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The collection, which focuses on confectionery, shows that everyday objects such as boxes containing biscuits, candy and chocolate, reflected the events that surrounded them; from the first tin, produced in the late 19th century in the era of industrialisation, passing through monarchy, fascism, the African campaign, World War II and the post-war period until the economic boom.","city":"Gerano (Rome)","address":"Via del Palazzo, 8  \n00025 Gerano (RM)  \nItaly","website":"www.casadellescatole.org","phone":"+39 348 7960033","email":"scatolemarina@hotmail.com"},"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"},"0cf029c2-3b3c-5f0a-8926-e552386ea3b2":{"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"},"15c3f796-e9e4-5984-a07b-97ea019d9da5":{"name":"Istanbul Archaeological Museums","description":"The name Istanbul Archaeological Museums denotes three museums under the same administration: the Archaeological Museum, the Ancient Orient Museum and the Tiled Kiosk Museum. The museum, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is located in Sultanahmet, on the Osman Hamdi Bey slope connecting Gülhane Park with the Topkapı Palace.  \n  \nIstanbul Archaeological Museums, displaying artifacts from civilisations of different historical periods, is one of the ten most important world-class museums designed and used as a museum building. It is also the first institution in Turkey arranged as a museum. Besides its spectacular collections, the architectural aspects of the buildings and beautiful gardens in which they are situated are of historical and natural importance.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Alemdar Caddesi,  \nOsman Hamdi Bey Yokuşu Sokak,  \n34122 Gülhane/Fatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/arkeoloji","phone":"+90 212 520 77 40-41","email":"info@istanbularkeoloji.gov.tr"},"17c3ad70-453d-563a-a810-46017f0ec9d8":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Turin","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Turin","address":"Piazza Castello, 209  \n1024 Torino  \n  \nVia Piave, 21  \n1022 Torino  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatotorino.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 011 540382; 011 4604111","email":"as-to@beniculturali.it"},"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"},"250ffc21-2d2d-526c-85ce-a588e42b01f2":{"name":"MIBACT | Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation","description":"The ICCD was founded in 1975 and is a branch of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Its mission is to manage Italy’s national catalogue of archaeological, architectural, artistic and demo-ethno-anthropological heritage. The ICCD also preserves important photograph collections and provides access to them. It produces exhibitions, catalogues and other publications to support cataloguing and to improve awareness and knowledge of its historic collections.  \n  \nThe ICCD inherited the functions of two earlier institutions: the Office for Cataloguing, founded in 1969, which was responsible for defining national cataloguing methodologies; and the National Photographic Bureau (Gabinetto fotografico nazionale), founded in 1892, the principle national institution for the production and collection of photographic documentation.","city":"Rome","address":"Via di San Michele, 18  \n00153 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 585521","email":"ic-cd@beniculturali.it"},"28ecd84f-8e9b-5020-bb00-419f40e1e408":{"name":"MIBACT | Central State Archives of Italy","description":"The Kingdom’s Archives was created in 1875 with the aim of preserving the records produced by the central administrative organs of the Italian state subsequent to national unification (1861). In 1953 it was transformed into the Central State Archives (ACS) and in 1960 it moved to its present location. Since 2008 the ACS has had special autonomy within the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.  \n  \nThe ACS holdings include the archives created by central state departments, archives of various private and public bodies and papers of politicians and of other individuals playing an important role in national life.  \n  \nResearch is free of charge. The reproduction of documents must be previously authorised and is carried out by internal staff or by researchers using a personal digital camera.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazzale degli Archivi, 27  \n00144 Roma Eur  \nItaly","website":"www.acs.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 545 481","email":"acs@beniculturali.it"},"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"},"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"},"3a61396d-ccb2-5d8a-9235-0224c3ec9c47":{"name":"Qatar National Library","description":"Qatar National Library (QNL) serves as the guardian of Qatar’s documentary heritage, dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the nation’s recorded history. As a research library with a distinguished heritage collection, QNL fosters deeper global understanding of the history and culture of the Gulf region. In its role as a public library, QNL ensures equitable access for all residents of Qatar to an inclusive environment that encourages creativity, informed decision-making, and cultural enrichment. Through these core functions, QNL plays a leading role in shaping and supporting Qatar’s library and cultural heritage landscape.  \n  \nAligned with Qatar’s vision of transitioning towards a knowledge-based, sustainable economy, the Library contributes to national development by empowering students, researchers, and the wider public through access to knowledge, support for lifelong learning, and community engagement.  \n  \nQNL’s collections include over one million print books, in addition to more than 500,000 digital resources—ebooks, journals, newspapers, and rare items held in its special collections. Its librarians bring expertise in research support, literacy, programming, and knowledge management, offering a wide array of services and events that inspire discovery, learning, and innovation within the community.  \n  \nThe establishment of the Library was announced on 19 November 2012 by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation. QNL was officially designated as the national library under Amiri Decree No. 11, issued on 20 March 2018. The Library was formally inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, the Amir of Qatar, during a grand opening ceremony held on 16 April 2018.","city":"Doha","address":"District of Freedom, Education City, Al Luqta St, Doha, Qatar","website":"https://www.qnl.qa/en","phone":"+974 4454 0100"},"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"},"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"},"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"},"56cd014d-0d80-5773-b80c-0eb7569f7c74":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Palermo","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Palermo","address":"Via Vittorio Emanuele, 31  \n90133 Palermo  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatodipalermo.it","phone":"+39 091 2510628-624","email":"as-pa@beniculturali.it"},"5f93f9b7-2ad1-5419-9406-6e91b824f300":{"name":"National Archaeological Museum","description":"The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional or MAN) is Spain’s most important museum of history. It preserves, researches and presents its collections of archaeology, art and history to the public. In doing so, the museum aspires to offer all visitors an accurate, attractive, interesting and critical interpretation of the meaning of objects from the past, in the hopes that a deeper knowledge of history will help them to better analyse and understand the reality of today. Given the relevance and scope of its collections, the National Archaeological Museum is comparable in its specialty to prominent Spanish museums (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía or the Royal Collections Gallery), by showing our country’s diversity and affluence in terms of cultural history.  \n  \nThe museum occupies a monumental building in the heart of the Salamanca quarter, one of Madrid’s busiest shopping and leisure districts, and is strategically positioned along the Recoletos-Prado artery, which boasts the highest concentration of art and culture institutions in the city. The museum’s magnificent building in the heart of Madrid offers a historical infrastructure — complete with building, garden and fence —which is fully renovated and accessible.  \n  \nThe MAN has grown and evolved constantly since it was created in 1867, almost 160 years ago, and is still changing today to meet the needs of the 21st century. After a complete overhaul between 2008 and 2014, the institution reopened in April 2014 with a brand-new look and layout, claiming its place among Europe’s most modern museums. The renovated building is divided into six floors and has a total surface area of nearly 30,000 m2, of which 18,304 m2 are reserved for public use (the permanent exhibition alone occupies 9,239 m2). The museum has also been fitted out with different service areas, including a spacious vestibule, café, shop and activity rooms.  \n  \nThe MAN’s extraordinary collection, which includes a large number of priceless historical and cultural artefacts, comprises over one million archaeological, historical and artistic objects.  \n  \nIts holdings are vast and varied: Palaeolithic bifaces, practically the only tool in existence for millennia; delicate ivory carvings that combine aesthetic appeal with practical functionality; prehistoric engravings found in the Cave of El Castillo, evidence of humanity’s earliest artistic and symbolic expressions; the abstract aesthetics of the “Idol of Extremadura”; the classical, timeless beauty of the Lady of Elche; ancient Roman sculptures; the extraordinary treasure of Guarrazar; the Romanesque crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha; the lovely equestrian figure of Hector by Il Filarete; and the ornamental paintings of Luis Paret on a Baroque armchair are just some of the treasures it houses.  \n  \nThe Museum's Islamic Art collection largely comes from the different historical periods of Al-Andalus, the name that the Muslims gave to the territory they conquered in the Iberian Peninsula. The aesthetic quality achieved by Andalusian art is demonstrated in the architectural capitals, arches, marble panels and alabaster and plaster decorations of the period, especially from the Caliphate of Córdoba. Added to this is the museum's collection of decorative and highly refined objects made in the Andalusian palace workshops, such as metal, ivory and glazed ceramics. Likewise, a large collection of objects is preserved that show the symbiosis of Hispano-Islamic and Christian forms in the Iberian Peninsula, as the dome of the Torrijos Palace.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"6001ff30-e9b6-573e-a38c-5ac23b472e6c":{"name":"Saint Louis Art Museum","description":"Mission  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum collects, presents, interprets, and conserves works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures; educates, inspires discovery, and elevates the human spirit; and preserves a legacy of artistic achievement for the people of St. Louis and the world.  \n  \nHistory  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States. This Museum’s comprehensive collections bear witness to the inspirational and educational goals to which its founder aspired and the moral and democratic imperatives he embraced. What began as a collection of assorted plaster casts, electrotype reproductions, and other examples of good design in various media rapidly gave way to a great and varied collection of original works of art spanning five millennia and six continents. Today the quality and breadth of the Museum’s collection secure for it a place among the very best institutions of its kind.  \n  \n(*Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collection*)**","city":"Saint Louis","address":"1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park  \nSt. Louis, Missouri 63110","website":"http://www.slam.org","phone":"+1 314.721.0072","email":"info@slam.org"},"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"},"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"},"6c9f6b97-7619-5be4-a904-0f96ffa2c698":{"name":"Austrian National Library","description":"The Austrian National Library (ANL) regards itself as a centre of information and research oriented towards serving the public, as an outstanding custodian of the national memory and as a multifaceted centre of education and culture. As the central academic library of the Republic of Austria, the ANL looks at a history rich in tradition from as far back as the 14th century. It is a living bridge between the rich heritage of the past and the future-oriented demands of a modern information society.  \n  \nThe ANL offers its users access to and professional advice on its own holdings (almost 8 million objects) and also on international data pools. It also accepts commissions on scientific research and operates documentation centres and service facilities. In the digital age services are increasingly processed online via the ANL home page.","city":"Vienna","address":"Josefsplatz, 1  \n1015 Wien  \nAustria","website":"www.onb.ac.at","phone":"+43 1 534 10 0","email":"onb@onb.ac.at"},"6cf9f545-cd2f-5d4f-b5fa-1d9bb64042b2":{"name":"Istanbul Railway Museum","description":"Istanbul Railway Museum, located in the historical Istanbul Sirkeci Terminal, Fatih district, is owned and operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD). It opened to visitors on 23 September 2005. Sirkeci Station was the last stop of the Orient Express.  \n  \nThe museum displays 300 objects: the original site plans, drawings, photos, railway equipment, furniture and silver services of the Orient Express, station office equipment, driver’s cab of an electric suburban train, communication tools of Rumeli railways and Trakia line, objects from the railway school and hospital in 19th century.  \n  \nThe foundation stone of Sirkeci Main Station was laid on 11 February 1888. It opened on 3 November 1890. Planned by the German architect and engineer A. Jasmund, the building’s style was inspired by local architectural traditions.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sirkeci Garı, Ankara Cad.  \n34410 Eminönü, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 527 12 01;5206575/7885","email":"istanbuldemiryolumuzesi@tcdd.gov.tr"},"6ecec2e6-bbbf-5697-aaf3-7ae3c5bb536f":{"name":"MIBACT | Authority for the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont","description":"The Authority for the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont preserves the photographic archive of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Turin.  \n  \nThe foundation of the Museum was a milestone in the rediscovery of ancient Egypt. In 1824 King Carlo Felice of Savoy purchased Egyptian antiquities from the French consul Drovetti to provide Turin with an archaeological museum comparable with the great museums of the European capitals. The museum was later enriched by finds acquired from excavations led by E. Schiaparelli, the museum’s director from 1894.  \n  \nThe photographic archive includes a library of historical photographs by Beato, Bonfils and others, bought in Egypt in antiquities markets and portraying landscapes and monuments of Egypt and Nubia, and the Schiaparelli collection, which captures the shipyards and the excavation sites of the Italian Archaeological Missions. The collection has increased since World War II. Ongoing digitisation facilitates consultation and conservation.","city":"Turin","address":"Piazza San Giovanni, 2  \n10122 Torino  \nItaly","website":"http://archeo.piemonte.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 011 195244","email":"sar-pie@beniculturali.it"},"702147de-a72c-52ce-a6b7-9f90e342a5ac":{"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"},"757c8322-4a40-517f-8dd8-ad7d8cc26bc3":{"name":"Enrico Sturani Private Collection","description":"Enrico Sturani is a collector and scholar in the field of postcards. He has collected more than 150,000 postcards, from a wide variety of time periods and geographical contexts.  \n  \nThe author of many books and essays on the history of postcards, he has contributed to numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.","city":"Rome","email":"sturamail@yahoo.it"},"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"},"7cbc59ff-26f9-5d77-9853-2e0324c66c08":{"name":"Municipal Library at the Archiginnasio Palace","description":"Created in 1801, the Municipal Library in Bologna was originally composed of books from the libraries of the religious orders suppressed in the Napoleonic age (1797–1798) and following the Reunification of Italy (1866).  \n  \nThe new library was housed in the convent of St. Dominic originally, moving to the Archiginnasio in 1838. Twenty years later the head librarian, Luigi Frati, sub-divided the older collections by subject and housed them in the classrooms of the former University of Bologna (the Studio). Many bequests and purchases followed that enabled the library to grow, not only in terms of books and manuscripts but also statues and pictures, which are still present in the rooms of the historical building.  \n  \nOver time, the Archiginnasio has developed into a specialist research and Humanities library, particularly with regard to Bologna and its surrounding territory.  \n  \nToday the library promotes many cultural events: lectures, meetings and publications, and publishes its own bulletin, L'Archiginnasio. It holds approximately 800,000 books and booklets, among which are 2,500 incunabola and nearly 15,000 16th-century books. The periodical unit holds 7,500 titles in the form of periodicals and newspapers, 750 of which are current. In the departments of Manuscripts and Rare Books and Prints and Drawings, there are significant collections of iconographical documents from the Middle Ages up to the modern day.  \n  \nThe building, designed by the Bolognese architect Antonio Morandi known as il Terribilia, was erected between 1562 and 1563, and up to 1803 housed the University of Bologna. The walls of the rooms, the ceilings of the stairways and of the courtyards are embellished with a rich heraldic decoration made up of inscriptions and monuments celebrating the professors of the University of Bologna (the Studio) and coats of arms of the students’ families and their countries of origin. The anatomical theatre, built between the 17th and 18th centuries, is decorated with wooden statues.","city":"Bologna","address":"Piazza Galvani 1  \n40124 Bologna  \nItaly","website":"http://www.archiginnasio.it","phone":"+39 051 276 811","email":"archiginnasio@comune.bologna.it"},"7dfff38c-303b-557b-9cb3-9735ce4cab7b":{"name":"National Museum of Anthropology","description":"The National Museum of Anthropology is Spain's first anthropological museum. Its establishment was due in large part to the efforts of one Pedro González Velasco, a doctor of Segovian heritage, and was officially inaugurated in 1875 by King Alfonso XII to serve as a museum that showcased objects relating to anatomy and anthropology. The current museum hosts an exhibition room that pays tribute to this inaugural history.  \n  \nAfter the museum became a public institution, under the authority of the former Natural History Cabinet, it was converted into the National Museum of Natural Sciences. Subsequently, under the auspices of Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific Research, the site was rededicated as the Museum of Anthropology, Ethnography and Prehistory and later a National Museum of Ethnology, making it a museum dedicated exclusively to cultural anthropology.  \n  \nVelasco’s original collection was augmented by objects brought back by expeditions organised by Spanish scientific institutions in the last years of the nineteenth century. The acquisition of these objects were paid for by the funds of the Museum of Natural Sciences. Amongst these are a collection of ethnographic objects that formed part of the 1887 Philippine Exhibition, the last colonial exhibition of the Spanish Empire that was organised in Madrid’s ‘Parque del Retiro’. The Museum’s collection have grown since the 1960s, thanks to donations and acquisitions made by the General Directorate of Fine Arts, Cultural Property, Archives and Libraries.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Alfonso XII, 68  \n28014 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://mnantropologia.mcu.es","phone":"+34 91 530 64 18/91 539 59 95","email":"antropologico@mecd.es"},"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"},"8128a827-15fb-5166-902e-e23aab2a8fd7":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, State Museums","description":"**The Museum of Islamic Art is closed from October 2023 to March 2027 due to renovation and expansion works.**  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Berlin is the only institution of its kind in Germany, the oldest in the West and with its c. 93,000 pieces it houses one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from nearly all regions of Islamic rule.  \n  \nIts collections are especially rich in objects from an architectural context including the monumental façade of the caliphal palace of Mshatta (Jordan), dating from the mid-8th century. It is the largest artefact of Islamic Art in any museum worldwide. The unique dome from the Alhambra Palace in Granada (Spain) and 13th-century prayer niches from Kashan (Iran) and Konya (Turkey) are among the highlights. Most loved by our visitors is the finely painted wooden panelling of an upper-class house from Aleppo (Syria) from the early 17th century – it is the oldest surviving exemplar from the Ottoman World. Among the several archaeological groups from major excavations in the Islamic world the finds from the 9th-century caliphal capital of Samarra (Iraq) stand out. The collection also has a large number of important Ottoman and Persian carpets and bibliographical works of art, including numerous miniatures from the Mughal Empire.  \n  \nThe collection is displayed chronologically, allowing the visitor to follow the different stylistic phases of Islamic art and to develop a notion of the complex Islamic history and its artistic merits. Because of the large number of visitors (up to 900,000 yearly), only a small number of the most important works of art are on display. The museum will move inside Pergamon-Museum and will triple its exhibition space (3,000sq.m) by 2020. The layout and concept will discover new and innovative ways to present the cultural legacy.  \n  \nWith its rich art and archaeological collection, the Museum of Islamic Art is one of the leading research institutions dedicated to the material culture of the Middle East and neighbouring regions. Our many research, conservation and exhibition projects amount to a probing investigation of the urban legacies of the Near and Middle East. The institution houses important collections of archival photographs on Islamic art and architecture as well as an internationally outstanding library focused on art, architecture and archaeology in the world of Islam.","city":"Berlin","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"83b5a171-0257-50b2-84c9-f6a1e6d481e2":{"name":"Italian Geographical Society (SGI)","description":"Founded in 1867 for the purpose of promoting geographic research and the popular distribution of geographic knowledge, the SGI has realised its objectives with reference to the various parts of the world.  \n  \nA distinctive feature of the SGI’s history has been the organisation of numerous expeditions and scientific missions. But irrespective of the level of involvement by the SGI, interesting accounts of almost all journeys can be found in the society’s archives, since even when an organisation or mission was not directly connected with the SGI, the society was regarded as the most prestigious custodian of the memory of its venture. For this reason, the society’s archives have accumulated a unique legacy (books, maps, photographs) of the history of travel.","city":"Rome","address":"Via della Navicella, 12  \n00184 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.societageografica.it","phone":"+39 06 7008279","email":"segreteria@societageografica.it"},"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"},"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"},"8b0b152b-8977-5c8e-a347-e7a9890985cb":{"name":"Archivio Progetti – Università Iuav di Venezia","description":"Founded in 1987, the Archivio Progetti is part of the Università Iuav di Venezia. Its main mission is to acquire, arrange, catalogue and keep archives related to architecture, making them available for historical and technical research. Materials are collected mainly from architects and architectural practices, engineers, town planners, designers, photographers and corporates.  \n  \nThe Archivio Progetti owns (2013) 40 archives, with many thousands of drawings, papers, photographs and about 350 architectural models. Researchers from across the world access the reading room or refer to the on-line catalogues. Items from the collections are put on display for theme-based exhibitions in the gallery next to the reading room; others are lent to museums all over the world for their temporary exhibitions.","city":"Venice","address":"Dorsoduro, 2196  \nVenezia  \nItaly","website":"www.iuav.it/archivioprogetti","phone":"+39 041 2571012","email":"archivioprogetti@iuav.it"},"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"},"9191d124-5250-5ce2-bd6f-5cfd57bd7081":{"name":"Wolf-Dieter Lemke Collection","city":"Berlin"},"9340dcc4-aefc-5da9-9c6f-1a9d5229bc8d":{"name":"Military Museum and Cultural Centre Command","description":"The Military Museum and Cultural Centre Command is subordinate to the Military History and Strategic Studies (ATASE) Division, General Staff, deployed in Harbiye district of Istanbul. The Harbiye district, meaning “military”, derives its name from the service buildings of the Military Museum which were used by the Ottoman Empire in its later periods as the Military Academy. The founder of the Republic, the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, graduated from this school.  \n  \nThe museum collects, classifies, maintains and renovates the works of art that can be regarded as cultural military assets, and stores and exhibits them using modern methods in order to hand them on to future generations.  \n  \nThere are approximately 55,000 objects in its inventory, 5,000 of which are displayed in the museum’s exhibition halls.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Harbiye, Şişli  \nIstanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 233 27 20","email":"askerimuze@tsk.tr"},"9430e534-166d-564f-9847-926b347ec975":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Livorno","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Livorno","address":"Palazzo del Governo  \nVia Fiume, 40  \n57123 Livorno  \nItaly","website":"www.aslivorno.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 0586 897776; 0586 880028","email":"as-li@beniculturali.it"},"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"},"97c4b416-b7b0-59ba-a78b-d0769f52ed9b":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Florence","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Florence","address":"Viale della Giovine Italia, 6  \n50122 Firenze  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistato.firenze.it","phone":"+39 055 263201","email":"as-fi@beniculturali.it"},"9d2766e4-df9b-5798-b7be-07e6280042d0":{"name":"National Library of Algeria","description":"Founded in 1835 by Adrian Berbrugger at the impetus of the War Ministry, the National Library of Algeria aims to keep and preserve the documents seized by the colonial occupation of Algeria after 1830.  \n  \nThe National Library of Algeria had different seats before settling down in the barracks of the janissaries for ten years. Thanks to donations, the library’s documentary fund expanded to in include confiscated of manuscripts and consignments from the French War Ministry. In 1863, the National Library changed location and found a new home at Dar Mustapha Pacha.  \n  \nDar Mustapha Pacha is one of the greatest examples of 18th-century Islamic Moorish architecture. The first floor of the palace is dedicated to the library while the second floor houses an archive museum. In 1890, the two institutions were separated by a decree.  \n  \nDespite its wealth of architectural beauty and ornamentation, the palace is ill-suited to serving as a library. By 1947, a lack of reading rooms, poor conditions for book preservation, and lack of storage pushed authorities to build a more modern structure. It is the first such library on the African soil and in the Arab world able to compete with world standard libraries.  \n  \nIn 1958, the National Library of Algeria moved into its new building on the capital hills. With a total area of 4,800 square metres, it had three reading rooms and storage spanning over six floors, displaying 1,200,000 books.  \n  \nIn 1984, the construction of a new seat was launched. Set in the El-Hamma aera, south of Algiers, one of its goals was to boost the community while enjoying the natural beauty of a primary location overlooking the sea and adjacent to the Jardin d’Essai. On November 1st, 1994, the new National Library of Algeria was inaugurated and public access to all its rooms was granted in 1998.  \n  \nThe Library can accommodate 2,300 readers at a time. It boasts cutting edge technology ensuring the proper restoration, processing and book binding. The National Library has many extensions throughout the country, ensuring proximity with the public, fostering the cultural spread and promoting literacy.","city":"Algiers","website":"https://www.m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/etablissements-sous-tutelle/bibliotheque-nationale-d-algerie"},"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"},"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"},"b103b986-c8c1-5a48-a968-086e171abf4d":{"name":"Austrian State Archives","description":"The Austrian State Archives are among the most important archives worldwide. They are a subordinate agency of the Federal Chancellery and serve two purposes: on the one hand, they are central archives for the federal services of the Republic of Austria (supreme bodies and ministries), which have a legal responsibility to transfer their acts and documents to the State Archives. On the other hand, their historical departments are the keepers of the archival heritage of the Hapsburg Empire (1526–1918) and its central authorities and of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (until 1806). The oldest item in the collection of acts and charters dates back to 816. Due to the supra-regional nature of its holdings, the Austrian State Archives are a contact point for researchers from all over the world.","city":"Vienna","address":"Nottendorfer Gasse, 2  \nA-1030 Wien (main building)  \nAustria  \n  \nMinoritenplatz, 1  \n1010 Wien (branch office)  \nAustria","website":"www.oesta.gv.at","phone":"+43 1 795 40 0","email":"gdpost@oesta.gv.at"},"b1dd01e5-c655-5ba8-9ee1-725321fc390a":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Venice","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Venice","address":"San Polo, 3002  \nI 30125 Venezia  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatovenezia.it","phone":"+39 041 5222281","email":"as-ve@beniculturali.it"},"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"},"b4bdbe1f-6da6-5bef-9d1c-d19fa5720ec8":{"name":"State District Archive","description":"There are two archives in the depository at “U Husova Sboru Street” in the city of Olomouc: the State District Archives Olomouc and the Olomouc Branch of the Land Archives in Opava.  \n  \nThe public records and documents of the State District Archives Olomouc are broken down into separate categories: state administration, municipal administration and self-government of the Olomouc District. The oldest document in the archives, and the oldest city privilege of its kind in Czech Lands, is Uničov's city privilege dated 1223. Other categories contain court documents, those from economic institutions and documents connected with healthcare, schools or cultural institutions. Those documents that deal with different social organisations are of particular interest. Resources of local religious institutions, estates of significant people of the central Moravian region and some paperwork (engravings, photographs, maps, posters and so one) also provide rich material. The State District Archives Olomouc was established in 1960, when the resources of two traditional city archives (Olomouc and Uničov) and three minor county archives (Litovel, Olomouc and Šternberk) were incorporated into them.  \n  \nThe most valuable treasures of the Olomouc Branch of the Land Archives in Opava were created by the activities of religious institutions, which have been seated in Olomouc since the 11th century (Olomouc Bishopric and Archbishopric, Olomouc Metropolitan Chapter and others). The most valuable items among them – two documents issued by Bishop Jindřich Zdík in 1141 – are the oldest preserved original papers, which were elaborated in the territory of the Bohemian Kingdom by order of a clerical official. Another important element of the Olomouc Archives are the documents of the Jesuit College, established in 1566, especially its collection of theses in the form of graphic art from 1676–1745.","city":"Olomouc","address":"U Husova sboru 10  \n771 00 Olomouc  \nCzech Republic","website":"http://www.archives.cz","phone":"+420 585 236 101, 585 220 919","email":"podatelna@ol.archives.cz"},"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"},"bb594122-ba49-5d7f-bd0d-5be50be2e93a":{"name":"Population Exchange Museum (The Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants)","description":"One of the most important mass migrations was the compulsory migration resulting from the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed in Lausanne in 1923 by the Turkish and Greek governments. With the support of the 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency and cooperation with the Lausanne Treaty Foundation and Çatalca Municipality, Turkey’s first museum of migration opened in 2010.  \n  \nMigrants carried only their portable possessions and their culture, traditions, customs and manners to their new homelands. Bridal troussseau pieces make up the museum’s largest section. There are also old photographs, documents, forms, maps, a Qur’an, stamps, banknotes, books, musical instruments, an embroidery prospectus and a copy of *Sabah* newspaper from the end of the 19th century.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Kaleiçi Mahallesi, Bahar Sokak, 4  \nÇatalca, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.lozanmubadilleri.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 245 61 55","email":"lozanmubadilleri@ttmail.com"},"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"},"c9aa9059-5518-5ca9-a74a-4a00a4a866ec":{"name":"Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation","description":"The Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, opened to the public in July 1983. Its collection now consists of more than 10,000 works covering Portuguese art from the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as some important international artists. Among these artworks and artists, there is an important collection of British art from the late 1950s / early 1960s; works by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and her husband Arpad Szenes, painters in Paris; works by Arshile Gorky, part of the Armenian background of this artist. The Modern Art Centre programming focuses on temporary exhibitions, showing Portuguese and international artists, and on exhibitions of the collection. Its mission is to make the artistic heritage accessible to the people.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian  \nRua Dr. Nicolau de Bettencourt  \n1050-078 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.cam.gulbenkian.pt","phone":"+351 21 782 3417","email":"cam@gulbenkian.pt"},"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"},"cda4e9a0-f14d-5a98-b6ce-3f8077d29e19":{"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, most notably include objects from Iran and the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Vienna","address":"Stubenring, 5  \nA-1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.mak.at","phone":"+43 1 711 36-248","email":"office@MAK.at"},"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"},"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"},"d341b529-0fe1-52db-a7ea-c367edf0bc03":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Naples","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Naples","address":"Piazzetta Grande Archivio, 5  \n80138 Napoli  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatonapoli.it","phone":"+39 081 5638311","email":"as-na@beniculturali.it"},"d8cdb3eb-45fb-5ddf-a4cb-305d3f9d955b":{"name":"Istanbul Postal Museum","description":"The Istanbul Postal Museum is dedicated to the historical development of mail and telecommunication services in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, exhibiting related equipment, instruments and postage stamps.  \n  \nThe museum is situated inside the Main Post Office building in Sirkeci quarter of Fatih district in Istanbul. The museum has a separate entrance and occupies four storeys in the western part of the building. It informs visitors about the country’s history of communication and telecommunication services, which officially began on 23 October 1840 with the foundation of the Ottoman Ministry of Post. Established on 6 May 2000 by the Turkish Post, the museum consists of four sections for mail, telegraphy, telephony and postage stamps. Photographs taken during the construction of the building are also displayed.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Hobyar Mahallesi,  \nBüyük Postane Caddesi, 25  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.ptt.gov.tr","phone":"+90 212 519 19 99","email":"istav-muze@ptt.gov.tr"},"da058c7a-9e86-5354-8deb-cc489c7fb154":{"name":"Gramsci Institute Foundation","description":"The Gramsci Institute Foundation preserves archives of major importance for the study of the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Italy, with particular reference to the history of Republican Italy, including those of the Italian Communist Party (1921–91), Antonio Gramsci’s prison notebooks and letters from prison, and the papers of Luchino Visconti, Sibilla Aleramo and Luigi Squarzina. The foundation has a library of approximately 150,000 volumes and 4,000 periodicals.  \n  \nThe foundation carries out research projects in its areas of expertise and organises scholarly conferences and seminars, courses, exhibitions and training activities. It publishes the journal *Studi Storici* and a wide range of scholarly volumes, including the national edition of the writings of Antonio Gramsci.","city":"Rome","address":"Legal office:  \nVia Portuense, 95/c  \n00153 Roma  \n  \nOperational Headquarters:  \nVia Sebino, 43a  \n00199 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.fondazionegramsci.org","phone":"+39 06 065806646","email":"info@fondazionegramsci.org"},"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"},"dc1c7f07-b903-5bd2-bf64-bf760b8a5dca":{"name":"Bibliotheca Alexandrina","description":"The objective of the new library remains the same as that of the old library: to act as a public research library and to support the people of the Arab world and the Middle East to retain their long-standing position as scholars and researchers in different fields of science.  \n  \nThe Library of Alexandria provides more than a library. In addition to the usual library facilities, the Library also contains other cultural and educational functions including a planetarium, several museums, an Internet archive, an audio-visual library, a school for information science, and conservation facilities. A Young Person’s Library is available for younger students and visitors. In addition to this, a new conference centre is linked to an existing auditorium on the site, making the Library a centrepiece for both learning and debate.  \n  \nToday, the Library of Alexandria is receiving about 1.5 million visitors a year. Its webcast service provides live and archived access to all the conferences, lectures and presentations taking place at the Library.","city":"Alexandria","address":"PO Box 138  \nChatby 21526  \nAlexandria  \nEgypt","website":"www.bibalex.org","phone":"+20 3 4839999"},"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"},"e4d6eb3a-21a4-5299-a027-9e5b305d4232":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Trieste","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Trieste","address":"Via A. La Marmora, 17  \n34139 Trieste  \nItaly","website":"www.astrieste.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 040 0647921","email":"as-ts@beniculturali.it"},"e5ac5384-736d-5352-a209-14c391605bea":{"name":"MIBACT | Archival Superintendency of Umbria","description":"The Archival Superintendencies (Soprintendenze Archivistiche) are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Their functions include deciding which private archives should be considered of special cultural interest, inspecting private archives and the records of public bodies to make sure that they are correctly preserved, providing archival advice free of charge to the owners of materials under their jurisdiction, and producing search aids.  \n  \nThe Soprintendenza Archivistica per l’Umbria also organises conferences and exhibitions, and publishes catalogues and search aids. It edits three series of volumes (*Segni di civiltà*, *Scaffali senza polvere* and *La nave di Ulisse*) under the supervision of the Superintendent Mario Squadroni.","city":"Perugia","address":"Via Martiri dei Lager, 65  \n06128 Perugia  \nItaly","website":"www.sa-umbria.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 075 5055715; 075 5052198","email":"sa-umb@beniculturali.it"},"e916188b-3d88-5514-afb4-d5123a65224f":{"name":"National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art","description":"The National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa. The collection was set up in 1835, five years after the French occupation, by the then Governor General Marshal Clauzel who appointed Adrien Berbrugger as its first curator. From 1838 onward, the early museum hosted pieces, of Algerian provenance, from Antiquity up until the Ottoman periods. Between 1838 and 1896, this early museum occupied different places of the lower Casbah, before settling in a beautiful park located on the heights of Mustapha Pasha - now known as the Park of Liberty - where it was officially inaugurated in 1897.  \n  \nSince then these two divisions of the museum’s collection, Antiquity and Islamic, have continued to grow. This collection makes it possible to exhibit the history of Algeria from its Libyan-Punic era through to the 20th century. The objects are displayed in two separate buildings: one houses the pre-Islamic collection whilst the other houses the collection of Islamic art, which was inaugurated in May 2003.  \n  \nThe ancient collection is very rich and includes collections of mosaics, sculptures, Libyan and Latin inscriptions, coins and medals, bronze, ivory, bone, ceramics and wooden objects.  \n  \nThe Islamic section was formed from the first collection of 1854, which included Algerian and Oriental objects. It has gradually been enriched by pieces uncovered through archaeological excavations carried throughout the country. This wide-ranging collection includes sculpted plasterboard from 10th century Sedrata, marble or plaster sculptures of the 11th century Qal'a of Beni Hammad as well as the chairs of the 11th century Almoravid mosques in Algiers and the 12th century mosque of Nedroma.  \n  \nThe furniture arts of North Africa is also widely represented in this museum. Shop windows contain Ottoman-era embroidery, clothing, ceramics, weapons, jewellery, chiselled brass and worked repoussé that comes from the urban centres as well as rural areas. Manuscripts and miniatures complete the collection.  \n  \nThe museum’s numismatic collection is exhibited in a reading room that was inaugurated in May 2006.","city":"Algiers","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"ec988066-7b5c-53d3-929b-d979b812f14f":{"name":"MIBACT | State Library of Modern and Contemporary History","description":"The State Library of Modern and Contemporary History was established in 1937 as a resource for documents on political and social Italian and European history in 19th and 20th centuries. The library has approximately 12,000 manuscripts (mainly letters of the major figures of the Italian unification and independence process, such as Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Ugo Foscolo, as well as of political figures of the liberal and fascist periods and of World War I); 600,000 books and pamphlets; and 3,000 editions of the 18th century. It holds important collections of books and pamphlets on the working class and anarchist movements; Fascism and the two World Wars.  \n  \nThe library updates its collections on the basis of historiographical production: particular attention is given to specialised scholarly journals and databases.","city":"Rome","address":"Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32  \n00186 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.bsmc.it","phone":"+39 06 6828171","email":"b-stmo@beniculturali.it"},"ede901a2-76ea-58be-9bd2-2facec09cc51":{"name":"Aşiyan Museum","description":"The Aşiyan Museum is situated in the house of the Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915), who lived there between 1906 and 1915. On the initiative of Lütfi Kırdar, the mayor and governer of Istanbul during that period, it was purchased by the city in 1940 from Fikret’s wife, Nazime Hanim, beginning its services as a museum under the name Edebiyat-ı Cedide Museum (New Literary Movement Museum) in 1945.  \n  \nThe museum displays rooms dedicated to the poet Nigar Hanim, the Edebiyat-ı Cedide authors and the poet Abdülhak Hamit, with their personal belongings and documents, and as well as displaying Tevfik Fikret’s bedroom, his personal belongings, his study and paintings. In 1961, the museum was renamed Aşiyan Museum. It is one of the museums operated by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and an important place for lovers of literature.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Aşiyan Yokuşu, 15  \n34342 Bebek-Beşiktaş, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 263 69 86","email":"asiyanmuzesi@ibb.gov.tr"},"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"},"f4b9cc0b-85a9-57a3-8bbc-d3741afcb48f":{"name":"Museum of Applied Art","description":"The Museum of Applied Art was founded in 1950 as a specialised art museum with an initial collection of some 3,000 art pieces, collected by a painter Ljuba Ivanović. During the years the collection has been enriched by acquisitions, both by purchases and donations. Nowadays, the Museum holds more than 37,000 objects of applied art including pieces of great cultural and artistic value.  \n  \nThe oldest items in the Museum’s collections date from 4th century BC, and belong to the coin collection (coins from ancient Greece) of Metalwork and Jewellery Department, while the collections in Contemporary Applied Art Department contain objects of the most recent artistic production. The Museum also has Wood and Period Furniture Department, Textile and Costume Department, Photography and Print Room Department, Ceramics, Porcelain and Glass Department and Architecture Department.  \n  \nThe Museum has a dynamic exhibition programme, organising exhibitions within the *Salon of Contemporary Applied Art*, annual thematic study exhibitions as well as hosting domestic and foreign exhibitions. The permanent exhibition *At the First Sight* presents various items from the Museum’s historical collections.  \n  \nThe Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade is situated in the building known as the *Čelebonović Palace*. It was built for the prominent descendant of the family, attorney at law Dr Jakov Čelebonović. The *Čelebonović Palace* was built between 1927 and 1929 by well-known architects Stefan Belić (architectural design), Nikolaj Krasnov (façade) and Neregar (interior). The building was constructed as a two-storey residence in the academic style with a monumental entrance and a large marble staircase decorated with a wrought iron handrail. Although, in the course of time, there were extensive adaptations it still preserves the spirit of the original epoch in which it was erected.","city":"Belgrade","address":"Vuka Karadžića, 18  \n11000 Belgrade","website":"http://www.mpu.rs","phone":"+381 11 2626 494","email":"info@mpu.rs"},"f58dea76-2488-543c-8ae6-c7a81b988877":{"name":"State Archives","description":"The creation of the State Archive of Bologna – following the royal decree of 22 October 1874 – satisfied the local cultural need to hold documents previously scattered in different archives in one secure location. In the years that followed, the documents were gathered together in a wing of Palazzo Galvani next to the Municipal Archaeological Museum. The archive was moved in 1940 to its present seat at Piazza dei Celestini.  \n  \nToday the entire area is known as “dei Celestini”, and even if deeply modified in its internal structure, it houses nearly 30 km of documents connected to the history of Bologna and its province. The archive is sub-divided into different categories: those documents that were created as a result of specific activities by public institutions, papers belonging to institutional boards and bodies and those documents families themselves have entrusted to the State Archive. Among the highlights are the well known Liber Paradisus, a manuscript holding a list of serfs who were officially freed in 1257. The volumes of the Ufficio dei memoriali (Memorial Board; 1265–1452) where the acts of Bolognese notaries were registered are of great interest to historians of Italian literature as they contain quotations from poems by well-known and anonymous poets of the 13th and 14th centuries.  \n  \nAlso significant are the so called Registro Grosso, the first official cartulary of the Municipality of Bologna, which began in 1223 under the supervision of Ranieri da Perugia, who, incidentally, partially wrote them. Also, the Insignia series: 16 volumes of miniatures illustrating feasts, public ceremonies and other significant events in Bologna. In addition, the State Archive holds the archives of many religious orders, among which is the oldest extant document (922); many maps of the Bolognese territory and a rich collection of documents and codex decorated by the celebrated local school of illuminators.","city":"Bologna","address":"Piazza Celestini 4  \n40123 Bologna  \nItaly","website":"http://www.archiviodistatobologna.it","phone":"+39 051 223 891; 051239 590","email":"as-bo@beniculturali.it"},"f5c11bd8-33ca-5552-a5d9-8437afd6ee27":{"name":"The Lebanese University","description":"The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. The university has 17 faculties across Lebanon and serves various cultural, religious and social groups of students and teachers.  \n  \nThe independent university enjoys administrative, academic and financial freedom. Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and essential education to allow students to enter various professions.  \n  \nIn spite of the crisis in the region that has existed since 1975, leaving wounds and tragedies, the Lebanese University has remained the national home of science. Rivalling the most prestigious universities in Lebanon and abroad, and leading the process of human development that spread all over the country, its graduates became ambassadors of Lebanon in all the corners of the earth.  \n  \nOur university respects the national demand for academic freedom, which has become a right of scholars and specialists, based on laws and international conventions and regional organisations and sometimes more, applying the important rules of human rights: the right of learning and seeking knowledge with higher education and participation in international projects to develop academic programmes and exchange of research.The university has maintained the quality of higher education, although we seek more contact with the spirit of this modern age and its promising accomplishments by increasing relations and agreements with other universities and institutions all over the world. In spite of the political pressures on the people of the university and attempts to split them into factions, the majority of them have remained faithful to the spirit of the national organisation and the struggles of the early pioneers who insisted on building the edifice of national higher education, in the framework of the values of freedom and justice.","city":"Beirut","address":"Central Administration, Museum, Beirut  \n  \nPostal address: P.O. Box 6573/14 Badaro, Museum  \nBeirut  \nLebanon","website":"http://www.ul.edu.lb/","phone":"+961 1 612830; 1 612831","email":"ibady@ul.edu.lb"},"f7e39862-fd17-55f3-bcf9-cb93787c8817":{"name":"MIBACT | National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”","description":"The National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography was founded in 1875 by Luigi Pigorini. The museum is the main Italian centre for the preservation and display of pre-historic and non-European collections. Its main tasks are: archaeological and anthropological research; study, documentation and conservation of the museum’s collections; management of permanent and temporary exhibitions; educational programmes; and training in conservation, museological, archaeological and anthropological fields.  \n  \nToday, testifying to the new Italian multicultural reality, the Pigorini Museum offers itself as a cultural point of reference and a privileged interlocutor for immigrants and for the ethnic minorities already settled in the country.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.pigorini.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 549521","email":"s-mnpe@beniculturali.it"},"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"},"fd9463f8-e9ef-5011-8ad7-7bcf2e1863bc":{"name":"MIBACT | Central Institute for Ethno-Anthropology, National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions","description":"The institute promotes ethno-anthropological Italian heritage through the documentation, study and divulgation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions exhibition section of the institute was created after the Italian exhibition on ethnography held in Rome in 1911 to celebrate the 50th anniversary Italian. The founder, ethnologist Lamberto Loria, realised after several expeditions in non-European countries that ethnographic research was required to document the culture of a country that at the time was undergoing changes due to industrialisation and emigration from rural areas. The Loria programme gave a central role to the museum, underlining the importance of the study of national ethnography as a means to understand the cultural history of a nation.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 8/10  \n00144 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.idea.mat.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 5926148; 06 5910709","email":"ic-d@beniculturali.it"},"fe858e89-7e92-57d3-b1ab-b9c65d4bb7e5":{"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"},"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"},"ff8390b0-0228-5e07-8b42-389afca07810":{"name":"MIBACT | National Central Library of Rome","description":"The National Central Library of Rome houses and preserves all Italian publications. Opening in 1876 inside the Collegio Romano, a century later it moved to Castro Pretorio to meet the requirements of a modern library. Designed by architects Castellazzi, Dell'Anese and Vitellozzi, it had increased book depositories and reading rooms as well as a cafe and a bookshop. Known as “Vittorio Emanuele II”, it includes 7 million printed books and 8,000 manuscripts.  \n  \nThrough a continuous programme, the library seeks to confirm its role in the cultural circuit involving authors and artists, associations and exchanges of literature, cinema and music. The purpose is to communicate contemporary issues, always bearing in mind the educational and popular aspects, in the belief that it is essential to spread awareness first of all to young people in schools and universities.","city":"Rome","address":"Viale Castro Pretorio, 105  \n00185 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.bncrm.librari.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 49891","email":"bnc-rm@beniculturali.it"}}
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The collection, which focuses on confectionery, shows that everyday objects such as boxes containing biscuits, candy and chocolate, reflected the events that surrounded them; from the first tin, produced in the late 19th century in the era of industrialisation, passing through monarchy, fascism, the African campaign, World War II and the post-war period until the economic boom.","city":"Gerano (Rome)","address":"Via del Palazzo, 8  \n00025 Gerano (RM)  \nItaly","website":"www.casadellescatole.org","phone":"+39 348 7960033","email":"scatolemarina@hotmail.com"},"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","fax":"+90 212 242 03 65","email":"shm@biri.com.tr"},"0cf029c2-3b3c-5f0a-8926-e552386ea3b2":{"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","fax":"+34 91 523 20 86","email":"mnad@mecd.es"},"15c3f796-e9e4-5984-a07b-97ea019d9da5":{"name":"Istanbul Archaeological Museums","description":"The name Istanbul Archaeological Museums denotes three museums under the same administration: the Archaeological Museum, the Ancient Orient Museum and the Tiled Kiosk Museum. The museum, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is located in Sultanahmet, on the Osman Hamdi Bey slope connecting Gülhane Park with the Topkapı Palace.  \n  \nIstanbul Archaeological Museums, displaying artifacts from civilisations of different historical periods, is one of the ten most important world-class museums designed and used as a museum building. It is also the first institution in Turkey arranged as a museum. Besides its spectacular collections, the architectural aspects of the buildings and beautiful gardens in which they are situated are of historical and natural importance.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Alemdar Caddesi,  \nOsman Hamdi Bey Yokuşu Sokak,  \n34122 Gülhane/Fatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/arkeoloji","phone":"+90 212 520 77 40-41","fax":"+90 212 527 43 00","email":"info@istanbularkeoloji.gov.tr"},"17c3ad70-453d-563a-a810-46017f0ec9d8":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Turin","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Turin","address":"Piazza Castello, 209  \n1024 Torino  \n  \nVia Piave, 21  \n1022 Torino  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatotorino.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 011 540382; 011 4604111","fax":"+39 011 546176; 011 4364795","email":"as-to@beniculturali.it"},"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"},"250ffc21-2d2d-526c-85ce-a588e42b01f2":{"name":"MIBACT | Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation","description":"The ICCD was founded in 1975 and is a branch of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Its mission is to manage Italy’s national catalogue of archaeological, architectural, artistic and demo-ethno-anthropological heritage. The ICCD also preserves important photograph collections and provides access to them. It produces exhibitions, catalogues and other publications to support cataloguing and to improve awareness and knowledge of its historic collections.  \n  \nThe ICCD inherited the functions of two earlier institutions: the Office for Cataloguing, founded in 1969, which was responsible for defining national cataloguing methodologies; and the National Photographic Bureau (Gabinetto fotografico nazionale), founded in 1892, the principle national institution for the production and collection of photographic documentation.","city":"Rome","address":"Via di San Michele, 18  \n00153 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 585521","fax":"+39 06 58332313","email":"ic-cd@beniculturali.it"},"28ecd84f-8e9b-5020-bb00-419f40e1e408":{"name":"MIBACT | Central State Archives of Italy","description":"The Kingdom’s Archives was created in 1875 with the aim of preserving the records produced by the central administrative organs of the Italian state subsequent to national unification (1861). In 1953 it was transformed into the Central State Archives (ACS) and in 1960 it moved to its present location. Since 2008 the ACS has had special autonomy within the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.  \n  \nThe ACS holdings include the archives created by central state departments, archives of various private and public bodies and papers of politicians and of other individuals playing an important role in national life.  \n  \nResearch is free of charge. The reproduction of documents must be previously authorised and is carried out by internal staff or by researchers using a personal digital camera.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazzale degli Archivi, 27  \n00144 Roma Eur  \nItaly","website":"www.acs.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 545 481","fax":"+39 06 541 362 0","email":"acs@beniculturali.it"},"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","fax":"+389 2 3116 439","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","fax":"+44 20 7942 2335","email":"contact@vam.ac.uk"},"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","fax":"+36 1 487 8872","email":"btm@mail.btm.hu"},"3a61396d-ccb2-5d8a-9235-0224c3ec9c47":{"name":"Qatar National Library","description":"Qatar National Library (QNL) serves as the guardian of Qatar’s documentary heritage, dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the nation’s recorded history. As a research library with a distinguished heritage collection, QNL fosters deeper global understanding of the history and culture of the Gulf region. In its role as a public library, QNL ensures equitable access for all residents of Qatar to an inclusive environment that encourages creativity, informed decision-making, and cultural enrichment. Through these core functions, QNL plays a leading role in shaping and supporting Qatar’s library and cultural heritage landscape.  \n  \nAligned with Qatar’s vision of transitioning towards a knowledge-based, sustainable economy, the Library contributes to national development by empowering students, researchers, and the wider public through access to knowledge, support for lifelong learning, and community engagement.  \n  \nQNL’s collections include over one million print books, in addition to more than 500,000 digital resources—ebooks, journals, newspapers, and rare items held in its special collections. Its librarians bring expertise in research support, literacy, programming, and knowledge management, offering a wide array of services and events that inspire discovery, learning, and innovation within the community.  \n  \nThe establishment of the Library was announced on 19 November 2012 by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation. QNL was officially designated as the national library under Amiri Decree No. 11, issued on 20 March 2018. The Library was formally inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, the Amir of Qatar, during a grand opening ceremony held on 16 April 2018.","city":"Doha","address":"District of Freedom, Education City, Al Luqta St, Doha, Qatar","website":"https://www.qnl.qa/en","phone":"+974 4454 0100"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"The British Museum","description":"The British Museum was established by Act of Parliament in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all “studious and curious persons”. The founding collection was that of Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy physician and collector. The original British Museum comprised three departments: Printed Books; Manuscripts (including coins); and Natural and Artificial Productions, which included everything from sculpture to mineral samples and zoological specimens. In January 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public.  \n  \nAs a product of the Enlightenment, the museum's job was to be a storehouse of knowledge for the use and benefit of the public, advancing all fields of scholarship. The museum therefore aimed to collect all kinds of material; it remains one of the few places in the world in which it is possible to see the world under one roof. During the 19th century the museum acquired representative collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, as well as material from across the Islamic world.  \n  \nThe museum itself had to grow to offer space to display the growing collections. Between 1823 and 1847 the original building was replaced by four large wings built around a central courtyard. In 1854 construction began on the iconic Round Reading Room in the central courtyard. The natural history collections were given their own home in the new Museum of Natural History in 1881. By 1973 the British Library and British Museum were administratively separated, and in 1999 the new British Library building opened at St Pancras. The British Museum site was expanded and modernised. In 2000 the Great Court opened, envisioned as a sunny piazza at the centre of the building, with up-to-date facilities such as lecture theatres, an education centre and facilities for school children, as well as restaurants and shops. In 2014 the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre opened to the public, offering state-of-the-art facilities to care for, manage, research and display the collections.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","fax":"+44 20 7323 8616","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"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","fax":"+49 (0)40 428134-999","email":"service@mkg-hamburg.de"},"42fb6391-e1f6-527a-85db-f9638b02d667":{"name":"Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia, University of Manouba","description":"The Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia (ISHCT) is a research centre for contemporary history in Tunisia. It houses a microfilm archive, audio-visual witness records, a collection of photographs and a library available on request to researchers, journalists, activists and students wishing to conduct in-depth research into the history of the colonisation and decolonisation of Tunisia. There are four research and study units (UER) bringing together historical researchers dedicated to using the different resources to improve understanding of this period of Tunisian history: UER Archives, UER Repositories of Memory and Museums, UER Oral History and UER History. Through the publication of a review (RAWAFID), conference papers, seminars and scientific meetings, memories from witnesses and document collections, ISHCT hopes to enhance the university library in line with advances in documentation and  methodology, thereby helping to stimulate research into this historical period by setting up scientific exchanges in Tunisia and abroad.","city":"Tunis","address":"Campus Universitaire de la Manouba,  \n2010 La Manouba  \nTunis  \nTunisia","phone":"+216 716 009 50","fax":"+216 716 002 77","email":"ishmn@ishmn.rnu.tn"},"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","fax":"+34 914 456 940","email":"informacion.romanticismo@mecd.es"},"56cd014d-0d80-5773-b80c-0eb7569f7c74":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Palermo","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Palermo","address":"Via Vittorio Emanuele, 31  \n90133 Palermo  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatodipalermo.it","phone":"+39 091 2510628-624","fax":"+39 091 5080681","email":"as-pa@beniculturali.it"},"5f93f9b7-2ad1-5419-9406-6e91b824f300":{"name":"National Archaeological Museum","description":"The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional or MAN) is Spain’s most important museum of history. It preserves, researches and presents its collections of archaeology, art and history to the public. In doing so, the museum aspires to offer all visitors an accurate, attractive, interesting and critical interpretation of the meaning of objects from the past, in the hopes that a deeper knowledge of history will help them to better analyse and understand the reality of today. Given the relevance and scope of its collections, the National Archaeological Museum is comparable in its specialty to prominent Spanish museums (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía or the Royal Collections Gallery), by showing our country’s diversity and affluence in terms of cultural history.  \n  \nThe museum occupies a monumental building in the heart of the Salamanca quarter, one of Madrid’s busiest shopping and leisure districts, and is strategically positioned along the Recoletos-Prado artery, which boasts the highest concentration of art and culture institutions in the city. The museum’s magnificent building in the heart of Madrid offers a historical infrastructure — complete with building, garden and fence —which is fully renovated and accessible.  \n  \nThe MAN has grown and evolved constantly since it was created in 1867, almost 160 years ago, and is still changing today to meet the needs of the 21st century. After a complete overhaul between 2008 and 2014, the institution reopened in April 2014 with a brand-new look and layout, claiming its place among Europe’s most modern museums. The renovated building is divided into six floors and has a total surface area of nearly 30,000 m2, of which 18,304 m2 are reserved for public use (the permanent exhibition alone occupies 9,239 m2). The museum has also been fitted out with different service areas, including a spacious vestibule, café, shop and activity rooms.  \n  \nThe MAN’s extraordinary collection, which includes a large number of priceless historical and cultural artefacts, comprises over one million archaeological, historical and artistic objects.  \n  \nIts holdings are vast and varied: Palaeolithic bifaces, practically the only tool in existence for millennia; delicate ivory carvings that combine aesthetic appeal with practical functionality; prehistoric engravings found in the Cave of El Castillo, evidence of humanity’s earliest artistic and symbolic expressions; the abstract aesthetics of the “Idol of Extremadura”; the classical, timeless beauty of the Lady of Elche; ancient Roman sculptures; the extraordinary treasure of Guarrazar; the Romanesque crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha; the lovely equestrian figure of Hector by Il Filarete; and the ornamental paintings of Luis Paret on a Baroque armchair are just some of the treasures it houses.  \n  \nThe Museum's Islamic Art collection largely comes from the different historical periods of Al-Andalus, the name that the Muslims gave to the territory they conquered in the Iberian Peninsula. The aesthetic quality achieved by Andalusian art is demonstrated in the architectural capitals, arches, marble panels and alabaster and plaster decorations of the period, especially from the Caliphate of Córdoba. Added to this is the museum's collection of decorative and highly refined objects made in the Andalusian palace workshops, such as metal, ivory and glazed ceramics. Likewise, a large collection of objects is preserved that show the symbiosis of Hispano-Islamic and Christian forms in the Iberian Peninsula, as the dome of the Torrijos Palace.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","fax":"+34 91 432 68 40","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"6001ff30-e9b6-573e-a38c-5ac23b472e6c":{"name":"Saint Louis Art Museum","description":"Mission  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum collects, presents, interprets, and conserves works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures; educates, inspires discovery, and elevates the human spirit; and preserves a legacy of artistic achievement for the people of St. Louis and the world.  \n  \nHistory  \n  \nThe Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States. This Museum’s comprehensive collections bear witness to the inspirational and educational goals to which its founder aspired and the moral and democratic imperatives he embraced. What began as a collection of assorted plaster casts, electrotype reproductions, and other examples of good design in various media rapidly gave way to a great and varied collection of original works of art spanning five millennia and six continents. Today the quality and breadth of the Museum’s collection secure for it a place among the very best institutions of its kind.  \n  \n(*Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collection*)**","city":"Saint Louis","address":"1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park  \nSt. Louis, Missouri 63110","website":"http://www.slam.org","phone":"+1 314.721.0072","fax":"+1 314.721.6172","email":"info@slam.org"},"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","fax":"+971 65 56 60 03","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","fax":"+44 20 7486 7438","email":"execsec@pef.org.uk"},"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"},"6c9f6b97-7619-5be4-a904-0f96ffa2c698":{"name":"Austrian National Library","description":"The Austrian National Library (ANL) regards itself as a centre of information and research oriented towards serving the public, as an outstanding custodian of the national memory and as a multifaceted centre of education and culture. As the central academic library of the Republic of Austria, the ANL looks at a history rich in tradition from as far back as the 14th century. It is a living bridge between the rich heritage of the past and the future-oriented demands of a modern information society.  \n  \nThe ANL offers its users access to and professional advice on its own holdings (almost 8 million objects) and also on international data pools. It also accepts commissions on scientific research and operates documentation centres and service facilities. In the digital age services are increasingly processed online via the ANL home page.","city":"Vienna","address":"Josefsplatz, 1  \n1015 Wien  \nAustria","website":"www.onb.ac.at","phone":"+43 1 534 10 0","fax":"+43 1 534 10 280","email":"onb@onb.ac.at"},"6cf9f545-cd2f-5d4f-b5fa-1d9bb64042b2":{"name":"Istanbul Railway Museum","description":"Istanbul Railway Museum, located in the historical Istanbul Sirkeci Terminal, Fatih district, is owned and operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD). It opened to visitors on 23 September 2005. Sirkeci Station was the last stop of the Orient Express.  \n  \nThe museum displays 300 objects: the original site plans, drawings, photos, railway equipment, furniture and silver services of the Orient Express, station office equipment, driver’s cab of an electric suburban train, communication tools of Rumeli railways and Trakia line, objects from the railway school and hospital in 19th century.  \n  \nThe foundation stone of Sirkeci Main Station was laid on 11 February 1888. It opened on 3 November 1890. Planned by the German architect and engineer A. Jasmund, the building’s style was inspired by local architectural traditions.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sirkeci Garı, Ankara Cad.  \n34410 Eminönü, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 527 12 01;5206575/7885","fax":"+90 212 512 64 44","email":"istanbuldemiryolumuzesi@tcdd.gov.tr"},"6ecec2e6-bbbf-5697-aaf3-7ae3c5bb536f":{"name":"MIBACT | Authority for the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont","description":"The Authority for the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont preserves the photographic archive of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Turin.  \n  \nThe foundation of the Museum was a milestone in the rediscovery of ancient Egypt. In 1824 King Carlo Felice of Savoy purchased Egyptian antiquities from the French consul Drovetti to provide Turin with an archaeological museum comparable with the great museums of the European capitals. The museum was later enriched by finds acquired from excavations led by E. Schiaparelli, the museum’s director from 1894.  \n  \nThe photographic archive includes a library of historical photographs by Beato, Bonfils and others, bought in Egypt in antiquities markets and portraying landscapes and monuments of Egypt and Nubia, and the Schiaparelli collection, which captures the shipyards and the excavation sites of the Italian Archaeological Missions. The collection has increased since World War II. Ongoing digitisation facilitates consultation and conservation.","city":"Turin","address":"Piazza San Giovanni, 2  \n10122 Torino  \nItaly","website":"http://archeo.piemonte.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 011 195244","fax":"+39 011 5213145","email":"sar-pie@beniculturali.it"},"702147de-a72c-52ce-a6b7-9f90e342a5ac":{"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"},"757c8322-4a40-517f-8dd8-ad7d8cc26bc3":{"name":"Enrico Sturani Private Collection","description":"Enrico Sturani is a collector and scholar in the field of postcards. He has collected more than 150,000 postcards, from a wide variety of time periods and geographical contexts.  \n  \nThe author of many books and essays on the history of postcards, he has contributed to numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.","city":"Rome","email":"sturamail@yahoo.it"},"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","fax":"+90 212 245 95 11","email":"info@peramuzesi.org.tr"},"7cbc59ff-26f9-5d77-9853-2e0324c66c08":{"name":"Municipal Library at the Archiginnasio Palace","description":"Created in 1801, the Municipal Library in Bologna was originally composed of books from the libraries of the religious orders suppressed in the Napoleonic age (1797–1798) and following the Reunification of Italy (1866).  \n  \nThe new library was housed in the convent of St. Dominic originally, moving to the Archiginnasio in 1838. Twenty years later the head librarian, Luigi Frati, sub-divided the older collections by subject and housed them in the classrooms of the former University of Bologna (the Studio). Many bequests and purchases followed that enabled the library to grow, not only in terms of books and manuscripts but also statues and pictures, which are still present in the rooms of the historical building.  \n  \nOver time, the Archiginnasio has developed into a specialist research and Humanities library, particularly with regard to Bologna and its surrounding territory.  \n  \nToday the library promotes many cultural events: lectures, meetings and publications, and publishes its own bulletin, L'Archiginnasio. It holds approximately 800,000 books and booklets, among which are 2,500 incunabola and nearly 15,000 16th-century books. The periodical unit holds 7,500 titles in the form of periodicals and newspapers, 750 of which are current. In the departments of Manuscripts and Rare Books and Prints and Drawings, there are significant collections of iconographical documents from the Middle Ages up to the modern day.  \n  \nThe building, designed by the Bolognese architect Antonio Morandi known as il Terribilia, was erected between 1562 and 1563, and up to 1803 housed the University of Bologna. The walls of the rooms, the ceilings of the stairways and of the courtyards are embellished with a rich heraldic decoration made up of inscriptions and monuments celebrating the professors of the University of Bologna (the Studio) and coats of arms of the students’ families and their countries of origin. The anatomical theatre, built between the 17th and 18th centuries, is decorated with wooden statues.","city":"Bologna","address":"Piazza Galvani 1  \n40124 Bologna  \nItaly","website":"http://www.archiginnasio.it","phone":"+39 051 276 811","fax":"+39 051 261 160","email":"archiginnasio@comune.bologna.it"},"7dfff38c-303b-557b-9cb3-9735ce4cab7b":{"name":"National Museum of Anthropology","description":"The National Museum of Anthropology is Spain's first anthropological museum. Its establishment was due in large part to the efforts of one Pedro González Velasco, a doctor of Segovian heritage, and was officially inaugurated in 1875 by King Alfonso XII to serve as a museum that showcased objects relating to anatomy and anthropology. The current museum hosts an exhibition room that pays tribute to this inaugural history.  \n  \nAfter the museum became a public institution, under the authority of the former Natural History Cabinet, it was converted into the National Museum of Natural Sciences. Subsequently, under the auspices of Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific Research, the site was rededicated as the Museum of Anthropology, Ethnography and Prehistory and later a National Museum of Ethnology, making it a museum dedicated exclusively to cultural anthropology.  \n  \nVelasco’s original collection was augmented by objects brought back by expeditions organised by Spanish scientific institutions in the last years of the nineteenth century. The acquisition of these objects were paid for by the funds of the Museum of Natural Sciences. Amongst these are a collection of ethnographic objects that formed part of the 1887 Philippine Exhibition, the last colonial exhibition of the Spanish Empire that was organised in Madrid’s ‘Parque del Retiro’. The Museum’s collection have grown since the 1960s, thanks to donations and acquisitions made by the General Directorate of Fine Arts, Cultural Property, Archives and Libraries.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Alfonso XII, 68  \n28014 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://mnantropologia.mcu.es","phone":"+34 91 530 64 18/91 539 59 95","fax":"+34 91 467 70 98","email":"antropologico@mecd.es"},"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"},"8128a827-15fb-5166-902e-e23aab2a8fd7":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, State Museums","description":"**The Museum of Islamic Art is closed from October 2023 to March 2027 due to renovation and expansion works.**  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Berlin is the only institution of its kind in Germany, the oldest in the West and with its c. 93,000 pieces it houses one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from nearly all regions of Islamic rule.  \n  \nIts collections are especially rich in objects from an architectural context including the monumental façade of the caliphal palace of Mshatta (Jordan), dating from the mid-8th century. It is the largest artefact of Islamic Art in any museum worldwide. The unique dome from the Alhambra Palace in Granada (Spain) and 13th-century prayer niches from Kashan (Iran) and Konya (Turkey) are among the highlights. Most loved by our visitors is the finely painted wooden panelling of an upper-class house from Aleppo (Syria) from the early 17th century – it is the oldest surviving exemplar from the Ottoman World. Among the several archaeological groups from major excavations in the Islamic world the finds from the 9th-century caliphal capital of Samarra (Iraq) stand out. The collection also has a large number of important Ottoman and Persian carpets and bibliographical works of art, including numerous miniatures from the Mughal Empire.  \n  \nThe collection is displayed chronologically, allowing the visitor to follow the different stylistic phases of Islamic art and to develop a notion of the complex Islamic history and its artistic merits. Because of the large number of visitors (up to 900,000 yearly), only a small number of the most important works of art are on display. The museum will move inside Pergamon-Museum and will triple its exhibition space (3,000sq.m) by 2020. The layout and concept will discover new and innovative ways to present the cultural legacy.  \n  \nWith its rich art and archaeological collection, the Museum of Islamic Art is one of the leading research institutions dedicated to the material culture of the Middle East and neighbouring regions. Our many research, conservation and exhibition projects amount to a probing investigation of the urban legacies of the Near and Middle East. The institution houses important collections of archival photographs on Islamic art and architecture as well as an internationally outstanding library focused on art, architecture and archaeology in the world of Islam.","city":"Berlin","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","fax":"+49 30 266 42 5202","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"83b5a171-0257-50b2-84c9-f6a1e6d481e2":{"name":"Italian Geographical Society (SGI)","description":"Founded in 1867 for the purpose of promoting geographic research and the popular distribution of geographic knowledge, the SGI has realised its objectives with reference to the various parts of the world.  \n  \nA distinctive feature of the SGI’s history has been the organisation of numerous expeditions and scientific missions. But irrespective of the level of involvement by the SGI, interesting accounts of almost all journeys can be found in the society’s archives, since even when an organisation or mission was not directly connected with the SGI, the society was regarded as the most prestigious custodian of the memory of its venture. For this reason, the society’s archives have accumulated a unique legacy (books, maps, photographs) of the history of travel.","city":"Rome","address":"Via della Navicella, 12  \n00184 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.societageografica.it","phone":"+39 06 7008279","fax":"+39 06 77079518","email":"segreteria@societageografica.it"},"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"},"89f613d2-8723-5be8-8e46-487f9dae46f4":{"name":"Swiss National Museum","description":"Three museums – the National Museum Zurich, the Château de Prangins and the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz – as well as the collections centre in Affoltern am Albis – are united under the umbrella of the Swiss National Museum (SNM). The permanent exhibitions at the museums present Swiss history from its beginnings to the present, and give an insight into Swiss identities and the rich tapestry of our country’s history and culture. Temporary exhibitions on current topics add to the experience.","city":"Zurich","address":"Swiss National Museum  \nMuseumstrasse, 2  \nP.O. Box 8021  \nZurich  \nSwitzerland","website":"http://www.nationalmuseum.ch","phone":"+41 44 218 65 11","fax":"+41 44 211 29 49","email":"info@nationalmuseum.ch"},"8b0b152b-8977-5c8e-a347-e7a9890985cb":{"name":"Archivio Progetti – Università Iuav di Venezia","description":"Founded in 1987, the Archivio Progetti is part of the Università Iuav di Venezia. Its main mission is to acquire, arrange, catalogue and keep archives related to architecture, making them available for historical and technical research. Materials are collected mainly from architects and architectural practices, engineers, town planners, designers, photographers and corporates.  \n  \nThe Archivio Progetti owns (2013) 40 archives, with many thousands of drawings, papers, photographs and about 350 architectural models. Researchers from across the world access the reading room or refer to the on-line catalogues. Items from the collections are put on display for theme-based exhibitions in the gallery next to the reading room; others are lent to museums all over the world for their temporary exhibitions.","city":"Venice","address":"Dorsoduro, 2196  \nVenezia  \nItaly","website":"www.iuav.it/archivioprogetti","phone":"+39 041 2571012","fax":"+39 041 2572626","email":"archivioprogetti@iuav.it"},"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","fax":"+353 1 40 70 760","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","fax":"+40 21 311 33 56","email":"direct@mnir.ro"},"8ea7243d-fe8e-5011-a9ca-75ebd26660ac":{"name":"Ministry of Culture, Directorate for Cultural Heritage","description":"The Directorate of Cultural Heritage is part of the Ministry of Culture. Its mission is to ensure the protection, conservation, restoration, maintenance and promotion of the architectural, archaeological and ethnographic heritage. It is also in charge of the country’s museums and its various artistic treasures.","city":"Rabat","address":"Avenue Michlifen, 17  \nAgdal, Rabat  \nMorocco","website":"www.minculture.gov.ma","phone":"+212 537 274 001 / 03","fax":"+212 537 274 002"},"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","fax":"+90 312 470 65 32","email":"kulturvalikmuze@gov.tr"},"9191d124-5250-5ce2-bd6f-5cfd57bd7081":{"name":"Wolf-Dieter Lemke Collection","city":"Berlin"},"9340dcc4-aefc-5da9-9c6f-1a9d5229bc8d":{"name":"Military Museum and Cultural Centre Command","description":"The Military Museum and Cultural Centre Command is subordinate to the Military History and Strategic Studies (ATASE) Division, General Staff, deployed in Harbiye district of Istanbul. The Harbiye district, meaning “military”, derives its name from the service buildings of the Military Museum which were used by the Ottoman Empire in its later periods as the Military Academy. The founder of the Republic, the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, graduated from this school.  \n  \nThe museum collects, classifies, maintains and renovates the works of art that can be regarded as cultural military assets, and stores and exhibits them using modern methods in order to hand them on to future generations.  \n  \nThere are approximately 55,000 objects in its inventory, 5,000 of which are displayed in the museum’s exhibition halls.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Harbiye, Şişli  \nIstanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 233 27 20","fax":"+90 212 296 86 18","email":"askerimuze@tsk.tr"},"9430e534-166d-564f-9847-926b347ec975":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Livorno","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Livorno","address":"Palazzo del Governo  \nVia Fiume, 40  \n57123 Livorno  \nItaly","website":"www.aslivorno.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 0586 897776; 0586 880028","fax":"+39 0586 896782","email":"as-li@beniculturali.it"},"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","fax":"+44 20 7323 8616","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"97c4b416-b7b0-59ba-a78b-d0769f52ed9b":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Florence","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Florence","address":"Viale della Giovine Italia, 6  \n50122 Firenze  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistato.firenze.it","phone":"+39 055 263201","fax":"+39 055 2341159","email":"as-fi@beniculturali.it"},"9d2766e4-df9b-5798-b7be-07e6280042d0":{"name":"National Library of Algeria","description":"Founded in 1835 by Adrian Berbrugger at the impetus of the War Ministry, the National Library of Algeria aims to keep and preserve the documents seized by the colonial occupation of Algeria after 1830.  \n  \nThe National Library of Algeria had different seats before settling down in the barracks of the janissaries for ten years. Thanks to donations, the library’s documentary fund expanded to in include confiscated of manuscripts and consignments from the French War Ministry. In 1863, the National Library changed location and found a new home at Dar Mustapha Pacha.  \n  \nDar Mustapha Pacha is one of the greatest examples of 18th-century Islamic Moorish architecture. The first floor of the palace is dedicated to the library while the second floor houses an archive museum. In 1890, the two institutions were separated by a decree.  \n  \nDespite its wealth of architectural beauty and ornamentation, the palace is ill-suited to serving as a library. By 1947, a lack of reading rooms, poor conditions for book preservation, and lack of storage pushed authorities to build a more modern structure. It is the first such library on the African soil and in the Arab world able to compete with world standard libraries.  \n  \nIn 1958, the National Library of Algeria moved into its new building on the capital hills. With a total area of 4,800 square metres, it had three reading rooms and storage spanning over six floors, displaying 1,200,000 books.  \n  \nIn 1984, the construction of a new seat was launched. Set in the El-Hamma aera, south of Algiers, one of its goals was to boost the community while enjoying the natural beauty of a primary location overlooking the sea and adjacent to the Jardin d’Essai. On November 1st, 1994, the new National Library of Algeria was inaugurated and public access to all its rooms was granted in 1998.  \n  \nThe Library can accommodate 2,300 readers at a time. It boasts cutting edge technology ensuring the proper restoration, processing and book binding. The National Library has many extensions throughout the country, ensuring proximity with the public, fostering the cultural spread and promoting literacy.","city":"Algiers","website":"https://www.m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/etablissements-sous-tutelle/bibliotheque-nationale-d-algerie"},"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","fax":"+39 055 242213"},"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","fax":"+44 20 7323 8616","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"b103b986-c8c1-5a48-a968-086e171abf4d":{"name":"Austrian State Archives","description":"The Austrian State Archives are among the most important archives worldwide. They are a subordinate agency of the Federal Chancellery and serve two purposes: on the one hand, they are central archives for the federal services of the Republic of Austria (supreme bodies and ministries), which have a legal responsibility to transfer their acts and documents to the State Archives. On the other hand, their historical departments are the keepers of the archival heritage of the Hapsburg Empire (1526–1918) and its central authorities and of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (until 1806). The oldest item in the collection of acts and charters dates back to 816. Due to the supra-regional nature of its holdings, the Austrian State Archives are a contact point for researchers from all over the world.","city":"Vienna","address":"Nottendorfer Gasse, 2  \nA-1030 Wien (main building)  \nAustria  \n  \nMinoritenplatz, 1  \n1010 Wien (branch office)  \nAustria","website":"www.oesta.gv.at","phone":"+43 1 795 40 0","email":"gdpost@oesta.gv.at"},"b1dd01e5-c655-5ba8-9ee1-725321fc390a":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Venice","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Venice","address":"San Polo, 3002  \nI 30125 Venezia  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatovenezia.it","phone":"+39 041 5222281","fax":"+39 041 5229220","email":"as-ve@beniculturali.it"},"b3d5e8a5-90ae-5442-bf21-9067f8e77ed1":{"name":"Cerralbo Museum","description":"Cerralbo Palace, now Museum, was built between 1884 and 1892 in a historicist style with classical echoes, also shared by its garden. It contains the collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17th Marquis of Cerralbo (1845–1922), a politician, historian, collector and pioneer of archaeology in Spain. After his death, he bequeathed his collection to the Spanish state. Paintings, furniture, clocks, porcelain, lamps, sculptures, arms and armour, textiles, books, coins and archaeological objects are displayed in the various rooms where the first inhabitants of the palace led their daily lives. Cerralbo Museum also has the distinction of being one of the few buildings in Madrid that shows the original decorative ambience of an aristocratic residence, thoroughly restored in the first decade of the 21st century.","city":"Madrid","address":"C / Ventura Rodríguez, 17  \n28008 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museocerralbo.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 915 47 36 46 / 47","fax":"+34 915 59 11 71","email":"museo.cerralbo@mecd.es"},"b4bdbe1f-6da6-5bef-9d1c-d19fa5720ec8":{"name":"State District Archive","description":"There are two archives in the depository at “U Husova Sboru Street” in the city of Olomouc: the State District Archives Olomouc and the Olomouc Branch of the Land Archives in Opava.  \n  \nThe public records and documents of the State District Archives Olomouc are broken down into separate categories: state administration, municipal administration and self-government of the Olomouc District. The oldest document in the archives, and the oldest city privilege of its kind in Czech Lands, is Uničov's city privilege dated 1223. Other categories contain court documents, those from economic institutions and documents connected with healthcare, schools or cultural institutions. Those documents that deal with different social organisations are of particular interest. Resources of local religious institutions, estates of significant people of the central Moravian region and some paperwork (engravings, photographs, maps, posters and so one) also provide rich material. The State District Archives Olomouc was established in 1960, when the resources of two traditional city archives (Olomouc and Uničov) and three minor county archives (Litovel, Olomouc and Šternberk) were incorporated into them.  \n  \nThe most valuable treasures of the Olomouc Branch of the Land Archives in Opava were created by the activities of religious institutions, which have been seated in Olomouc since the 11th century (Olomouc Bishopric and Archbishopric, Olomouc Metropolitan Chapter and others). The most valuable items among them – two documents issued by Bishop Jindřich Zdík in 1141 – are the oldest preserved original papers, which were elaborated in the territory of the Bohemian Kingdom by order of a clerical official. Another important element of the Olomouc Archives are the documents of the Jesuit College, established in 1566, especially its collection of theses in the form of graphic art from 1676–1745.","city":"Olomouc","address":"U Husova sboru 10  \n771 00 Olomouc  \nCzech Republic","website":"http://www.archives.cz","phone":"+420 585 236 101, 585 220 919","fax":"+420 585 236 152, 585 236 153","email":"podatelna@ol.archives.cz"},"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","fax":"+351 234 793","email":"centro.visitas.va@vaa.pt"},"bb594122-ba49-5d7f-bd0d-5be50be2e93a":{"name":"Population Exchange Museum (The Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants)","description":"One of the most important mass migrations was the compulsory migration resulting from the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed in Lausanne in 1923 by the Turkish and Greek governments. With the support of the 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency and cooperation with the Lausanne Treaty Foundation and Çatalca Municipality, Turkey’s first museum of migration opened in 2010.  \n  \nMigrants carried only their portable possessions and their culture, traditions, customs and manners to their new homelands. Bridal troussseau pieces make up the museum’s largest section. There are also old photographs, documents, forms, maps, a Qur’an, stamps, banknotes, books, musical instruments, an embroidery prospectus and a copy of *Sabah* newspaper from the end of the 19th century.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Kaleiçi Mahallesi, Bahar Sokak, 4  \nÇatalca, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.lozanmubadilleri.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 245 61 55","fax":"+90 212 293 25 68","email":"lozanmubadilleri@ttmail.com"},"c0c2fa4f-c38c-578e-8cc1-4703cc60b8a9":{"name":"Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts","description":"The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts was the first museum in Turkey to bring together works of Islamic art. It was founded in 1914 as the Museum of Islamic Foundations and housed in the Imaret building of the Süleymaniye Complex, built by the great Turkish architect Sinan in the 16th century. The museum was renamed the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts after the declaration of the republic and moved to its present location in the 16th-century Ibrahim Paşa Palace in 1983.  \n  \nThe core collection of the museum comprises Islamic artworks collected from across the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. These works include carpets, manuscripts, metalwork, glassware, ceramics, woodwork and ethnographic materials. The collection represents an extensive period ranging from the rise of Islam to the 20th century and the vast geographical area ruled by the Ottoman Empire.  \n  \nThe carpets, numbering some 1,700, in their quality and variety constitute one of the most important collections of carpets in the world, so that the museum is sometimes thought of as a carpet museum. But the museum also has other outstanding collections: the manuscripts collection represents all the ruling Islamic states from the AH 1st / AD 7th century to the 20th century across a wide geographical area. The metalwork collection allows visitors to follow the development of Turkish metalwork in Anatolia and the rich collection of woodwork ranges from the AH 3rd / AD 9th century to the Ottoman period. The glassware and pottery collections include artefacts recovered during excavations at renowned Abbasid centres such as Samarra and Keshan (Iran) and Raqqa (Syria) as well as artefacts from the Anatolian Turkish period. The stonework, most bearing inscriptions, includes examples from the Umayyad, Abbasid, Mamluk, Seljuq and Ottoman periods. The ethnographic department is the newest section.  \n  \nThe museum also organises, hosts and participates in temporary national and international exhibitions.  \n  \nAfter the grand restoration works The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts re-opened in April 2014, exactly 100 years after its foundation, with special exhibitions to celebrate its hundredth anniversary.","city":"İstanbul","address":"İbrahim Paşa Sarayı Atmeydanı Sok. No: 46  \nSultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/tiem","phone":"+90 212 518 18 05 / 06","fax":"+90 212 518 18 07","email":"tiem@tiem.gov.tr"},"c9aa9059-5518-5ca9-a74a-4a00a4a866ec":{"name":"Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation","description":"The Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, opened to the public in July 1983. Its collection now consists of more than 10,000 works covering Portuguese art from the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as some important international artists. Among these artworks and artists, there is an important collection of British art from the late 1950s / early 1960s; works by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and her husband Arpad Szenes, painters in Paris; works by Arshile Gorky, part of the Armenian background of this artist. The Modern Art Centre programming focuses on temporary exhibitions, showing Portuguese and international artists, and on exhibitions of the collection. Its mission is to make the artistic heritage accessible to the people.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian  \nRua Dr. Nicolau de Bettencourt  \n1050-078 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.cam.gulbenkian.pt","phone":"+351 21 782 3417","email":"cam@gulbenkian.pt"},"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"},"cda4e9a0-f14d-5a98-b6ce-3f8077d29e19":{"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, most notably include objects from Iran and the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Vienna","address":"Stubenring, 5  \nA-1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.mak.at","phone":"+43 1 711 36-248","fax":"+43 1 713 10 26","email":"office@MAK.at"},"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"},"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","fax":"+30 210 322 5550","email":"islamic_collection@benaki.gr"},"d341b529-0fe1-52db-a7ea-c367edf0bc03":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Naples","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Naples","address":"Piazzetta Grande Archivio, 5  \n80138 Napoli  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatonapoli.it","phone":"+39 081 5638311","fax":"+39 081 5638300","email":"as-na@beniculturali.it"},"d8cdb3eb-45fb-5ddf-a4cb-305d3f9d955b":{"name":"Istanbul Postal Museum","description":"The Istanbul Postal Museum is dedicated to the historical development of mail and telecommunication services in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, exhibiting related equipment, instruments and postage stamps.  \n  \nThe museum is situated inside the Main Post Office building in Sirkeci quarter of Fatih district in Istanbul. The museum has a separate entrance and occupies four storeys in the western part of the building. It informs visitors about the country’s history of communication and telecommunication services, which officially began on 23 October 1840 with the foundation of the Ottoman Ministry of Post. Established on 6 May 2000 by the Turkish Post, the museum consists of four sections for mail, telegraphy, telephony and postage stamps. Photographs taken during the construction of the building are also displayed.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Hobyar Mahallesi,  \nBüyük Postane Caddesi, 25  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.ptt.gov.tr","phone":"+90 212 519 19 99","fax":"+90 212 512 09 49","email":"istav-muze@ptt.gov.tr"},"da058c7a-9e86-5354-8deb-cc489c7fb154":{"name":"Gramsci Institute Foundation","description":"The Gramsci Institute Foundation preserves archives of major importance for the study of the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Italy, with particular reference to the history of Republican Italy, including those of the Italian Communist Party (1921–91), Antonio Gramsci’s prison notebooks and letters from prison, and the papers of Luchino Visconti, Sibilla Aleramo and Luigi Squarzina. The foundation has a library of approximately 150,000 volumes and 4,000 periodicals.  \n  \nThe foundation carries out research projects in its areas of expertise and organises scholarly conferences and seminars, courses, exhibitions and training activities. It publishes the journal *Studi Storici* and a wide range of scholarly volumes, including the national edition of the writings of Antonio Gramsci.","city":"Rome","address":"Legal office:  \nVia Portuense, 95/c  \n00153 Roma  \n  \nOperational Headquarters:  \nVia Sebino, 43a  \n00199 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.fondazionegramsci.org","phone":"+39 06 065806646","fax":"+39 06 48887530","email":"info@fondazionegramsci.org"},"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","fax":"+34 91 561 77 93","email":"amparo.lopez@flg.es"},"dc1c7f07-b903-5bd2-bf64-bf760b8a5dca":{"name":"Bibliotheca Alexandrina","description":"The objective of the new library remains the same as that of the old library: to act as a public research library and to support the people of the Arab world and the Middle East to retain their long-standing position as scholars and researchers in different fields of science.  \n  \nThe Library of Alexandria provides more than a library. In addition to the usual library facilities, the Library also contains other cultural and educational functions including a planetarium, several museums, an Internet archive, an audio-visual library, a school for information science, and conservation facilities. A Young Person’s Library is available for younger students and visitors. In addition to this, a new conference centre is linked to an existing auditorium on the site, making the Library a centrepiece for both learning and debate.  \n  \nToday, the Library of Alexandria is receiving about 1.5 million visitors a year. Its webcast service provides live and archived access to all the conferences, lectures and presentations taking place at the Library.","city":"Alexandria","address":"PO Box 138  \nChatby 21526  \nAlexandria  \nEgypt","website":"www.bibalex.org","phone":"+20 3 4839999"},"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"},"e4d6eb3a-21a4-5299-a027-9e5b305d4232":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Trieste","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Trieste","address":"Via A. La Marmora, 17  \n34139 Trieste  \nItaly","website":"www.astrieste.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 040 0647921","fax":"+39 040 9380033","email":"as-ts@beniculturali.it"},"e5ac5384-736d-5352-a209-14c391605bea":{"name":"MIBACT | Archival Superintendency of Umbria","description":"The Archival Superintendencies (Soprintendenze Archivistiche) are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Their functions include deciding which private archives should be considered of special cultural interest, inspecting private archives and the records of public bodies to make sure that they are correctly preserved, providing archival advice free of charge to the owners of materials under their jurisdiction, and producing search aids.  \n  \nThe Soprintendenza Archivistica per l’Umbria also organises conferences and exhibitions, and publishes catalogues and search aids. It edits three series of volumes (*Segni di civiltà*, *Scaffali senza polvere* and *La nave di Ulisse*) under the supervision of the Superintendent Mario Squadroni.","city":"Perugia","address":"Via Martiri dei Lager, 65  \n06128 Perugia  \nItaly","website":"www.sa-umbria.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 075 5055715; 075 5052198","fax":"+39 075 5055715; 075 5052198","email":"sa-umb@beniculturali.it"},"e916188b-3d88-5514-afb4-d5123a65224f":{"name":"National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art","description":"The National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa. The collection was set up in 1835, five years after the French occupation, by the then Governor General Marshal Clauzel who appointed Adrien Berbrugger as its first curator. From 1838 onward, the early museum hosted pieces, of Algerian provenance, from Antiquity up until the Ottoman periods. Between 1838 and 1896, this early museum occupied different places of the lower Casbah, before settling in a beautiful park located on the heights of Mustapha Pasha - now known as the Park of Liberty - where it was officially inaugurated in 1897.  \n  \nSince then these two divisions of the museum’s collection, Antiquity and Islamic, have continued to grow. This collection makes it possible to exhibit the history of Algeria from its Libyan-Punic era through to the 20th century. The objects are displayed in two separate buildings: one houses the pre-Islamic collection whilst the other houses the collection of Islamic art, which was inaugurated in May 2003.  \n  \nThe ancient collection is very rich and includes collections of mosaics, sculptures, Libyan and Latin inscriptions, coins and medals, bronze, ivory, bone, ceramics and wooden objects.  \n  \nThe Islamic section was formed from the first collection of 1854, which included Algerian and Oriental objects. It has gradually been enriched by pieces uncovered through archaeological excavations carried throughout the country. This wide-ranging collection includes sculpted plasterboard from 10th century Sedrata, marble or plaster sculptures of the 11th century Qal'a of Beni Hammad as well as the chairs of the 11th century Almoravid mosques in Algiers and the 12th century mosque of Nedroma.  \n  \nThe furniture arts of North Africa is also widely represented in this museum. Shop windows contain Ottoman-era embroidery, clothing, ceramics, weapons, jewellery, chiselled brass and worked repoussé that comes from the urban centres as well as rural areas. Manuscripts and miniatures complete the collection.  \n  \nThe museum’s numismatic collection is exhibited in a reading room that was inaugurated in May 2006.","city":"Algiers","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","fax":"+213 0 21 68 12 56","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"ec988066-7b5c-53d3-929b-d979b812f14f":{"name":"MIBACT | State Library of Modern and Contemporary History","description":"The State Library of Modern and Contemporary History was established in 1937 as a resource for documents on political and social Italian and European history in 19th and 20th centuries. The library has approximately 12,000 manuscripts (mainly letters of the major figures of the Italian unification and independence process, such as Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Ugo Foscolo, as well as of political figures of the liberal and fascist periods and of World War I); 600,000 books and pamphlets; and 3,000 editions of the 18th century. It holds important collections of books and pamphlets on the working class and anarchist movements; Fascism and the two World Wars.  \n  \nThe library updates its collections on the basis of historiographical production: particular attention is given to specialised scholarly journals and databases.","city":"Rome","address":"Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32  \n00186 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.bsmc.it","phone":"+39 06 6828171","fax":"+39 06 68807662","email":"b-stmo@beniculturali.it"},"ede901a2-76ea-58be-9bd2-2facec09cc51":{"name":"Aşiyan Museum","description":"The Aşiyan Museum is situated in the house of the Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915), who lived there between 1906 and 1915. On the initiative of Lütfi Kırdar, the mayor and governer of Istanbul during that period, it was purchased by the city in 1940 from Fikret’s wife, Nazime Hanim, beginning its services as a museum under the name Edebiyat-ı Cedide Museum (New Literary Movement Museum) in 1945.  \n  \nThe museum displays rooms dedicated to the poet Nigar Hanim, the Edebiyat-ı Cedide authors and the poet Abdülhak Hamit, with their personal belongings and documents, and as well as displaying Tevfik Fikret’s bedroom, his personal belongings, his study and paintings. In 1961, the museum was renamed Aşiyan Museum. It is one of the museums operated by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and an important place for lovers of literature.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Aşiyan Yokuşu, 15  \n34342 Bebek-Beşiktaş, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 263 69 86","fax":"+90 212 263 69 86","email":"asiyanmuzesi@ibb.gov.tr"},"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"},"f4b9cc0b-85a9-57a3-8bbc-d3741afcb48f":{"name":"Museum of Applied Art","description":"The Museum of Applied Art was founded in 1950 as a specialised art museum with an initial collection of some 3,000 art pieces, collected by a painter Ljuba Ivanović. During the years the collection has been enriched by acquisitions, both by purchases and donations. Nowadays, the Museum holds more than 37,000 objects of applied art including pieces of great cultural and artistic value.  \n  \nThe oldest items in the Museum’s collections date from 4th century BC, and belong to the coin collection (coins from ancient Greece) of Metalwork and Jewellery Department, while the collections in Contemporary Applied Art Department contain objects of the most recent artistic production. The Museum also has Wood and Period Furniture Department, Textile and Costume Department, Photography and Print Room Department, Ceramics, Porcelain and Glass Department and Architecture Department.  \n  \nThe Museum has a dynamic exhibition programme, organising exhibitions within the *Salon of Contemporary Applied Art*, annual thematic study exhibitions as well as hosting domestic and foreign exhibitions. The permanent exhibition *At the First Sight* presents various items from the Museum’s historical collections.  \n  \nThe Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade is situated in the building known as the *Čelebonović Palace*. It was built for the prominent descendant of the family, attorney at law Dr Jakov Čelebonović. The *Čelebonović Palace* was built between 1927 and 1929 by well-known architects Stefan Belić (architectural design), Nikolaj Krasnov (façade) and Neregar (interior). The building was constructed as a two-storey residence in the academic style with a monumental entrance and a large marble staircase decorated with a wrought iron handrail. Although, in the course of time, there were extensive adaptations it still preserves the spirit of the original epoch in which it was erected.","city":"Belgrade","address":"Vuka Karadžića, 18  \n11000 Belgrade","website":"http://www.mpu.rs","phone":"+381 11 2626 494","fax":"+381 11 2629 121","email":"info@mpu.rs"},"f58dea76-2488-543c-8ae6-c7a81b988877":{"name":"State Archives","description":"The creation of the State Archive of Bologna – following the royal decree of 22 October 1874 – satisfied the local cultural need to hold documents previously scattered in different archives in one secure location. In the years that followed, the documents were gathered together in a wing of Palazzo Galvani next to the Municipal Archaeological Museum. The archive was moved in 1940 to its present seat at Piazza dei Celestini.  \n  \nToday the entire area is known as “dei Celestini”, and even if deeply modified in its internal structure, it houses nearly 30 km of documents connected to the history of Bologna and its province. The archive is sub-divided into different categories: those documents that were created as a result of specific activities by public institutions, papers belonging to institutional boards and bodies and those documents families themselves have entrusted to the State Archive. Among the highlights are the well known Liber Paradisus, a manuscript holding a list of serfs who were officially freed in 1257. The volumes of the Ufficio dei memoriali (Memorial Board; 1265–1452) where the acts of Bolognese notaries were registered are of great interest to historians of Italian literature as they contain quotations from poems by well-known and anonymous poets of the 13th and 14th centuries.  \n  \nAlso significant are the so called Registro Grosso, the first official cartulary of the Municipality of Bologna, which began in 1223 under the supervision of Ranieri da Perugia, who, incidentally, partially wrote them. Also, the Insignia series: 16 volumes of miniatures illustrating feasts, public ceremonies and other significant events in Bologna. In addition, the State Archive holds the archives of many religious orders, among which is the oldest extant document (922); many maps of the Bolognese territory and a rich collection of documents and codex decorated by the celebrated local school of illuminators.","city":"Bologna","address":"Piazza Celestini 4  \n40123 Bologna  \nItaly","website":"http://www.archiviodistatobologna.it","phone":"+39 051 223 891; 051239 590","fax":"+39 051 220 474","email":"as-bo@beniculturali.it"},"f5c11bd8-33ca-5552-a5d9-8437afd6ee27":{"name":"The Lebanese University","description":"The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. The university has 17 faculties across Lebanon and serves various cultural, religious and social groups of students and teachers.  \n  \nThe independent university enjoys administrative, academic and financial freedom. Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and essential education to allow students to enter various professions.  \n  \nIn spite of the crisis in the region that has existed since 1975, leaving wounds and tragedies, the Lebanese University has remained the national home of science. Rivalling the most prestigious universities in Lebanon and abroad, and leading the process of human development that spread all over the country, its graduates became ambassadors of Lebanon in all the corners of the earth.  \n  \nOur university respects the national demand for academic freedom, which has become a right of scholars and specialists, based on laws and international conventions and regional organisations and sometimes more, applying the important rules of human rights: the right of learning and seeking knowledge with higher education and participation in international projects to develop academic programmes and exchange of research.The university has maintained the quality of higher education, although we seek more contact with the spirit of this modern age and its promising accomplishments by increasing relations and agreements with other universities and institutions all over the world. In spite of the political pressures on the people of the university and attempts to split them into factions, the majority of them have remained faithful to the spirit of the national organisation and the struggles of the early pioneers who insisted on building the edifice of national higher education, in the framework of the values of freedom and justice.","city":"Beirut","address":"Central Administration, Museum, Beirut  \n  \nPostal address: P.O. Box 6573/14 Badaro, Museum  \nBeirut  \nLebanon","website":"http://www.ul.edu.lb/","phone":"+961 1 612830; 1 612831","email":"ibady@ul.edu.lb"},"f7e39862-fd17-55f3-bcf9-cb93787c8817":{"name":"MIBACT | National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”","description":"The National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography was founded in 1875 by Luigi Pigorini. The museum is the main Italian centre for the preservation and display of pre-historic and non-European collections. Its main tasks are: archaeological and anthropological research; study, documentation and conservation of the museum’s collections; management of permanent and temporary exhibitions; educational programmes; and training in conservation, museological, archaeological and anthropological fields.  \n  \nToday, testifying to the new Italian multicultural reality, the Pigorini Museum offers itself as a cultural point of reference and a privileged interlocutor for immigrants and for the ethnic minorities already settled in the country.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.pigorini.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 549521","fax":"+39 06 54952310","email":"s-mnpe@beniculturali.it"},"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","fax":"+34 91 523 20 86","email":"mnad@mecd.es"},"fd9463f8-e9ef-5011-8ad7-7bcf2e1863bc":{"name":"MIBACT | Central Institute for Ethno-Anthropology, National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions","description":"The institute promotes ethno-anthropological Italian heritage through the documentation, study and divulgation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions exhibition section of the institute was created after the Italian exhibition on ethnography held in Rome in 1911 to celebrate the 50th anniversary Italian. The founder, ethnologist Lamberto Loria, realised after several expeditions in non-European countries that ethnographic research was required to document the culture of a country that at the time was undergoing changes due to industrialisation and emigration from rural areas. The Loria programme gave a central role to the museum, underlining the importance of the study of national ethnography as a means to understand the cultural history of a nation.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 8/10  \n00144 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.idea.mat.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 5926148; 06 5910709","fax":"+39 06 5911848","email":"ic-d@beniculturali.it"},"fe858e89-7e92-57d3-b1ab-b9c65d4bb7e5":{"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","fax":"+34 91 523 20 86","email":"mnad@mecd.es"},"fea32901-ad4a-5972-8043-fd04f11ab0ee":{"name":"Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia","description":"Interest in Islamic art has grown enormously in recent years. Reflecting this awareness, in December 1998 Malaysia became home to Southeast Asia’s largest museum of Islamic art. The building occupies 30,000 square metres, situated amid the leafy surroundings of central Kuala Lumpur’s Lake Gardens.  \n  \nThe Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia houses more than ten thousand artefacts, as well as an exceptional library of Islamic art books. The art objects on display range from the tiniest pieces of jewellery to one of the world’s largest scale models of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The aim is to create a collection that is truly representative of the Islamic world. Instead of concentrating on works from the heartlands of Persia and the Middle East, IAMM also puts the emphasis on Asia. China and Southeast Asia are especially well represented. The third component of the Malaysian melting pot is India, which is also given special status. India, China and the Malay World are in an exceptional category. Other parts of the collection are displayed according to type rather than geographical origins in the museum’s 12 galleries.  \n  \nIranian tile workers transformed the iwan-style entrance into a ceramic tapestry that frames a welcoming verse from the Qur’an. On the roof, these artisans turned the dome-construction traditions of Central Asia into the building’s crowning glory. The turquoise-coloured domes are now a landmark on the Kuala Lumpur skyline.  \n  \nInside the building, the angularity of 21st century design is contrasted with the soft, rounded forms of the five domes that dominate the museum’s interior. Laboured over by craftsmen from Uzbekistan, these imposing features help form an ambience that is both airy and harmony. The seamless continuity of light and space is maintained throughout the galleries and into other areas of the museum, such as the library and the restaurant.","city":"Kuala Lumpur","address":"Jalan Lembah Perdana  \n50480 Kuala Lumpur  \nMalaysia","website":"http://www.iamm.org.my","phone":"+603 20927070; +603 22742020","fax":"+603 22740529","email":"info@iamm.org.my"},"ff8390b0-0228-5e07-8b42-389afca07810":{"name":"MIBACT | National Central Library of Rome","description":"The National Central Library of Rome houses and preserves all Italian publications. Opening in 1876 inside the Collegio Romano, a century later it moved to Castro Pretorio to meet the requirements of a modern library. Designed by architects Castellazzi, Dell'Anese and Vitellozzi, it had increased book depositories and reading rooms as well as a cafe and a bookshop. Known as “Vittorio Emanuele II”, it includes 7 million printed books and 8,000 manuscripts.  \n  \nThrough a continuous programme, the library seeks to confirm its role in the cultural circuit involving authors and artists, associations and exchanges of literature, cinema and music. The purpose is to communicate contemporary issues, always bearing in mind the educational and popular aspects, in the belief that it is essential to spread awareness first of all to young people in schools and universities.","city":"Rome","address":"Viale Castro Pretorio, 105  \n00185 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.bncrm.librari.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 49891","fax":"+39 06 4457635","email":"bnc-rm@beniculturali.it"}}