inspire.  \n  \nThe museum is rich with around 500,000 objects in collections of prehistory, Greek and Roman art, the Middle Ages, and painting of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, graphics, sculptures, all organ-ised into departments of archeology, numismatics, Middle Ages, in recent history. The museum con-tains the Centre for Conservation and Restoration, Education Department, Library, Department of Documentation as well as departments for the realisation of programmes and numerous ancillary ser-vices. The National Museum in Belgrade includes the following exhibition spaces: Museum of Vuk and Dositej, Gallery of Frescoes, Archaeological Museum in Djerdap, Memory Museum of Nadezda and Rastko Petrovic.","city":"Belgrade","address":"Trg Republike, 1a  \n11000 Belgrade  \nSerbia","website":"http://www.narodnimuzej.rs/","phone":"+381 11 330 6000","email":"kontakt@narodnimuzej.rs"},"05962a8b-bfa0-546b-b0fe-325dd90488cc":{"name":"Vehbi Koç Foundation Sadberk Hanim Museum","description":"Sadberk Hanım Museum opened in October 1980 as Turkey’s first private museum, established by the Vehbi Koç Foundation to exhibit the collection of Sadberk Koç, the wife of Vehbi Koç. Today the museum holds over 18,000 items in its Turkish Islamic and archaeological collections. The museum gives priority to outstanding examples of Ottoman period works. In particular, its collections of İznik tiles and ceramics and Ottoman period women’s costume and embroidery rank among the best in the world. The collections of Anatolian and Turkish objects are arranged chronologically, from 6,000 BC to the present day.  \n  \nAs well as archaeological and early Islamic items, the museum collects the finest examples of works of art ranging from calligraphy to silk fabrics produced over the six centuries of the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Piyasa Caddesi, 25-29  \nBüyükdere Sarıyer  \n34453 Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.sadberkhanimmuzesi.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 242 38 13 / 14","email":"shm@biri.com.tr"},"0861be47-3ebb-54de-98c6-63d82061a5f8":{"name":"Topkapı Palace Museum","description":"Topkapı Palace, the administrative and residential palace of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul, was completed by AH 882 / AD 1478 after the city had been conquered by Mehmed II. It was used continuously by the Ottoman rulers until they moved to the palaces built along the Bosphorus in the 13th / 19th century. After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey, the palace became a museum on 3 April 1924 by order of Atatürk.  \nThe palace became a grandiose, multi-functional structure through continual development and additional construction by different sultans, which also reflects the institutional structure of the Ottoman Empire. The splendour and multi-level structure of Ottoman protocol and hierarchy can clearly be seen in the architecture. Even the rise and the fall of the empire found its artistic expression in the palace. As well as being a stage for the dramatic events of the past, this palace is one of the few examples of its kind that survived along with its historical lifestyle.  \n  \nAmong the items exhibited in the museum are portraits and costumes of the sultans, Chinese and Japanese porcelains used in the palace, metal kitchenware, Yıldız porcelain and glassware, European porcelain and silver items, Islamic and Turkish weapons. Holy relics of Prophet Mohammed and the first caliphs that were brought from Medina in the early 10th / 16th century by Selim I are exhibited in the Holy Relics section. Among those relics are the mantle of the Prophet Mohammed, his swords and his foot print.  \n  \nFour thrones, aigrette-holders, the Topkapı dagger and the diamond of Kaşıkçı are the most famous examples of the items from the treasury of the Ottomans. The museum's archive holds important documents of correspondence of the Ottoman Sultans and its library contains famous manuscripts from the Byzantine, Islamic and Ottoman periods.  \n  \nTopkapı Palace Museum operates under the Directorate of National Palaces of the Presidency of the Republic.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sultanahmet  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/en","phone":"+90 212 512 04  80; +90 212 23","email":"info@ millisaraylar.gov.tr"},"10c0baa0-3ca1-5946-8afc-d104a0dd2390":{"name":"Aga Khan Museum","description":"The Aga Khan Museum presents and collects art from historically significant Muslim civilizations as well as contemporary Muslim communities and diasporas around the world.  \n  \nThe Aga Khan Museum has three primary exhibition spaces. On the first floor, the Collections Gallery and Bellerive Room are dedicated to showcasing the Museum’s Permanent Collection. In the Collections Gallery, visitors can enjoy rotating displays of nearly 200 masterpieces reflecting a broad range of artistic styles and representing more than ten centuries of human history. In the Bellerive Room, visitors are invited to explore selections from the impressive ceramic collection of the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan and Princess Catherine Aga Khan.  \n  \nThe core of its Permanent Collection — spanning a vast geographic area from Spain and North Africa in the west, across the Middle East, to South Asia and China in the east — was assembled by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933–2003), uncle of His Highness, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV. Prince Sadruddin began acquiring works of art in the 1950s while studying at Harvard University. Together with his wife, Princess Catherine Aga Khan, he continued to collect throughout his lifetime. His Highness the Aga Khan and his family have supported and expanded Prince Sadruddin’s collection since his death. Today, it represents the foundation of North America’s first museum dedicated exclusively to Islamic arts, where it is enhanced by superb objects from the private collections of Prince Amyn and His Highness the Aga Khan as well as new acquisitions, special exhibitions, and a rich roster of performances and public programs.  \n  \nOn the second floor, the Aga Khan Museum presents several special exhibitions each year that feature works from the Museum alongside art from partner museums and installations by contemporary artists. These displays are complemented by performing arts programs, lectures, and workshops.","city":"Toronto","address":"77 Wynford Drive,  \nToronto, ON  \nCanada","website":"https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/"},"113e7cf6-f7c2-53aa-9442-5229ced56c72":{"name":"Museum Rietberg","description":"The Museum Rietberg is one of the largest art museums in Switzerland and is administered by the City of Zurich. With a focus on traditional and contemporary arts and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania, it has some 23,000 objects and 37,000 ethnographic photographs in its collection. Most of the objects are on public display, either in the museum’s galleries or in its open storeroom.  \n  \nIn 1945, the City of Zurich bought the 67,000 square metres of the Rieterpark and the Villa Wesendonck. Then in 1949, the people of Zurich approved the plan to convert the Villa Wesendonck into a museum and to establish, at the same time, the Museum Rietberg. In 1952, the new museum finally opened its doors to the public. The complex consists of three nineteenth-century villas and a coach house, not to mention a recent underground extension opened in 2007.  \n  \nThe work of the Museum Rietberg is characterised by a high degree of professionalism, social inclusion, and diversity. The Museum aims to heighten awareness of the artistic achievements of individuals alongside those brought about by religious and social diversity. In so doing, it fulfils an important cultural mission in our increasingly globalised world.  \n  \nFurthermore, the Museum’s first-rate collection of international renown requires expert care, continuous academic study, including provenance research, while being actively expanded and managed. The institution ensures the transparency of the results of its research by making them largely available online.  \n  \nThe Museum Rietberg possesses both local and international connections with cultural institutions, collectors, and specialists in a variety of fields. It pursues a policy of long-term cooperation with countries of origin including Cameroon, India, Pakistan, and Peru.","city":"Zurich","address":"Gablerstrasse 15  \n8002 Zurich","website":"http://www.rietberg.ch","phone":"+41 44 415 31 31","email":"museum.rietberg@zuerich.ch"},"1232b5a2-7af1-5de4-a332-ff444943f8b0":{"name":"MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art","description":"The MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art – is one of the foremost museums of its kind in the world. The building located on Stubenring in the 1st district of Vienna was founded in 1863 as the k.k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry) and today houses a unique collection of applied arts, design, architecture and contemporary art.  \n  \nThe MAK collection encompasses European and international decorative arts ranging from the Early Middle Ages to the present. The museum's main holdings include textiles, ceramics, glass, furniture and metalwork as well as exquisite objects of the Wiener Werkstätte (craftworks) and Art Nouveau. Its collection of Oriental carpets and East Asian art are of the highest international significance.  \n  \nAmong the objects from the Islamic world, the collection of Oriental carpets is pre-eminent, and the museum holds the largest collection worldwide of paintings of the *Hamzanama* from the era of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. Important examples of the applied arts are preserved in the MAK Asia Collection, which most notably include objects from Iran and the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Vienna","address":"Stubenring, 5  \nA-1010 Vienna  \nAustria","website":"http://www.mak.at","phone":"+43 1 711 36-248","email":"office@MAK.at"},"127e31d2-7caf-5a5e-92a4-86a95c9fe043":{"name":"Sorolla Museum","description":"Housed in the Sorolla family mansion, the museum has been left almost exactly as it was when the artist’s wife Clotilde bequeathed it to the state in 1925. It is as though the family has just left, with Joaquin Sorolla’s brushes, palettes and personal possessions still in place.  \n  \nThe three-storey mansion and lush garden functioned as inspiration, studio and home. The artist’s works are displayed in the three studios he designed alongside his family’s living quarters.  \n  \nFull of movement and colour Sorolla’s paintings bring the beach to central Madrid. Fishermen and sailors rub shoulders with elegant ladies and children in scenes that bridge the gap between social classes. From social realism to landscapes, from portraits of wealthy madrileños to scenes of Andalusian courtyards, Sorolla was an incredibly versatile artist.","city":"Madrid","address":"General Martínez Campos, 37  \n28010 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museosorolla.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 91 310 15 84","email":"fundacionmuseosorolla@gmail.com"},"142c7370-b64b-5389-a72b-c37c7b2674be":{"name":"Philadelphia Museum of Art","description":"**An Overview of the Museum's History**  \n  \nThe Museum began as a legacy of the great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, held in Fairmount Park. At the conclusion of the celebrations, Memorial Hall--which had been constructed as the Exhibition's art gallery-- remained open as the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art \"for the improvement and enjoyment of the people of the Commonwealth\".  \n  \nIn the first few decades, the collections consisted of objects of an industrial nature, as well as fine and decorative art objects such as European ceramics. Books were also among the Museum's earliest acquisitions, as were antique furniture, enamels, carved ivories, jewelry, metalwork, glass, pottery, porcelain, textiles, and paintings.  \n  \nIn the early 1900s, the Museum published its first collection handbook and initiated an Education program for the general public. It wasn't long before a Membership program was in place, and plans for a new building gained momentum in the following decade.  \n  \nDirector Fiske Kimball set the tone for a new era in the 1920s, and the opening of the new building on Fairmount--what is now the Main Building--opened with an attendance record of one million visitors in its first year. Valiant marketing efforts and the skillful leadership of President J. Stogdell Stokes helped to keep the Museum vital during the Great Depression of the 1930s, while the 1940s witnessed extraordinary growth in the collections with a number of important gifts--including the John D. McIlhenny Collection and the George Grey Barnard Collection.  \n  \nAcquisitions of the 1950s, such as the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection and the A.E. Gallatin Collection, assured the Museum's prominence as a place in which to see masterpieces of early modern art. A number of period rooms were opened to the public as well, and the decade even saw the gift of Grace Kelly's wedding dress following her royal 1956 wedding to Prince Rainier III of Monaco.  \n  \nConservation of objects and the renovation of the building were themes of the 1960s, with major gifts including The Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson, Jr. Collection, The Samuel S. White III and Vera White Collection, 71 objects from designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic *Étant donnés*. Renovation was a continued theme in the 1970s, as the institution prepared for grand celebrations in honor of the Museum's Centennial and the nation's Bicentennial.  \n  \nThe 1980s witnessed still more growth, with acquisitions ranging from Edgar Degas’s *After the Bath* to Cy Twombly's *Fifty Days at Iliam*. During the 1990s, the Museum made great technological strides as it prepared to leap into the 21st century. Many operations became computerized, greater energy-saving measures were implemented, and new enhancements and re-organization projects were seen both inside the galleries and outside on the grounds.  \n  \nThe Museum transitioned into the new millennium with ease, and continued to navigate the changes that the first decade would bring with grace and strength. Now, with an astonishing history behind it, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is poised to meet the decades to come as one of the nation's foremost destinations in which to see world-class art.","city":"Philadelphia","address":"2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway  \nPhiladelphia, PA 19130","website":"https://www.philamuseum.org/","phone":"215 763 8100","email":"eaartinfo@philamuseum.org"},"1b9d91b0-8fed-543e-bf14-fad63a660405":{"name":"Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts","description":"The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts (JNGFA) is a leading contemporary art museum in Amman, established in 1980 by the Royal Society of Fine Arts. Its mission is to promote cultural diversity and highlight art from the Arab and developing worlds. Located in the historic Jabal al-Weibdeh district, the gallery spans two buildings connected by a beautiful sculpture park and serene Japanese garden.  \n  \nThe JNGFA houses an impressive permanent collection of over 3000 works, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, graphic art, video art and installations. The collection features pieces by more than 800 artists from over 60 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and Australia. This vast and diverse compilation makes the gallery a significant global reference for contemporary art.  \n  \nIn addition to its permanent collection, the gallery regularly hosts a wide array of rotating exhibitions, artist residencies and community workshops. An on-site café offers visitors a spectacular view of the city and garden, while a gift shop sells unique artworks and handcrafted goods. In 2009, the JNGFA launched its innovative Mobile Museum, a van converted into a traveling gallery that brings art and workshops to rural villages across Jordan. This outreach program demonstrates the gallery’s commitment to expanding access to art beyond the capital and fostering cultural appreciation nationwide.","city":"Amman","address":"Jabal Al Weibdeh  \nHusni Fareez Street - Building no. 6  \nAmman 11191 Jordan","website":"https://nationalgallery.org","phone":"+962 6 4630128","email":"info@nationalgallery.org"},"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"},"20190831-5270-5e5f-ba86-f9602f2b385f":{"name":"National Picture Gallery","description":"The Pinacoteca Nazionale (National Picture Gallery), holding one of the most significant European art collections, was created in 1808 as the Academy of Fine Arts Gallery and became an independent museum in 1882.  \n  \nThe pictures housed in the museum date from the 13th to the 18th centuries. The most significant pictures of the Trecento are by Pseudo-Jacopino, Vitale, Simone dei Crocefissi, Jacopo di Paolo, Giotto and Lorenzo Veneziano, together with one of the richest Italian collections of 14th-century detached frescoes (for example, those from the Church of Mezzaratta).  \n  \nThe Renaissance section holds pictures by Vivarini, Francesco del Cossa, Lorenzo Costa, Pietro Perugino and Raphael, anticipating masterpieces by Parmigianino and Titian.  \nThe extremely rich 17th-century section is formed of rooms dedicated to the Carracci, Guido Reni, Guercino, Domenichino and Alessandro Tiarini.  \n  \nThe visit ends with Emilian 18th-century painters (Crespi, Creti and Gandolfi).  \n  \nThe extensive collection in the Department of Prints and Drawings on the second floor is open to the public by appointment only.  \n  \nThe Pinacoteca Nazionale (National Picture Gallery), refurbished in the 1960s, is housed in the former Jesuit Novitiate, which since 1804 was the seat of the Academy of Fine Arts.  \n  \nThe celebrated Bolognese Ancien Régime Zambeccari Collection is housed in a detached seat of the gallery at Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande – decorated with the frescoes by Domenico Maria Canuti, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Donato Creti.","city":"Bologna","address":"Via Belle Arti, 56  \n40126 Bologna  \nItaly","website":"http://www.pinacotecabologna.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 051 420 9411","email":"sbsae-bo@beniculturali.it"},"2199ae06-0841-5113-9fe0-9d189579a6cf":{"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"},"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"},"2b1c0dc0-0010-5164-be2c-49145ffe45bb":{"name":"Museum of Macedonia","description":"The National Museum of Macedonia is a complex museum institution comprising the museums of History, Ethnography and Art History. The museum collects, researches, maintains, exhibits and publishes on objects of movable heritage in these domains. It preserves evidence of the way of life and culture in these territories from the settling of Slavs in the 6th century AD till the end of World War II. The icon gallery exhibits a collection of medieval icons including several masterpieces of Byzantine art. The highlight of the permanent display is the icon of the Virgin of Pelagonia painted by Makarie in 1422. The ethnological exhibition takes pride in the magnificent collections of folk costumes, traditional jewellery, traditional architecture, intangible heritage and musical instruments, traditional weaving, crafts and traditional husbandry.  \n  \nThe museum also includes the Documentation Section, Conservation Lab and advanced Marketing Services. The Educational Section in the museum provides guided tours and carries out elaborate educational projects focusing on different target groups.  \n  \nExtensive publishing activities have been developed throughout the years. The Museum of Macedonia has issued numerous exhibition catalogues, periodicals, monographs, studies and other publications. These are available in the museum shop, which also organises production, sales and distribution of replicas of the most outstanding museum items. All the products in the shop can be purchased on the Internet and delivered to any address.","city":"Skopje","address":"Josif Mihajlovic, 7  \n1000 Skopje  \nRepublic of Macedonia (FYROM)","phone":"+389 2 3116 044","email":"musmk@t-home.mk"},"2bb1dd80-9c9b-5b6c-95f5-603929bd863d":{"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.","city":"London","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nLondon SW7 2RL  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 20 7942 2000","email":"contact@vam.ac.uk"},"2cdbceaa-4a4e-5e2e-9417-264e733de097":{"name":"Austrian Military Museum / Institute of Military History","description":"The Museum of Military History, one of the most important history museums in the world, is situated right in the centre of the Arsenal. In five major sections the museum shows the history of the Habsburg Empire from the end of the 16th century until 1918 and Austria's fate after the dissolution of the monarchy up to the year 1945. About 500 years of Austrian and European history are depicted in the collections exhibited in the main building, which, to the present day, has kept its character of an artistic synthesis, making visible, by means of thousands of original exhibits, a part of world cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe Military History Museum was built according to plans of Ludwig Foerster and Theophil Hansen from 1850 to 1856 and was thus the first Viennese museum. The styles of this town's oldest historic building range from Byzantine, Hispano-Moorish to Neo-Gothic.","city":"Vienna","address":"Arsenal Object, 1A  \n1030 Wien  \nAustria","website":"www.hgm.at/en/","phone":"+43 1 79561 0","email":"contact@hgm.at"},"2d1fcee2-b5ee-57c9-9036-8389d4947106":{"name":"Budapest History Museum","description":"In 2007 the Budapest History Museum celebrated the 120th anniversary of its foundation and the 100th anniversary of its first exhibition. The state-sponsored Museum is located at 10 sites among which are three museums – the Royal Palace, the Kiscell Museum and the Aquincum Museum – there are also the Turkish Burial Chapel of Gül Baba, the Medieval Synagogue, Hercules Villa and the Roman Baths.  \n  \nThe archaeologists at the Budapest History Museum lead excavations within the the capital and its surroundings, collect objects, documents and other works of art, and carry out research into the history of Budapest from the Palaeolithic era to the present. The museum publishes periodicals and other papers on the history of the city, and its experts participate in international research projects.  \n  \nIncorporated into the former Royal Castle, the Medieval Palace of Buda, was the seat of the Hungarian kings. Here, Permanent exhibitions present a historical survey of Buda and Pest from the Palaeolithic era to the end of the Avar period, and the history of Buda and Pest from the 17th to the 20th century. Famous Gothic statues found in the late 1970s are on display as are relics from the Middle Ages.  \n  \nIn the Baroque Monastery and Church of Kiscell, a permanent exhibition elucidates the history of the capital from the 19th to the 20th century, together with a gallery showing a selection of artworks by 19th- and 20th- century artists.  \n  \nThe Aquincum archaeological site provides working evidence of recent excavations, while a permanent exhibition in the late 19th-century museum building displays objects excavated on this site dating from the Antique Roman period. A new exhibition hall is currently under construction in a former electricity station built in 1930; it will provide a new, extensive exhibition on the history of ancient times.  \n  \nTemporary exhibitions are held in rooms on the ground floor and in the first-floor exhibition hall.","city":"Budapest","address":"Budapest History Museum  \nBuda Castle Building \"E\"  \nSzent György tér 2  \nBudapest 1014  \nHungary","website":"http://www.btm.hu","phone":"+36 1 487 8800","email":"btm@mail.btm.hu"},"31de84d4-3de2-5ea1-b1d4-c8712cbcb314":{"name":"Museum of Arts and Crafts","description":"The Museum of Arts and Crafts was founded in 1880 by the Croatian Art Society.  \n  \nThe organisation of the Museum derived from the theoretical foundations of the Arts and Crafts movement. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the Arts and Crafts School was opened in 1882. The new headquarters building of the Museum and the School was completed in 1888, in the old Fair Square, today's Marshal Tito Square.  \n  \nThe basic collections of museum objects were created mostly from the donations of patriots. They were augmented through the purchase of several important collections from private collectors and also by programmed acquisitions, both within the country and from abroad.  \n  \nUp to World War One the Museum's scientific, professional and collection policy respected the conception laid down in the original motives underlying its establishment.  \n  \nBetween the two World Wars the concept of the Museum changed from being a collection of items to a cultural, historical and artistic institution.  \n  \nAfter World War Two the concept of modern museum communication became important, with many activities intended to involve the public.  \n  \nThe permanent display, opened in 1962, was of particular importance. Its backbone was the collection of furniture which, guided by the idea of a complex art museum that values equally all the fields of plastic arts design, was displayed in synthesis with other objects.  \n  \nThe present permanent display, created in 1995, has built on the positive experiences of earlier displays and has been broadened by new thematic units. With modern spatial differentiation and new multimedia contents the museum has become an experience which, by placing the visitor in an atmosphere of tangible historical heritage, essentially determines him or her as a cultural being.  \n  \nFor the Baroque period the Museum's holdings include many outstanding European artefacts, especially in the applied arts, including one of the largest collections of Baroque church art in Croatia.","city":"Zagreb","address":"Trg maršala Tita, 10  \n10000 Zagreb  \nCroatia","website":"http://www.muo.hr","phone":"+385 1 4882111","email":"muo@muo.hr"},"36670bdc-150b-5f89-8906-79b8e4e2518d":{"name":"The David Collection","description":"The David Collection was founded by C. L. David (1878-1960), a prominent Danish attorney, who had begun to collect fine and decorative art in the 1910s. In this last field, he was aided by directors of the Danish Museum of Art and Design, who gradually also guided him to another area that had previously attracted little interest in Denmark: Islamic art. The Islamic part of David’s collection was, however, still rather modest at the time of his death in 1960.  \n  \nA bachelor and childless, C. L. David left his Copenhagen townhouse and works of art to a private foundation, along with financial means that made it possible to expand his collections. From the 1970s, a decision was consequently made to place increasing emphasis on expanding the Islamic holdings. The Islamic Collection has grown to become not only the museum’s most important, with over 4,000 objects, but also Scandinavia’s most significant in its field.  \n  \nThe Islamic Collection has been built up in keeping with the classical pattern for Western collections of this kind. It embodies works of art from Spain in the west to India in the east, but not works from Sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia. Chronologically, the collection ranges from works dating to shortly after the advent of Islam to the middle of the 19th century. The collection encompasses all types of materials, but since the small rooms of 19th-century buildings like C. L. David’s townhouse, now the museum’s home, make it impossible to exhibit large objects, the museum consequently has only a modest collection of carpets, and they are either of small size or fragments of larger carpets.  \n  \nFollowing the museum’s refurbishment and reinstallation of its collections in 2009, the David Collection is now divided into three parts: European 18th-Century Art, Danish Early Modern Art, and Islamic Art. The collection of Islamic Art is presented in a new, contemporary setting, enhanced by digital and other modern techniques used to elucidate the objects on display. The backbone of the collection is 20 chronological/geographical sections, but the display also contains special galleries for light-sensitive materials as well as others dedicated to themes such as cultural history and artistic techniques.","city":"Copenhagen","address":"Kronprinsessegade, 30  \nCopenhagen  \nDenmark  \n  \nPostal address: Kronprinsessegade 30-32","website":"http://www.davidmus.dk/en","phone":"+45 33734949","email":"museum@davidmus.dk"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"The British Museum","description":"The British Museum was established by Act of Parliament in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all “studious and curious persons”. The founding collection was that of Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy physician and collector. The original British Museum comprised three departments: Printed Books; Manuscripts (including coins); and Natural and Artificial Productions, which included everything from sculpture to mineral samples and zoological specimens. In January 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public.  \n  \nAs a product of the Enlightenment, the museum's job was to be a storehouse of knowledge for the use and benefit of the public, advancing all fields of scholarship. The museum therefore aimed to collect all kinds of material; it remains one of the few places in the world in which it is possible to see the world under one roof. During the 19th century the museum acquired representative collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, as well as material from across the Islamic world.  \n  \nThe museum itself had to grow to offer space to display the growing collections. Between 1823 and 1847 the original building was replaced by four large wings built around a central courtyard. In 1854 construction began on the iconic Round Reading Room in the central courtyard. The natural history collections were given their own home in the new Museum of Natural History in 1881. By 1973 the British Library and British Museum were administratively separated, and in 1999 the new British Library building opened at St Pancras. The British Museum site was expanded and modernised. In 2000 the Great Court opened, envisioned as a sunny piazza at the centre of the building, with up-to-date facilities such as lecture theatres, an education centre and facilities for school children, as well as restaurants and shops. In 2014 the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre opened to the public, offering state-of-the-art facilities to care for, manage, research and display the collections.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"40411e66-c284-545a-b2ef-8e0e8a2c7f6e":{"name":"MKG Museum for Applied Arts","description":"The Museum for Applied Arts (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg) is a museum of applied arts highlighting design, photography, fashion and graphic arts and crafts. The MKG was inaugurated in 1877 under its founding director Justus Brinckmann (1843-1915).  \n  \nThe Museums houses about 500,000 objects of art and design, covering a geographical scope from Europe, the Mediterranean Regions, to West and Asia. Over 4000 years of history of design and culture are presented, from Antiquity to the Present Age.  \n  \nThe Islamic Art wing is the oldest of its kind in Germany and has been part of the museum since its foundation. Justus Brinckmann acquired objects labelled Islamic Art in the context of the World Fairs in Vienna (1873) and Paris (1889). The initial focus of the collection were tiles and ceramics, which were acquired as decorative art.  \n  \nThe collection is significant for its outstanding individual objects. For example the *Divan Muhibbi* an illuminated volume of poetry (1554) by Ottoman Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent or parts of the tile paneling of Buyan Kuli Khan’s mausoleum in Bukhara (Uzbekistan), fragments of a 16th century. Another masterpiece of the collection is a Safavid royal carpet.","city":"Hamburg","address":"Steintorplatz,  \nHamburg  \nGermany","website":"http://www.mkg-hamburg.de/","phone":"+49 (0)40 428134-880","email":"service@mkg-hamburg.de"},"4116062f-9ddb-5ae6-bca9-7f7024adf5a8":{"name":"MATHAF","description":"Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art serves as the Arab world’s leading museum of modern and contemporary art. The museum offers a welcoming, vibrant environment that invites evolving discussions about modern art in the region and beyond. Home to a permanent collection that offers a distinctively unique comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art from North Africa and the Middle East, Mathaf (“museum” in Arabic) also performs an important role as a centre for dialogue and scholarship and a resource for fostering creativity. Mathaf was opened by Qatar Museums (QM) in partnership with Qatar Foundation (QF) in 2010 and is located in Doha’s Education City.  \n  \nOver the past 10 years, Mathaf has made major contributions to research and debate around modern and contemporary art. The Museum evolved into a meeting point for art practitioners and scholars from across the region around education programmes, conferences and publications. In looking ahead to the next decade, Mathaf will continue to serve as a dynamic platform for artists, facilitating the creation and exploration of contemporary works that presents and examines their society and culture while further expanding its global reach through the large-scale digitisation of the museum, providing experience and knowledge of the Mathaf collection through the texts of the Mathaf Encyclopedia specialised in art history, criticism and thought.","city":"Doha","address":"Education City, Qatar Foundation, P.O. Box 2777, Doha, Qatar","website":"http:// mathaf.org.qa/en/","phone":"+974 4402 8830","email":"mathaf@qm.org.qa"},"42fb6391-e1f6-527a-85db-f9638b02d667":{"name":"Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia, University of Manouba","description":"The Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia (ISHCT) is a research centre for contemporary history in Tunisia. It houses a microfilm archive, audio-visual witness records, a collection of photographs and a library available on request to researchers, journalists, activists and students wishing to conduct in-depth research into the history of the colonisation and decolonisation of Tunisia. There are four research and study units (UER) bringing together historical researchers dedicated to using the different resources to improve understanding of this period of Tunisian history: UER Archives, UER Repositories of Memory and Museums, UER Oral History and UER History. Through the publication of a review (RAWAFID), conference papers, seminars and scientific meetings, memories from witnesses and document collections, ISHCT hopes to enhance the university library in line with advances in documentation and  methodology, thereby helping to stimulate research into this historical period by setting up scientific exchanges in Tunisia and abroad.","city":"Tunis","address":"Campus Universitaire de la Manouba,  \n2010 La Manouba  \nTunis  \nTunisia","phone":"+216 716 009 50","email":"ishmn@ishmn.rnu.tn"},"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"},"48a95fcc-1e73-5c2a-b2b7-c1e8072a42e8":{"name":"MATHAF","description":"Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art serves as the Arab world’s leading museum of modern and contemporary art. The museum offers a welcoming, vibrant environment that invites evolving discussions about modern art in the region and beyond. Home to a permanent collection that offers a distinctively unique comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art from North Africa and the Middle East, Mathaf (“museum” in Arabic) also performs an important role as a centre for dialogue and scholarship and a resource for fostering creativity. Mathaf was opened by Qatar Museums (QM) in partnership with Qatar Foundation (QF) in 2010 and is located in Doha’s Education City.  \n  \nOver the past 10 years, Mathaf has made major contributions to research and debate around modern and contemporary art. The Museum evolved into a meeting point for art practitioners and scholars from across the region around education programmes, conferences and publications. In looking ahead to the next decade, Mathaf will continue to serve as a dynamic platform for artists, facilitating the creation and exploration of contemporary works that presents and examines their society and culture while further expanding its global reach through the large-scale digitisation of the museum, providing experience and knowledge of the Mathaf collection through the texts of the Mathaf Encyclopedia specialised in art history, criticism and thought.","city":"Doha","address":"Education City, Qatar Foundation, P.O. Box 2777, Doha, Qatar","website":"http:// mathaf.org.qa/en/","phone":"+974 4402 8830","email":"mathaf@qm.org.qa"},"52bf77ae-f600-5ec2-b96d-71a387b2a8ca":{"name":"National Museum of Romanticism","description":"The Romantic Museum was created by the 2nd Marquis de la Vega Inclán (1858–1942) and donated to the state in 1921.  \n  \nThe building was built in 1776 by architect Manuel Rodriguez. The museum opened in 1924 with its founder’s artworks augmented by donations, such as paintings by Alenza donated by the Marquis de Cerralbo, and items belonging to several great writers.  \n  \nThe museum became a meeting place for intellectuals. During the Civil War, its importance was highlighted by the appointment of the iconic literary figure Rafael Alberti as director. Over the years, the collection has been enriched by purchases, donations and deposits.  \n  \nThe Romantic Museum closed in 2001 for complete renovation, reopening in 2009, with a new name, the Museum of Romanticism, more in line with its contents.","city":"Madrid","address":"Calle San Mateo, 13  \n28004 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museoromanticismo.mcu.es","phone":"+34 914 481 045; 914 480 163","email":"informacion.romanticismo@mecd.es"},"5a99ecbe-b976-5037-8760-a07c629142f6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia - from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are housed in the Neue Burg (i.e. the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury), and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Vienna","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"5c5c9b16-1cb4-5775-8e5a-f521c4d1c2c0":{"name":"Islamic Museum of Australia","description":"The Islamic Museum of Australia is more than a museum – it’s a place where stories are shared, curiosity is welcomed, and connections are made. It invites people of all walks of life to step inside and discover the beauty, depth, and diversity of Islamic faith, history, and culture. Visitors leave with more than just knowledge; they leave with a sense of belonging, understanding, and appreciation for the threads that tie us together as a community.  \n  \nThrough art, history, and interactive displays, the museum celebrates both the global richness of Islam and the unique contributions of Muslim Australians. From intricate calligraphy and centuries-old traditions to contemporary creativity and everyday stories, each gallery offers a chance to see the world through a different lens. It’s a space where the past and present meet, and where heritage and innovation sit side by side.  \n  \nAt its heart, the museum is about people – connecting cultures, sparking conversations, and building empathy. Whether you come to learn something new, to share an experience with loved ones, or simply to enjoy the beauty of the exhibits, you’ll find a welcoming environment that encourages dialogue and inspires reflection. The museum reminds us that learning can be both joyful and enlightening, and that art and storytelling have the power to bring communities closer together.","city":"Victoria","address":"15 Anderson Road, Thornbury  \nVictoria 3071","website":"http://www.islamicmuseum.org.au","phone":"1300 915 171 (local calls only","email":"admin@islamicmuseum.org.au"},"5c8c36bb-1ee8-5468-bdc7-ec865b742d71":{"name":"National Museum of Art of Romania","description":"The National Museum of Art of Romania was founded in 1948 with works drawn from local private and public collections, as well as from the royal collection. It has been housed ever since in the former royal palace situated in the very heart of Bucharest. The Museum is home to the largest and finest art collection in the country. The current holdings, which include over 100,000 works, are divided among five curatorial departments, one of them dedicated to Oriental art.  \n  \nSince its establishment in 1954, the Oriental art collection of the Museum has been steadily expanded and consolidated around two main areas of interest: Islamic art, on the one hand, Chinese and Japanese art, on the other. It is the largest Oriental collection housed by a Romanian museum, and it consists of items from the royal collection, the Toma Stelian Museum, as well as gifts and acquisitions. The Department of Oriental Art currently holds over 5,000 objects. The holdings of three other departments of the Museum, namely the Department of Medieval Romanian Art, that of Decorative Art, as well as the Art Collections Museum (which is part of the National Museum of Art of Romania) include notable Islamic artworks, some of which have been selected for this site.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition was closed for a much-needed ample renovation of the building, and will be redisplayed in newly refurbished areas in compliance with European standards of conservation. Meanwhile, exhibitions of Oriental art are being shown regularly. About four hundred carpets covering a wide geographical area and spanning four centuries are at the core of the collection of Islamic art. Even though less extensive, the collections of ceramics, embroideries, and metalwork boast some outstanding works, providing a meaningful insight into distinct areas of Islamic art.  \n  \nAlongside the Art Collections Museum, which holds a considerable number of Islamic artefacts donated over the years by Romanian art collectors, the National Museum of Art of Romania manages two other museums in Bucharest: K. H. Zambaccian Museum and Theodor Pallady Museum.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Calea Victoriei 49-53  \nsector 1  \n010063 Bucureşti","website":"https://www.mnar.arts.ro/en/","phone":"+40 21 313 30 30","email":"secretariat@art.museum.ro"},"5d522a8a-1898-5ba2-ad72-6707194ec569":{"name":"National Museum of Ancient Art ‒ MNAA","description":"Created in 1884, and housed in the Palácio Alvor for almost 130 years, the National Museum of Ancient Art ‒ MNAA ‒ has held its current title for more than a century. It is the home to Portugal’s most important public art collection, one that ranges from paintings to sculpture and gold and silverware, as well as decorative arts from Europe, Africa and the Far East.  \nComprising over 40,000 items, the MNAA collection has the largest number of works classified by the Portuguese State as “National treasures”. In its various sections, it also holds a number of major works of art in the context of world artistic heritage.  \n  \nAs a historical legacy (as a result of the incorporation of both the country’s ecclesiastical property and the contents of its royal palaces), the MNAA collection has been further enhanced over the years through generous donations and important purchases. The MNAA collection illustrates at a level of objective excellence some of the most accomplished and precious works of art produced by or accumulated in the above-mentioned ecclesiastical and royal properties in Portugal, between the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Contemporary Era.  \n  \nAs a major partner in international collaborations between museums, the MNAA historically has enjoyed a reputation and the respect among the world’s major national museums. The MNAA has helped establish the accepted norms for good practice in keeping with international standards, both in the area of conservation and museum management and under the scope of its educational services, which are considered a pioneering body in Portugal.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua das Janelas Verdes  \n1249‒017 Lisbon  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.museudearteantiga.pt/","phone":"+351 213 912 800","email":"geral@mnaa.dgpc.pt"},"6440f57d-bc25-5c0f-9b16-443be2f69b2a":{"name":"Khalili Family Trust – Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection","description":"In striving to provide a synoptic vision of the arts of the entire Islamic world, and since the 1970s, Professor Nasser D. Khalili has assembled his collection of Islamic art under the auspices of The Khalili Family Trust. With holdings of more than 28,000 objects documenting the range of artistic production of the Islamic lands over a period of some 1400 years, the Collection now ranks among the best in the world and represents a new generation of Islamic art collections.  \n  \nThe Collection includes an outstanding array of manuscripts of the Holy Qur’an and of illustrated manuscripts, and the coverage of the decorative arts – ceramics, textiles, glass, metalwork and lacquer as well as seals and coins – is comprehensive.  \n  \nThe holdings of manuscripts and folios of the Holy Qur’an are the first to have been assembled systematically in order to illustrate the whole history of Qur’an production, both in terms of time span and geographical range – from the 8th to the 20th centuries, and from Morocco to China. Similar sequences have been assembled for painting and the decorative arts. Glass, ceramics and metalwork, for example, are represented in the full range of techniques from the pre-Islamic period through to the 19th century.  \n  \nLater Islamic art has been given the same level of attention. The wealth of important objects and manuscripts from later periods in the Collection shows that much art worthy of our attention on aesthetic as well as historical and intellectual grounds was produced in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Another important art form of this period is Islamic lacquer, represented in the Collection by more than 500 examples.  \n  \nThe catalogue of the Collection is an unprecedented 27-volume series, of which several are now published, and when completed will form a unique survey of the field to date. *Studies in the Khalili Collection* is a second series of publications related to the Islamic art collection, presenting more detailed analysis of certain objects.  \n  \n**Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection**  \n  \nFor some 40 years, and under the auspices of The Khalili Family Trust, Professor Nasser D. Khalili has been actively involved in assembling a notable collection of objects relating to Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam and the one that lends itself most readily to artistic expression. With over 3000 objects, the Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection is now one of the largest and most important of its kind and includes major objects, many of which are unique.  \n  \nThe objects range in date from the 8th to the 20th centuries and geographically from China and India in the east to Morocco and the United Kingdom in the west. They include some 250 woven and embroidered textiles made for the two holy sanctuaries at Mecca and Medina, seven covers for the Egyptian and Syrian *mahmal*s, Qur’ans, illustrated manuscripts, scientific instruments, coins, paintings, rare books, prints, photographs and postcards, as well as important archival material and some unique historical documents.  \n  \nGiven its size and diversity, the Collection provides a comprehensive overview of Hajj, illustrating the religious, spiritual, cultural and artistic aspects of pilgrimage to the holy cities of Islam and the cosmopolitan nature of Hajj.  \n  \nFor several years now, the material has been undergoing a thorough programme of conservation which is soon to be completed, and research in preparation for its publication in a number of volumes is well advanced. The volumes will include contributions by a number of international scholars who are leading experts in the numerous disciplines that this subject evokes.","city":"London","website":"http://www.khalilicollections.org","email":"info@nourhouse.com"},"64c2796c-d403-5a23-958e-760dfdfdff22":{"name":"Sharjah Museums Authority","description":"The Sharjah Museums Authority was established in 2006 as an independent government department by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah.  \n  \nSharjah Museums Authority includes 16 museums covering Islamic art and culture, Arab and International, modern and contemporary art, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life and the history of Sharjah and the region.  \n  \nThe museum collections featured in this project come from: the Sharjah Art Museum, opened in April 1997 and the largest art museum in the Gulf with both temporary exhibitions and permanent collections by renowned artists; the Sharjah Heritage Museum, re-opened in the Heritage Area (Heart of Sharjah) in 2012 and dedicated to highlighting Sharjah’s rich traditions, customs and culture as a source of pride and inspiration to the people of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its visitors; the Sharjah Maritime Museum, first opened in the Heritage Area in early 2003 to highlight the maritime life of the UAE and – in improved and expanded form – relocated to the Al Khan area in 2009 due to the importance of the sea and its significance in the region’s heritage; and the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, opened in 2008 as the first of its kind in the UAE, featuring more than 5,000 artefacts from all over the Islamic World, arranged to celebrate Islamic Faith, Science and Technology and Art.  \n  \nThe purpose of the Sharjah Museums Authority as a whole is to deliver the highest quality of museums services for the people of the Emirate of Sharjah and all its visitors, through its facilities, exhibitions, programmes of learning, research and community outreach. Sharjah Museums Authority aims to achieve locally and internationally an understanding, appreciation and respect for Sharjah’s identity and for the value of its cultural and natural heritage.","city":"Sharjah","address":"Al-Layyeh, Sharjah  \nP.O. Box 39939  \nTurkey","website":"www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+971 65 56 60 02","email":"info@smd.gov.ae"},"66b9c3ea-8a0f-5e5a-bb44-96e499235d93":{"name":"The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)","description":"The PEF is the world's oldest society for the study of the Ancient Levant, established in 1865 as a non-political, non-religious society and funded by public subscription. A pioneer in the exploration and recording of the region, it houses a unique collection of written and drawn archives, photographs, paintings and sketches, scientific equipment, natural history, ethnographic and archaeological material relating to the work of PEF explorers and its associates during its 150-year history. Notable scholars include: Charles Wilson, Charles Warren, Kathleen Kenyon, Charles Watson, Walter Besant, Conrad Schick, Claude R. Conder, Charles Clermont-Ganneau, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Frederick Jones Bliss, T.E. Lawrence, C. Leonard Woolley, Olga Tufnell, John Garstang, William Simpson, William Flinders Petrie, Hilma Granqvist, John Crowfoot, R.A.S. Macalister, Duncan Mackenzie.","city":"London","address":"5-6 Dreadnought Walk  \nGreenwich  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"www.pef.org.uk/","phone":"+44 20 7935 5379","email":"execsec@pef.org.uk"},"6a05cd70-3f9b-5480-8f66-c26e05087784":{"name":"Museums' System of the Province of Bologna","description":"A museums’ network created by Provincia di Bologna, offering a virtual tour through over 100 museums within Bologna and the surrounding area from the Po Valley, and the verdant hills up to the Apennine Mountains. Many different collections have been gathered into one virtual museum, inviting visitors to discover a rich heritage along five thematic paths (Archaeology, Arts, History, Sciences and Identity), and four geographic routes (Bologna, Imola and its surrounds, the Plains, and the Apennine Mountains).  \n  \nOn the agenda, a rich menu to suit all tastes: an intriguing starter is offered by the Etruscan and Roman heritage, set against the vestiges of our prehistoric ancestors. The arts follow, including those of the Middle Ages, illuminated manuscripts; the genius of Vitale da Bologna and the world-renowned Bolognese painters, the Carracci to Giorgio Morandi; the tradition of excellence in music honoured by Mozart, Farinelli and Rossini. Then there is a focus on History with Bologna’s most ancient University and its undisputed supremacy in scientific investigation, encompassing Ulisse Aldrovandi’s herbarium as well as Galvani’s and Marconi’s experiments. Take in the captivating stories of Risorgimento (“Resurgence”) after almost four centuries of magnificent papal authority; the grand events of World War Two, for example the Autumn Campaign of 1944; the subsequent suffering of the people, the struggles and resistance. Last but not least, from those museums dedicated to rural and industrial archaeology, the identity and character of people as rooted in agriculture and handicrafts and the technological innovations of more recent times.","city":"Bologna","address":"Via de’ Castagnoli, 3  \n40126 Bologna  \nItaly","website":"http://www.cittametropolitana.bo.it/cultura/Engine/RAServePG.php/P/267811390414/T/Guida-Musei","phone":"+39 051 6598470","email":"sistemamusei@provincia.bologna.it"},"6a684aa0-d797-5e2f-bbf5-0594bda1b0b2":{"name":"Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts","description":"The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts (JNGFA) is a leading contemporary art museum in Amman, established in 1980 by the Royal Society of Fine Arts. Its mission is to promote cultural diversity and highlight art from the Arab and developing worlds. Located in the historic Jabal al-Weibdeh district, the gallery spans two buildings connected by a beautiful sculpture park and serene Japanese garden.  \n  \nThe JNGFA houses an impressive permanent collection of over 3000 works, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, graphic art, video art and installations. The collection features pieces by more than 800 artists from over 60 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and Australia. This vast and diverse compilation makes the gallery a significant global reference for contemporary art.  \n  \nIn addition to its permanent collection, the gallery regularly hosts a wide array of rotating exhibitions, artist residencies and community workshops. An on-site café offers visitors a spectacular view of the city and garden, while a gift shop sells unique artworks and handcrafted goods. In 2009, the JNGFA launched its innovative Mobile Museum, a van converted into a traveling gallery that brings art and workshops to rural villages across Jordan. This outreach program demonstrates the gallery’s commitment to expanding access to art beyond the capital and fostering cultural appreciation nationwide.","city":"Amman","address":"Jabal Al Weibdeh  \nHusni Fareez Street - Building no. 6  \nAmman 11191 Jordan","website":"https://nationalgallery.org","phone":"+962 6 4630128","email":"info@nationalgallery.org"},"6da08597-8da7-5d02-a911-09a5273c1265":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska Museet)**  \nBox 5428  \nNarvavägen 13–17  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955600  \n[www.historiska.se](http://www.historiska.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Ethnography (Etnografiska museet)**  \nDjurgårdsbrunnsvägen 34,  \nBox 27140,  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 010 4561299  \n[www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/](http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/)  \n  \n**National Museum of Fine Arts (Nationalmuseum)**  \nBox 16176  \n103 24 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Södra Blasieholmshamnen  \nTel.: +46 8 51954300  \n[www.nationalmuseum.se](http://www.nationalmuseum.se)  \n  \n**Royal Coin Cabinet (Kungl. Myntkabinettet)**  \nSlottsbacken 6,  \nBox 5428  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955300  \n[www.myntkabinettet.se](http://www.myntkabinettet.se)  \n  \n**Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren)**  \nSlottsbacken 3,  \n111 30 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 8 4023000  \n[www.lrk.lsh.se](http://www.lrk.lsh.se)  \n  \n**National Maritime Museum (Sjöhistoriska museet)**  \nBox 27131  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 24  \nTel.: +46 8 51954900  \n[www.sjohistoriska.se](http://www.sjohistoriska.se)  \n  \n**Army Museum (Armémuseum)**  \nBox 14095,  \n104 41 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Riddargatan 13  \nTel.: +46 8 51956310  \n[www.sfhm.se](http://www.sfhm.se)  \n  \n**Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet)**  \nFyrverkarbacken 13,  \nBox 12541,  \n102 29 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 010 4767000  \n[www.riksarkivet.se](http://www.riksarkivet.se)  \n  \n**Hallwyl Museum (Hallwylska Museet)**  \nHamngatan 4,  \n111 47 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 4023099  \n[http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se](http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Cultural History**  \nBox 1095  \n221 04 Lund  \nAddress for visitors:  \nTegnérsplatsen  \n223 50 Lund  \nTel.: +46 046 350400  \n[www.kulturen.com](http://www.kulturen.com)  \n  \n**Uppsala University Library**  \nBox 510,  \n751 20 Uppsala  \nAddress for visitors: Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1  \nTel.: +46 18 4713900  \n[www.ub.uu.se](http://www.ub.uu.se)"},"6dad7774-d6a4-55b6-8d2c-c7751bdd6b44":{"name":"Civic Museums of Ancient Art","description":"Three museums make up the Civic Museums of Ancient Art (Musei Civici d’Arte Antica) in Bologna. The Collezioni Comunali d’Arte (Municipal Art Collections) were instituted in 1936 in the Ancien Régime apartments of the papal legate in the City Hall. Housed here are works from the 13th to the 20th century. The collection – paintings, sculptures, furniture, furnishings and decorative objects – is the sum of 19th- and 20th-century bequests along with works that originally belonged to former ruling bodies of the city, including mythological and allegorical paintings (1713–1723) by Donato Creti. Works of the Emilian school (medieval painted and carved crosses; paintings by Vitale da Bologna, Jacopo di Paolo, Francia, Aspertini, Passerotti, the Carracci, Tiarini, Cagnacci, Crespi, Gandolfi and Palagi) are hung next to others by masters from all over Italy and abroad (Bonfigli, Moretti, Pirez, Signorelli, Bertoja, Gentileschi, Nuvolone, Hayez and Brullov). The rooms communicate the atmosphere of different artistic periods in Bolognese art.  \n  \nSince 1985, the Medieval Museum has been housed in the Renaissance Palazzo Ghisilardi. The items here come from several historical collections: the Baroque Wunderkammer of the Marquis Cospi; Luigi Ferdinando Marsili’s collection, one of the most important in Enlightenment Europe; collections of 19th-century artists (Baruzzi and Palagi). The Medieval sculpture department is at the heart the Museum’s identity. Among the masterpieces exhibited are examples of high Medieval craftsmanship, a cope embroidered in opus anglicanum with stories of the Life of Christ, a statue of Pope Boniface VIII in gilded copper, Gothic French ivories, important Renaissance and post-Renaissance items (weapons, armoury and glass) and Bolognese illuminated manuscripts. Renaissance and Baroque bronze sculptures include Giambologna’s model for the Neptune fountain, Algardi’s Saint Michael Archangel and Bernini’s bust of Pope Gregory XV Ludovisi.  \n  \nThe Davia Bargellini Museum was inaugurated in 1924 in the building of the same name. It includes a picture gallery (Vitale da Bologna, Michele di Matteo, Jacopo di Paolo, Prospero and Lavinia Fontana, Passerotti, Franceschini, Giuseppe Maria and Luigi Crespi) and a rich selection of objects of applied art recreating an authentic 18th-century Bolognese setting. Some items are particularly rare, such as the marionette theatre and a miniature of an 18th-century private house. Bolognese Baroque sculpture is represented by a wide display of works, mainly terracotta, dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries.","city":"Bologna","address":"Via Manzoni, 4  \n40121 Bologna  \nItaly","website":"http://www.museibologna.it/arteantica","phone":"+39 051 2193916","email":"museiarteantica@comune.bologna.it"},"6e625609-8a75-546d-af5c-bb58272bceda":{"name":"Saint Louis Art Museum","description":"Mission  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum collects, presents, interprets, and conserves works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures; educates, inspires discovery, and elevates the human spirit; and preserves a legacy of artistic achievement for the people of St. Louis and the world.  \n  \nHistory  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States. This Museum’s comprehensive collections bear witness to the inspirational and educational goals to which its founder aspired and the moral and democratic imperatives he embraced. What began as a collection of assorted plaster casts, electrotype reproductions, and other examples of good design in various media rapidly gave way to a great and varied collection of original works of art spanning five millennia and six continents. Today the quality and breadth of the Museum’s collection secure for it a place among the very best institutions of its kind.  \n  \n(*Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collection*)**","city":"Saint Louis","address":"1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park  \nSt. Louis, Missouri 63110","website":"http://www.slam.org","phone":"+1 314.721.0072","email":"info@slam.org"},"70c67f69-48f3-55ab-abd2-0e678dca303b":{"name":"National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado Museum","description":"The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado Museum was established on 26 May 1911 in Lisbon. The museum houses a collection of Portuguese contemporary art ranging from the 1850s to the present (paintings, sculptures, drawings, videos, photographs and installations). The museum is housed in the Convent of St Francis, next to the Academy of Fine Arts. Located in the historic centre of the city, the museum is a must for those interested in Portuguese art. The permanent collection boasts paintings, sculptures and drawings dating up to 1975, featuring 19th-century prominent Romantic and Symbolist authors alongside 20th-century Modernist and conceptual art exhibits. Works from 1975 onwards are displayed in temporary exhibitions.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua Serpa Pinto, 4  \n1200-444 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.museuartecontemporanea.pt","phone":"+351 213 432 148","email":"museuchiado@mnac.dgpc.pt"},"75fbd82a-86c2-5a79-a047-243f70baa4ed":{"name":"Pera Museum","description":"Inaugurated in 2005, Pera Museum is a private museum founded by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation. The aim of offering a range of diverse high-quality cultural and art services is as important today as when it first opened to the public.  \n  \nSince its inauguration, Pera Museum has collaborated annually with national and international institutions of art and education to hold exhibitions that support young artists. All the exhibitions are accompanied by books, catalogues, audio-visual events and education programmes. Parallel to its seasonal programmes and events, Pera Film offers visitors and film buffs a wide range of screenings that extend from classics and independent films to animated films and documentaries. Pera Film also hosts special shows directly linked to the themes of the temporary exhibitions.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Meşrutiyet Cad, 65  \n34443 Tepebaşi, Beyoğlu, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.peramuzesi.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 334 99 00","email":"info@peramuzesi.org.tr"},"7c6208ec-fb2f-53d4-acaa-935c3bf9962a":{"name":"Sabancı University, Sakip Sabanci Museum","description":"Opened in 2002, the museum consists of a large house designed and built by the Italian architect Edoardo de Nari in 1925–27 and a three-storey exhibition building.  \n  \nSakıp Sabancı bought the Horse Mansion (so-called from a statue in the garden) and its furnishings in 1951 and began to enrich the collection of antiques inherited from his father. From the early 1970s he purchased paintings from the Ottoman and Turkish Republic periods, European and Chinese porcelain, decorative objects, calligraphic works, Qur’ans and manuscripts. In the 1980s he added private manuscript collections.  \n  \nSakıp Sabancı donated his collection, the house and surrounding premises to Sabancı University. The museum presents a versatile environment with its permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, conservation units and educational programmes.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sakip Sabanci Caddesi, 42  \n34467 Emirgan, Sariyer, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"http://www.sakipsabancimuzesi.org","phone":"+90 212 277 22 00","email":"ssminfo@sabanciuniv.edu"},"7cfb83d3-acda-52be-8102-fb8866244b85":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Brno**  \nNational Heritage Institute  \n  \n**Slavkov**  \nSlavkov Castle (Château Austerlitz)"},"8078eca5-49ec-599b-b355-522321037c45":{"name":"The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)","description":"Founded in 1865, the Palestine Exploration Fund is the world’s oldest society for the study of the ancient Levant, with a focus on the southern region comprising Jordan, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel, Lebanon, Sinai, and southern Syria. It was a pioneer in the fields of survey, mapping, and archaeology. Its history is closely tied to the concerns of British colonial interests in the Middle East, particularly in the 19th century, and displays an emphasis (though not an exclusive one) on biblical interests. Its reputation was made through the consistently high standards of data collection, and following a scientific methodology, which has resulted in its material still being highly relevant to today’s scholars. It collections are a unique and valuable source of information on numerous subjects, from the archaeology of the region’s ancient past to Britain’s involvement in the Middle east in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, the PEF is a flourishing heritage and academic research centre, with a mission to make its collections accessible to a wide range of scholars and researchers across many different disciplines, and to members of the public as a place where they can make new discoveries, learn, and ask questions about all aspects of material cultural heritage in the region.","city":"London","address":"5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 9FP","website":"http://www.pef.org.uk","phone":"+44 207 935 5379","email":"execsec@pef.org.uk"},"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"},"869f6729-a0ed-56b2-a24b-3c19813a3082":{"name":"National Library of France","description":"The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, National Library of France) holds heritage assets collected over the last 500 years through legal deposit and an active policy of acquisitions: 14 million books and printed items, periodicals, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps and plans, sheet music, coins, medals, audio documents, video, multimedia documents, sets and costumes. Its archives grow by around 150,000 items per year, covering the full range of intellectual, artistic and scientific disciplines.  \n  \nIt conserves, analyses, classifies and organises these treasures in order to make them available to the public, for research or general knowledge purposes.  \n  \nIt publicises them by organising exhibitions, conferences, talks and publishing works.  \n  \nIn addition to its reading rooms, which welcome more than 940,000 people every year, the BnF provides access to more than 1.5 million documents via the Gallica digital library.  \n  \nIt is also at the heart of the national network for cooperation between libraries, and it runs an international exchange and cooperation scheme.  \n  \nA dynamic institution that is open to the challenges of the future, BnF is developing projects to give it a new dimension, thereby helping to increase its influence and its leading role in taking on the major cultural challenges of tomorrow: the legal deposit of Internet documents, the development of on-line digital libraries (Gallica and its upgrade Gallica 2) and the mass digitisation of its collections.","city":"Paris","address":"Quai François-Mauriac  \n75706 Paris Cedex 13  \nFrance","website":"http://www.bnf.fr/","phone":"+33 (0)1 537 959 59"},"86c2677f-bc19-5689-bcb8-09e58498520a":{"name":"South Moravian Museum","description":"The South Moravian Museum in Znojmo is one of the oldest museums in Moravia. Founded in 1878, its first exhibition opened in 1889; since 1910, the collections have been kept in the Znojmo Castle. The castle, together with the unique national monument – the Rotunda of the Virgin Mary and St. Catherine – was placed under the supervision of the museum in 1920. The museum’s name change to the South Moravian (Regional) Museum in 1931 reflects the museum’s expansion. After the Second World War, the museum gradually assumed the characteristics of a specialised institution – its deposits and exhibits gradually growing – so that today the museum has over 300,000 exhibits, the result of research and other activities carried out by the natural history and history departments.  \n  \nThe departments of Botany, Geology and Zoology focus on the research and documentation of the region’s natural history including the Podyjí National Park. The Archaeological department engages in conservation, documentation and research of the area’s archaeological history from pre-history, through all periods, to more recent times. The Departments of History and Art History care for artefacts of artistic and historical value. The South Moravian Museum’s research, exhibitions and other activities make it the leading institution of the Znojmo region.  \n  \nThe museum’s collections of natural history, archaeology and historical artefacts from the region are located in the Gothic monastery built in the middle of the 13th century, where the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II (r. 1279–1297) is buried. Among the buildings that belong to South Moravian Museum are the House of Art that has its seat in one of Znojmo’s most beautiful Renaissance palaces; Znojmo Castle founded in the 11th century by the feudal princes of the Przemyslid dynasty; the unique national monument – the Romanesque Rotunda of the Virgin Mary and St. Catherine – the ruins of Cornštejn Castle and the Prokop Diviš memorial in Znojmo-Přímětice.","city":"Znojmo","address":"Přemyslovců 129/8  \n669 02 Znojmo  \nCzech Republic","website":"http://www.znojmuz.cz","phone":"+420 515 282 211","email":"znojmuz@znojmuz.cz"},"89f613d2-8723-5be8-8e46-487f9dae46f4":{"name":"Swiss National Museum","description":"Three museums – the National Museum Zurich, the Château de Prangins and the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz – as well as the collections centre in Affoltern am Albis – are united under the umbrella of the Swiss National Museum (SNM). The permanent exhibitions at the museums present Swiss history from its beginnings to the present, and give an insight into Swiss identities and the rich tapestry of our country’s history and culture. Temporary exhibitions on current topics add to the experience.","city":"Zurich","address":"Swiss National Museum  \nMuseumstrasse, 2  \nP.O. Box 8021  \nZurich  \nSwitzerland","website":"http://www.nationalmuseum.ch","phone":"+41 44 218 65 11","email":"info@nationalmuseum.ch"},"8cce8832-baec-59fe-a3c0-e47ad8d4d6d9":{"name":"The Chester Beatty Library","description":"The Chester Beatty Library is an art museum and library that houses some of the finest treasures of the great cultures and religions of the world. The Library’s collections were bequeathed to the Irish people by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968), an American mining engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist of Scots-Irish descent who moved from New York to London in 1911. He become a naturalized British citizen in 1933, and in 1954, although no longer living in Britain, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his wartime services to Britain. In 1950, Chester Beatty moved his by-then large collection to Dublin, where he built a library on Shrewsbury Road in the city’s suburbs. The library opened to researchers in 1953 and later also to the public. In 1957, he became the first person to be made an honorary citizen of Ireland, and he was also the first private citizen in the country to be accorded a state funeral. Besides his library, he made many other gifts to Ireland, including a large collection of nineteenth-century French paintings, now in the National Gallery of Ireland, and a collection of arms and armour, now in the Curragh Military Museum in County Kildare. In 2000, the Chester Beatty Library moved to new premises in Dublin Castle, in the city centre.  \n  \nThe Library’s collections consist of Western, East Asian and Islamic material, mainly manuscripts, printed books and other works on paper, although the East Asian Collections also include a large range of decorative arts. The Library has two permanent galleries, the Sacred Traditions and Arts of the Book galleries, and a smaller gallery for temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nThe five sections of the Islamic Collections consist of a total of just over 6100 individual items that are generally regarded as comprising one of the finest such collections outside the Middle East. Of especial note is the Qur’an Collection, which includes some of the earliest Qur’ans in existence, dated to the early 8th century, and renowned manuscripts such as the Qur’an copied by Ibn al-Bawwab in Baghdad in 1000AD. The Persian Collection includes works by all the major classical Persian poets including an especially fine collection of *Shahnama* manuscripts. Mainly religious texts make up the Turkish Collection, although it also includes major 16th-century, illustrated historical works, such as a history of the Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. The Library is also well known for its very fine Mughal Collection, which includes over 1000 individual folios of calligraphy and painting, most notable of the latter being the many portraits of the Mughal emperors. In contrast to the magnificent works of art (often in near pristine condition) found in these collections are the more than 2600 manuscripts of the Arabic Collection, which are mostly undecorated, often very worn, and frequently the only surviving copy of a particular text. The Library also possesses a small collection of Islamic art objects, such as detached bindings, amulets, pencases and quadrants.","city":"Dublin","address":"Dublin Castle  \nDublin 2, Ireland","website":"https://chesterbeatty.ie/","phone":"+353 1 40 70 750","email":"info@cbl.ie"},"8cde1ffe-e1cc-52a8-9261-ee16bcaac48f":{"name":"National Museum of Romanian History","description":"The National Museum of Romanian History is Romania's most important museum, being the holder of the most valuable objects in the country's historical heritage. It was founded in 1970 and inaugurated two years later. The palace that hosts the museum is a neoclassical construction built between 1894 and 1900 by the Romanian architect Alexandru Savulescu and used until 1970 by the Romanian Postal Service.  \n  \nThe museum has a collection of 687,579 objects, constantly enriched through acquisitions, donations and new archeological discoveries. Because it is currently under renovation, most of the museum is closed to the public, who can visit only a part of its permanent exhibition, the Historical Treasure of Romania, which contains golden hoards and jewellery dating from Antiquity until the 20th century; Trajan's Column – a replica of the monument found in Rome, whose bas-reliefs tell the story of the Daco-Roman wars (101–102, 105–106 AD), which ended with Dacia (a province that was in present-day Romania's territory) being conquered by the Romans; and the Lapidarium – a collection of sculptures, architectural elements, different types of stone engravings (civil, honorific, funerary, votive monuments) from Antiquity to the 19th century. In addition, temporary exhibitions on various subjects are periodically organised, some of them in collaboration with other Romanian museums and cultural institutions or with foreign partners.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Victoria Avenue, 12, sector 3  \n030026 Bucharest  \nRomania","website":"http://www.mnir.ro/","phone":"+40 21 315 82 07","email":"direct@mnir.ro"},"8ea7243d-fe8e-5011-a9ca-75ebd26660ac":{"name":"Ministry of Culture, Directorate for Cultural Heritage","description":"The Directorate of Cultural Heritage is part of the Ministry of Culture. Its mission is to ensure the protection, conservation, restoration, maintenance and promotion of the architectural, archaeological and ethnographic heritage. It is also in charge of the country’s museums and its various artistic treasures.","city":"Rabat","address":"Avenue Michlifen, 17  \nAgdal, Rabat  \nMorocco","website":"www.minculture.gov.ma","phone":"+212 537 274 001 / 03"},"8f0d2773-afea-51e8-ab5b-624187d06f77":{"name":"Ministry of Culture and Tourism (General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums)","description":"Hosting many civilisations on its soil throughout the ages, Turkey can be identified as the cradle of civilisations and its culture is enriched by the ancient history of Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the Caucasus, eastern Europe and the Aegean. Turkey is now among the most important cultural and touristic places in the world with its thousands of years of cultural accumulation, unique geography, intercontinental location and natural beauty. Duties and activities including promotion, preservation and the transfer of cultural heritage into the future are the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The ministry creates policies that keep abreast of contemporary socioeconomic and strategic developments occurring in the world and carries out its activities within the powers delegated by law.","city":"Ankara","address":"II. TBMM Binası Yanı  \n06110 Ulus/Ankara  \nTurkey","website":"www.kultur.gov.tr","phone":"+90 312 470 80 00","email":"kulturvalikmuze@gov.tr"},"8fd06198-6d39-5611-a37e-45ac296ac304":{"name":"Museum of Russian Icons","description":"In the 1960’s, plastics engineer Gordon B. Lankton went to work at Nypro, an international injection molded plastics company, in Clinton, Massachusetts. In 1989, on a business trip to Russia, Mr. Lankton purchased his first icon at an open-air market. His collection quickly grew, and eventually gave birth to the idea of starting a museum. Mr. Lankton chose Clinton for the location to give back to the community that had supported him.  \n  \nThe Museum is housed in a 150-year-old former mill building. Three floors of galleries display the permanent collection. A dedicated gallery features special exhibitions ranging from contemporary Russian art to icons from other Orthodox cultures. It is the only museum in the USA dedicated to Russian icons, and the largest collection of icons outside of Russia.  \n  \nAn icon is an image of a holy person or event, created by an iconographer who follows the strict standards of the Orthodox Church. Most of the objects in the Museum’s collection are created with paint on wooden board; icons can also be made in other materials, including mosaic, fresco, embroidery, and metal. Iconography is a living tradition, and icons today are painted in the same way that they have been for hundreds of years. The Museum collection includes icons dating to the 1400s to contemporary icons painted in the last few years, with the majority dating from the 17th to 19th centuries.  \n  \nMISSION  \nThe Museum of Russian Icons inspires the appreciation and study of Russian culture by collecting and exhibiting icons and related objects; igniting the interest of national and international audiences; and offering interactive educational programs. The Museum serves as a leading center for research and scholarship through the Center for Icon Studies and other institutional collaborations.","city":"Clinton","address":"203 Union Street,  \nClinton,  \nMA, 15010","website":"https://www.museumofrussianicons.org/","phone":"(978)-598-5000","email":"info@museumofrussianicons.org"},"916efdb9-cc4a-59ca-8c4c-a5d2e193f7e0":{"name":"Dresden State Art Collections, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery)","description":"The Dresden Old Masters Picture Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) was created in the first half of the 18th century. Although it is true that numerous paintings were already held in the “Kunstkammer” (Art Chamber) of the Electors of Saxony, which was founded in 1560, the systematic expansion of the collection of paintings did not begin until the reigns of Augustus II the Strong (1670–1733) and, in particular, his son Augustus III (1696–1763). All over Europe their agents purchased large numbers of 16th, 17th and 18th-century masterpieces for their collection.  \n  \nThe fame of the Gallery is based on widely known paintings such as Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna”, Giorgione’s “Sleeping Venus”, Correggio’s “Holy Night”, and Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window”. With other famous works by artists such as Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Rubens, Dürer, Holbein, Titian, Veronese, Canaletto, Poussin, Watteau, El Greco, Murillo, Raeburn, and Graff the Old Masters Picture Gallery displays the crème de la crème of European art from the late Renaissance to the Rococo period.  \n  \nThe collection is located in the gallery building at the Zwinger. This was constructed in 1855 according to plans drawn up by the architect Gottfried Semper, and it was one of the most important museum projects in Germany during the 19th century. The Gemäldegalerie welcomes more than half a million visitors each year – a number that is still on the rise.","city":"Dresden","address":"Zwinger  \nTheaterplatz 1  \n01067 Dresden  \nGermany  \n  \nPostal address:  \nPostfach 120 551  \n01006 Dresden  \nGermany","website":"https://gemaeldegalerie.skd.museum/en/","phone":"+49 (0)351 49 14 66 79","email":"gam@skd.museum"},"9450a274-2645-5b09-944e-45f3f7d18699":{"name":"The British Museum","description":"The British Museum was established by Act of Parliament in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all “studious and curious persons”. The founding collection was that of Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy physician and collector. The original British Museum comprised three departments: Printed Books; Manuscripts (including coins); and Natural and Artificial Productions, which included everything from sculpture to mineral samples and zoological specimens. In January 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public.  \n  \nAs a product of the Enlightenment, the museum's job was to be a storehouse of knowledge for the use and benefit of the public, advancing all fields of scholarship. The museum therefore aimed to collect all kinds of material; it remains one of the few places in the world in which it is possible to see the world under one roof. During the 19th century the museum acquired representative collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, as well as material from across the Islamic world.  \n  \nThe museum itself had to grow to offer space to display the growing collections. Between 1823 and 1847 the original building was replaced by four large wings built around a central courtyard. In 1854 construction began on the iconic Round Reading Room in the central courtyard. The natural history collections were given their own home in the new Museum of Natural History in 1881. By 1973 the British Library and British Museum were administratively separated, and in 1999 the new British Library building opened at St Pancras. The British Museum site was expanded and modernised. In 2000 the Great Court opened, envisioned as a sunny piazza at the centre of the building, with up-to-date facilities such as lecture theatres, an education centre and facilities for school children, as well as restaurants and shops. In 2014 the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre opened to the public, offering state-of-the-art facilities to care for, manage, research and display the collections.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St.,  \nLondon WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"95021a9d-9348-5201-bc82-c46c9467b353":{"name":"Imperial War Museums","description":"IWM (Imperial War Museums) **tells the story of people who have lived, fought and died in conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth since the First World War.**  \n  \nOur unique collections, made up of the everyday and the exceptional, reveal stories of people, places, ideas and events. Using these, we tell vivid personal stories and create powerful physical experiences across our five museums that reflect the realities of war as both a destructive and creative force. We challenge people to look at conflict from different perspectives, enriching their understanding of the causes, course and consequences of war and its impact on people’s lives.  \n  \n**IWM’s five branches which attract over 2 million visitors each year are IWM London**, which has recently transformed with new, permanent and free Second World War Galleries, The Holocaust Galleries and the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries; **IWM North**, housed in an iconic award-winning building designed by Daniel Libeskind; **IWM Duxford**, Britain's best preserved wartime airfield; Churchill War Rooms, housed in Churchill’s secret headquarters below Whitehall; and the Second World War cruiser **HMS *Belfast***.  \n  \n**IWM London**  \n  \nIWM London tells the stories of those whose lives have been shaped by war through the depth, breadth and impact of our Galleries, displays and events. Explore the First World War Galleries and iconic Atrium; extensive new Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries; IWM’s rich and diverse art, film and photography collection in the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries or take in our latest major temporary exhibitions.","city":"London","address":"Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ","website":"http://www.iwm.org.uk/","phone":"+44 (0)20 7091 3067 (Customer","email":"No direct email use https://www.iwm.org.uk/contact-us"},"95483cda-d367-5af3-ad0e-2779b97409cb":{"name":"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah","description":"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (DAI) is a cultural organisation based on a Kuwaiti private art collection owned by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, founder of The al-Sabah Collection and his wife, DAI director general and co-founder Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah.  \n  \nEstablished in 1983, DAI was created to manage The al-Sabah Collection, an esteemed collection of Islamic art on permanent loan to the State of Kuwait under the auspices of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. The collection preserves and presents all aspects of Islamic art and includes more than 20,000 pieces extending from Spain to China, from the 1st – 13th centuries AH/7th – 19th centuries AD.  \n  \nSince its inception, DAI has grown from a single focus organisation to an internationally recognised cultural organisation. DAI’s main activities include:  \n  \n• An annual Cultural Season (lectures, music concerts, forum, workshops, children’s programme, quarterly magazine/journal, quarterly newsletter, cultural expeditions)  \n• Travelling exhibitions and loans  \n• Conservation training programmes  \n• Research and excavation projects  \n  \nWith a highly specialised library, DAI is also involved in the publication of scholarly books on Islamic art and culture.  \n  \nWhile the rehabilitation project of DAI’s buildings at the Kuwait National Museum is underway, the Amricani Cultural Centre is the temporary home of DAI. The Amricani Cultural Centre is the ground for most of the organization’s activities and events, including local temporary exhibitions and DAI’s cultural season events.","city":"Kuwait City","address":"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah  \nAmricani Cultural Centre  \nP.O. BOX: 23996 Safat 13100 Kuwait","website":"https://daralatharalislamiyyah.com/en/home-page-en/","phone":"+965 2240 0992","email":"info@darmuseumkw.org"},"a05b0a22-d90a-5e08-85e3-53fd66868e26":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is a pioneering project spotlighting the cultural vision of the State of Qatar, both in the region and across the world. Under the guiding vision of His Excellency, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the project is the cornerstone for the State of Qatar in its establishment as a global capital of culture.  \n  \nThe 35,500 sq. m museum was designed by I.M. Pei, taking inspiration from the 13th-century *sabil* (ablutions fountain) of the 9th-century Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun in Cairo. The museum comprises a five-level main building and a two-storey Education Wing, connected across a fountain courtyard. The main building’s angular planes form ascending pinnacles, rising around an atrium. Inside, a dome is revealed, concealed from outside view by the walls of a central tower. A window on the building’s north side rises to a height of 54 m., providing dramatic views from all five floors. The ground floor is home to a temporary gallery space for touring international exhibitions and the café, giftshop and Information Services. The museum’s permanent exhibition is installed on two floors of galleries designed by the French firm Jean-Michel Wilmotte & Associés. The fourth floor contains temporary galleries showcasing the research topics of museum staff, using items either not seen in the permanent galleries or with new information to see them in a new way.  \n  \n**Overview of the collections**  \nThe MIA houses artefacts highlighting the creative achievements of the Islamic world's richest cultures and spanning nearly a thousand years. The collection represents the full scope of Islamic art in all media, from manuscripts to ceramics, metalwork, glass, stone, ivory, textiles, wood, precious stones and jewellery.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition of *c.* 850 artefacts offers an insight into the diverse art of the Islamic world. Two floors are dedicated to the exploration of historical eras and interpretation of the themes of Islamic art and material culture, from the 8th century to the cusp of the 19th century.  \n  \nThe MIA also holds thousands more objects, some destined to be seen in future displays and others providing a resource for education and research.  \n  \nHighlights of the collection include: a distinguished group of carpets and textiles, a range of Ayyubid and Mamluk metalwork and enamelled glass, an outstanding strength in early ceramics, a comprehensive collection of astrolabes and scientific instruments, masterpieces of Mughal jewellery and rare manuscripts and miniatures.  \n  \n**The Department of Education and Information**  \nThe department’s main goal is to create materials, programmes and workshops that will engage the public, allowing them to explore the world through Islamic art, promoting a culture of learning within an atmosphere of knowledge and entertainment.  \n  \n**The Curatorial Department**  \nThe department of internationally trained curators is committed to studying, documenting and publicising the MIA’s collection and establishing the MIA as a world-class centre of scholarly research.  \n  \n**The Conservation Department**  \nSet to become a leading regional service centre for museums, the department is committed to restoring, preserving and caring for the collection through the application of innovative scientific methods.  \n  \n**International partnerships**  \nThe MIA is committed to building a network of partnerships around the world and offering institutes and museums collective access to information, research and images. It has strong ties with many world-class museums and collections, including the Louvre, France, the British Museum, UK, the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA, the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Germany, the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, the Gulbenkian, Portugal, and the National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art, Algeria.","city":"Doha","address":"Museum of Islamic Art roundabout, the Corniche  \nPostal Address: P.O. Box 2777  \nDoha, Qatar","website":"http://mia.org.qa/","phone":"+974 4422 4444","email":"infomia@qma.org.qa; educationmia@qma.org.qa; librarymia@qma.org.qa"},"a3753de5-842a-5f0b-a8c7-50bb2e312ce6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia – from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections are housed in the Neue Burg (the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury) and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the KHM.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"a3feae57-66bd-5351-89da-2ae9a91af07c":{"name":"MIBACT | Egyptian Museum, Florence","description":"Florence’s Egyptian Museum is second only in Italy to the Egyptian Museum in Turin. Egyptian artefacts were already held in the 18th century in the Medici-Lorena collections, but during the 19th century these increased thanks to the efforts of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II, who sponsored a scientific expedition to Egypt in 1828 and 1829. The expedition was led by Jean François Champollion, the hieroglyphics decipherer, and by Ippolito Rosellini, the father of Italian Egyptology; the material collected during the expedition was divided between the Louvre in Paris and Florence. In 1855 the Egyptian Museum in Florence was formally established. Ernesto Schiaparelli, its director, reorganised the collection in the 1880s. Currently the museum houses over 14,000 pieces ranging from prehistoric material to the Coptic period, with steles, statues and statuettes, coffins, textiles, furniture, vases and amulets.","city":"Florence","address":"Piazza SS Annunziata, 9/b  \n50121 Firenze  \nItaly","phone":"+39 055 23575"},"a7a10d29-2e2e-5062-8d2d-2c122a8b9457":{"name":"General Secretariat of TBMM (National Palaces)","description":"The Department of National Palaces, a unit within the structure of the General Secretariat of TBMM (Turkish Grand National Assembly), is commissioned to maintain, repair, restore and administer the affiliated palaces, pavilions, museums and factories in accordance with international museum and conservation standards. Today there are two palaces, two kiosks, eight pavilions, three museums and two factories within the National Palaces organisation founded in the early years of the Republic. The basic function of the department is the preservation and restoration of all of these structures and the historical objects they contain while being faithful to their cultural and historical backgrounds and to enable them to be visited by domestic and foreign visitors within the context of modern museum practice.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Dolmabahçe Sarayı  \n34357 Beşiktaş, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/saraylar/dolmabahce-sarayi","phone":"+90 212 236 90 00","email":"millisaraylar@tbmm.gov.tr"},"af01a84d-b174-5718-b9a7-b741c8957086":{"name":"The British Museum","description":"The British Museum was established by Act of Parliament in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all “studious and curious persons”. The founding collection was that of Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy physician and collector. The original British Museum comprised three departments: Printed Books; Manuscripts (including coins); and Natural and Artificial Productions, which included everything from sculpture to mineral samples and zoological specimens. In January 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public.  \n  \nAs a product of the Enlightenment, the museum's job was to be a storehouse of knowledge for the use and benefit of the public, advancing all fields of scholarship. The museum therefore aimed to collect all kinds of material; it remains one of the few places in the world in which it is possible to see the world under one roof. During the 19th century the museum acquired representative collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, as well as material from across the Islamic world.  \n  \nThe museum itself had to grow to offer space to display the growing collections. Between 1823 and 1847 the original building was replaced by four large wings built around a central courtyard. In 1854 construction began on the iconic Round Reading Room in the central courtyard. The natural history collections were given their own home in the new Museum of Natural History in 1881. By 1973 the British Library and British Museum were administratively separated, and in 1999 the new British Library building opened at St Pancras. The British Museum site was expanded and modernised. In 2000 the Great Court opened, envisioned as a sunny piazza at the centre of the building, with up-to-date facilities such as lecture theatres, an education centre and facilities for school children, as well as restaurants and shops. In 2014 the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre opened to the public, offering state-of-the-art facilities to care for, manage, research and display the collections.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St.,  \nLondon WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"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"},"b3d5e8a5-90ae-5442-bf21-9067f8e77ed1":{"name":"Cerralbo Museum","description":"Cerralbo Palace, now Museum, was built between 1884 and 1892 in a historicist style with classical echoes, also shared by its garden. It contains the collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17th Marquis of Cerralbo (1845–1922), a politician, historian, collector and pioneer of archaeology in Spain. After his death, he bequeathed his collection to the Spanish state. Paintings, furniture, clocks, porcelain, lamps, sculptures, arms and armour, textiles, books, coins and archaeological objects are displayed in the various rooms where the first inhabitants of the palace led their daily lives. Cerralbo Museum also has the distinction of being one of the few buildings in Madrid that shows the original decorative ambience of an aristocratic residence, thoroughly restored in the first decade of the 21st century.","city":"Madrid","address":"C / Ventura Rodríguez, 17  \n28008 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museocerralbo.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 915 47 36 46 / 47","email":"museo.cerralbo@mecd.es"},"b43ae2c6-2060-5819-bd1c-dd9ca66b9f11":{"name":"Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)","description":"With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors annually.  \n  \nLACMA’s seven-building complex is located on twenty acres in the heart of Los Angeles, halfway between the ocean and downtown. The campus is undergoing a ten-year expansion and renovation known as the Transformation and designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.  \n  \nLACMA’s collections encompass the geographic world and virtually the entire history of art. The museum houses a highly significant collection of Islamic art. These widely diverse arts, from an area extending from southern Spain to Central Asia, trace the distinctive visual imagination of Islamic artists over a period of fourteen hundred years. The collection consists of over 1,700 works, of which some 150 examples are on view; these include glazed ceramics, inlaid metalwork, enameled glass, carved wood and stone, and manuscript illustration, illumination, and calligraphy. Particular strengths of the collection are glazed pottery and tiles from Iran and Turkey; glass, especially from the late seventh to the mid-thirteenth century; and Persian and Turkish arts of the book.  \n  \nThe museum began to concentrate seriously on Islamic art in 1973, with the acquisition of the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, the generous gift of Joan Palevsky. Although the Heeramaneck collection forms the nucleus of the Islamic holdings, the focus and scope of the collection have developed considerably since 1973. Two important additions, both gifts, occurred in the 1980s. In 1985 the noted collector Edwin Binney, 3rd, bequeathed more than one hundred works, in particular examples of the arts of the book and ceramics of the Ottoman period. Approximately fifty glass objects, primarily of the early Islamic period, from Hans and Varya Cohn's splendid collection were given to the museum in 1988. The collection has been augmented further over the past two decades through gift and purchase, most notably the acquisition in 2002 of the Madina Collection of Islamic Art, made possible in large part by a generous gift from longtime LACMA benefactor and Trustee Camilla Chandler Frost. Its addition has created a new international focus on Los Angeles and on LACMA.","city":"Los Angeles","address":"5905 Wilshire Boulevard  \nLos Angeles, CA 90036","website":"http://www.lacma.org/","phone":"323 857 6000","email":"publicinfo@lacma.org"},"b5ea6933-458f-5e3f-bce3-210363a13ff0":{"name":"National Museum of Fine Arts","description":"Inaugurated in 1930, the **National Museum of Fine Arts** houses one of the most important art collections on the continent – if not the entire Arab world. Located on a hill in the Hamma neighborhood, it faces the Bay of Algiers. Its rich collection is the result of donations and various purchases from artists and private art collectors, with more than 8,000 items. The collection is quite varied, and including paintings, engravings, ancient prints, decorative objects, and an assemblage of numismatic items.  \n  \nEver since the country achieved independence 50 years ago, the museum has developed new sections. In addition to the “historical” collection revolving around the most ancient fund of the museum, a chronological exhibition spans six centuries of European art history, from the primitives to the 18th century. Since 2007, two new exhibition rooms have showcased 18th century orientalist art as well as works from mid-19th century Algeria. The rooms are named after two great Algerian contemporary artists: Mohamed Temam and Mohamed Louaïl.  \n  \nObviously, Algerian artists hold a place of honor at the Museum. The Bachir Yellès room showcase works by Algerian painters of the first generation. A whole floor is dedicated to 20th-century Algerian art. The “School of Algiers” and Abd-El-Tif residents fund counts over 1,500 artists, including painters, engravers and watercolorists born in Algeria, some of whom reached international fame (e.g. Paul Belmondo, a sculptor awarded the Prix de Rome and the Grand prix of Algeria in 1936).  \n  \nSince 1963, thanks to the “Art and Revolution fund”, the museum has boasted a contemporary art collection with works done by famous international artists who showed support to the Algerian people in their fight for independence.  \n  \nSculpture is well represented through pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. An itinerary is suggested to cover all the different rooms and gardens.  \n  \nDecorative arts – ceramic, glass works– and ancient furniture mainly come from two period homes. The Prints Cabinet remains one of the highlights of the Museum, showing works from a master of Algerian miniature: Mohamed Racim, considered a genuine national treasure.","city":"Algiers","website":"http://www.musee-beauxarts.dz/"},"b7d617eb-89f8-58d6-bf7b-c3fef44a8efb":{"name":"Vista Alegre Museum","description":"Set in a former workshop of the Vista Alegre porcelain factory the mission of the Vista Alegre Museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the cultural heritage of the factory. In its rooms can be seen porcelain and glass, documents and photographs that tell fascinating histories of an industry, covering its human, cultural and technological heritage.","city":"Ílhavo","address":"Vista Alegre  \n3830-392 Ílhavo  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.myvistaalegre.com/int/t/vaa_VisiteMuseudaVistaAlegre_MissaoeObjetivos-1","phone":"+351 234 320 885; 234 320 600","email":"centro.visitas.va@vaa.pt"},"bbd3d5ff-f06e-515d-b3ae-1c0c2aab189d":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Budapest**  \nHungarian National Museum  \nMuseum of Fine Arts  \n  \n**Eger**  \nDobó István Castle Museum  \n  \n**Esztergom**  \nChristian Museum of Esztergom  \n  \n**Nyíregyháza**  \nGreek Catholic Ecclesiastical Collection  \n  \n**Pannonhalma**  \nBenedictine Abbey, Picture Gallery  \n  \n**Sopron**  \nSopron Museum  \n  \n**Tata**  \nKuny Domokos Museum  \n  \n**Vác**  \nBishop’s Palace (Museum of the Diocese)"},"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"},"c2663ec9-f434-5a4e-a8d3-fb95be4adb76":{"name":"MIBACT | National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM)","description":"The gallery, founded in 1881, is housed in a building designed by Bazzani to house the exhibition (1911) celebrating the 50th anniversary of Italian unification. The collection, representing regional and foreign schools acquired at national exhibitions and the Venice Biennale, represented the best of 19th-century Italian art. It was expanded by donations and bequests (e.g. of Celentano and Balla) and acquisitions of Macchiaoli, Divisionists, Modigliani, Burri and Fontana. Under the direction of Venturi, Bucarelli and Argan it acquired international prestige thanks to a broader museography, with Picasso, Mondrian and Pollock exhibitions.  \n  \nAlthough the advent of the Ministry of Culture deprived it of independence, acqusitions of the Transavanguardia movement and the promotion of young artists made it a museum of the 19th and 20th centuries.","city":"Rome","address":"Viale delle Belle Arti, 131  \n00196 Roma  \nItaly  \nEntrance for special needs: Via Gramsci, 71","website":"www.gnam.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 322 98","email":"s-gnam@beniculturali.it"},"c4647cf3-9e83-5e5e-9a5b-4af7ed883bb1":{"name":"The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts","description":"The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts (The Khanenko Museum) keeps the key national collection of world arts in Ukraine. It was established in 1919 on the basis of rich private collection of art and antiquities made up by a couple of outstanding Ukrainian art amateurs, collectors and philanthropists Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko. The historical private mansion of the Khanenkos, built in late 1880s, is a particular object of interest and fascination due to its exquisite stylised interiors.  \n  \nToday the museum holds more than 25 000 works of painting, sculpture, prints as well as various kinds of applied arts of Europe (14th -19th century), Western, Central and Eastern Asia (3rd century BC – 20th century) and the Ancient World (4th millennium BC – 4th century). The world-famous rarities, four oldest Byzantine “Sinai” icons from 6th and 7th centuries, are an important part of the museum collection and display.  \n  \nThe museum permanent exhibition area is about 1300 m2. There are also two halls for temporary exhibitions with total area of 150 m2 that host Ukrainian and international museum art projects. In coming years the museum plans to enlarge its exhibition, educational, and depository areas by adding a new contemporary building in the yard.  \n  \nBeing the leading Ukrainian institution of informal education the Khanenko museum offers a wide spectrum of programs for adults, youth and children, visitors with disabilities. A new accessible official museum website in Ukrainian and English is currently under development planned to be launched in November 2019.","city":"Kyiv","address":"Tereshchenkivska Street 15-17  \n01004","website":"https://www.khanenkomuseum.kiev.ua/en/main","phone":"+38044 2350206"},"c79c9bf0-7954-5ad4-95e9-6020467c3765":{"name":"Istanbul Water Museum (İstanbul Su Müzesi)","description":"Established in January 2021 within Topkar Inc., the Istanbul Water Museum is dedicated to water, water civilisation and the cultural heritage of the Turkish bath.  \n  \nThe Topçu family, which owns the company, has cultivated for four generations a tradition of preserving everyday household objects. As one of Türkiye’s leading manufacturers of bathroom and kitchen fittings, the family united this passion with their profession and began collecting faucets, water vessels and related objects over 25 years ago, laying the foundation of the museum’s collection. In 2008, they became officially registered collectors with the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum.  \n  \nThe collection encompasses themes such as the relationship between water and humanity; fountains; sebils and faucets; water and belief; water and healing; cleanliness, bathing and hammam culture; and Istanbul’s famous spring waters. The collection includes a wide range of water-related objects, manuscripts, ephemera, postcards, engravings, paintings, calligraphy, marbling (*ebru*) and miniature artworks. Artefacts dating from the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman and early Republican eras are exhibited chronologically and, in some sections, thematically across two galleries totalling 800 square metres. The Istanbul Water Museum is a member and Türkiye’s representative of the UNESCO Global Network of Water Museums (WAMU-Net).  \n  \nTopkar regards the museum as a sustainable social responsibility project aimed at promoting water and hammam culture, preserving endangered traditions, fostering public awareness of water use and creating lasting cultural memory. The Topkar family celebrates its 40th anniversary with this meaningful initiative.","city":"Istanbul","address":"İkitelli OSB. Mh. Hürriyet Bulvarı No:54 Başakşehir-İstanbul-Türkiye 34490","website":"http://www.istanbulsumuzesi.org","phone":"+90 486 20 20"},"ca0e325c-0944-502c-ac42-7a2a27464669":{"name":"Museum of the Arab World Institute","description":"The 'institut du monde arabe' (Museum of the Arab world) in Paris houses a museum, labeled as a \"Musée de France,\" dedicated to the discovery and promotion of Arab culture. Located in the heart of the French capital, it holds a rich and diverse collection of artworks, historical objects, and cultural artifacts representing the various facets of the Arab world beyond stereotypes, showcasing its full diversity of cultures, ethnicities, languages, and faiths, from its origins to the present day. The museum's permanent and temporary exhibitions explore various themes covering a historical range from ancient Mediterranean civilizations to contemporary times, thanks to a rich collection of Islamic art and ethnographic objects as well as a collection of modern and contemporary artworks. The remarkable architecture of the building, designed by Jean Nouvel, blends tradition and modernity, offering visitors an immersive and captivating experience. The museum also offers educational activities, lectures, film screenings, and special events throughout the year, aiming to raise awareness about the richness and diversity of Arab culture. With its commitment to promoting intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding, the Institut du monde arabe's museum is a must-visit destination for art enthusiasts and curious individuals eager to explore the treasures of Arab heritage.","city":"Paris","address":"1, rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard  \nPlace Mohammed V  \n75 236 Paris Cédex 5","website":"https://www.imarabe.org/fr","phone":"+33 (0)1 40 51 38 38"},"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"},"d077cb9e-6c63-5943-b0b0-ef3de9ccf2af":{"name":"Khalili Family Trust – Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art","description":"In striving to provide a synoptic vision of the arts of the entire Islamic world, and since the 1970s, Professor Nasser D. Khalili has assembled his collection of Islamic art under the auspices of The Khalili Family Trust. With holdings of more than 28,000 objects documenting the range of artistic production of the Islamic lands over a period of some 1400 years, the Collection now ranks among the best in the world and represents a new generation of Islamic art collections.  \n  \nThe Collection includes an outstanding array of manuscripts of the Holy Qur’an and of illustrated manuscripts, and the coverage of the decorative arts – ceramics, textiles, glass, metalwork and lacquer as well as seals and coins – is comprehensive.  \n  \nThe holdings of manuscripts and folios of the Holy Qur’an are the first to have been assembled systematically in order to illustrate the whole history of Qur’an production, both in terms of time span and geographical range – from the 8th to the 20th centuries, and from Morocco to China. Similar sequences have been assembled for painting and the decorative arts. Glass, ceramics and metalwork, for example, are represented in the full range of techniques from the pre-Islamic period through to the 19th century.  \n  \nLater Islamic art has been given the same level of attention. The wealth of important objects and manuscripts from later periods in the Collection shows that much art worthy of our attention on aesthetic as well as historical and intellectual grounds was produced in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Another important art form of this period is Islamic lacquer, represented in the Collection by more than 500 examples.  \n  \nThe catalogue of the Collection is an unprecedented 27-volume series, of which several are now published, and when completed will form a unique survey of the field to date. *Studies in the Khalili Collection* is a second series of publications related to the Islamic art collection, presenting more detailed analysis of certain objects.","city":"London","website":"http://www.khalilicollections.org","email":"info@nourhouse.com"},"d10f1d84-ce50-539f-aad0-624ff1d3e8c9":{"name":"Topkapı Palace Museum","description":"Topkapı Palace, the administrative and residential palace of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul, was completed by AH 882 / AD 1478 after the city had been conquered by Mehmed II. It was used continuously by the Ottoman rulers until they moved to the palaces built along the Bosphorus in the 13th / 19th century. After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey, the palace became a museum on 3 April 1924 by order of Atatürk.  \nThe palace became a grandiose, multi-functional structure through continual development and additional construction by different sultans, which also reflects the institutional structure of the Ottoman Empire. The splendour and multi-level structure of Ottoman protocol and hierarchy can clearly be seen in the architecture. Even the rise and the fall of the empire found its artistic expression in the palace. As well as being a stage for the dramatic events of the past, this palace is one of the few examples of its kind that survived along with its historical lifestyle.  \n  \nAmong the items exhibited in the museum are portraits and costumes of the sultans, Chinese and Japanese porcelains used in the palace, metal kitchenware, Yıldız porcelain and glassware, European porcelain and silver items, Islamic and Turkish weapons. Holy relics of Prophet Mohammed and the first caliphs that were brought from Medina in the early 10th / 16th century by Selim I are exhibited in the Holy Relics section. Among those relics are the mantle of the Prophet Mohammed, his swords and his foot print.  \n  \nFour thrones, aigrette-holders, the Topkapı dagger and the diamond of Kaşıkçı are the most famous examples of the items from the treasury of the Ottomans. The museum's archive holds important documents of correspondence of the Ottoman Sultans and its library contains famous manuscripts from the Byzantine, Islamic and Ottoman periods.  \n  \nTopkapı Palace Museum operates under the Directorate of National Palaces of the Presidency of the Republic.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sultanahmet  \nFatih, İstanbul, Turkey","website":"https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/en","phone":"+90 212 512 04 80; +90 212 236","email":"info@ millisaraylar.gov.tr"},"d2b9c791-32d7-590a-9a1b-3f6766d360d6":{"name":"Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ Museums)","description":"Founded in 1998 by H.E. Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ) is the Sheikh’s brainchild and a monument to his enduring passion for collecting international items of peculiar and historical relevance.  \n  \nA museum with a global perspective, FBQ brings together over 30,000 objects from across the ages and a multitude of cultures. It represents, in effect, a modern version of a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’, the historic and eclectic room of marvels from the Renaissance.  \n  \nThe journey through more than 30 galleries ranges from the prehistoric to the present day, encompassing several themes: Islamic art, Qatari heritage, carpets, weapons, vehicles, jewellery and currency. Gallery highlights also include a rebuilt Syrian house and the Quran room. The artefacts showcased in FBQ’s galleries embody Islam’s visual culture and its far-reaching traditions from southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The thematic presentation of the works draws attention to the similarities of artistic forms and cultural expressions and their interdependence among societies.  \n  \nFBQ is much more than a museum. Since the construction of the main museum in Al Shahaniya in 1998 using local stone and traditional turrets, FBQ has been fulfilling the museum founder’s aim to create and share a new cultural heritage for Qatar and beyond. With the establishment of the Carpet Museum in the heart of Doha in 2014 and the addition of the Car Museum, the FBQ complex of museums aims to inspire people to engage with cultural heritage by sharing stories from near and far. FBQ strives to foster cross-cultural dialogue through exhibitions, education and public programs, both locally and internationally.  \n  \nIn 2010, the museum was selected by Qatar’s Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Heritage as one of the cultural landmarks of the ‘Doha 2010 Capital of Culture’ activities.","city":"Doha","address":"Zone 80, Street 9999 Building No. 365, Al Samariya  \nAl Shahaniya, Doha Qatar  \nP.O. Box number 006","website":"www.fbqmuseum.org","phone":"+974 4486 1444","email":"info@fbqmuseum.org"},"d321bef5-3599-590f-a696-aa3a0d57d455":{"name":"Benaki Museum","description":"The Benaki Museum is the largest and oldest museum in Greece operating as a foundation under private law. It was founded in 1931 by Antoni Benaki, a member of a leading Greek family of Alexandria. The current museum is decentralised: its hub is the neoclassical mansion presenting the evolution of Greek art from the Neolithic period to the present day. The autonomous buildings include the exhibition centre on Pireos Street, the historical archives in the Delta house, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika gallery and the Museum of Islamic Art.  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art is a renovated neoclassical building in Athens’ historic centre near the ancient Agora. It opened in 2004 to house the collection formed by Antoni Benaki during the early part of the 20th century, while he was living in Egypt. Subsequently enriched by other donations, today it contains c. 10,000 objects from the Middle East, Iran, Turkey, North Africa and India. It demonstrates the evolution of Islamic art up to the Ottoman period and corresponding developments to the middle of the 20th century. The collection includes ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, woodwork, glassware, ivories, funerary steles and arms and armour.  \n  \nThe visitor first finds exhibits from the 7th to the 12th century. Highlights are lustreware, door panels from Iraq, Fatimid metalwork, *tiraz* textiles and a unique reed mat from 10th-century Tiberias. The second gallery exhibits objects from the 12th to the 16th century with Seljuq ceramics, Mamluk metalwork and pottery and highlights a brass box with the signature of Isma’il ibn al-Ward al-Mawsili dated 1220 and the astrolabe of Ahmad ibn al-Sarraj dated 1328/29.  \n  \nThe third gallery displays a marble-lined reception room from a 17th-century Cairo mansion and its fountain, *qamariyya* windows and a *mashrabiyya* screen. Other exhibits include Iznik pottery and a 16th-century velvet saddle from Bursa. The last gallery presents arms and armour, and Qajar jewellery collected by Argine Salvagos, sister of the founder.  \n  \nDuring preservation work, a section of the ancient city wall of Athens from the 4th century BC was uncovered and remains *in situ* at basement level, accessible to visitors.","city":"Athens","address":"22 Agion Asomaton & 12 Dipilou Street  \nAthens  \nGreece","website":"http://www.benaki.gr/","phone":"+30 210 325 1311","email":"islamic_collection@benaki.gr"},"d4a98989-670f-57f0-806b-0923d3e7b276":{"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"},"dbffb8f8-6183-5d07-a911-b7386d37aaab":{"name":"Lázaro Galdiano Museum","description":"The Museo Lázaro Galdiano is a result of the generous spirit of collector D. Jose Lázaro, who left to the Spanish state under his will of 1947 his house, library of 20,000 volumes and 13,000 artworks.  \nThe museum was installed in the neo-Renaissance palace that was the Lázaro family home and opened in 1951. In 2005 it was restored, with a rearrangement of the collections that highlights the importance of Spanish art. The museum spaces evoke the places where the collection was enjoyed by the leading intellectuals of the time. Works by Goya, El Greco, Velázquez, Reynolds, Isenbrandt, Hubert van Eyck and Constable coexist with important collections of sculpture, ivories, enamels, bronzes and textiles. José Lázaro took special interest in Hispano-Muslim art and art of the first Spanish Renaissance.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Serrano, 122  \n28006 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"www.flg.es","phone":"+34 91 561 60 84","email":"amparo.lopez@flg.es"},"de796842-f078-5eec-9f69-8b497cfb8d37":{"name":"Revoltella Civic Museum","description":"The Revoltella Museum is a modern art gallery whose origins lie in the institution founded in 1872 under the will of Baron Pasquale Revoltella (1795–1869). He was one of the most outstanding and authoritative figures of imperial Trieste and played a major role in both economic and political affairs. His main endeavours were concentrated on facilitating the opening of the Suez Canal. Trieste, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918, was a major port, and Revoltella believed it to be crucial to developing the empire’s economy through maritime trade. In 1852 Revoltella entrusted Berlin architect Friedrich Hitzig to design his palace. Revoltella bequeathed his palace and his art collection to the city of Trieste. He also bestowed significant revenues on the museum, enabling a continuous increase of patrimony and accumulation of a considerable art collection.","city":"Trieste","address":"Via Diaz, 27  \n34123 Trieste  \nItaly","website":"http://www.museorevoltella.it/","phone":"+39 040 675 4350","email":"revoltella@comune.trieste.it"},"e0396062-330b-5c15-8ec4-2f6f68e8b2c0":{"name":"Aga Khan Museum","description":"The Aga Khan Museum presents and collects art from historically significant Muslim civilizations as well as contemporary Muslim communities and diasporas around the world.  \n  \nThe Aga Khan Museum has three primary exhibition spaces. On the first floor, the Collections Gallery and Bellerive Room are dedicated to showcasing the Museum’s Permanent Collection. In the Collections Gallery, visitors can enjoy rotating displays of nearly 200 masterpieces reflecting a broad range of artistic styles and representing more than ten centuries of human history. In the Bellerive Room, visitors are invited to explore selections from the impressive ceramic collection of the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan and Princess Catherine Aga Khan.  \n  \nThe core of its Permanent Collection — spanning a vast geographic area from Spain and North Africa in the west, across the Middle East, to South Asia and China in the east — was assembled by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933–2003), uncle of His Highness, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV. Prince Sadruddin began acquiring works of art in the 1950s while studying at Harvard University. Together with his wife, Princess Catherine Aga Khan, he continued to collect throughout his lifetime. His Highness the Aga Khan and his family have supported and expanded Prince Sadruddin’s collection since his death. Today, it represents the foundation of North America’s first museum dedicated exclusively to Islamic arts, where it is enhanced by superb objects from the private collections of Prince Amyn and His Highness the Aga Khan as well as new acquisitions, special exhibitions, and a rich roster of performances and public programs.  \n  \nOn the second floor, the Aga Khan Museum presents several special exhibitions each year that feature works from the Museum alongside art from partner museums and installations by contemporary artists. These displays are complemented by performing arts programs, lectures, and workshops.","city":"Toronto","address":"77 Wynford Drive,  \nToronto, ON  \nCanada","website":"https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/"},"e2017a20-f96c-568e-bb88-af8f8335d94a":{"name":"Khalili Family Trust – Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection","description":"In striving to provide a synoptic vision of the arts of the entire Islamic world, and since the 1970s, Professor Nasser D. Khalili has assembled his collection of Islamic art under the auspices of The Khalili Family Trust. With holdings of more than 28,000 objects documenting the range of artistic production of the Islamic lands over a period of some 1400 years, the Collection now ranks among the best in the world and represents a new generation of Islamic art collections.  \n  \nThe Collection includes an outstanding array of manuscripts of the Holy Qur’an and of illustrated manuscripts, and the coverage of the decorative arts – ceramics, textiles, glass, metalwork and lacquer as well as seals and coins – is comprehensive.  \n  \nThe holdings of manuscripts and folios of the Holy Qur’an are the first to have been assembled systematically in order to illustrate the whole history of Qur’an production, both in terms of time span and geographical range – from the 8th to the 20th centuries, and from Morocco to China. Similar sequences have been assembled for painting and the decorative arts. Glass, ceramics and metalwork, for example, are represented in the full range of techniques from the pre-Islamic period through to the 19th century.  \n  \nLater Islamic art has been given the same level of attention. The wealth of important objects and manuscripts from later periods in the Collection shows that much art worthy of our attention on aesthetic as well as historical and intellectual grounds was produced in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Another important art form of this period is Islamic lacquer, represented in the Collection by more than 500 examples.  \n  \nThe catalogue of the Collection is an unprecedented 27-volume series, of which several are now published, and when completed will form a unique survey of the field to date. *Studies in the Khalili Collection* is a second series of publications related to the Islamic art collection, presenting more detailed analysis of certain objects.  \n  \n**Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection**  \n  \nFor some 40 years, and under the auspices of The Khalili Family Trust, Professor Nasser D. Khalili has been actively involved in assembling a notable collection of objects relating to Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam and the one that lends itself most readily to artistic expression. With over 3000 objects, the Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection is now one of the largest and most important of its kind and includes major objects, many of which are unique.  \n  \nThe objects range in date from the 8th to the 20th centuries and geographically from China and India in the east to Morocco and the United Kingdom in the west. They include some 250 woven and embroidered textiles made for the two holy sanctuaries at Mecca and Medina, seven covers for the Egyptian and Syrian *mahmal*s, Qur’ans, illustrated manuscripts, scientific instruments, coins, paintings, rare books, prints, photographs and postcards, as well as important archival material and some unique historical documents.  \n  \nGiven its size and diversity, the Collection provides a comprehensive overview of Hajj, illustrating the religious, spiritual, cultural and artistic aspects of pilgrimage to the holy cities of Islam and the cosmopolitan nature of Hajj.  \n  \nFor several years now, the material has been undergoing a thorough programme of conservation which is soon to be completed, and research in preparation for its publication in a number of volumes is well advanced. The volumes will include contributions by a number of international scholars who are leading experts in the numerous disciplines that this subject evokes.","city":"London","website":"http://www.khalilicollections.org","email":"info@nourhouse.com"},"ebb386cd-acd2-5c63-af99-2adb2508017c":{"name":"Cleveland Museum of Art"},"ebefa388-6b9b-5fa0-a9a7-a26465c1e27d":{"name":"Olomouc Museum of Art","description":"Olomouc Museum of Art consists of three museums. The original museum (formerly the Gallery of Fine Art founded in 1952) became an autonomous museum in 1990.  \n  \n1\\. The Museum of Modern Art came about when it moved into the building of the Olomouc Museum of Art in June 2006. The exhibition programme and acquisition activities are focused on modern art from the 20th and 21st centuries.  \n2\\. In 2006, the Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum (established 1998) was opened, representing the first museum of its type in Czech Lands. The proposed construction of an Archdiocesan Museum was possible after the historical buildings of the so-called Olomouc Castle were returned to the Catholic Church. On the basis of the contract drawn up between the Olomouc Archbishopric and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Olomouc Museum of Art was entrusted with bringing the project to completion. While the grounds of the Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum offer visitors the opportunity to view the architectural remains of an entire millennium, the Museum presents a permanent exhibition of the artistic culture of the Olomouc diocese from the 12th to the 18th centuries, bringing together artefacts from the historical territory of Moravia with a focus on art patronage and collections of the Olomouc bishops.  \n3\\. The Kroměříž Archdiocesan Museum was established in 2006 as part of the Olomouc Museum of Art, and detached from the rest of the Museum, is situated in the former Archbishop’s Château in Kroměříž. The Museum holds one of the largest château libraries in the country: almost 90,000 volumes, including illuminated manuscripts and a music archive of more than 6,000, mainly Baroque, compositions. There is also a rich collection of old-master drawings, graphic works and coins and medals.  \n  \nGuided tours are available to visitors through the halls, rooms with historic furniture, and the picture galleries.  \n  \nThe Archbishop’s Château in Kroměříž along with its gardens, were proclaimed a National Cultural Monument in 1995 and recorded on the UNESCO List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites in 1998.","city":"Olomouc","address":"Denisova 47,  \n771 11 Olomouc","website":"http://www.muo.cz/","phone":"+420 585 514 111, 585 514 277","email":"info@olmuart.cz"},"f0ceb925-0447-5995-bb7e-b90eeb1f59c7":{"name":"Vitromusée Romont","description":"The Vitromusée Romont opened in 1981 in the Savoyard wing of Romont Castle. This medieval monument provides a time-honoured setting for the Swiss Museum of Stained Glass and Glass Arts. A passageway built in 2006 connects the historic heart of the museum with the Fribourg wing, which is dedicated to reverse glass painting. The Vitromusée Romont is entirely focused on the glass arts and harbours significant collections in the fields of stained glass, reverse glass painting, glass and graphic arts, as well as tools and materials linked to the production of Swiss glass works. With over 14’000 objects, all aspects of glass arts from antiquity to the present are represented. The Vitromusée Romont is committed to fostering a lively culture and develops innovative cultural education programs at the interface of knowledge transfer, creative experience and exchange. It thereby advocates for conserving the history of an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage while also sharing it with a diverse public.","city":"Romont","address":"Au Château,  \n1680 Romont","website":"https://vitromusee.ch/en","phone":"+41 (0)26 652 10 95","email":"info@vitromusee.ch"},"f446146a-791c-5ab5-a762-4bd0263541be":{"name":"Moravian Gallery","description":"The Moravian Gallery in Brno, the second largest art museum in the Czech Republic, is exceptional for the wide range of artistic disciplines it covers. It is the only institution in the country collecting visual art that is concerned with painting, drawing, graphic art and sculpture – from the past and the present – as well as photography, applied art and design.  \n  \nFounded in Brno in 1961 by amalgamating the Museum of Applied Arts and the Picture Gallery of the Moravian Museum, it is housed in three centrally located and architecturally impressive buildings. The Moravian Gallery in Brno sets out to present visual culture from within the Czech Republic in a European context, through both permanent and temporary exhibitions. To achieve its goals it works together with a number of institutions at home and abroad and participates in international projects. At a global level the most renowned event organised by the Moravian Gallery in Brno is the International Biennale of Graphic Design, which has been taking place here since 1963.  \n  \nThe temporary displays and permanent exhibitions are enriched by an accompanying programme of lectures, guided tours, workshops, concerts and performances created to suit the whole spectrum of visitors. Special attention is paid to children, whether visiting individually or in school groups.  \n  \nA testimonial to the museum's accessibility is a collection of art for the visually impaired and related exhibition projects such as Possible Messages and Invisible Causes.","city":"Brno","address":"Husova 18,  \nCZ-662 00 Brno  \nCzech Republic","website":"http://www.moravska-galerie.cz","phone":"+420 532 169 111; 532 169 130","email":"info@moravska-galerie.cz"},"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"},"f937f9c2-61b9-5201-b1ec-08251315e395":{"name":"National Museum of Decorative Arts","description":"The National Museum of Decorative Arts (MNAD) devotes its permanent collection to historical and current domestic spaces and allows visitors to experience the daily life of various cultures. Temporary exhibitions focus primarily on the contemporary designers and artists – both established and emerging – that create our environment. Through these visiting exhibits, the museum is able to display parts of the permanent collection kept in storage and generally not visible to the public.  \n  \nThe museum houses a permanent collection of over 70,000 objects from several geographic origins; mainly Spain, but also other European countries and the Far East. The collection covers a long chronological period. The oldest pieces date from the 4th century BC, but the chronological sequence goes from the 14th century until the first half of the 21st century, including the collection of avant-garde design as well as recent acquisitions of contemporary design.  \n  \nThis broad collection includes a full range of materials, techniques and typologies, including textiles, metalwork, furniture, ceramics, glass, costumes, silver, ironwork, ivory, photographs, prints and documents.  \n  \nIn 1934 the museum moved to its present location, a mansion built in 1878 by the architect José María González for Doña María del Carmen Espinosa, the Duchess of Santoña. Part of the original red-brick and stone facade, the imperial staircase of white Italian marble decorated with medallions and the Italian mosaic floors by Pellerin and Domenico still remain from the original concept of the building, a residence in the Romantic style. In the 1940s the architect Luis Moya added two floors above the original ones, structured in enfilade around a central court. Since then, the museum has undergone various improvements.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Montalbán, 12  \n28014 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://mnartesdecorativas.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 91 532 64 99","email":"mnad@mecd.es"},"fae81dae-0250-52ec-acc1-171da28b9eef":{"name":"Borghese Gallery","description":"The Casino Borghese ­– today the Borghese Museum and Gallery – was commissioned from Flaminio Ponzio by Pope Paolo V's nephew, Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese, who wanted a suburban villa to house his art collections. It was completed after Ponzio's death by Giovanni Vasanzio in 1613–15.  \n  \nCasino Borghese lies inside a great park and the garden is divided into three precincts divided by a series of spaces and buildings: the Casino, three Secret Gardens, the Aviary, the Meridiana Pavilion.  \n  \nCardinal Borghese's antique collection was augmented by archaeological excavations on the family property and by acquisitions such as the collections of Ceoli and Tommaso e Giovan Battista Della Porta.  \n  \nThe cardinal was uninterested in medieval art, but was very interested in renaissance and contemporary art. He used his powerful position to increase his collection by any means, including confiscation. He imprisoned Domenichino to obtain his *La Caccia di* *Diana* and ordered the secret removal to Rome of Raphael's *Deposition* from the Baglioni Chapel in Perugia.  \n  \nScipione commissioned works from the most important contemporary artists: Bernini, Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Guercino, Lanfranco, Domenichino, Algardi, Cavalier d'Arpino, Rubens, Lavinia Fontana, Nicolas Cordier and Antonio Susini. He also bought many paintings from the Ferrara School. With Scipione the renaissance concept of the aristocratic patron was transformed into the 'modern' collector.  \n  \nAfter the marriage of Paolo Borghese and Olimpia Aldobrandini (1682) part of the Aldobrandini inheritance was incorporated in the Borghese collection.  \n  \nBetween 1770 and 1793 Marcantonio IV Borghese renewed the villa in neoclassical style. His son Camillo married Pauline Bonaparte and was persuaded by his brother-in-law, Napoleon, to 'sell' him (1807) a considerable part of the archaeological collection, which now is in the Louvre; fortunately Camillo also bought many works such as Correggio's *Danae* (1827) and Guercino's *Prodigal Son* and commissioned from Canova (1805–8) a sculpture of Pauline as *Venus Victrix*, a neoclassical masterpiece. Gaps caused by the 'sale' were filled with new finds from recent excavations and works from various Borghese residences.  \n  \nIn 1902 the Casino Borghese and its collection were acquired by Italian Government.  \n  \nAmong the great pieces in the collection are: Titian's *Sacred and Profane Love*; marble sculptures by Bernini including *Apollo and Daphne*, *Pluto and Proserpina*, *David*, *Aeneas and Anchises*; paintings by Caravaggio including *Boy with a Basket of Fruit*, *Madonna of the Palafrenieri* and *David with the Head of Goliath*; and many works by Raphael, Rubens, Pinturicchio, Perugino, Titian, Domenichino, Carracci and many others.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5  \nI - 00197 Rome","website":"http://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it/it","phone":"+39 06 8413979"},"fea32901-ad4a-5972-8043-fd04f11ab0ee":{"name":"Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia","description":"Interest in Islamic art has grown enormously in recent years. Reflecting this awareness, in December 1998 Malaysia became home to Southeast Asia’s largest museum of Islamic art. The building occupies 30,000 square metres, situated amid the leafy surroundings of central Kuala Lumpur’s Lake Gardens.  \n  \nThe Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia houses more than ten thousand artefacts, as well as an exceptional library of Islamic art books. The art objects on display range from the tiniest pieces of jewellery to one of the world’s largest scale models of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The aim is to create a collection that is truly representative of the Islamic world. Instead of concentrating on works from the heartlands of Persia and the Middle East, IAMM also puts the emphasis on Asia. China and Southeast Asia are especially well represented. The third component of the Malaysian melting pot is India, which is also given special status. India, China and the Malay World are in an exceptional category. Other parts of the collection are displayed according to type rather than geographical origins in the museum’s 12 galleries.  \n  \nIranian tile workers transformed the iwan-style entrance into a ceramic tapestry that frames a welcoming verse from the Qur’an. On the roof, these artisans turned the dome-construction traditions of Central Asia into the building’s crowning glory. The turquoise-coloured domes are now a landmark on the Kuala Lumpur skyline.  \n  \nInside the building, the angularity of 21st century design is contrasted with the soft, rounded forms of the five domes that dominate the museum’s interior. Laboured over by craftsmen from Uzbekistan, these imposing features help form an ambience that is both airy and harmony. The seamless continuity of light and space is maintained throughout the galleries and into other areas of the museum, such as the library and the restaurant.","city":"Kuala Lumpur","address":"Jalan Lembah Perdana  \n50480 Kuala Lumpur  \nMalaysia","website":"http://www.iamm.org.my","phone":"+603 20927070; +603 22742020","email":"info@iamm.org.my"}}

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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"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"El Museo Británico","description":"El Museo Británico fue establecido por Ley del Parlamento en 1753, el primer museo público nacional del mundo. Desde el principio concedió entrada gratuita a todos los “estudiosos y curiosos”. La colección fundadora fue la de Sir Hans Sloane, un rico médico y coleccionista. El Museo Británico original constaba de tres departamentos: Libros impresos; Manuscritos (incluidas monedas); y Producciones Naturales y Artificiales, que incluían desde esculturas hasta muestras minerales y especímenes zoológicos. En enero de 1759 el Museo Británico abrió sus puertas al público.  \n  \nComo producto de la Ilustración, el trabajo del museo era ser un almacén de conocimiento para el uso y beneficio del público, avanzando en todos los campos de la erudición. Por tanto, el museo tenía como objetivo recopilar todo tipo de material; sigue siendo uno de los pocos lugares del mundo en el que es posible ver el mundo bajo un mismo techo. Durante el siglo XIX, el museo adquirió colecciones representativas de antigüedades Griegas, Romanas, Egipcias y Asirias, así como material de todo el mundo Islámico.  \n  \nEl museo en sí tuvo que crecer para ofrecer espacio para exhibir las crecientes colecciones. Entre 1823 y 1847, el edificio original fue reemplazado por cuatro grandes alas construidas alrededor de un patio central. En 1854 se inició la construcción de la icónica Sala de Lectura Redonda en el patio central. Las colecciones de historia natural recibieron su propio hogar en el nuevo Museo de Historia Natural en 1881. En 1973, la Biblioteca Británica y el Museo Británico se separaron administrativamente, y en 1999 se inauguró el nuevo edificio de la Biblioteca Británica en St Pancras. El sitio del Museo Británico se amplió y modernizó. En 2000 se inauguró el Gran Patio, concebido como una plaza soleada en el centro del edificio, con instalaciones actualizadas como salas de conferencias, un centro educativo e instalaciones para escolares, así como restaurantes y tiendas. En 2014, el Centro Mundial de Exposiciones y Conservación se abrió al público, ofreciendo instalaciones de última generación para cuidar, administrar, investigar y exhibir las colecciones.","city":"Londres","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"6da08597-8da7-5d02-a911-09a5273c1265":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska Museet)**  \nBox 5428  \nNarvavägen 13–17  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955600  \n[www.historiska.se](http://www.historiska.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Ethnography (Etnografiska museet)**  \nDjurgårdsbrunnsvägen 34,  \nBox 27140,  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 010 4561299  \n[www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/](http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/)  \n  \n**National Museum of Fine Arts (Nationalmuseum)**  \nBox 16176  \n103 24 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Södra Blasieholmshamnen  \nTel.: +46 8 51954300  \n[www.nationalmuseum.se](http://www.nationalmuseum.se)  \n  \n**Royal Coin Cabinet (Kungl. Myntkabinettet)**  \nSlottsbacken 6,  \nBox 5428  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955300  \n[www.myntkabinettet.se](http://www.myntkabinettet.se)  \n  \n**Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren)**  \nSlottsbacken 3,  \n111 30 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 8 4023000  \n[www.lrk.lsh.se](http://www.lrk.lsh.se)  \n  \n**National Maritime Museum (Sjöhistoriska museet)**  \nBox 27131  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 24  \nTel.: +46 8 51954900  \n[www.sjohistoriska.se](http://www.sjohistoriska.se)  \n  \n**Army Museum (Armémuseum)**  \nBox 14095,  \n104 41 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Riddargatan 13  \nTel.: +46 8 51956310  \n[www.sfhm.se](http://www.sfhm.se)  \n  \n**Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet)**  \nFyrverkarbacken 13,  \nBox 12541,  \n102 29 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 010 4767000  \n[www.riksarkivet.se](http://www.riksarkivet.se)  \n  \n**Hallwyl Museum (Hallwylska Museet)**  \nHamngatan 4,  \n111 47 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 4023099  \n[http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se](http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Cultural History**  \nBox 1095  \n221 04 Lund  \nAddress for visitors:  \nTegnérsplatsen  \n223 50 Lund  \nTel.: +46 046 350400  \n[www.kulturen.com](http://www.kulturen.com)  \n  \n**Uppsala University Library**  \nBox 510,  \n751 20 Uppsala  \nAddress for visitors: Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1  \nTel.: +46 18 4713900  \n[www.ub.uu.se](http://www.ub.uu.se)"},"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"},"af01a84d-b174-5718-b9a7-b741c8957086":{"name":"British Museum","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St.,  \nLondon WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"bbd3d5ff-f06e-515d-b3ae-1c0c2aab189d":{"name":"Otros museos asociados"},"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"},"c4647cf3-9e83-5e5e-9a5b-4af7ed883bb1":{"name":"The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts","city":"Kyiv","address":"Tereshchenkivska Street 15-17  \n01004","website":"https://www.khanenkomuseum.kiev.ua/en/main","phone":"+38044 2350206"},"d10f1d84-ce50-539f-aad0-624ff1d3e8c9":{"name":"Museo del palacio Topkapi","description":"El palacio Topkapi, reconocido como el palacio residencial y administrativo del imperio otomano en Estambul, fue completado para AH 882 / 1478 A. D. después de la conquista de la ciudad por Mehmed II. Fue utilizado continuamente por los gobernantes otomanos hasta que se mudaron a los palacios construidos a lo largo del Bósforo entre los siglos XIII y XIX. Después de la declaración de la República de Turquía, el palacio se convirtió en un museo el 3 de abril de 1924 por orden de Atatürk.  \n  \nEl palacio se volvió una estructura multifuncional grandiosa a través del desarrollo continuo y las construcciones adicionales por diferentes sultanes, lo cual también refleja la estructura institucional del imperio otomano. El esplendor y la estructura de varios niveles del protocolo y la jerarquía otomanos pueden ser apreciados claramente en la arquitectura. Incluso el ascenso y la caída del imperio encontró su expresión artística en el palacio. Además de ser el centro de los eventos dramáticos del pasado, este palacio es uno de los pocos ejemplos de su clase que sobrevivieron junto con su estilo de vida histórico.  \n  \nEntre los objetos exhibidos en el museo se encuentran retratos y trajes de los sultanes, porcelanas japonesas y chinas utilizadas en el palacio, utensilios de cocina de metal, porcelana y cristalería Yıldız, piezas de porcelana y plata europeas, armas turcas e islámicas. Las reliquias sagradas del profeta Mohammed y las primeras califas traídas de Medina a principios de los siglos X y XVI por Selim I se exhiben en la sección de Reliquias Sagradas. Entre estas reliquias se encuentra el manto del profeta Mohammed, sus espadas y su huella.  \nLos cuatro tronos, los portapenachos, la daga Topkapı y el diamante de Kaşıkçı son los ejemplares más famosos de piezas del tesoro de los otomanos. El archivo del museo conserva documentos importantes de correspondencia de los sultanes otomanos y su biblioteca contiene manuscritos famosos de los periodos bizantino, islámico u otomano.","city":"Estambul","address":"Sultanahmet  \nFatih, İstanbul, Turkey","website":"https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/en","phone":"+90 212 512 04 80; +90 212 236","email":"info@ millisaraylar.gov.tr"}}

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En janvier 1759, le British Museum ouvrait ses portes au public.  \n  \nDans la mesure où l’Acte de 1753 incarnait les idées universalistes des Lumières, pour qui tous les arts et toutes les sciences formaient un seul et même vaste réseau de corrélations, la tâche du Musée était de faire progresser tous les champs du savoir pour les chercheurs et les “esprits curieux” – et pour le meilleur profit du grand public. En tant que dépositaire du savoir, le British Museum avait vocation à tout collectionner. Une telle position impliquait inévitablement un développement constant et la nécessité de bâtiments plus grands dans lesquels stocker des collections de plus en plus volumineuses. Entre 1823 et 1847, le bâtiment d’origine fut remplacé par quatre grandes ailes construites autour d’une cour centrale. La bibliothèque continua à s’accroître à un tel rythme qu’une nouvelle salle de lecture s’imposait. Les travaux commencèrent en 1854 par la construction, dans la cour centrale, de la nouvelle Salle de lecture ronde à coupole.  \n  \nDans les années 1860, le besoin d’un nouveau bâtiment capable d’héberger les collections d’histoire naturelle en plein développement était reconnu, et en 1881 le nouveau Muséum d’histoire naturelle ouvrait au public. En 1973, la British Library et le British Museum étaient séparés administrativement, et dans les années 1990, les travaux d’un nouvel édifice pour la bibliothèque furent entrepris. La nouvelle British Library ouvrit en 1999, laissant au British Museum l’opportunité de s’agrandir et de se moderniser. En 2000, le British Museum ouvrait la Great Court, conçue comme une piazza ensoleillée au centre du bâtiment, mais dotée d’équipements modernes tels que des salles de conférence, des restaurants, une cafétéria pour les scolaires et des boutiques.  \n  \nLa collection initiale du musée, qui comptait quelques objets islamiques, s’enrichit considérablement au cours des XIXe et XXe siècles par des achats, des dons et des legs. Avec le Victoria and Albert Museum, le British Museum abrite la plus importante collection de céramiques d’Iznik au monde. Les objets médiévaux en métal incrusté, les collections archéologiques, les œuvres sur papier et sur verre émaillé constituent d’autres ensembles de grande valeur. La collection, avec les pièces archéologiques, compte environ 40 000 objets.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"42fb6391-e1f6-527a-85db-f9638b02d667":{"name":"Institut Supérieur d’histoire contemporaine de la Tunisie, Université de la Manouba","description":"L’I.S.H.C.T est un centre de recherche en histoire contemporaine de la Tunisie. Il abrite un fonds d’archives microfilmées, un ensemble de témoignage audio-visuel, une collection de photographie ainsi qu’une bibliothèque ouverte aux sollicitations des chercheurs, journalistes, militants ou étudiants désireux d’effectuer des investigations approfondies sur l’histoire de la colonisation et de la décolonisation de la Tunisie. Quatre unités d’étude et de recherche groupant des chercheurs historiens se consacrent à l’exploitation de différents matériaux pour une meilleure connaissance de cette période de l’histoire de la Tunisie : U.E.R archivistique, U.E.R. Lieux de mémoire et musées, U.E.R. Histoire Orale, U.E.R. Historique. A travers la publication d’une revue (RAWAFID), des actes de colloques, séminaires et journées scientifiques, des mémoires de témoins et de collections de documents, l’ISHCT espère enrichir la bibliothèque universitaire au fur et à mesure de ces avancées documentaires et méthodologiques et contribuer ainsi à doter cette période historique d’une dynamique de recherche en suscitant les échanges scientifiques en Tunisie et à l’étranger.","city":"Tunis","address":"Campus Universitaire de la Manouba,  \n2010 La Manouba  \nTunis  \nTunisia","phone":"+216 716 009 50","email":"ishmn@ishmn.rnu.tn"},"6da08597-8da7-5d02-a911-09a5273c1265":{"name":"Autres musées associés","description":"**Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska Museet)**  \nBox 5428  \nNarvavägen 13–17  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955600  \n[www.historiska.se](http://www.historiska.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Ethnography (Etnografiska museet)**  \nDjurgårdsbrunnsvägen 34,  \nBox 27140,  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 010 4561299  \n[www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/](http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/)  \n  \n**National Museum of Fine Arts (Nationalmuseum)**  \nBox 16176  \n103 24 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Södra Blasieholmshamnen  \nTel.: +46 8 51954300  \n[www.nationalmuseum.se](http://www.nationalmuseum.se)  \n  \n**Royal Coin Cabinet (Kungl. Myntkabinettet)**  \nSlottsbacken 6,  \nBox 5428  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955300  \n[www.myntkabinettet.se](http://www.myntkabinettet.se)  \n  \n**Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren)**  \nSlottsbacken 3,  \n111 30 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 8 4023000  \n[www.lrk.lsh.se](http://www.lrk.lsh.se)  \n  \n**National Maritime Museum (Sjöhistoriska museet)**  \nBox 27131  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 24  \nTel.: +46 8 51954900  \n[www.sjohistoriska.se](http://www.sjohistoriska.se)  \n  \n**Army Museum (Armémuseum)**  \nBox 14095,  \n104 41 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Riddargatan 13  \nTel.: +46 8 51956310  \n[www.sfhm.se](http://www.sfhm.se)  \n  \n**Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet)**  \nFyrverkarbacken 13,  \nBox 12541,  \n102 29 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 010 4767000  \n[www.riksarkivet.se](http://www.riksarkivet.se)  \n  \n**Hallwyl Museum (Hallwylska Museet)**  \nHamngatan 4,  \n111 47 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 4023099  \n[http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se](http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Cultural History**  \nBox 1095  \n221 04 Lund  \nAddress for visitors:  \nTegnérsplatsen  \n223 50 Lund  \nTel.: +46 046 350400  \n[www.kulturen.com](http://www.kulturen.com)  \n  \n**Uppsala University Library**  \nBox 510,  \n751 20 Uppsala  \nAddress for visitors: Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1  \nTel.: +46 18 4713900  \n[www.ub.uu.se](http://www.ub.uu.se)"},"869f6729-a0ed-56b2-a24b-3c19813a3082":{"name":"Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF)","description":"La Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) est la gardienne de cinq siècles de patrimoine. Elle conserve un patrimoine rassemblé depuis cinq siècles à travers le dépôt légal et une politique active d’acquisitions : quatorze millions de livres et d’imprimés, de périodiques, de manuscrits, d’estampes, de photographies, de cartes et plans, partitions, monnaies, médailles, documents sonores, vidéos, multimédia, décors, costumes. Ses fonds s'accroissent d'environ 150 000 volumes par an, et couvrent l’ensemble des disciplines intellectuelles, artistiques et scientifiques.  \n  \nElle conserve ces richesses, les analyse, les classe, les ordonne pour les mettre à la disposition du public, de la recherche et de la connaissance.  \n  \nElle les fait connaître en organisant des expositions, des conférences, des colloques et en éditant des ouvrages.  \n  \nEn parallèle avec ses salles de lectures qui accueillent chaque année plus de 940 000 personnes, la BnF donne accès à plus d’1,5 millions de documents sur la bibliothèque numérique Gallica.  \n  \nElle se situe aussi au cœur d’un réseau national de coopération entre bibliothèques et mène une politique de collaborations et d’échanges internationaux.  \n  \nInstitution vivante et ouverte aux défis de l’avenir, la BnF développe des projets qui lui confèrent une nouvelle dimension, contribuant ainsi à accroître son rayonnement et son rôle pilote face aux grands enjeux culturels de demain : le dépôt légal d’Internet, le développement des bibliothèques numériques en ligne - Gallica et son développement Gallica 2 -, la numérisation de masse de ses collections.","city":"Paris","address":"Quai François-Mauriac  \n75706 Paris Cedex 13  \nFrance","website":"http://www.bnf.fr/","phone":"+33 (0)1 537 959 59"},"89f613d2-8723-5be8-8e46-487f9dae46f4":{"name":"Musée National Suisse","description":"Le Musée national suisse regroupe trois musées: le Musée national Zurich, le Château de Prangins et le Forum de l’histoire suisse à Schwyz, ainsi que le centre des collections d’Affoltern am Albis. Les musées consacrent leurs expositions à l’histoire de la Suisse, depuis les époques les plus reculées jusqu’à aujourd’hui ; ils fournissent ainsi leur contribution à l’étude des identités suisses et des contrastes et de la variété qui marquent notre histoire et notre culture.","city":"Zurich","address":"Swiss National Museum  \nMuseumstrasse, 2  \nP.O. Box 8021  \nZurich  \nSwitzerland","website":"http://www.nationalmuseum.ch","phone":"+41 44 218 65 11","email":"info@nationalmuseum.ch"},"af01a84d-b174-5718-b9a7-b741c8957086":{"name":"British Museum","description":"Fondé en 1753 par Acte du Parlement, le British Museum s’installait dès l’année suivante à Montagu House, une résidence aristocratique sur le site de l’actuel musée à Bloomsbury, Londres. La collection fondatrice fut cédée à la nation britannique par Sir Hans Sloane, un riche physicien et collectionneur, mort en 1753, contre paiement de 20 000 livres à ses deux filles. Outre la collection d’objets de Sloane et sa bibliothèque, le premier British Museum possédait quatre autres importantes collections de livres. C’est d’ailleurs à un bibliothécaire en chef qu’était confiée la direction des trois départements du musée: Livres imprimés (y compris la presse); Manuscrits (de même que monnaies et dessins) ; Productions naturelles et Productions artificielles, qui rassemblaient toutes sortes de pièces, de la sculpture aux échantillons minéraux, des momies aux spécimens zoologiques. En janvier 1759, le British Museum ouvrait ses portes au public.  \n  \nDans la mesure où l’Acte de 1753 incarnait les idées universalistes des Lumières, pour qui tous les arts et toutes les sciences formaient un seul et même vaste réseau de corrélations, la tâche du Musée était de faire progresser tous les champs du savoir pour les chercheurs et les “esprits curieux” – et pour le meilleur profit du grand public. En tant que dépositaire du savoir, le British Museum avait vocation à tout collectionner. Une telle position impliquait inévitablement un développement constant et la nécessité de bâtiments plus grands dans lesquels stocker des collections de plus en plus volumineuses. Entre 1823 et 1847, le bâtiment d’origine fut remplacé par quatre grandes ailes construites autour d’une cour centrale. La bibliothèque continua à s’accroître à un tel rythme qu’une nouvelle salle de lecture s’imposait. Les travaux commencèrent en 1854 par la construction, dans la cour centrale, de la nouvelle Salle de lecture ronde à coupole.  \n  \nDans les années 1860, le besoin d’un nouveau bâtiment capable d’héberger les collections d’histoire naturelle en plein développement était reconnu, et en 1881 le nouveau Muséum d’histoire naturelle ouvrait au public. En 1973, la British Library et le British Museum étaient séparés administrativement, et dans les années 1990, les travaux d’un nouvel édifice pour la bibliothèque furent entrepris. La nouvelle British Library ouvrit en 1999, laissant au British Museum l’opportunité de s’agrandir et de se moderniser. En 2000, le British Museum ouvrait la Great Court, conçue comme une piazza ensoleillée au centre du bâtiment, mais dotée d’équipements modernes tels que des salles de conférence, des restaurants, une cafétéria pour les scolaires et des boutiques.  \n  \nLa collection initiale du musée, qui comptait quelques objets islamiques, s’enrichit considérablement au cours des XIXe et XXe siècles par des achats, des dons et des legs. Avec le Victoria and Albert Museum, le British Museum abrite la plus importante collection de céramiques d’Iznik au monde. Les objets médiévaux en métal incrusté, les collections archéologiques, les œuvres sur papier et sur verre émaillé constituent d’autres ensembles de grande valeur. La collection, avec les pièces archéologiques, compte environ 40 000 objets.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St.,  \nLondon WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"b5ea6933-458f-5e3f-bce3-210363a13ff0":{"name":"Musée National des Beaux-Arts","description":"Inauguré en 1930, le **Musée National des Beaux-Arts** abrite une collection d’art parmi les plus importantes du continent, voire du monde arabe. Il est situé sur une colline boisée, face à la baie d’Alger, dans le quartier du Hamma. Sa riche collection est constituée de dons et de nombreux achats réalisés dans la première moitié du XXe siècle auprès de prestigieuses galeries d’art internationales, ainsi que d’acquisition auprès d’artistes et de collectionneurs privés.  \n  \nElle compte plus de 8 000 œuvres incluant peintures, dessins, gravures, estampes anciennes, sculptures, céramique, verrerie ainsi que du mobilier ancien, des objets d’art décoratif et une collection de numismatique.  \n  \nDepuis l’indépendance, le musée s’est enrichi de plusieurs nouvelles sections créées au cours des 50 dernières années. Outre la collection dite «historique», constituée du fonds le plus ancien du musée, une exposition chronologique permet de parcourir six siècles d’histoire de l’art, illustrant les grands mouvements artistiques européens, des primitifs aux XVIIIe siècle. Depuis 2007, deux nouvelles salles abritent l’art orientaliste du XVIIIe siècle ainsi que des œuvres inspirées par l’Algérie, dès la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Ces salles sont nommées après deux grands maîtres de l’art algérien contemporain, Mohamed Temam et Mohamed Louaïl qui furent des précurseurs de l’art moderne algérien.  \n  \nLes artistes algériens occupent naturellement une place de choix dans le musée. La salle Bachir Yellès abrite les œuvres des premières générations de peintres algériens. Et tout un étage est consacré à l’art algérien du XXe siècle. Le fonds dit de «l’École d’Alger» et des pensionnaires Abd-El-Tif réunit à lui seul plus de 1 500 œuvres; sous cette appellation, sont regroupées les œuvres des artistes peintres, graveurs, aquarellistes natifs d’Algérie dont certains ont accédés à une renommée universelle (tel le sculpteur Paul Belmondo, Prix de Rome et grand prix de l’Algérie en 1936).  \n  \nDès 1963, grâce à la donation «fonds art et révolution», l’art contemporain est représenté au musée à travers la production d’un groupement d’artistes renommés du monde entier, sympathique à la lutte menée par le peuple algérien pour accéder à son indépendance.  \n  \nLa sculpture est représentée par un bel ensemble datant des XIXe et XXe siècles. Un parcours est proposé à travers diverses salles et jardins pour en découvrir la variété.  \n  \nQuant aux arts décoratifs -regroupant des produits de céramique et de verrerie-, et le mobilier ancien, ils proviennent principalement de deux anciennes demeures d’Alger. Le Cabinet des Estampes demeure un des points forts de la visite, exposant les œuvres du maître de la miniature algérienne, Mohamed Racim, véritable trésor national.","city":"Alger","website":"http://www.musee-beauxarts.dz/"},"bbd3d5ff-f06e-515d-b3ae-1c0c2aab189d":{"name":"Autres musées associés"},"c0c2fa4f-c38c-578e-8cc1-4703cc60b8a9":{"name":"Musée des arts turques et islamiques","description":"Le Musée des arts turcs et islamiques fut le premier musée en Turquie à rassembler des œuvres d’art islamiques. Fondé en 1914 comme Musée des fondations islamiques et abrité dans l’imaret du complexe Süleymaniye, il est dû au grand architecte turc Sinan (XVIe siècle). Rebaptisé Musée des ars turcs et islamiques après la déclaration de la République, il a été transféré à son emplacement actuel au palais Ibrahim Pacha (XVIe siècle) en 1983.  \n  \nLes collections sont essentiellement composées d’œuvres d’art islamique collectées dans tout l’empire ottoman au début du XXe siècle. Ces pièces comprennent des tapis, des manuscrits, des objets en métal, en verre et en bois, ainsi que des matériaux ethnographiques. Les collections couvrent une large période allant de la naissance de l’islam jusqu’au XXe siècle, et la vaste zone géographique qui fut sous domination de l’empire ottoman.  \n  \nPar leur qualité et leur variété, les quelque 1 700 tapis constituent l’une des plus importantes collections au monde, si bien que le musée est parfois perçu comme un musée du tapis. Mais il abrite aussi d’autres ensembles remarquables : la collection de manuscrits représente tous les États islamiques ayant régné entre le VIIe et le XXe siècle sur une vaste zone géographique. La collection d’ouvrages métalliques permet au visiteur de suivre le développement du travail du métal en Anatolie, tandis que la riche collection d’objets en bois couvre une période allant du IXe siècle jusqu’à la période ottomane. Les collections de céramiques vernissées et de poteries comptent des objets mis au jour au cours de fouilles sur des sites abbassides aussi célèbres que Samarra et Kachan (Iran) et Raqqa (Syrie), ainsi que des objets venant de la période turque anatolienne. La pierre sculptée, surtout à inscriptions, est représentée par des pièces datables des périodes omeyyade, abbasside, mamelouke, seldjoukide et ottomane.  \n  \nD’autre part, le musée organise ou accueille des expositions temporaires nationales et internationales, et participe à nombre de manifestations d’envergure internationale.","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"},"c4647cf3-9e83-5e5e-9a5b-4af7ed883bb1":{"name":"The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts","city":"Kyiv","address":"Tereshchenkivska Street 15-17  \n01004","website":"https://www.khanenkomuseum.kiev.ua/en/main","phone":"+38044 2350206"},"f0ceb925-0447-5995-bb7e-b90eeb1f59c7":{"name":"Vitromusée Romont","description":"Le Vitromusée Romont a été inauguré en 1981 dans l’aile savoyarde du Château de Romont. Ce dernier, datant du Moyen Age, constitue un écrin de choix pour le Musée suisse du vitrail et des arts du verre. La passerelle, réalisée en 2006, relie le noyau historique du musée à l’aile fribourgeoise dédiée à la peinture sous verre. Entièrement voué aux arts du verre, le Vitromusée Romont abrite d’importantes collections regroupant vitraux, peintures sous verre, verres et œuvres graphiques ainsi que des outils et matériaux liés à la production verrière. Avec plus de 14000 œuvres, toutes les facettes de l’art verrier, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, y sont représentées. Le Vitromusée Romont s’implique pour une culture vivante et développe des programmes de médiation culturelle novateurs à la jonction entre la transmission du savoir, l’expérience créatrice et le partage, et s’investit ainsi pour conserver et transmettre l’histoire d’un patrimoine d’une richesse exceptionnelle à un public diversifié.","city":"Romont","address":"Au Château,  \n1680 Romont","website":"https://vitromusee.ch/en","phone":"+41 (0)26 652 10 95","email":"info@vitromusee.ch"}}

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Gli oggetti della raccolta afferiscono a diverse classi di produzione: ceramica, metallistica, miniatura, manoscritti, numismatica, gioielleria, arte tessile, vetri, armi ed armature e legni.  \nRicca è la collezione di reperti archeologici provenienti dal palazzo del Sultano ghaznavide Mas‘ud III (1099-1115) a Ghazni (Afghanistan), portato alla luce dagli scavi condotti dalla Missione Archeologica dell'IsMEO negli anni Sessanta. Si tratta soprattutto di elementi di decorazioni architettoniche in mattone cotto e in marmo, cippi funerari in marmo, ceramiche e metalli.  \nLe opere dall'Iran sono databili ad un arco di tempo che va dall'VIII al XIX secolo. Ben rappresentata è la produzione ceramica samanide (IX-X secolo), e quella selgiuchide (XI-XII secolo). Significativa è anche la produzione di periodo ilkhanide (XIII-XIV secolo) per l'uso della tecnica lajvardina e per le ceramiche cosiddette Sultanabad. Gran parte degli oggetti in metallo della raccolta islamica viene dalla regione del Khorasan (Iran orientale, Afghanistan occidentale), famoso centro di produzione metallurgica.  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \nDal settembre 2016 il ***Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale* in Roma è confluito nel nuovo *Museo delle Civiltà***, chiudendo definitivamente nell’ottobre del 2017 per il trasferimento nella nuova sede nel Palazzo delle Scienze. In attesa del riallestimento definitivo previsto per la fine del 2021, un'esposizione temporanea, “Aperti per lavori” espone oltre 650 oggetti del museo orientale (di cui ca. 60 d’arte islamica) nelle sale 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"},"89f613d2-8723-5be8-8e46-487f9dae46f4":{"name":"Museo Nazionale Svizzero","description":"Il Museo nazionale svizzero (MNS) riunisce sotto lo stesso tetto il Museo nazionale Zurigo, il Castello di Prangins e il Forum della storia svizzera Svitto nonché il Centro delle collezioni di Affoltern am Albis. Con le loro mostre i musei presentano la storia della Svizzera dagli inizi ad oggi e valorizzano l’identità svizzera e la varietà storica e culturale del nostro Paese.","city":"Zurigo","address":"Swiss National Museum  \nMuseumstrasse, 2  \nP.O. Box 8021  \nZurich  \nSwitzerland","website":"http://www.nationalmuseum.ch","phone":"+41 44 218 65 11","email":"info@nationalmuseum.ch"},"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"},"af01a84d-b174-5718-b9a7-b741c8957086":{"name":"British Museum","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St.,  \nLondon WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"f0ceb925-0447-5995-bb7e-b90eeb1f59c7":{"name":"Vitromusée Romont","description":"Il Vitromusée Romont è stato inaugurato nel 1981 nell’ala savoiarda del Castello di Romont. Edificato nel Medioevo, il castello costituisce un contesto privilegiato per il Museo svizzero delle vetrate e delle arti vetrarie. La passerella, realizzata nel 2006, collega la sede storica del museo con l’ala friburghese, che ospita la collezione di pitture dietro vetro. Interamente dedicato alle arti vetrarie, il Vitromusée Romont accoglie importanti collezioni di vetrate, dipinti dietro vetro, vetri e opere grafiche nonché strumenti e materiali legati alla produzione del vetro. Con oltre 14 000 opere, le collezioni documentano le arti vetrarie in tutte le loro sfaccettature, dall’antichità ai giorni nostri. Il Vitromusée Romont s’impegna a favore di una cultura vivente e sviluppa programmi di mediazione culturale innovativi, nel punto di giunzione fra trasmissione di sapere, esperienza creativa e condivisione sostenendo in questo modo la conservazione e la divulgazione di un patrimonio di straordinaria ricchezza e della sua storia a un pubblico eterogeneo.","city":"Romont","address":"Au Château,  \n1680 Romont","website":"https://vitromusee.ch/en","phone":"+41 (0)26 652 10 95","email":"info@vitromusee.ch"}}

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Bu eserler halılar, elyazmaları, maden, taş, cam, seramik, ahşap eserler ile yaşamın tüm evrelerinde kullanılan etnoğrafik malzemeleri içermekte ve İslamiyet’in başlangıcından 20. yüzyıla kadar geniş bir zaman dilimini ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun yayıldığı geniş bir coğrafyayı temsil etmektedir.  \n  \nMüzenin en önemli koleksiyonlarından olan ve sayıları 1700’e ulaşan halılar, kalite ve çeşitliliğiyle dünyanın sayılı koleksiyonlarından olup Müzenin çoğu kez bir “halı müzesi” olarak anılmasına yol açmaktadır. Elyazmaları koleksiyonu, 7. ve 20. yüzyıllar arasında İslamiyet’in yayıldığı geniş coğrafya içinde hüküm sürmüş tüm İslam devletlerinin sanat eserlerinden oluşan büyük bir çeşitliliğe sahiptir. Maden sanatı eserleri Anadolu’da Türk maden sanatının gelişimini izlemeyi sağlarken ahşap eserler ise 9.-10. yüzyıldan başlayarak, Osmanlı örneklerine uzanan bir zenginliği temsil eder. Cam ve keramik koleksiyonu 1908-14 yılları arasında Samarra ve Rakka gibi ünlü Abbasi merkezlerinde ve Keşan’da yapılan kazılarda bulunmuş eserler ve Anadolu Türk seramiklerinden oluşmaktadır. Emevî, Abbasî, Memlûk, Selçuklu, Osmanlı dönemlerine ait, çoğunluğu yazılı taş eserler Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi'nde bir araya getirilmiştir. Etnografya seksiyonu müzenin en genç bölümüdür. Ayrıca müzede kısa dönemli ulusal ve uluslararası sergiler düzenlenmektedir.","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"},"c79c9bf0-7954-5ad4-95e9-6020467c3765":{"name":"İstanbul Su Müzesi","description":"TOPKAR A.Ş. bünyesinde Ocak 2021 tarihinde kurulan İstanbul Su Müzesi, su, su medeniyeti ve hamam kültürü ile ilgili eserlerin yer aldığı bir müzedir.  \n  \nŞirket sahipleri olan Topçu ailesinin 4 kuşaktan beri gündelik yaşama ait olan aile yadigarı eşyaları saklama kültürü, zaman içerisinde koleksiyon tutkusuna dönüşmüştür. Türk banyo ve mutfak armatürleri sektörünün önemli lider üreticilerinden olan aile, koleksiyon tutkusunu işi ile buluşturarak 25 yıl öncesinde musluklar, su kapları, ve benzeri eşyalar toplamaya başlayıp müze koleksiyonun ilk temellerini atmış ve 2008 yılında Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi kayıtlı koleksiyoneri olmuştur.  \n  \nKoleksiyon konuları Su ve İnsan, Çeşme, Sebil ve Musluklar, su ve İnanç, Su ve Şifa, Temizlik, Yıkanma ve Hamam Kültürü, İstanbul’un meşhur memba suları ekseninde olup; başta musluklar olmak üzere su konulu her türlü obje, yazma eser, efemera, kartpostal, gravür, resim, hat, ebru, minyatür gibi geleneksel Türk İslam sanatları eserleri toplanmaktadır. Roma, Bizans, Selçuklu, Osmanlı ve Cumhuriyet Dönemi ilk yıllarına ait olan bu eserler, iki teşhir salonundan oluşan 800 m2’lik alanda kronolojik ve -bazı bölümlerde- tematik olarak sergilenmektedir. İstanbul Su Müzesi Unesco Dünya Su Müzeleri birliği (Wamu-Net) üyesi olup, Türkiye temsilcisidir.  \n  \nTOPKAR, İstanbul Su Müzesi ile sürdürülebilir bir sosyal sorumluluk projesi olarak geçmişten günümüze gelen su ve hamam kültürünü tanıtmak, kaybolmaya yüz tutmuş değerleri gün ışığına çıkarmak, toplumda su kullanım bilincini geliştirmek, farkındalık ve kalıcı bir hafıza oluşturmayı hedeflemektedir. TOPKAR ailesi 40.kuruluş yıldönümünü İstanbul Su Müzesi projesi ile taçlandırmaktadır.","city":"İstanbul","address":"İkitelli OSB. Mh. Hürriyet Bulvarı No:54 Başakşehir-İstanbul-Türkiye 34490","website":"http://www.istanbulsumuzesi.org","phone":"+90 486 20 20"},"d10f1d84-ce50-539f-aad0-624ff1d3e8c9":{"name":"Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi","description":"Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun başkent İstanbul'da yönetim sarayı ve hanedanlık ikametgâhı olarak kullanılan Topkapı Sarayı, Fatih Sultan Mehmed'in İstanbul'u fethetmesinden sonra 1478 yılında tamamlanmıştır. Osmanlı hanedanı, Topkapı Sarayı'nı 19. yüzyılda Boğaziçi saraylarına yerleşene kadar kullanmıştır. Saray, Cumhuriyet'in ilanından sonra 3 Nisan 1924'te Atatürk'ün emriyle müze haline getirilmiştir.  \nÇeşitli dönemlerde, değişik sultanların emirleriyle yapılan ek yapılar ve yenilenmelerle görkemli bir boyut ve işlev çeşitliliği kazanan saray, bu görünümüyle Osmanlı devlet kurumlaşmasının bir yansıması olmuştur. Osmanlı saray protokol ve hiyerarşisinin zamanla kazandığı görkem ve çok ünitelilik Topkapı Sarayı mimarisine de yansımış, hatta devletin yükselişi ve çöküşü de sanatsal anlatımını bu sarayda bulmuştur. Tüm bu büyük geçmişi dekorlayan dramatik olaylar süreci ile saray, dünya müzeleri arasında tarihsel yaşantısı ile günümüze ulaşabilmiş ender örneklerden biridir.  \n  \nBugün müzede sergilenen eserler arasında padişah portreleri ve elbiseleri; sarayda kullanılan Çin ve Japon porselenleri; madeni mutfak eşyaları; Yıldız Porselen ve Cam eserleri ile Avrupa Porselen ve Gümüş'leri; İslam ve Türk silahları sayılabilir.  \nYavuz Sultan Selim'in 16. yüzyıl başlarında Medine'den, getirerek Hasoda ve Hazine'ye aldırdığı Hz. Muhammed ve İlk Halife'lerin kutsal eşyaları ile rölikleri Kutsal Emanetler bölümünde teşhir edilmektedir. Bu esereler arasında Hz. Muhammed'in hırkası, kılıçları, Sakal-ı Şerif ve dişi, ayak izi, Sancak-ı Şerif, ilk kılıçları ve Kur'an'ları vardır.  \nOsmanlı hazinesinin de teşhir edildiği müzede, sergilenen eserler arasında dört taht, Osmanlı hükümdarlık sembolü olan askı ve sorguçlar, Topkapı Hançeri ve Kaşıkçı Elması en ünlüleridir. Osmanlı padişahlarının görkemli Osmanlı arşivlerinden zamanla seçtikleri önemli belgeler ile saray içinde yapılan yazışmaların belgeleri arşivde; Bizans, İslam ve Osmanlı dönemi yazmaları ünlü Saray Kütüphanesi'nde bulunmaktadır.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sultanahmet  \nFatih, İstanbul, Turkey","website":"https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/en","phone":"+90 212 512 04 80; +90 212 236","email":"info@ millisaraylar.gov.tr"}}