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Across these sites the museum showcases their collections to a wide range of audiences and aims to champion design and creativity in all its forms.  \n  \nThe V&A has specialised in collecting art and design from the Islamic world since the 1850s, and it was the first institution in the world to collect Islamic art in a systematic fashion. The museum's founders believed that Islamic ideas about structuring patterns and matching decoration to shape and function could improve British design. The collection grew to become the most significant in its field. Outstanding works include the AH 10th / AD 16th-century Ardabil carpet from Iran, a rock crystal ewer from AH 5th / AD 11th-century Egypt, and the world’s greatest collections of Islamic ceramics. The museum also houses the national collection of Islamic textiles.","city":"London","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nSW7 2RL  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 207 9422000"},"035b4efa-ef31-5692-b2e2-aea30f71fa88":{"name":"Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts – Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation (RESSF)","description":"The RESSF is a private law and public utility institution founded in 1953 as a result of Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva’s donations of the Azurara Palace and its decorative art collection. The Foundation’s mission is to protect, sponsor, disseminate and pass on knowledge and know-how in the decorative arts – movable and immovable heritage – in all aspects, musicological, academic, technical and restoration.  \n  \nThe foundation’s structure is as follows: the Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts; 18 arts and crafts workshops; the school; and a conservation and restoration department.  \n  \nThis original organic model of the institution produces a dynamic relationship between the Museum, the school and the workshops, demonstrating not only a groundbreaking spirit but also the integrated approach that is the basis of the Foundation’s establishment. Moreover, RESSF’s acknowledgement that the artistic and heritage dimensions must be inseparable from training, qualification and dissemination of know-how, has provided additional patrimonial value.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Largo das Portas do Sol, 2  \n1100-411 Lisbon  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.fress.pt","phone":"+351 21 881 46 00","email":"museu@fress.pt; geral@fress.pt"},"04c60c4a-2430-5a48-ac2a-c1b3d488b403":{"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 1930 by Antonis Benakis, 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 culture from the Paleolithic period to the present day. The autonomous buildings include the exhibition centre on Pireos 138, the Toy Museum on the Athens seafront, the 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 Antonis Benakis 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 19th century 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. Then follow 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  \nAnother gallery displays a marble-lined reception room from a 17th-century mansion in Cairo, together with its fountain, qamariyya windows and a mashrabiyya screen. Other noteworthy exhibits are the collection of Iznik pottery and a 16th-century velvet saddle from Bursa. The display concludes with arms and armour and an important collection of Qajar jewellery that was collected by Argine Salvagos, sister of the founder.  \n  \nDuring preservation work, a large 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"},"0d000499-7a00-582c-874c-d9a09da9f256":{"name":"MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art","description":"The MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art – is one of the foremost museums of its kind in the world. The building located on Stubenring in the 1st district of Vienna was founded in 1863 as the k.k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry) and today houses a unique collection of applied arts, design, architecture and contemporary art.  \n  \nThe MAK collection encompasses European and international decorative arts ranging from the Early Middle Ages to the present. The museum's main holdings include textiles, ceramics, glass, furniture and metalwork as well as exquisite objects of the Wiener Werkstätte (craftworks) and Art Nouveau. Its collection of Oriental carpets and East Asian art are of the highest international significance.  \n  \nAmong the objects from the Islamic world, the collection of Oriental carpets is pre-eminent, and the museum holds the largest collection worldwide of paintings of the *Hamzanama* from the era of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. Important examples of the applied arts are preserved in the MAK Asia Collection, which most notably include objects from Iran and the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Vienna","address":"Stubenring, 5  \nA-1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.mak.at","phone":"+43 1 711 36-248","email":"office@MAK.at"},"1232b5a2-7af1-5de4-a332-ff444943f8b0":{"name":"MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art","description":"The MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art – is one of the foremost museums of its kind in the world. The building located on Stubenring in the 1st district of Vienna was founded in 1863 as the k.k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry) and today houses a unique collection of applied arts, design, architecture and contemporary art.  \n  \nThe MAK collection encompasses European and international decorative arts ranging from the Early Middle Ages to the present. The museum's main holdings include textiles, ceramics, glass, furniture and metalwork as well as exquisite objects of the Wiener Werkstätte (craftworks) and Art Nouveau. Its collection of Oriental carpets and East Asian art are of the highest international significance.  \n  \nAmong the objects from the Islamic world, the collection of Oriental carpets is pre-eminent, and the museum holds the largest collection worldwide of paintings of the *Hamzanama* from the era of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. Important examples of the applied arts are preserved in the MAK Asia Collection, which most notably include objects from Iran and the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Vienna","address":"Stubenring, 5  \nA-1010 Vienna  \nAustria","website":"http://www.mak.at","phone":"+43 1 711 36-248","email":"office@MAK.at"},"159ca886-fdb4-5a93-98ef-f31ba3dd0b6b":{"name":"Technological Glass Museum. Royal Factory of Glass and Crystal of La Granja","description":"The Museo Tecnológico del Vidrio is located in the old Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja, one of the most important 18th Century European Industrial buildings and a truly distinguishing part of the Real Sitio de San Ildefonso and all its surroundings.  \n  \nThis noble construction, erected under the orders of the sovereign Carlos III, in accordance with the plans developed by builder Joseph Díaz Gamones in 1770 and declared BIC, gave rise to the creation of the Fundación Centro Nacional del Vidrio in 1982, with a view to restore the historic building, its history and most traditional techniques. Covering more than 25,000 square metres, it currently houses the Museo Tecnológico del Vidrio, the Library and the Escuela del Vidrio, in addition to Furnaces and Workshops.  \n  \nThe route around the Museum begins in the Furnace Hall, a majestic space with a basilica-shaped layout with two large brick domes in which the melting furnaces were located. The **Tecnología del Vidrio (Glass Technology)** exhibition can be found in this space. The furnace can be accessed from the wood patio and demonstrates how the master glass blowers skillfully reproduce the old glass pieces at La Granja, using traditional glass blowing techniques with a blowpipe. On one side of the Main Cowtyard is the woodshed, where various craftspeople can be seen cutting and decorating pieces of glass, in addition to making the glass chandeliers so characteristic of La Granja.  \n  \nThe ground floor is home to the **Maumejean Workshop Stained Glass Room**. This is a prestigious workshop, with headquarters in both France and Spain, which between the late 19th Century and the first half of the 20th Century provided for a number of religious and civil buildings, in addition to private houses from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.  \n  \nThis is then followed by the **History of Glass** rooms. It brings together a selection of glass work from Antiquity to the present day.  \n  \nThe Polishing Nave houses the remains of the old hydraulic machine that polished flat glass, designed by Demetrio Crow.  \n  \nThe upper floor hosts the **La Granja Glass Room**, consisting of numerous National Heritage deposits, the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas de Madrid and the Museo Nacional del Prado, in addition to other providers.  \n  \nIt then continues on to the **European Bottle and Container Room**, classified by country and with a chronology dating from the 16th to the 19th century.  \n  \nThe Polishing Nave leads to the **European Design Room** and the **Contemporary Glass Room**, with pieces created by designers and sculptors from Europe, Asia and The Americas.","city":"Real Sitio de San Ildefonso","address":"Pº Pocillo, 1 (40100)  \nReal Sitio de San Ildefonso (Segovia)","website":"http://www.realfabricadecristales.es","phone":"921010700","email":"museo@realfabricadecristales.es"},"19c6017a-4b0e-5530-b7ac-c09f8a4bf54d":{"name":"Calouste Gulbenkian Museum","description":"Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was born in Scutari in 1869 into a family of Armenian origin. A pioneer of the oil industry and an exceptionally discerning and knowledgeable collector, he came to Portugal in 1942 as the Second World War raged in Europe. Gulbenkian spent the remaining years of his life in Lisbon and died here in 1955.  \n  \nIn 1956 the Foundation which takes his name was created, fulfilling his wish that the works of art that he had assembled over four decades as a collector should be kept together under one roof.  \n  \nThis desire was fulfilled in 1969 with the inauguration of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. The museum’s collection numbers some 6000 pieces. The breadth of the collection reflects Gulbenkian’s own preferences and the personal tastes which always guided him. It covers various periods of the history of art, from classical and oriental Antiquity to European art of the early twentieth century.  \n  \nThe Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is set in the Parque Santa Gertrudes and is a landmark in museum architecture in Portugal. With numerous openings to the exterior, it offers visitors a continuous dialogue between Nature and Art.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition galleries are on the first floor of the building and distributed around two patios. Each gallery is linked with its successor according to a chronological and geographical system of classification which results in two independent itineraries within the general circuit of the museum.  \n  \nGulbenkian was especially interested in oriental art (perhaps because of his own origins) and the collection’s numerous ceramics, carpets, tapestries, illuminations, book bindings and mosque lamps from the East are an illustration of this interest. These exhibits trace the various artistic tendencies of Persia, Turkey, Syria, the Caucasus, Armenia and India from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, and are on display in the Islamic Orient gallery.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Av. Berna, 45 A  \n1067-001 Lisbon, Portugal","website":"https://gulbenkian.pt/","phone":"+351 217 823 000","email":"museu@gulbenkian.pt"},"1d0ff55d-dcd7-59a9-b95d-18903aa4ab05":{"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 1930 by Antonis Benakis, 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 culture from the Paleolithic period to the present day. The autonomous buildings include the exhibition centre on Pireos 138, the Toy Museum on the Athens seafront, the 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 Antonis Benakis 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 19th century 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. Then follow 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  \nAnother gallery displays a marble-lined reception room from a 17th-century mansion in Cairo, together with its fountain, qamariyya windows and a mashrabiyya screen. Other noteworthy exhibits are the collection of Iznik pottery and a 16th-century velvet saddle from Bursa. The display concludes with arms and armour and an important collection of Qajar jewellery that was collected by Argine Salvagos, sister of the founder.  \n  \nDuring preservation work, a large 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  \n10674 Athens","website":"http://www.benaki.gr/","phone":"+30 210 325 1311","email":"islamic_collection@benaki.gr"},"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"},"2300bb0e-fc9f-55c5-ae2e-20f619a46cce":{"name":"Weltmuseum Wien","description":"The Weltmuseum Wien – formerly the Museum of Ethnology – houses comprehensive collections of ethnographic objects, historical photographs, and books on non-European civilisations, making it one of the world’s leading ethnographic museums. Its roots can be traced back to 1806, when the \"Imperial and Royal Ethnographic Collection\" was established as part of the combined Imperial and Royal Court Cabinet of Natural Objects, following the partial acquisition of the \"Cook Collection\" at a London auction. The continuously growing collections were transferred to the newly created “Department of Anthropology and Ethnography” of the Royal Court Museum of Natural History in 1876. Limited space and a goal of developing ethnology as a cultural science convinced political decision-makers to establish a unified, cohesive Museum of Ethnology. The “Museum of Ethnology” opened formally in 1928 taking up the entire building of the “Corps de Logis” in Neue Burg.  \n  \nIn 2001 the Museum of Ethnology was incorporated into the KHM-Museum Association. In April 2013 the Museum of Ethnology became the \"Weltmuseum Wien\" – a site of world cultures – at Vienna’s Heldenplatz. In October 2017, after extensive reparation and modernisation of the historical building, the Museum reopened in its entirety with 14 completely revised permanent exhibition galleries. The Museum’s collection, meanwhile, has expanded to well over 200,000 inventory numbers.","city":"Vienna","address":"Heldenplatz  \n1010 Vienna","website":"http://www.weltmuseumwien.at","phone":"+43 1 534 30-5052","email":"info@weltmuseumwien.at"},"2881eba3-5963-528b-98e1-f4c62946e3b5":{"name":"Museum of Applied Arts Budapest","description":"Located in Budapest, Hungary, following the establishment of similar intuitions in London, Vienna and Berlin, the Museum of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Múzeum) was founded by the Hungarian Parliament in 1872. Since its beginning, the Museum of Applied Arts realised the importance of handicrafts and industrial design and has collected contemporary and historical applied artworks from several sources. The core of the historical collection consists of artefacts provided by the Hungarian National Museum (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum). However, the contemporary collection has been accumulated through various purchases at world fairs (such as Vienna 1873, Paris 1878 and Paris 1889) and generous gifts from companies, like Herend Porcelain Manufactory (Herendi Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt) and Zsolnay (Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt). As the artefact collections expanded, a building was erected to accommodate their growth--the designated Museum of Applied Arts building was opened on 25 October 1896. The grand event marked the end of Hungary's Millennium celebrations and was attended by the monarch, Francis Joseph I.  \n  \nThe Museum of Applied Arts possesses one of the largest historic carpet collections worldwide. One-fourth of this circa 800-piece collection consists of Ottoman Turkish carpets from the 15th-19th centuries, making it the world's second most extensive collection of Turkish carpets. Ottoman Turkish carpets from the 16th and 17th centuries are especially present within the Museum of Applied Arts. Hungary and Transylvania's geographic location allowed for diplomatic and trade connections to acquire expensive oriental goods – horse trappings, exquisite textiles, weapons and carpets – resulting in the Museum of Applied Arts preserving a unique and great variety of Ottoman Turkish carpets from the 16th and 17th centuries.","city":"Budapest","address":"1091 Budapest,  \nÜllői út 33-37,  \nHungary  \n  \nPOSTAL ADDRESS:  \n1475 Budapest, Pf. 271.","website":"http://www.imm.hu","phone":"+36 1 4999 300","email":"titkarsag@imm.hu"},"2970af60-fdee-5b70-8e87-7b8865a0c88d":{"name":"Museum of Civilisations | Museum of Oriental Art","description":"The ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ Museum of Oriental Art opened to the public in 1958 and houses finds from several Italian archaeological missions conducted in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. As well as this are numerous objects purchased on the antique market, particularly those by Giuseppe Tucci during his voyages in Nepal and Tibet between 1928 and 1954.  \n  \nThe museum’s Islamic wing includes a rich collection of objects sourced from both archaeological excavations and private purchases. The provenance of the collection is wide-ranging including the items from the geographical territories that now make up the countries of Spain, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and India. Chronologically the material covers an extensive period from the 8th to 19th centuries CE. The collection is arranged along different classes of production including; ceramics, metal works, miniatures, manuscripts, numismatics, jewellery, textile art, glass, arms & armour and wood.  \n  \nOf particular importance is the collection of archaeological finds from the palace of the Ghaznavid Sultan, Mas’ud III (1099-1115 CE) in Ghazni, Afghanistan. The archaeology of the site and its associated finds was brought to light by excavations conducted by the Archaeological Mission of the IsMEO (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente) in the 1960’s. These consist mainly of elements of architectural decorations in brick and marble, marble funerary stones, ceramics and metals.  \n  \nThe museum's collection of Persian objects can be dated from the 8th to the 19th centuries. Ceramics from the Samanid (9th- 10th century) and Seljuk (11th -12th century) periods are well represented in the Museum collections. Ilkhanid period ceramics (13th -14th century), known for their use of ‘lajvardina’ glaze technique is also visible in the collections. The majority of metal objects within the Islamic collection stem from the Khorasan region of Eastern Iran and Western Afghanistan, a well-known historic centre for metallurgical production.  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \nSince September 2016, the National Museum of Oriental Art in Rome has merged into the new Museum of Civilisation, definitively closing in October 2017 for the transfer to its new headquarters in the Palazzo delle Scienze. While awaiting the definitive re-arrangement planned for the end of 2021, a temporary exhibition called “Open for Works” exhibits over 650 objects from the Oriental Museum (of which about 60 is considered Islamic Art) in the rooms of the Pigorini Museum.","city":"Rome","address":"Museo delle Civiltà | Museo d’arte orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”  \nPiazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Rome, Italy","website":"https://www.museodellecivilta.it/","phone":"+39 06 549521","email":"mu-civ@cultura.gov.it"},"29d8d41a-b480-56bf-8b3d-e906281be54d":{"name":"Dar Si Said","description":"Dar Si Said is a large palatial residence built in the second half of the 19th century by Si Said Ben Moussa, who served as minister of war under the regency of his brother Ba Hmad.  \n  \nA living testimony to Moroccan art and domestic architecture of the 19th century, the monument presents architecture of grandeur and opulence.  \n  \nMost of the collections in this regional museum come from Marrakech and the southern regions of Morocco, particularly Tensift, Sous, High Atlas, Anti-Atlas, Bani and Tafilalet. These are related sets of woodwork, jewellery, vessels and ceramics, weapons, carpets and weavings, and some archaeological pieces, including a marble vat from the early 11th century.  \n  \nSince August 2002, the Dar Si Saïd Museum has been hosted an exceptional thematic exhibition focusing solely on wood: Wood – Art and Uses. Chosen from museums throughout the kingdom, the Dar Si Said Museum displays the best examples of wood art from the 12th century to today. In addition to their historical value (Almohad, Wattassid and Saadi pieces), the collections inform us about artisanal techniques (sculptures, engravings, carpentry, filming and painting) and decoration such as *tasstir* (geometric woodwork), and *mouqarnas* (ornamental vaults).  \n  \nThe exhibition is divided into four main areas:  \n– Liturgical furniture (first section on the ground floor) includes a *minbar*, rosaries and Qur’anic tablets.  \n– Architectural wood (second section on the ground floor) is represented by traditional pieces and elements of rural architecture: lintels, corbels, pedestals and doors.  \n– Domestic furnishings (upstairs) includes a wide range of furniture, chests, bridal goods, mirrors and cooking tools.  \n– Diverse objects (also upstairs) related to the various uses of wood in different fields. These are exhibited in the four rooms of the grand riad (traditional musical instruments and tools, antique weapons and objects for personal grooming).","city":"Marrakech","address":"Derb El Bahia, Riad  \nEl-Zaïtoun El-Jadid  \nMarrakech, Morocco","phone":"+212 524 389 564"},"2a23d23f-5624-56f3-828f-3db6b5689a95":{"name":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","description":"The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City – The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.  \n  \nSince it was founded in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum’s galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.  \n  \nThe Met Fifth Avenue  \n1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)  \nNew York, NY 10028  \n+1 212 535 7710  \nSunday–Thursday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nFriday and Saturday: 10:00am–9:00pm  \n  \nThe Met Breuer  \n945 Madison Avenue  \nNew York, NY 10021  \n+1 212 731 1675  \nClosed Monday  \nTuesday and Wednesday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nThursday and Friday: 10:00am–9:00pm  \nSaturday and Sunday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \n  \nThe Met Cloisters  \n99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park  \nNew York, NY 10040  \n+1 212 923 3700  \nMarch–October: 10:00am–5:15pm  \nMay 27–September 2, 2016: Open late on Fridays until 7:30pm  \nNovember–February: 10:00am–4:45pm  \n  \nAll locations closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, and January 1. The Met Fifth Avenue closed the first Monday in May.","city":"New York","address":"The Met Fifth Avenue  \n1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)  \nNew York, NY 10028  \nSunday–Thursday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nFriday and Saturday: 10:00am–9:00pm","website":"http://www.metmuseum.org","phone":"+1 212 535 7710"},"2b1c0dc0-0010-5164-be2c-49145ffe45bb":{"name":"Museum of Macedonia","description":"The National Museum of Macedonia is a complex museum institution comprising the museums of History, Ethnography and Art History. The museum collects, researches, maintains, exhibits and publishes on objects of movable heritage in these domains. It preserves evidence of the way of life and culture in these territories from the settling of Slavs in the 6th century AD till the end of World War II. The icon gallery exhibits a collection of medieval icons including several masterpieces of Byzantine art. The highlight of the permanent display is the icon of the Virgin of Pelagonia painted by Makarie in 1422. The ethnological exhibition takes pride in the magnificent collections of folk costumes, traditional jewellery, traditional architecture, intangible heritage and musical instruments, traditional weaving, crafts and traditional husbandry.  \n  \nThe museum also includes the Documentation Section, Conservation Lab and advanced Marketing Services. The Educational Section in the museum provides guided tours and carries out elaborate educational projects focusing on different target groups.  \n  \nExtensive publishing activities have been developed throughout the years. The Museum of Macedonia has issued numerous exhibition catalogues, periodicals, monographs, studies and other publications. These are available in the museum shop, which also organises production, sales and distribution of replicas of the most outstanding museum items. All the products in the shop can be purchased on the Internet and delivered to any address.","city":"Skopje","address":"Josif Mihajlovic, 7  \n1000 Skopje  \nRepublic of Macedonia (FYROM)","phone":"+389 2 3116 044","email":"musmk@t-home.mk"},"2cdbceaa-4a4e-5e2e-9417-264e733de097":{"name":"Austrian Military Museum / Institute of Military History","description":"The Museum of Military History, one of the most important history museums in the world, is situated right in the centre of the Arsenal. In five major sections the museum shows the history of the Habsburg Empire from the end of the 16th century until 1918 and Austria's fate after the dissolution of the monarchy up to the year 1945. About 500 years of Austrian and European history are depicted in the collections exhibited in the main building, which, to the present day, has kept its character of an artistic synthesis, making visible, by means of thousands of original exhibits, a part of world cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe Military History Museum was built according to plans of Ludwig Foerster and Theophil Hansen from 1850 to 1856 and was thus the first Viennese museum. The styles of this town's oldest historic building range from Byzantine, Hispano-Moorish to Neo-Gothic.","city":"Vienna","address":"Arsenal Object, 1A  \n1030 Wien  \nAustria","website":"www.hgm.at/en/","phone":"+43 1 79561 0","email":"contact@hgm.at"},"2f005cb4-4e26-5662-9d11-4deb0ef4fad8":{"name":"Museum of Arts and Crafts","description":"The Museum of Arts and Crafts was founded in 1880 by the Croatian Art Society.  \n  \nThe organisation of the Museum derived from the theoretical foundations of the Arts and Crafts movement. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the Arts and Crafts School was opened in 1882. The new headquarters building of the Museum and the School was completed in 1888, in the old Fair Square, today's Marshal Tito Square.  \n  \nThe basic collections of museum objects were created mostly from the donations of patriots. They were augmented through the purchase of several important collections from private collectors and also by programmed acquisitions, both within the country and from abroad.  \n  \nUp to World War One the Museum's scientific, professional and collection policy respected the conception laid down in the original motives underlying its establishment.  \n  \nBetween the two World Wars the concept of the Museum changed from being a collection of items to a cultural, historical and artistic institution.  \n  \nAfter World War Two the concept of modern museum communication became important, with many activities intended to involve the public.  \n  \nThe permanent display, opened in 1962, was of particular importance. Its backbone was the collection of furniture which, guided by the idea of a complex art museum that values equally all the fields of plastic arts design, was displayed in synthesis with other objects.  \n  \nThe present permanent display, created in 1995, has built on the positive experiences of earlier displays and has been broadened by new thematic units. With modern spatial differentiation and new multimedia contents the museum has become an experience which, by placing the visitor in an atmosphere of tangible historical heritage, essentially determines him or her as a cultural being.","city":"Zagreb","address":"Trg maršala Tita, 10  \n10000 Zagreb  \nCroatia","website":"http://www.muo.hr/","phone":"+385 1 4882111","email":"muo@muo.hr"},"30450d1a-8787-5d54-abe3-c29aa7e8236b":{"name":"The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts","description":"Founded in 1860 as the Art Association of Montreal by a group of Montreal art collectors and patrons, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) was one of the first museums in North America to build up an encyclopedic collection worthy of the name. It now numbers over 41,000 works from Antiquity to today, making it unique in Canada. It comprises paintings, sculptures, graphic arts, photographs and decorative art objects displayed in four pavilions: the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion (international art), the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion (world cultures), the Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavilion (decorative arts and design) and the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion (Quebec and Canadian art). The latter, which was inaugurated in September 2011, includes a 444-seat concert hall – Bourgie Hall – featuring an important group of Tiffany stained glass windows. A fifth wing, the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace devoted to international art and education, will open in late 2016 to launch Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations.","city":"Montreal","address":"1380 Sherbrooke Street West,  \nMontreal, QC H3G 2E8  \nCanada  \n  \nPostal address:  \nP.O. Box 3000, Station “H”,  \nMontreal, Quebec H3G 2T9  \nCanada","website":"http://www.mbam.qc.ca/","phone":"+1 514 285 1600","email":"musee@mbamtl.org"},"31de84d4-3de2-5ea1-b1d4-c8712cbcb314":{"name":"Museum of Arts and Crafts","description":"The Museum of Arts and Crafts was founded in 1880 by the Croatian Art Society.  \n  \nThe organisation of the Museum derived from the theoretical foundations of the Arts and Crafts movement. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the Arts and Crafts School was opened in 1882. The new headquarters building of the Museum and the School was completed in 1888, in the old Fair Square, today's Marshal Tito Square.  \n  \nThe basic collections of museum objects were created mostly from the donations of patriots. They were augmented through the purchase of several important collections from private collectors and also by programmed acquisitions, both within the country and from abroad.  \n  \nUp to World War One the Museum's scientific, professional and collection policy respected the conception laid down in the original motives underlying its establishment.  \n  \nBetween the two World Wars the concept of the Museum changed from being a collection of items to a cultural, historical and artistic institution.  \n  \nAfter World War Two the concept of modern museum communication became important, with many activities intended to involve the public.  \n  \nThe permanent display, opened in 1962, was of particular importance. Its backbone was the collection of furniture which, guided by the idea of a complex art museum that values equally all the fields of plastic arts design, was displayed in synthesis with other objects.  \n  \nThe present permanent display, created in 1995, has built on the positive experiences of earlier displays and has been broadened by new thematic units. With modern spatial differentiation and new multimedia contents the museum has become an experience which, by placing the visitor in an atmosphere of tangible historical heritage, essentially determines him or her as a cultural being.  \n  \nFor the Baroque period the Museum's holdings include many outstanding European artefacts, especially in the applied arts, including one of the largest collections of Baroque church art in Croatia.","city":"Zagreb","address":"Trg maršala Tita, 10  \n10000 Zagreb  \nCroatia","website":"http://www.muo.hr","phone":"+385 1 4882111","email":"muo@muo.hr"},"325b7505-1527-5442-99ea-6a40f8c43d3f":{"name":"Islamic Museum at Al-Aqsa Mosque","description":"The museum was officially inaugurated in AH 1341 / AD 1922. In AH 1348 / AD 1929, it was transferred to its present site in the southwestern corner of the Haram al-Sharif. The museum is administered through the Department of Islamic Awqaf in Jerusalem, under the auspices of the Ministry of Jordanian Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Places.  \n  \nThe museum comprises three buildings with an exhibition space of over 1,000 square m. The oldest hall is from the AH 6th / AD 12th century and is a rare Crusader monument in the holy city. The second hall was an Ayyubid mosque (AH 7th / AD 13th century) historically known as al-Malikiya mosque or the Jami’a al-Mughariba. The third hall is known as the *al-Fakhriya* corner and its history goes back to the Mamluk period (AH 8th / AD 14th century).  \n  \nThe collection consists of artefacts and remains from the Islamic and non-Islamic epochs, representing various facets of Islamic civilisation ranging in geography, theme and period. Most of the artefacts represent the heritage of al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem and Palestine at large including cities such as Hebron and Nablus.  \n  \nThe museum contains woodwork from different Islamic eras, the oldest dating to the Umayyad period. Metalwork in iron, copper and silver includes the iron enclosure from the Dome of the Rock, candlesticks, swords, daggers, daises, incense burners, coins, rings and memorial pieces. The collection includes marble and glazed tiles that panelled the the Dome of the Rock in the period of Sultan Sülayman the Magnificent (r. AH 926–74 / AD 1520–66) and his successors. There is a collection of earthenware, inscriptions on stone from different Islamic periods and its precursors, and columns and capitals from the Roman and Byzantine periods. There is a valuable collection of Qur’ans, the oldest from the AH 9th / AD 15 th century, and many Mamluk manuscripts whose themes deal with social and economic life in the holy city. The museum displays part of its textile collection, with costumes, grave coverings, pieces from the *kiswa* (covering) of the Ka’ba and pieces of carpet.","city":"Jerusalem","address":"Al-Haram al-Sharif  \nAmro  \nP.O. Box 75085  \nJerusalem","website":"http://www.facebook.com/islamic.museum1922/","phone":"02 6283286","email":"jerusalem.museum@gmail.com"},"36670bdc-150b-5f89-8906-79b8e4e2518d":{"name":"The David Collection","description":"The David Collection was founded by C. L. David (1878-1960), a prominent Danish attorney, who had begun to collect fine and decorative art in the 1910s. In this last field, he was aided by directors of the Danish Museum of Art and Design, who gradually also guided him to another area that had previously attracted little interest in Denmark: Islamic art. The Islamic part of David’s collection was, however, still rather modest at the time of his death in 1960.  \n  \nA bachelor and childless, C. L. David left his Copenhagen townhouse and works of art to a private foundation, along with financial means that made it possible to expand his collections. From the 1970s, a decision was consequently made to place increasing emphasis on expanding the Islamic holdings. The Islamic Collection has grown to become not only the museum’s most important, with over 4,000 objects, but also Scandinavia’s most significant in its field.  \n  \nThe Islamic Collection has been built up in keeping with the classical pattern for Western collections of this kind. It embodies works of art from Spain in the west to India in the east, but not works from Sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia. Chronologically, the collection ranges from works dating to shortly after the advent of Islam to the middle of the 19th century. The collection encompasses all types of materials, but since the small rooms of 19th-century buildings like C. L. David’s townhouse, now the museum’s home, make it impossible to exhibit large objects, the museum consequently has only a modest collection of carpets, and they are either of small size or fragments of larger carpets.  \n  \nFollowing the museum’s refurbishment and reinstallation of its collections in 2009, the David Collection is now divided into three parts: European 18th-Century Art, Danish Early Modern Art, and Islamic Art. The collection of Islamic Art is presented in a new, contemporary setting, enhanced by digital and other modern techniques used to elucidate the objects on display. The backbone of the collection is 20 chronological/geographical sections, but the display also contains special galleries for light-sensitive materials as well as others dedicated to themes such as cultural history and artistic techniques.","city":"Copenhagen","address":"Kronprinsessegade, 30  \nCopenhagen  \nDenmark  \n  \nPostal address: Kronprinsessegade 30-32","website":"http://www.davidmus.dk/en","phone":"+45 33734949","email":"museum@davidmus.dk"},"3b73a306-1129-5c8d-acba-8e34a39e132f":{"name":"The British Museum","description":"The British Museum was established by Act of Parliament in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all “studious and curious persons”. The founding collection was that of Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy physician and collector. The original British Museum comprised three departments: Printed Books; Manuscripts (including coins); and Natural and Artificial Productions, which included everything from sculpture to mineral samples and zoological specimens. In January 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public.  \n  \nAs a product of the Enlightenment, the museum's job was to be a storehouse of knowledge for the use and benefit of the public, advancing all fields of scholarship. The museum therefore aimed to collect all kinds of material; it remains one of the few places in the world in which it is possible to see the world under one roof. During the 19th century the museum acquired representative collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, as well as material from across the Islamic world.  \n  \nThe museum itself had to grow to offer space to display the growing collections. Between 1823 and 1847 the original building was replaced by four large wings built around a central courtyard. In 1854 construction began on the iconic Round Reading Room in the central courtyard. The natural history collections were given their own home in the new Museum of Natural History in 1881. By 1973 the British Library and British Museum were administratively separated, and in 1999 the new British Library building opened at St Pancras. The British Museum site was expanded and modernised. In 2000 the Great Court opened, envisioned as a sunny piazza at the centre of the building, with up-to-date facilities such as lecture theatres, an education centre and facilities for school children, as well as restaurants and shops. In 2014 the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre opened to the public, offering state-of-the-art facilities to care for, manage, research and display the collections.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St., London WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"42eb1281-cf64-5be3-9aeb-3b6b9a72e3f7":{"name":"National Museum in Kraków ‒ MNK","description":"The National Museum in Kraków ‒ MNK, founded in 1879, is the oldest public museum in Poland.  \n  \nThe Museum stores rich collections of European and world cultural heritage ‒ almost 780,000 objects from every period of history.  \n  \nThe core of the collection is Polish art (painting, sculpture, drawing and decorative art), though there are also numerous western European works, a collection of religious art related to the Orthodox Church, and an extremely valuable collection of Oriental art, mainly from Japan.  \n  \nThe MNK possesses a separate collection of ancient art, collections of medieval and modern art, craft, arms and armour and recent works acquired from contemporary artists. Besides works of art, the Museum also keeps library collections (including old prints, manuscripts and cartography), numismatics and historical photographs.  \n  \nThe Museum also conducts scientific research and conservation in its own conservation workshops.  \n  \nThe Museum popularises this valuable heritage by arranging permanent exhibitions, temporary exhibitions in Poland and abroad, as well as various educational workshops for adults and children, realised in cooperation with many societies and foundations. The best evidence of the Museum’s commitment and event-management skills is seen in the numbers: in 2015, over 800,000 visitors attended exhibitions and events organised by the MNK.  \n  \nIn addition, the National Museum in Kraków is recognised for its record of realising local, national and international projects funded by the European Union and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. To fulfil its mission, the Museum protects the national legacy put in its care, and in doing so applies the latest technologies, yet not without due respect for tradition.","city":"Kraków","address":"Al. 3 Maja, 1  \n30-062 Kraków  \nPoland","website":"http://www.mnk.pl","phone":"+48 12 433 55 00","email":"dyrekcja@mnk.pl"},"4456ae4f-8839-5955-824e-44355a235903":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Bologna**  \n  \nArt Collection of the Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna  \n[http://www.fondazionecarisbo.it/](http://www.fondazionecarisbo.it/)  \n  \nCivic Museum of the Risorgimento, Certosa of Bologna  \n[http://www.comune.bologna.it/museorisorgimento/](http://www.comune.bologna.it/museorisorgimento/)  \n[http://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/certosa](http://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/certosa)  \n  \nEcclesiastical Cultural Heritage Office of the Diocese of Bologna  \n  \nInternational Museum and Music Library  \n[http://www.museomusicabologna.it/](http://www.museomusicabologna.it/)  \n  \nMuseums at Palazzo Poggi, University of Bologna  \n[http://www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it/](http://www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it/)","city":"Bologna"},"48a95fcc-1e73-5c2a-b2b7-c1e8072a42e8":{"name":"MATHAF","description":"Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art serves as the Arab world’s leading museum of modern and contemporary art. The museum offers a welcoming, vibrant environment that invites evolving discussions about modern art in the region and beyond. Home to a permanent collection that offers a distinctively unique comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art from North Africa and the Middle East, Mathaf (“museum” in Arabic) also performs an important role as a centre for dialogue and scholarship and a resource for fostering creativity. Mathaf was opened by Qatar Museums (QM) in partnership with Qatar Foundation (QF) in 2010 and is located in Doha’s Education City.  \n  \nOver the past 10 years, Mathaf has made major contributions to research and debate around modern and contemporary art. The Museum evolved into a meeting point for art practitioners and scholars from across the region around education programmes, conferences and publications. In looking ahead to the next decade, Mathaf will continue to serve as a dynamic platform for artists, facilitating the creation and exploration of contemporary works that presents and examines their society and culture while further expanding its global reach through the large-scale digitisation of the museum, providing experience and knowledge of the Mathaf collection through the texts of the Mathaf Encyclopedia specialised in art history, criticism and thought.","city":"Doha","address":"Education City, Qatar Foundation, P.O. Box 2777, Doha, Qatar","website":"http:// mathaf.org.qa/en/","phone":"+974 4402 8830","email":"mathaf@qm.org.qa"},"51cf5c23-c4db-50c3-ac00-9fdeecc2adec":{"name":"MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art","description":"The MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art – is one of the foremost museums of its kind in the world. The building located on Stubenring in the 1st district of Vienna was founded in 1863 as the k.k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry) and today houses a unique collection of applied arts, design, architecture and contemporary art.  \n  \nThe MAK collection encompasses European and international decorative arts ranging from the Early Middle Ages to the present. The museum's main holdings include textiles, ceramics, glass, furniture and metalwork as well as exquisite objects of the Wiener Werkstätte (craftworks) and Art Nouveau. Its collection of Oriental carpets and East Asian art are of the highest international significance.  \n  \nAmong the objects from the Islamic world, the collection of Oriental carpets is pre-eminent, and the museum holds the largest collection worldwide of paintings of the *Hamzanama* from the era of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. Important examples of the applied arts are preserved in the MAK Asia Collection, which most notably include objects from Iran and the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Vienna","address":"Stubenring, 5  \nA-1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.mak.at","phone":"+43 1 711 36-248","email":"office@MAK.at"},"559ab197-7289-5af4-a295-1118bde9afce":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, State Museums","description":"**The Museum of Islamic Art is closed from October 2023 to March 2027 due to renovation and expansion works.**  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Berlin is the only institution of its kind in Germany, the oldest in the West and with its c. 93,000 pieces it houses one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from nearly all regions of Islamic rule.  \n  \nIts collections are especially rich in objects from an architectural context including the monumental façade of the caliphal palace of Mshatta (Jordan), dating from the mid-8th century. It is the largest artefact of Islamic Art in any museum worldwide. The unique dome from the Alhambra Palace in Granada (Spain) and 13th-century prayer niches from Kashan (Iran) and Konya (Turkey) are among the highlights. Most loved by our visitors is the finely painted wooden panelling of an upper-class house from Aleppo (Syria) from the early 17th century – it is the oldest surviving exemplar from the Ottoman World. Among the several archaeological groups from major excavations in the Islamic world the finds from the 9th-century caliphal capital of Samarra (Iraq) stand out. The collection also has a large number of important Ottoman and Persian carpets and bibliographical works of art, including numerous miniatures from the Mughal Empire.  \n  \nThe collection is displayed chronologically, allowing the visitor to follow the different stylistic phases of Islamic art and to develop a notion of the complex Islamic history and its artistic merits. Because of the large number of visitors (up to 900,000 yearly), only a small number of the most important works of art are on display. The museum will move inside Pergamon-Museum and will triple its exhibition space (3,000sq.m) by 2020. The layout and concept will discover new and innovative ways to present the cultural legacy.  \n  \nWith its rich art and archaeological collection, the Museum of Islamic Art is one of the leading research institutions dedicated to the material culture of the Middle East and neighbouring regions. Our many research, conservation and exhibition projects amount to a probing investigation of the urban legacies of the Near and Middle East. The institution houses important collections of archival photographs on Islamic art and architecture as well as an internationally outstanding library focused on art, architecture and archaeology in the world of Islam.","city":"Berlin","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"580cdad2-5404-58c6-b0fb-d45e73ede7cb":{"name":"Edirne Museum","description":"The Edirne Archaeology and Ethnography Museum, opened in 1971, consists of archaeology and ethnography sections and a garden exhibition area. Located near the eastern gate of Selimiye Mosque, it stands beside the grounds where Ottoman tombstones are displayed. At the entrance, an Aiol column capital from the Enez temple greets visitors, while the southern section highlights Ottoman water culture with examples such as Edirne fishponds and birdhouses.  \n  \nThe ethnography halls feature Balkan traditional clothes, calligraphy samples, carpets, rugs and reconstructions of spaces such as the Edirne Bridal Room and a Living Room. Among the exhibits are also items personally used by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during his visit to Edirne.  \n  \nThe archaeology section begins with fossils, including rhino and horse remains discovered in the region. Thracian artifacts, such as cavalry relief steles and marble statues, are displayed alongside finds from excavations. Enez, once an important port city linking the Balkans, Anatolia and the Aegean, provides some of the museum’s most valuable objects. Excavations there, conducted since 1971, revealed continuous settlement from the Neolithic Age to the present. Engraved amphorae, terracotta figurines, ceramics, marble pieces, steles and ornaments highlight this collection.  \nArtifacts seized at border gates such as Kapıkule and İpsala, together with a diverse range of Anatolian Civilizations objects, enrich the museum. Glassware, jewellery, terracotta works, statues and thousands of coins are exhibited, offering a wide perspective on the region’s cultural heritage.","city":"Edirne","address":"Meydan Mah. Kadirpaşa Mektep Sok. No:7","website":"https://www.turkishmuseums.com/museum/detail/2037-edirne-museum/2037/4","phone":"+90 284 225 11 20"},"5a99ecbe-b976-5037-8760-a07c629142f6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia - from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are housed in the Neue Burg (i.e. the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury), and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Vienna","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"5c8c36bb-1ee8-5468-bdc7-ec865b742d71":{"name":"National Museum of Art of Romania","description":"The National Museum of Art of Romania was founded in 1948 with works drawn from local private and public collections, as well as from the royal collection. It has been housed ever since in the former royal palace situated in the very heart of Bucharest. The Museum is home to the largest and finest art collection in the country. The current holdings, which include over 100,000 works, are divided among five curatorial departments, one of them dedicated to Oriental art.  \n  \nSince its establishment in 1954, the Oriental art collection of the Museum has been steadily expanded and consolidated around two main areas of interest: Islamic art, on the one hand, Chinese and Japanese art, on the other. It is the largest Oriental collection housed by a Romanian museum, and it consists of items from the royal collection, the Toma Stelian Museum, as well as gifts and acquisitions. The Department of Oriental Art currently holds over 5,000 objects. The holdings of three other departments of the Museum, namely the Department of Medieval Romanian Art, that of Decorative Art, as well as the Art Collections Museum (which is part of the National Museum of Art of Romania) include notable Islamic artworks, some of which have been selected for this site.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition was closed for a much-needed ample renovation of the building, and will be redisplayed in newly refurbished areas in compliance with European standards of conservation. Meanwhile, exhibitions of Oriental art are being shown regularly. About four hundred carpets covering a wide geographical area and spanning four centuries are at the core of the collection of Islamic art. Even though less extensive, the collections of ceramics, embroideries, and metalwork boast some outstanding works, providing a meaningful insight into distinct areas of Islamic art.  \n  \nAlongside the Art Collections Museum, which holds a considerable number of Islamic artefacts donated over the years by Romanian art collectors, the National Museum of Art of Romania manages two other museums in Bucharest: K. H. Zambaccian Museum and Theodor Pallady Museum.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Calea Victoriei 49-53  \nsector 1  \n010063 Bucureşti","website":"https://www.mnar.arts.ro/en/","phone":"+40 21 313 30 30","email":"secretariat@art.museum.ro"},"5d522a8a-1898-5ba2-ad72-6707194ec569":{"name":"National Museum of Ancient Art ‒ MNAA","description":"Created in 1884, and housed in the Palácio Alvor for almost 130 years, the National Museum of Ancient Art ‒ MNAA ‒ has held its current title for more than a century. It is the home to Portugal’s most important public art collection, one that ranges from paintings to sculpture and gold and silverware, as well as decorative arts from Europe, Africa and the Far East.  \nComprising over 40,000 items, the MNAA collection has the largest number of works classified by the Portuguese State as “National treasures”. In its various sections, it also holds a number of major works of art in the context of world artistic heritage.  \n  \nAs a historical legacy (as a result of the incorporation of both the country’s ecclesiastical property and the contents of its royal palaces), the MNAA collection has been further enhanced over the years through generous donations and important purchases. The MNAA collection illustrates at a level of objective excellence some of the most accomplished and precious works of art produced by or accumulated in the above-mentioned ecclesiastical and royal properties in Portugal, between the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Contemporary Era.  \n  \nAs a major partner in international collaborations between museums, the MNAA historically has enjoyed a reputation and the respect among the world’s major national museums. The MNAA has helped establish the accepted norms for good practice in keeping with international standards, both in the area of conservation and museum management and under the scope of its educational services, which are considered a pioneering body in Portugal.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua das Janelas Verdes  \n1249‒017 Lisbon  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.museudearteantiga.pt/","phone":"+351 213 912 800","email":"geral@mnaa.dgpc.pt"},"5db20458-bdcf-5050-98fb-3fb2d1392a0a":{"name":"Museum for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities","description":"When it was founded in 1954, the Museum for Mediterranean and Near East Antiquities comprised collections of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Cypriote antiquities. As a department of the National History Museum, the museum was primarily of an archaeological nature aimed at showing the origins of western civilization. However, in 1982, a large part of the Swedish collections of Islamic art were added to it, in response to increasing understanding of the Mediterranean countries as a region of close relations and interactions over the centuries. With its incorporation, in 1999, in the National Museum of World Culture, an organization consisting of the four Swedish state museums with foreign collections, the focus changed to the diversity of culture within the region of the Mediterranean and in relation to the rest of the world.  \n  \nThe Islamic collection of the museum consists of ceramics, metal works, textiles and miniatures, mostly from Iran and Turkey. It also includes well-known collections such as the so-called Hannibal collection of glass fragments. Although Sweden does not border any Islamic lands, there are many cultural objects in archives, libraries and other museums testifying to its diplomatic and commercial relations with Islamic countries. Examples from these institutions were selected to characterize the development of the Islamic collections in Sweden.  \n  \nThe Islamic collection is displayed in two rooms accessible from the main hall. As an introduction, the Muslim way of life is depicted by objects from a religious context. The exhibition itself displays artefacts from different regions and periods and of various materials according to aesthetic traditions. Located near finds from other Mediterranean cultures the exhibition encourages visitors to understand relationships, traditions and influences.","city":"Stockholm","address":"Fredsgatan 2  \nBox 16008  \n10321 Stockholm, Sweden","website":"http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/medelhavsmuseet/","phone":"+46 010 456 12 00","email":"info@medelhavsmuseet.se"},"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"},"6021cc63-7507-5dd7-8c81-4b04847b92d2":{"name":"Ethnography Museum","description":"The Ethnography Museum is located on a hill donated by the General Directorate of Foundations to the Ministry of National Education. The architect Arif Hikmet (Koyunoğlu) is one of the most renowned architects of the early Republican period. The building has a rectangular plan with a single dome. The stone walls are faced with coarse sandstone, and the marble pediment has carved decoration.  \n  \nA special commission to collect and purchase artefacts was established in Istanbul, headed by Prof. Celal Esad (Arseven) in 1924 and then by Halil Ethem (Eldem), Director of Istanbul Museums, in 1925. 1,250 purchased artefacts were placed in the museum whose construction was completed in 1927. Hamit Zübeyr Koşay was appointed as the director. The equestrian bronze statue of Atatürk that stands in front of the Museum was made by the Italian sculptor B. Conanica at the request of the Ministry of National Education in 1927.  \n  \nOn 15 April 1928, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) visited the museum and on his request the museum was opened to public on 18 July 1930 on the occasion of the visit of Afghan King Amanullah Han. In November 1938 the inner courtyard was reserved as a temporary mausoleum for Atatürk until his body was transferred to his own mausoleum, the Anıtkabir, in 1953. This section is stil kept as a symbolic cenotaph in Atatürk’s memory. Between 1953 and 1956, renovations were carried out for the International Museums Week in 1956 when the museum was reopened to the public.  \n  \nThe Ethnography Museum houses examples of Turkish art dating from the Seljuq period to modern times.  \n  \nTo the right of the entrance are halls displaying items related to the Anatolian wedding ceremony and bridal dresses, Turkish embroidery, Turkish carpets, Anatolian coffee culture and the circumcision ceremony.  \n  \nTo the left of the entrance are halls housing tile and glass artefacts, objects donated by Besim Atalay, Ottoman calligraphy and some of the finest wooden artefacts from the Seljuq and Emirate periods.","city":"Ankara","address":"Talatpaşa Bulvarı, Ülkü Sokak, 4  \n(Eski Türk Ocağı yanı) Opera  \nAnkara, Turkey","website":"https://muze.gov.tr/muze-detay?SectionId=AET01&DistId=MRK","phone":"+90 312 311 30 07","email":"ankaraetnografyamuze@kultur.gov.tr"},"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"},"646d2ec3-07ab-58ec-88a5-80936d9d1b9a":{"name":"Ankara Ethnography Museum","description":"The Ethnography Museum is located on a hill donated by the General Directorate of Foundations to the Ministry of National Education. The architect Arif Hikmet (Koyunoğlu) is one of the most renowned architects of the early Republican period. The building has a rectangular plan with a single dome. The stone walls are faced with coarse sandstone, and the marble pediment has carved decoration.  \n  \nA special commission to collect and purchase artefacts was established in Istanbul, headed by Prof. Celal Esad (Arseven) in 1924 and then by Halil Ethem (Eldem), Director of Istanbul Museums, in 1925. 1,250 purchased artefacts were placed in the museum whose construction was completed in 1927. Hamit Zübeyr Koşay was appointed as the director. The equestrian bronze statue of Atatürk that stands in front of the Museum was made by the Italian sculptor B. Conanica at the request of the Ministry of National Education in 1927.  \n  \nOn 15 April 1928, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) visited the museum and on his request the museum was opened to public on 18 July 1930 on the occasion of the visit of Afghan King Amanullah Han. In November 1938 the inner courtyard was reserved as a temporary mausoleum for Atatürk until his body was transferred to his own mausoleum, the Anıtkabir, in 1953. This section is stil kept as a symbolic cenotaph in Atatürk’s memory. Between 1953 and 1956, renovations were carried out for the International Museums Week in 1956 when the museum was reopened to the public.  \n  \nThe Ethnography Museum houses examples of Turkish art dating from the Seljuq period to modern times.  \n  \nTo the right of the entrance are halls displaying items related to the Anatolian wedding ceremony and bridal dresses, Turkish embroidery, Turkish carpets, Anatolian coffee culture and the circumcision ceremony.  \n  \nTo the left of the entrance are halls housing tile and glass artefacts, objects donated by Besim Atalay, Ottoman calligraphy and some of the finest wooden artefacts from the Seljuq and Emirate periods.","city":"Ankara","address":"Talatpaşa Bulvarı, Ülkü Sokak, 4  \n(Eski Türk Ocağı yanı) Opera  \nAnkara, Turkey","website":"https://muze.gov.tr/muze-detay?SectionId=AET01&DistId=MRK","phone":"+90 312 311 30 07","email":"ankaraetnografyamuze@kultur.gov.tr"},"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"},"6502b77d-6a33-5675-bcdf-5e8765f63fbd":{"name":"Museum of the Arab World Institute","description":"The 'institut du monde arabe' (Museum of the Arab world) in Paris houses a museum, labeled as a \"Musée de France,\" dedicated to the discovery and promotion of Arab culture. Located in the heart of the French capital, it holds a rich and diverse collection of artworks, historical objects, and cultural artifacts representing the various facets of the Arab world beyond stereotypes, showcasing its full diversity of cultures, ethnicities, languages, and faiths, from its origins to the present day. The museum's permanent and temporary exhibitions explore various themes covering a historical range from ancient Mediterranean civilizations to contemporary times, thanks to a rich collection of Islamic art and ethnographic objects as well as a collection of modern and contemporary artworks. The remarkable architecture of the building, designed by Jean Nouvel, blends tradition and modernity, offering visitors an immersive and captivating experience. The museum also offers educational activities, lectures, film screenings, and special events throughout the year, aiming to raise awareness about the richness and diversity of Arab culture. With its commitment to promoting intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding, the Institut du monde arabe's museum is a must-visit destination for art enthusiasts and curious individuals eager to explore the treasures of Arab heritage.","city":"Paris","address":"1, rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard  \nPlace Mohammed V  \n75 236 Paris Cédex 5","website":"https://www.imarabe.org/fr","phone":"+33 (0)1 40 51 38 38"},"6da08597-8da7-5d02-a911-09a5273c1265":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska Museet)**  \nBox 5428  \nNarvavägen 13–17  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955600  \n[www.historiska.se](http://www.historiska.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Ethnography (Etnografiska museet)**  \nDjurgårdsbrunnsvägen 34,  \nBox 27140,  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 010 4561299  \n[www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/](http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/)  \n  \n**National Museum of Fine Arts (Nationalmuseum)**  \nBox 16176  \n103 24 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Södra Blasieholmshamnen  \nTel.: +46 8 51954300  \n[www.nationalmuseum.se](http://www.nationalmuseum.se)  \n  \n**Royal Coin Cabinet (Kungl. Myntkabinettet)**  \nSlottsbacken 6,  \nBox 5428  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955300  \n[www.myntkabinettet.se](http://www.myntkabinettet.se)  \n  \n**Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren)**  \nSlottsbacken 3,  \n111 30 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 8 4023000  \n[www.lrk.lsh.se](http://www.lrk.lsh.se)  \n  \n**National Maritime Museum (Sjöhistoriska museet)**  \nBox 27131  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 24  \nTel.: +46 8 51954900  \n[www.sjohistoriska.se](http://www.sjohistoriska.se)  \n  \n**Army Museum (Armémuseum)**  \nBox 14095,  \n104 41 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Riddargatan 13  \nTel.: +46 8 51956310  \n[www.sfhm.se](http://www.sfhm.se)  \n  \n**Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet)**  \nFyrverkarbacken 13,  \nBox 12541,  \n102 29 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 010 4767000  \n[www.riksarkivet.se](http://www.riksarkivet.se)  \n  \n**Hallwyl Museum (Hallwylska Museet)**  \nHamngatan 4,  \n111 47 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 4023099  \n[http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se](http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Cultural History**  \nBox 1095  \n221 04 Lund  \nAddress for visitors:  \nTegnérsplatsen  \n223 50 Lund  \nTel.: +46 046 350400  \n[www.kulturen.com](http://www.kulturen.com)  \n  \n**Uppsala University Library**  \nBox 510,  \n751 20 Uppsala  \nAddress for visitors: Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1  \nTel.: +46 18 4713900  \n[www.ub.uu.se](http://www.ub.uu.se)"},"6f59c776-1dfb-5c86-a785-81769fa9be34":{"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"},"70de1706-9586-5047-bb4b-f1cf7fb14120":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Tavira Municipal Museum**  \nTavira, Faro, Portugal  \n  \n**National Museum of Ancient Art**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Moura Municipal Museum**  \nMoura, Beja, Portugal  \n  \n**Santarém Municipal Museum**  \nSantarém, Portugal  \n  \n**Lisbon Cathedral**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Carmo Museum of Archaeology**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**City Museum**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Cathedral of Braga Treasury**  \nBraga, Portugal  \n  \n**Infante D. Henrique Archaeological and Lapidary Museum**  \nFaro, Portugal  \n  \n**Évora Museum**  \nÉvora, Portugal  \n  \n**National Museum of Archaeology**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Queen Leonor Regional Museum**  \nBeja, Portugal  \n  \n**Machado de Castro National Museum**  \nCoimbra, Portugal"},"71715b75-3521-53ee-8c85-91fca0b977d0":{"name":"National Museums Scotland","description":"The collections of what is now National Museums Scotland were built over more than two centuries, with two strands of history coming together in the story of the organisation’s development. First the desire to have a museum reflecting Scottish history and second the wish to have a museum demonstrating international cultures, natural and physical sciences, and decorative art for Scotland.  \n  \nThe Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in 1780, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment, to collect the archaeology of Scotland. Its collections passed into public ownership in 1851 as the original collections of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. In 1985 the National Museum of Antiquities was amalgamated with the Royal Scottish Museum. The latter was founded in 1854 as the Industrial Museum of Scotland and reflected the impetus of Victorian ideals of education. It started international collecting and research as well as forming close links to the collections and teaching of Edinburgh University, which continue today. Renamed the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, it opened in its first bespoke buildings, designed by Francis Fowke, on Chambers Street in 1866. The 1985 amalgamation created the largest multi-disciplinary museum in Scotland, with 12 million items in its collections and the largest body of curatorial and conservation expertise in the country. Today, National Museums Scotland includes the National Museum of Scotland, the National War Museum, and the National Museums Collections Centre - a research, storage, and conservation facility in Edinburgh, as well as the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian, and the National Museum of Rural Life in Lanarkshire.  \n  \nNational Museums Scotland started acquiring material culture from West Asia and North Africa in 1854. Today, material from West Asia comprises more than 4,000 items from a geographical area that spans from Turkey to Central Asia to Yemen, alongside over 500 objects in our collections from North African countries. Dating from the 7th to the 21st centuries, they give an insight into the past and the present of the people living in these regions, particularly through representations of their different crafts, and the skills and social values associated with them. The museum’s collections reflect British and Scottish collectors’ interests in the Islamic world and embody entangled colonial histories and interrelations.","city":"Edinburgh","address":"Chambers Street,  \nEdinburgh EH1 1JF","website":"http://www.nms.ac.uk","phone":"+ 44 (0)300 123 6789","email":"info@nms.ac.uk"},"7712e497-33e4-5529-91c3-47abff00f87c":{"name":"National Archaeological Museum","description":"The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional or MAN) is Spain’s most important museum of history. It preserves, researches and presents its collections of archaeology, art and history to the public. In doing so, the museum aspires to offer all visitors an accurate, attractive, interesting and critical interpretation of the meaning of objects from the past, in the hopes that a deeper knowledge of history will help them to better analyse and understand the reality of today. Given the relevance and scope of its collections, the National Archaeological Museum is comparable in its specialty to prominent Spanish museums (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía or the Royal Collections Gallery), by showing our country’s diversity and affluence in terms of cultural history.  \n  \nThe museum occupies a monumental building in the heart of the Salamanca quarter, one of Madrid’s busiest shopping and leisure districts, and is strategically positioned along the Recoletos-Prado artery, which boasts the highest concentration of art and culture institutions in the city. The museum’s magnificent building in the heart of Madrid offers a historical infrastructure — complete with building, garden and fence —which is fully renovated and accessible.  \n  \nThe MAN has grown and evolved constantly since it was created in 1867, almost 160 years ago, and is still changing today to meet the needs of the 21st century. After a complete overhaul between 2008 and 2014, the institution reopened in April 2014 with a brand-new look and layout, claiming its place among Europe’s most modern museums. The renovated building is divided into six floors and has a total surface area of nearly 30,000 m2, of which 18,304 m2 are reserved for public use (the permanent exhibition alone occupies 9,239 m2). The museum has also been fitted out with different service areas, including a spacious vestibule, café, shop and activity rooms.  \n  \nThe MAN’s extraordinary collection, which includes a large number of priceless historical and cultural artefacts, comprises over one million archaeological, historical and artistic objects.  \n  \nIts holdings are vast and varied: Palaeolithic bifaces, practically the only tool in existence for millennia; delicate ivory carvings that combine aesthetic appeal with practical functionality; prehistoric engravings found in the Cave of El Castillo, evidence of humanity’s earliest artistic and symbolic expressions; the abstract aesthetics of the “Idol of Extremadura”; the classical, timeless beauty of the Lady of Elche; ancient Roman sculptures; the extraordinary treasure of Guarrazar; the Romanesque crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha; the lovely equestrian figure of Hector by Il Filarete; and the ornamental paintings of Luis Paret on a Baroque armchair are just some of the treasures it houses.  \n  \nThe Museum's Islamic Art collection largely comes from the different historical periods of Al-Andalus, the name that the Muslims gave to the territory they conquered in the Iberian Peninsula. The aesthetic quality achieved by Andalusian art is demonstrated in the capitals, arches, marble panels and alabaster and plaster decorations of the period, especially from the Caliphate of Córdoba. Added to this is the museum's collection of decorative and highly refined objects made in the Andalusian palace workshops, such as metal, ivory and glazed ceramics. Likewise, a large collection of objects is preserved that show the symbiosis of Hispano-Islamic and Christian forms in the Iberian Peninsula, as the dome of the Torrijos Palace.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001  \nMadrid, Spain","website":"http://www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"7df32468-b6ba-51bb-bf7d-829daebb9ef6":{"name":"Mohammed VI Museum for the Civilisation of Water in Morocco","description":"The Mohammed VI Museum of Water Civilisation in Morocco is a historical, scientific, cultural, educational, and recreational space unique to Morocco and Africa. It is the result of the commitment by the Ministry of Habous and Islamic Affairs to preserve Morocco’s hydraulic heritage.  \n  \nThe museum was established in recognition of Moroccan ingenuity in water management through tools and techniques historically adapted to the country’s ecosystems and geomorphology. It serves as a tribute to the dam policy and water laws introduced by the late King Hassan II. It acknowledges the vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI in developing modern water infrastructure, which led to the National Water Strategy for 2030 and the National Water Plan for 2020–2050.  \n  \nThis museum is the first building specifically designed to showcase the history of water management in Morocco. Its inauguration was honoured by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan on 5 January 2017, and it opened to the public in May of that year. In June 2019, the Crown Prince was elected to the steering committee of Wamu-Net, a global network of water museums affiliated with UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO-IHP). In 2021, he was promoted to the position of vice president.  \n  \nBeyond its primary mission of raising awareness about the importance of water resources, and urging short- and long-term behavioural changes in water usage, the museum encourages visitors to appreciate Moroccan water engineering through the centuries.  \nAs a bridge between past and present, the Mohammed VI Museum for the Civilisation of Water in Morocco invites people to experience the history, heritage, and rich hydraulic culture of Morocco, and to share that heritage through accessible scientific and cultural programs intended for a wide audience.  \n  \nThe museum covers 20,000 square metres. It includes permanent exhibition space; rooms for education, events, and meetings; a cafeteria, gift shop, and offices. Its ideal location at the entrance to the *Palmeraie* (Palm Grove) enhances the social and cultural life of Marrakech.","city":"Marrakech","address":"Entrance of the palm grove circuit Abdelkrim El Khattabi Avenue Road to Casablanca- Marrakech 40000.","website":"www.museeaman.ma","email":"museemohammedvi.aman@gmail.com"},"7ebb1bd0-65c4-52db-bd88-e46008069989":{"name":"National Museum in Kraków ‒ MNK","description":"The National Museum in Kraków ‒ MNK, founded in 1879, is the oldest public museum in Poland.  \n  \nThe Museum stores rich collections of European and world cultural heritage ‒ almost 780,000 objects from every period of history.  \n  \nThe core of the collection is Polish art (painting, sculpture, drawing and decorative art), though there are also numerous western European works, a collection of religious art related to the Orthodox Church, and an extremely valuable collection of Oriental art, mainly from Japan.  \n  \nThe MNK possesses a separate collection of ancient art, collections of medieval and modern art, craft, arms and armour and recent works acquired from contemporary artists. Besides works of art, the Museum also keeps library collections (including old prints, manuscripts and cartography), numismatics and historical photographs.  \n  \nThe Museum also conducts scientific research and conservation in its own conservation workshops.  \n  \nThe Museum popularises this valuable heritage by arranging permanent exhibitions, temporary exhibitions in Poland and abroad, as well as various educational workshops for adults and children, realised in cooperation with many societies and foundations. The best evidence of the Museum’s commitment and event-management skills is seen in the numbers: in 2015, over 800,000 visitors attended exhibitions and events organised by the MNK.  \n  \nIn addition, the National Museum in Kraków is recognised for its record of realising local, national and international projects funded by the European Union and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. To fulfil its mission, the Museum protects the national legacy put in its care, and in doing so applies the latest technologies, yet not without due respect for tradition.","city":"Kraków","address":"Al. 3 Maja, 1  \n30-062 Kraków  \nPoland","website":"http://www.mnk.pl","phone":"+48 12 433 55 00","email":"dyrekcja@mnk.pl"},"85fff507-bb71-531b-85a8-f2b6d6324d8e":{"name":"Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art","description":"Built in Honolulu, Hawai'i from 1936–1938, Shangri La overlooks the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Head and houses Doris Duke’s (1912–1993) collection of Islamic art. Of the many homes that Duke inhabited, Shangri La is the only one that she built from the ground up and filled from the inside out.  \n  \nThe five-acre complex integrates a 14,000-square-foot house, a Playhouse, and a pool, comprising a series of interlocking spaces, both indoors and out: rooms, courtyards, lanais, terraces, gardens, and numerous water features. While design and early construction were underway, Duke traveled extensively in the Middle East, visiting historical monuments and providing the architect with photographs of architectural decoration to be incorporated into Shangri La's design. She also placed large commissions with contemporary artisans in India, Morocco, Iran, and Syria to create art and architectural elements, utilizing traditional forms, patterns, and means of fabrication.  \n  \nFor nearly 60 years, Doris Duke continued to collect Islamic art, ultimately forming a collection of about 2,500 objects, many of which are embedded into the structure of the house. Iranian ceramic tile panels, carved and painted ceilings from Morocco, jali (perforated screen) doors and windows, and textiles and carpets create a living environment of Islamic art and architectural decoration.  \n  \nThe later centuries of production (c. 1600–1940) are better represented, and ceramics, metalwork, wood, glass and textiles are favored over the arts of the book and works on paper. The collection ranges from items of the finest artistic quality, including medieval Persian tilework and painted interiors from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Damascus, to ethnographic objects such as leather saddles and a bedouin-style tent, reflecting Duke's broad and inclusive sense of aesthetics.  \n  \nToday, Shangri La is nationally recognized for its high artistic value and as one of Hawai'i's most architecturally significant homes. It is open to the public for guided tours and educational programs such as lectures, performances and occasional symposia. Shangri La also supports residencies for contemporary artists and for scholars researching Islamic art.","city":"Honolulu","address":"4055 Papu Circle  \nHonolulu, HI 96816","website":"http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/","phone":"(808) 734-1941","email":"shangrilahawaii@ddcf.org"},"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"},"8a41ae85-1217-5a1f-a8f2-68da1d74234d":{"name":"National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art","description":"The National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa. The collection was set up in 1835, five years after the French occupation, by the then Governor General Marshal Clauzel who appointed Adrien Berbrugger as its first curator. From 1838 onward, the early museum hosted pieces, of Algerian provenance, from Antiquity up until the Ottoman periods. Between 1838 and 1896, this early museum occupied different places of the lower Casbah, before settling in a beautiful park located on the heights of Mustapha Pasha - now known as the Park of Liberty - where it was officially inaugurated in 1897.  \n  \nSince then these two divisions of the museum’s collection, Antiquity and Islamic, have continued to grow. This collection makes it possible to exhibit the history of Algeria from its Libyan-Punic era through to the 20th century. The objects are displayed in two separate buildings: one houses the pre-Islamic collection whilst the other houses the collection of Islamic art, which was inaugurated in May 2003.  \n  \nThe ancient collection is very rich and includes collections of mosaics, sculptures, Libyan and Latin inscriptions, coins and medals, bronze, ivory, bone, ceramics and wooden objects.  \n  \nThe Islamic section was formed from the first collection of 1854, which included Algerian and Oriental objects. It has gradually been enriched by pieces uncovered through archaeological excavations carried throughout the country. This wide-ranging collection includes sculpted plasterboard from 10th century Sedrata, marble or plaster sculptures of the 11th century Qal'a of Beni Hammad as well as the chairs of the 11th century Almoravid mosques in Algiers and the 12th century mosque of Nedroma.  \n  \nThe furniture arts of North Africa is also widely represented in this museum. Shop windows contain Ottoman-era embroidery, clothing, ceramics, weapons, jewellery, chiselled brass and worked repoussé that comes from the urban centres as well as rural areas. Manuscripts and miniatures complete the collection.  \n  \nThe museum’s numismatic collection is exhibited in a reading room that was inaugurated in May 2006.","city":"Algiers","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"8a9b0307-9388-5b17-a6d9-29ad46d82ecf":{"name":"Eszterháza Centre for Culture, Research and Festivals","description":"The independent Eszterháza Centre for Culture, Research and Festivals was established on 1 March 2014. The establishment of the institution is a great step in the life of the Esterházy palace since it opens the path for a blossoming revival of the palace and the estate of Eszterháza. It means not only the refurbishment and re-installation of the palace museum but also the foundation of an international Haydn Research Centre, the care of the gardens and the estate and, last but not at least, the refreshment of the music life of the site.  \n  \nThe newly established institution will provide opportunities for experts, scholars, students and artists in many domains to study and explore the multifaceted cultural life of the Esterhazy court in the past and will also establish a creative environment of concerts and master classes for world famous and established artists and for young talents as well. The centre would like to cultivate collaboration, cultural dialogue and creative and active exchange between artists and scholars at the academic and university level. The aim is to break disciplinary boundaries, to introduce new perspectives and to provide a suitable, internationally networked environment for interdisciplinary research. Concerts and festivals are organised within the boundaries and the education of the young generation in the framework of the museum pedagogical activities (including special music pedagogy) is emphasised. In addition to the museum, research and musical activities there is an intense horticultural life since there is a huge garden accessible to the general public. The institution runs a series of projects including the partnership with MWNF.","city":"Fertőd","address":"HU-9431 Fertőd,  \nJoseph Haydn út 2.  \nHungary  \n  \nPostal address: HU-1250 Budapest, Pf. 29.","website":"http://www.eszterhaza.hu","phone":"+36 99 537 640","email":"info@eszterhaza.hu"},"8fd06198-6d39-5611-a37e-45ac296ac304":{"name":"Museum of Russian Icons","description":"In the 1960’s, plastics engineer Gordon B. Lankton went to work at Nypro, an international injection molded plastics company, in Clinton, Massachusetts. In 1989, on a business trip to Russia, Mr. Lankton purchased his first icon at an open-air market. His collection quickly grew, and eventually gave birth to the idea of starting a museum. Mr. Lankton chose Clinton for the location to give back to the community that had supported him.  \n  \nThe Museum is housed in a 150-year-old former mill building. Three floors of galleries display the permanent collection. A dedicated gallery features special exhibitions ranging from contemporary Russian art to icons from other Orthodox cultures. It is the only museum in the USA dedicated to Russian icons, and the largest collection of icons outside of Russia.  \n  \nAn icon is an image of a holy person or event, created by an iconographer who follows the strict standards of the Orthodox Church. Most of the objects in the Museum’s collection are created with paint on wooden board; icons can also be made in other materials, including mosaic, fresco, embroidery, and metal. Iconography is a living tradition, and icons today are painted in the same way that they have been for hundreds of years. The Museum collection includes icons dating to the 1400s to contemporary icons painted in the last few years, with the majority dating from the 17th to 19th centuries.  \n  \nMISSION  \nThe Museum of Russian Icons inspires the appreciation and study of Russian culture by collecting and exhibiting icons and related objects; igniting the interest of national and international audiences; and offering interactive educational programs. The Museum serves as a leading center for research and scholarship through the Center for Icon Studies and other institutional collaborations.","city":"Clinton","address":"203 Union Street,  \nClinton,  \nMA, 15010","website":"https://www.museumofrussianicons.org/","phone":"(978)-598-5000","email":"info@museumofrussianicons.org"},"916efdb9-cc4a-59ca-8c4c-a5d2e193f7e0":{"name":"Dresden State Art Collections, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery)","description":"The Dresden Old Masters Picture Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) was created in the first half of the 18th century. Although it is true that numerous paintings were already held in the “Kunstkammer” (Art Chamber) of the Electors of Saxony, which was founded in 1560, the systematic expansion of the collection of paintings did not begin until the reigns of Augustus II the Strong (1670–1733) and, in particular, his son Augustus III (1696–1763). All over Europe their agents purchased large numbers of 16th, 17th and 18th-century masterpieces for their collection.  \n  \nThe fame of the Gallery is based on widely known paintings such as Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna”, Giorgione’s “Sleeping Venus”, Correggio’s “Holy Night”, and Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window”. With other famous works by artists such as Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Rubens, Dürer, Holbein, Titian, Veronese, Canaletto, Poussin, Watteau, El Greco, Murillo, Raeburn, and Graff the Old Masters Picture Gallery displays the crème de la crème of European art from the late Renaissance to the Rococo period.  \n  \nThe collection is located in the gallery building at the Zwinger. This was constructed in 1855 according to plans drawn up by the architect Gottfried Semper, and it was one of the most important museum projects in Germany during the 19th century. The Gemäldegalerie welcomes more than half a million visitors each year – a number that is still on the rise.","city":"Dresden","address":"Zwinger  \nTheaterplatz 1  \n01067 Dresden  \nGermany  \n  \nPostal address:  \nPostfach 120 551  \n01006 Dresden  \nGermany","website":"https://gemaeldegalerie.skd.museum/en/","phone":"+49 (0)351 49 14 66 79","email":"gam@skd.museum"},"95021a9d-9348-5201-bc82-c46c9467b353":{"name":"Imperial War Museums","description":"IWM (Imperial War Museums) **tells the story of people who have lived, fought and died in conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth since the First World War.**  \n  \nOur unique collections, made up of the everyday and the exceptional, reveal stories of people, places, ideas and events. Using these, we tell vivid personal stories and create powerful physical experiences across our five museums that reflect the realities of war as both a destructive and creative force. We challenge people to look at conflict from different perspectives, enriching their understanding of the causes, course and consequences of war and its impact on people’s lives.  \n  \n**IWM’s five branches which attract over 2 million visitors each year are IWM London**, which has recently transformed with new, permanent and free Second World War Galleries, The Holocaust Galleries and the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries; **IWM North**, housed in an iconic award-winning building designed by Daniel Libeskind; **IWM Duxford**, Britain's best preserved wartime airfield; Churchill War Rooms, housed in Churchill’s secret headquarters below Whitehall; and the Second World War cruiser **HMS *Belfast***.  \n  \n**IWM London**  \n  \nIWM London tells the stories of those whose lives have been shaped by war through the depth, breadth and impact of our Galleries, displays and events. Explore the First World War Galleries and iconic Atrium; extensive new Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries; IWM’s rich and diverse art, film and photography collection in the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries or take in our latest major temporary exhibitions.","city":"London","address":"Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ","website":"http://www.iwm.org.uk/","phone":"+44 (0)20 7091 3067 (Customer","email":"No direct email use https://www.iwm.org.uk/contact-us"},"a05b0a22-d90a-5e08-85e3-53fd66868e26":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is a pioneering project spotlighting the cultural vision of the State of Qatar, both in the region and across the world. Under the guiding vision of His Excellency, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the project is the cornerstone for the State of Qatar in its establishment as a global capital of culture.  \n  \nThe 35,500 sq. m museum was designed by I.M. Pei, taking inspiration from the 13th-century *sabil* (ablutions fountain) of the 9th-century Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun in Cairo. The museum comprises a five-level main building and a two-storey Education Wing, connected across a fountain courtyard. The main building’s angular planes form ascending pinnacles, rising around an atrium. Inside, a dome is revealed, concealed from outside view by the walls of a central tower. A window on the building’s north side rises to a height of 54 m., providing dramatic views from all five floors. The ground floor is home to a temporary gallery space for touring international exhibitions and the café, giftshop and Information Services. The museum’s permanent exhibition is installed on two floors of galleries designed by the French firm Jean-Michel Wilmotte & Associés. The fourth floor contains temporary galleries showcasing the research topics of museum staff, using items either not seen in the permanent galleries or with new information to see them in a new way.  \n  \n**Overview of the collections**  \nThe MIA houses artefacts highlighting the creative achievements of the Islamic world's richest cultures and spanning nearly a thousand years. The collection represents the full scope of Islamic art in all media, from manuscripts to ceramics, metalwork, glass, stone, ivory, textiles, wood, precious stones and jewellery.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition of *c.* 850 artefacts offers an insight into the diverse art of the Islamic world. Two floors are dedicated to the exploration of historical eras and interpretation of the themes of Islamic art and material culture, from the 8th century to the cusp of the 19th century.  \n  \nThe MIA also holds thousands more objects, some destined to be seen in future displays and others providing a resource for education and research.  \n  \nHighlights of the collection include: a distinguished group of carpets and textiles, a range of Ayyubid and Mamluk metalwork and enamelled glass, an outstanding strength in early ceramics, a comprehensive collection of astrolabes and scientific instruments, masterpieces of Mughal jewellery and rare manuscripts and miniatures.  \n  \n**The Department of Education and Information**  \nThe department’s main goal is to create materials, programmes and workshops that will engage the public, allowing them to explore the world through Islamic art, promoting a culture of learning within an atmosphere of knowledge and entertainment.  \n  \n**The Curatorial Department**  \nThe department of internationally trained curators is committed to studying, documenting and publicising the MIA’s collection and establishing the MIA as a world-class centre of scholarly research.  \n  \n**The Conservation Department**  \nSet to become a leading regional service centre for museums, the department is committed to restoring, preserving and caring for the collection through the application of innovative scientific methods.  \n  \n**International partnerships**  \nThe MIA is committed to building a network of partnerships around the world and offering institutes and museums collective access to information, research and images. It has strong ties with many world-class museums and collections, including the Louvre, France, the British Museum, UK, the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA, the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Germany, the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, the Gulbenkian, Portugal, and the National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art, Algeria.","city":"Doha","address":"Museum of Islamic Art roundabout, the Corniche  \nPostal Address: P.O. Box 2777  \nDoha, Qatar","website":"http://mia.org.qa/","phone":"+974 4422 4444","email":"infomia@qma.org.qa; educationmia@qma.org.qa; librarymia@qma.org.qa"},"a3753de5-842a-5f0b-a8c7-50bb2e312ce6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia – from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections are housed in the Neue Burg (the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury) and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the KHM.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"a7852a46-ca7f-566a-a49e-d5bb01321099":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is a pioneering project spotlighting the cultural vision of the State of Qatar, both in the region and across the world. Under the guiding vision of His Excellency, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the project is the cornerstone for the State of Qatar in its establishment as a global capital of culture.  \n  \nThe 35,500 sq. m museum was designed by I.M. Pei, taking inspiration from the 13th-century sabil (ablutions fountain) of the 9th-century Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun in Cairo. The museum comprises a five-level main building and a two-storey Education Wing, connected across a fountain courtyard. The main building’s angular planes form ascending pinnacles, rising around an atrium. Inside, a dome is revealed, concealed from outside view by the walls of a central tower. A window on the building’s north side rises to a height of 54 m., providing dramatic views from all five floors. The ground floor is home to a temporary gallery space for touring international exhibitions and the café, giftshop and Information Services. The museum’s permanent exhibition is installed on two floors of galleries designed by the French firm Jean-Michel Wilmotte & Associés. The fourth floor contains temporary galleries showcasing the research topics of museum staff, using items either not seen in the permanent galleries or with new information to see them in a new way.  \n  \nOverview of the collections  \nThe MIA houses artefacts highlighting the creative achievements of the Islamic world's richest cultures and spanning nearly a thousand years. The collection represents the full scope of Islamic art in all media, from manuscripts to ceramics, metalwork, glass, stone, ivory, textiles, wood, precious stones and jewellery.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition of c. 850 artefacts offers an insight into the diverse art of the Islamic world. Two floors are dedicated to the exploration of historical eras and interpretation of the themes of Islamic art and material culture, from the 8th century to the cusp of the 19th century.  \n  \nThe MIA also holds thousands more objects, some destined to be seen in future displays and others providing a resource for education and research.  \n  \nHighlights of the collection include: a distinguished group of carpets and textiles, a range of Ayyubid and Mamluk metalwork and enamelled glass, an outstanding strength in early ceramics, a comprehensive collection of astrolabes and scientific instruments, masterpieces of Mughal jewellery and rare manuscripts and miniatures.  \n  \nThe Department of Education and Information  \nThe department’s main goal is to create materials, programmes and workshops that will engage the public, allowing them to explore the world through Islamic art, promoting a culture of learning within an atmosphere of knowledge and entertainment.  \n  \nThe Curatorial Department  \nThe department of internationally trained curators is committed to studying, documenting and publicising the MIA’s collection and establishing the MIA as a world-class centre of scholarly research.  \n  \nThe Conservation Department  \nSet to become a leading regional service centre for museums, the department is committed to restoring, preserving and caring for the collection through the application of innovative scientific methods.  \n  \nInternational partnerships  \nThe MIA is committed to building a network of partnerships around the world and offering institutes and museums collective access to information, research and images. It has strong ties with many world-class museums and collections, including the Louvre, France, the British Museum, UK, the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA, the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Germany, the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, the Gulbenkian, Portugal, and the National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art, Algeria.","city":"Doha","address":"Postal Address: P.O. Box 2777  \nDoha, Qatar","website":"mia.org.qa/","phone":"+974 4422 4444","email":"infomia@qma.org.qa; educationmia@qma.org.qa; librarymia@qma.org.qa"},"b01aedf8-4844-5526-8c45-e7dc4bd7a559":{"name":"Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation","description":"The Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation aims to display, interpret, research and further develop the museum's collections for a wide range of local, national and international audiences, and to stimulate knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of Islamic art, history, science and culture.  \n  \nThe magnificent building that houses the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation first opened in 1987 as the Souq al-Majarrah and quickly became a popular landmark, both among the people of Sharjah themselves and visiting tourists. The building was only the second of its kind in the Gulf region, after Sharjah’s “’New”’ or “Central’’ Souq constructed in 1977, to use traditional, Arab-Islamic design elements in its ground-plan and décor. The building with its impressive architecture and attractive design features was subsequently renovated and reopened in 2008 as the Museum of Islamic Civilisation. Its most outstanding feature is its majestic, gilt central dome, decorated on the inside with an intricate mosaic depicting the night sky and the signs of the zodiac.  \n  \nThe building now transformed into a state-of-the art cultural venue, the new **Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation**, houses more than five thousand exquisite Islamic artefacts from all over the Islamic World, arranged according to themes over seven spacious galleries and display areas.  \n  \nOn the ground floor you can visit the **Abu Bakr Gallery of Islamic Faith**, the **Ibn al Haitham Gallery of Islamic Science and Innovation**, a prominent display of **Islamic Coinage**, and the **Al Majarrah Gallery for temporary exhibitions** which is scheduled to hold regular exhibitions of international standing.  \n  \nThe entire first floor of the **Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation** is devoted to **Islamic Art**. Four spacious galleries take the visitor on a journey of artistic discovery which starts in the early Islamic period and leads all the way to modern times. Start your explorations with a visit to our state-of-the-art audiovisual show. Enjoy stunning images from all over the Muslim world and learn about the artistic achievements of its calligraphers and artisans.","city":"Sharjah","address":"Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, Corniche Road, Al Majarrah Area, Sharjah.  \nPostal address: P.O.BOX 39939, Sharjah.","website":"https://www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+97165655455","email":"info@islamicmuseum.ae"},"b43ae2c6-2060-5819-bd1c-dd9ca66b9f11":{"name":"Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)","description":"With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors annually.  \n  \nLACMA’s seven-building complex is located on twenty acres in the heart of Los Angeles, halfway between the ocean and downtown. The campus is undergoing a ten-year expansion and renovation known as the Transformation and designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.  \n  \nLACMA’s collections encompass the geographic world and virtually the entire history of art. The museum houses a highly significant collection of Islamic art. These widely diverse arts, from an area extending from southern Spain to Central Asia, trace the distinctive visual imagination of Islamic artists over a period of fourteen hundred years. The collection consists of over 1,700 works, of which some 150 examples are on view; these include glazed ceramics, inlaid metalwork, enameled glass, carved wood and stone, and manuscript illustration, illumination, and calligraphy. Particular strengths of the collection are glazed pottery and tiles from Iran and Turkey; glass, especially from the late seventh to the mid-thirteenth century; and Persian and Turkish arts of the book.  \n  \nThe museum began to concentrate seriously on Islamic art in 1973, with the acquisition of the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, the generous gift of Joan Palevsky. Although the Heeramaneck collection forms the nucleus of the Islamic holdings, the focus and scope of the collection have developed considerably since 1973. Two important additions, both gifts, occurred in the 1980s. In 1985 the noted collector Edwin Binney, 3rd, bequeathed more than one hundred works, in particular examples of the arts of the book and ceramics of the Ottoman period. Approximately fifty glass objects, primarily of the early Islamic period, from Hans and Varya Cohn's splendid collection were given to the museum in 1988. The collection has been augmented further over the past two decades through gift and purchase, most notably the acquisition in 2002 of the Madina Collection of Islamic Art, made possible in large part by a generous gift from longtime LACMA benefactor and Trustee Camilla Chandler Frost. Its addition has created a new international focus on Los Angeles and on LACMA.","city":"Los Angeles","address":"5905 Wilshire Boulevard  \nLos Angeles, CA 90036","website":"http://www.lacma.org/","phone":"323 857 6000","email":"publicinfo@lacma.org"},"b4586981-2102-51f3-a3a7-5094a3b23509":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Numismatic Museum of the al-Maghreb Bank**  \nRabat, Morocco  \n  \n**National Library**  \nRabat, Morocco  \n  \n**Badi Palace**  \nMarrakesh, Morocco  \n  \n**Royal Library**  \nRabat, Morocco  \n  \n**Ethnographic Museum**  \nTetouan, Morocco  \n  \n**Archeological Museum**  \nTetouan, Morocco  \n  \n**Museum of Ceramics**  \nSalé, Morocco  \n  \n**Kasbah Museum**  \nTangiers, Morocco","city":"Rabat, Marrakech, Tetouan, Salé, Tangiers"},"b49b6caf-2037-5450-9920-62d736638529":{"name":"Madaba Archaeological Museum","description":"This museum was founded in 1974 in one of the old houses of Madaba that was purchased by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and transformed into a museum.  \n  \nThis museum holds artefacts and finds that have been recovered during excavations in many archaeological sites in Madaba region. These artefacts consist mainly of pottery and glass vessels, metalwork, coins and mosaic floors. Their dates range from the Iron Age to the Islamic periods.","city":"Madaba","address":"P.O.B. 12  \nMadaba, Jordan","phone":"+962 5 3244189"},"bb94125a-04ef-5227-b3bb-8ebc7dfdafbe":{"name":"Jordan Museum for Costumes and Jewellery","description":"In the eastern section of Amman’s Roman theatre, the museum exhibits a comprehensive collection of clothing, textiles and silver jewellery from the West and East Bank. Founded in 1971 by the Department of Antiquities, the museum illustrates in detail the variety of traditional costumes of men and women from cities, villages and Bedouin communities. The exhibition gives the visitor the opportunity to know more about daily and domestic life, work and traditional craftsmanship, illustrating through textiles, embroidery and costume the meaning of decorative patterns, revealing the trousseau each woman prepared since childhood for her marriage and showing the importance of jewellery in relation to events such as marriage and dowry. The costumes and jewellery are also important examples of how local craftsmanship was a significant source of trade and income.","city":"Amman","address":"Quraysh Street  \nAmman","website":"goo.gl/joSyZT"},"bd5ab87c-f83d-5fb3-87a9-cae4d57dff07":{"name":"Sharjah Heritage Museum","description":"Sharjah Heritage Museum first opened its doors in 2005. It has been renovated and re-opened in 2012 in Bait Saeed Al Taweel Al Shamsi, in the Heart of Sharjah.  \n  \nThe museum offers a great chance to engage in the rich heritage of Sharjah and Emirati culture, with a focus on lifestyle, deep rooted customs such as hospitality, traditions, trade and traditional knowledge. A visitor can explore the diverse environments of coast, desert and mountain that was naturally reflected in their lifestyle, habits and crafts. The museum provides a child-friendly atmosphere, with a series of folklore tales, old sayings and puzzles.","city":"Sharjah","address":"P O Box 39939, Al-Layyeh, Sharjah, UAE","website":"https://www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+971 6 5680006","email":"info@sma.gov.ae"},"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"},"c4647cf3-9e83-5e5e-9a5b-4af7ed883bb1":{"name":"The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts","description":"The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts (The Khanenko Museum) keeps the key national collection of world arts in Ukraine. It was established in 1919 on the basis of rich private collection of art and antiquities made up by a couple of outstanding Ukrainian art amateurs, collectors and philanthropists Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko. The historical private mansion of the Khanenkos, built in late 1880s, is a particular object of interest and fascination due to its exquisite stylised interiors.  \n  \nToday the museum holds more than 25 000 works of painting, sculpture, prints as well as various kinds of applied arts of Europe (14th -19th century), Western, Central and Eastern Asia (3rd century BC – 20th century) and the Ancient World (4th millennium BC – 4th century). The world-famous rarities, four oldest Byzantine “Sinai” icons from 6th and 7th centuries, are an important part of the museum collection and display.  \n  \nThe museum permanent exhibition area is about 1300 m2. There are also two halls for temporary exhibitions with total area of 150 m2 that host Ukrainian and international museum art projects. In coming years the museum plans to enlarge its exhibition, educational, and depository areas by adding a new contemporary building in the yard.  \n  \nBeing the leading Ukrainian institution of informal education the Khanenko museum offers a wide spectrum of programs for adults, youth and children, visitors with disabilities. A new accessible official museum website in Ukrainian and English is currently under development planned to be launched in November 2019.","city":"Kyiv","address":"Tereshchenkivska Street 15-17  \n01004","website":"https://www.khanenkomuseum.kiev.ua/en/main","phone":"+38044 2350206"},"c4e2bffb-1a54-5ec8-9d21-bcd0d3d8a6a6":{"name":"Glasgow Museums","description":"Although not the capital, Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland. It prides itself on its multi-cultural scene with a prosperous Muslim community representing the largest non-white Scottish group in the city and in Scotland. The Glasgow Museums collection is the biggest managed by any local authority in the United Kingdom and one of a handful of municipal collections that are recognized to have national importance. This service was founded in 1854 with the McLellan collection of European paintings, which was donated to the people of Glasgow by Archibald McLellan together with a building to house it. At present Glasgow manages thirteen public museums covering a wide range of subjects.  \n  \nGlasgow’s Islamic collections come from all over the world with objects from Africa, Spain, the Middle East and Central Asia. The oldest items date back to the 10th and 11th centuries. The earliest objects to enter the museums’ collections were donated in the 1870s. Though many of these are private donations, some were purchased by the museum service. The Islamic collections are mainly housed at The Burrell Collection, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  \n  \nThe main strength of the Islamic collections lies in the large donation of Sir William Burrell and his wife, who gifted their massive and varied collection to Glasgow in 1944. It includes Iranian and Mughal Indian ceramics and carpets, Turkish and Uzbek textiles and embroideries, and Hispano-Moresque lustrewares. The other Islamic collections of Glasgow Museums include objects from Mughal India, Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt and Syria, the Ottoman Middle East, and 19th century Berber and Arab North Africa. In addition to all of the above, Glasgow Museums is interested in developing its contemporary Islamic collections by welcoming donations of modern Islamic arts and crafts, as well as strengthening the other areas within its Islamic collections.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550"},"c4e6ffe7-9558-5187-95b6-26ee80fdbe18":{"name":"The National Museum of Art of Romania","description":"The National Museum of Art of Romania was founded in 1948 with works drawn from local private and public collections, as well as from the royal collection. It has been housed ever since in the former royal palace situated in the very heart of Bucharest. The Museum is home to the largest and finest art collection in the country. The current holdings, which include over 100,000 works, are divided among five curatorial departments, one of them dedicated to Oriental art.  \n  \nSince its establishment in 1954, the Oriental art collection of the Museum has been steadily expanded and consolidated around two main areas of interest: Islamic art, on the one hand, Chinese and Japanese art, on the other. It is the largest Oriental collection housed by a Romanian museum, and it consists of items from the royal collection, the Toma Stelian Museum, as well as gifts and acquisitions. The Department of Oriental Art currently holds over 5,000 objects.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition was closed for a much needed extensive renovation of the building, and will be redisplayed in newly refurbished areas in compliance with European standards of conservation. Meanwhile, exhibitions of Oriental art are being shown regularly. About four hundred carpets covering a wide geographical area and spanning four centuries are at the core of the collection of Islamic art. Most of them are nineteenth-century Ottoman rugs, but the holdings also include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Transylvanian rugs, alongside Caucasian, Central Asian, and Iranian rugs and carpets.  \n  \nThe National Museum of Art of Romania also manages other three museums in Bucharest: The Art Collections Museum (whose display features a considerable number of Oriental rugs and carpets donated over the years by Romanian art collectors), the K. H. Zambaccian Museum and the Theodor Pallady Museum.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Calea Victoriei, 49-53  \nsector 1  \n010063 Bucharest","website":"https://www.mnar.arts.ro/en/","phone":"+40 021 313 30 30","email":"secretariat@art.museum.ro"},"c79c9bf0-7954-5ad4-95e9-6020467c3765":{"name":"Istanbul Water Museum (İstanbul Su Müzesi)","description":"Established in January 2021 within Topkar Inc., the Istanbul Water Museum is dedicated to water, water civilisation and the cultural heritage of the Turkish bath.  \n  \nThe Topçu family, which owns the company, has cultivated for four generations a tradition of preserving everyday household objects. As one of Türkiye’s leading manufacturers of bathroom and kitchen fittings, the family united this passion with their profession and began collecting faucets, water vessels and related objects over 25 years ago, laying the foundation of the museum’s collection. In 2008, they became officially registered collectors with the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum.  \n  \nThe collection encompasses themes such as the relationship between water and humanity; fountains; sebils and faucets; water and belief; water and healing; cleanliness, bathing and hammam culture; and Istanbul’s famous spring waters. The collection includes a wide range of water-related objects, manuscripts, ephemera, postcards, engravings, paintings, calligraphy, marbling (*ebru*) and miniature artworks. Artefacts dating from the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman and early Republican eras are exhibited chronologically and, in some sections, thematically across two galleries totalling 800 square metres. The Istanbul Water Museum is a member and Türkiye’s representative of the UNESCO Global Network of Water Museums (WAMU-Net).  \n  \nTopkar regards the museum as a sustainable social responsibility project aimed at promoting water and hammam culture, preserving endangered traditions, fostering public awareness of water use and creating lasting cultural memory. The Topkar family celebrates its 40th anniversary with this meaningful initiative.","city":"Istanbul","address":"İkitelli OSB. Mh. Hürriyet Bulvarı No:54 Başakşehir-İstanbul-Türkiye 34490","website":"http://www.istanbulsumuzesi.org","phone":"+90 486 20 20"},"c8825cec-041d-5069-bbce-82c394d5e619":{"name":"National Museum Oman","description":"The National Museum of the Sultanate of Oman, established by royal decree in 2013 and opened July 30, 2016, is the Sultanate's flagship cultural institution, showcasing the nation’s heritage from the earliest human settlement in the Oman Peninsula some two million years ago through to the present day. As a national institution with global outreach, the museum is dedicated to ensuring that Oman’s cultural heritage is understood and appreciated not only within the Sultanate, but also internationally. Further, it aims to provide opportunities for cultural expression, innovation, and the transfer of traditional skills and knowledge from one generation to the next.  \n  \nThe museum is located in the heart of Muscat in a purpose-designed building. The total area of the building is 13,700 square metres (147,000 sq ft), including 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) allocated for 14 permanent galleries – The Land and the People Gallery, Maritime History Gallery, Arms and Armour Gallery, Aflaj Gallery, Currency Gallery, Prehistory and Ancient History Galleries, Splendours of Islam Gallery, Oman and the World Gallery, Intangible Heritage Gallery and Renaissance Gallery, among others. A further 400 square metres (4,300 sq ft) are allocated for temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nThe National Museum houses 5,466 objects and offers 43 digital immersive experiences, a fully equipped Learning Centre, conservation facilities, an ultra-high definition cinema, and discovery areas for children. It features an integrated infrastructure for special needs and is the first museum in the Middle East to adopt Arabic Braille script for the visually impaired. The museum contains a voluminous collection of prehistoric metallic artefacts. It also houses the region’s first open-plan museum storage concept, where visitors can learn about the various processes that artefacts go through before they are put on display.","city":"Muscat","address":"P.O.Box: (1105)  \n113 Muscat","website":"https://www.nm.gov.om/","email":"booking@nm.gov.om"},"cc176d16-7f00-5907-8a82-b1f3d06b7d4d":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Zagreb**  \nCity Museum  \nCroatian History Museum  \nDiocese Museum of the Zagreb Archdiocese  \nMetropolitan Library, Valvasor Collection of prints and drawings  \nStrossmayer Gallery of Old Masters  \nZagreb Cathedral Treasury  \n  \n**Dubrovnik**  \nDubrovnik Cultural History Museum  \nMuseum of Icons of the Serbian Orthodox Church Community  \n  \n**Ilok**  \nCity Museum  \n  \n**Klanjec**  \nFranciscan Monastery  \n  \n**Osijek**  \nGallery of Fine Arts  \n  \n**Požega**  \nDiocese Museum of the Požega Diocese  \n  \n**Trakošćan**  \nTrakošćan Castle  \n  \n**Varaždin**  \nCity Museum"},"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"},"d2b9c791-32d7-590a-9a1b-3f6766d360d6":{"name":"Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ Museums)","description":"Founded in 1998 by H.E. Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ) is the Sheikh’s brainchild and a monument to his enduring passion for collecting international items of peculiar and historical relevance.  \n  \nA museum with a global perspective, FBQ brings together over 30,000 objects from across the ages and a multitude of cultures. It represents, in effect, a modern version of a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’, the historic and eclectic room of marvels from the Renaissance.  \n  \nThe journey through more than 30 galleries ranges from the prehistoric to the present day, encompassing several themes: Islamic art, Qatari heritage, carpets, weapons, vehicles, jewellery and currency. Gallery highlights also include a rebuilt Syrian house and the Quran room. The artefacts showcased in FBQ’s galleries embody Islam’s visual culture and its far-reaching traditions from southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The thematic presentation of the works draws attention to the similarities of artistic forms and cultural expressions and their interdependence among societies.  \n  \nFBQ is much more than a museum. Since the construction of the main museum in Al Shahaniya in 1998 using local stone and traditional turrets, FBQ has been fulfilling the museum founder’s aim to create and share a new cultural heritage for Qatar and beyond. With the establishment of the Carpet Museum in the heart of Doha in 2014 and the addition of the Car Museum, the FBQ complex of museums aims to inspire people to engage with cultural heritage by sharing stories from near and far. FBQ strives to foster cross-cultural dialogue through exhibitions, education and public programs, both locally and internationally.  \n  \nIn 2010, the museum was selected by Qatar’s Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Heritage as one of the cultural landmarks of the ‘Doha 2010 Capital of Culture’ activities.","city":"Doha","address":"Zone 80, Street 9999 Building No. 365, Al Samariya  \nAl Shahaniya, Doha Qatar  \nP.O. Box number 006","website":"www.fbqmuseum.org","phone":"+974 4486 1444","email":"info@fbqmuseum.org"},"d321bef5-3599-590f-a696-aa3a0d57d455":{"name":"Benaki Museum","description":"The Benaki Museum is the largest and oldest museum in Greece operating as a foundation under private law. It was founded in 1931 by Antoni Benaki, a member of a leading Greek family of Alexandria. The current museum is decentralised: its hub is the neoclassical mansion presenting the evolution of Greek art from the Neolithic period to the present day. The autonomous buildings include the exhibition centre on Pireos Street, the historical archives in the Delta house, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika gallery and the Museum of Islamic Art.  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art is a renovated neoclassical building in Athens’ historic centre near the ancient Agora. It opened in 2004 to house the collection formed by Antoni Benaki during the early part of the 20th century, while he was living in Egypt. Subsequently enriched by other donations, today it contains c. 10,000 objects from the Middle East, Iran, Turkey, North Africa and India. It demonstrates the evolution of Islamic art up to the Ottoman period and corresponding developments to the middle of the 20th century. The collection includes ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, woodwork, glassware, ivories, funerary steles and arms and armour.  \n  \nThe visitor first finds exhibits from the 7th to the 12th century. Highlights are lustreware, door panels from Iraq, Fatimid metalwork, *tiraz* textiles and a unique reed mat from 10th-century Tiberias. The second gallery exhibits objects from the 12th to the 16th century with Seljuq ceramics, Mamluk metalwork and pottery and highlights a brass box with the signature of Isma’il ibn al-Ward al-Mawsili dated 1220 and the astrolabe of Ahmad ibn al-Sarraj dated 1328/29.  \n  \nThe third gallery displays a marble-lined reception room from a 17th-century Cairo mansion and its fountain, *qamariyya* windows and a *mashrabiyya* screen. Other exhibits include Iznik pottery and a 16th-century velvet saddle from Bursa. The last gallery presents arms and armour, and Qajar jewellery collected by Argine Salvagos, sister of the founder.  \n  \nDuring preservation work, a section of the ancient city wall of Athens from the 4th century BC was uncovered and remains *in situ* at basement level, accessible to visitors.","city":"Athens","address":"22 Agion Asomaton & 12 Dipilou Street  \nAthens  \nGreece","website":"http://www.benaki.gr/","phone":"+30 210 325 1311","email":"islamic_collection@benaki.gr"},"d4a98989-670f-57f0-806b-0923d3e7b276":{"name":"National Museum Oman","description":"The National Museum of the Sultanate of Oman, established by royal decree in 2013 and opened July 30, 2016, is the Sultanate's flagship cultural institution, showcasing the nation’s heritage from the earliest human settlement in the Oman Peninsula some two million years ago through to the present day. As a national institution with global outreach, the museum is dedicated to ensuring that Oman’s cultural heritage is understood and appreciated not only within the Sultanate, but also internationally. Further, it aims to provide opportunities for cultural expression, innovation, and the transfer of traditional skills and knowledge from one generation to the next.  \n  \nThe museum is located in the heart of Muscat in a purpose-designed building. The total area of the building is 13,700 square metres (147,000 sq ft), including 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) allocated for 14 permanent galleries – The Land and the People Gallery, Maritime History Gallery, Arms and Armour Gallery, Aflaj Gallery, Currency Gallery, Prehistory and Ancient History Galleries, Splendours of Islam Gallery, Oman and the World Gallery, Intangible Heritage Gallery and Renaissance Gallery, among others. A further 400 square metres (4,300 sq ft) are allocated for temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nThe National Museum houses 5,466 objects and offers 43 digital immersive experiences, a fully equipped Learning Centre, conservation facilities, an ultra-high definition cinema, and discovery areas for children. It features an integrated infrastructure for special needs and is the first museum in the Middle East to adopt Arabic Braille script for the visually impaired. The museum contains a voluminous collection of prehistoric metallic artefacts. It also houses the region’s first open-plan museum storage concept, where visitors can learn about the various processes that artefacts go through before they are put on display.","city":"Muscat","address":"P.O.Box: (1105)  \n113 Muscat","website":"https://www.nm.gov.om/","email":"booking@nm.gov.om"},"d5cbde37-0645-5fff-928c-0190e87f0c5b":{"name":"City Museum","description":"The Brno City Museum was established in 1904. Since 1960, the museum has been seated in Špilberk Castle, the Baroque fortress known as the “Dungeon of the nations”. The permanent exhibition presents casemates that were part of the Baroque fortress system converted into the civil prison during the reign of Emperor Joseph II. On display are the collections of historic weapons, watches, glass, porcelain, furniture, fashion accessories, vedute, paintings and sculptures. The most important collection presents the prominent Late-Baroque Moravian sculptor, Ondřej Schweigl’s (1735–1812) life and work, and its association with Brno.","city":"Brno","address":"Špilberk 1  \n662 24 Brno  \nCzech Republic","website":"http://www.spilberk.cz","phone":"+420 542 123 611","email":"muzeum.brno@spilberk.cz"},"d9f6c12d-ca03-5d6e-b33c-c1a37daec1fa":{"name":"Glasgow Museums","description":"Although not the capital, Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland. It prides itself on its multi-cultural scene with a prosperous Muslim community representing the largest non-white Scottish group in the city and in Scotland. The Glasgow Museums collection is the biggest managed by any local authority in the United Kingdom and one of a handful of municipal collections that are recognized to have national importance. This service was founded in 1854 with the McLellan collection of European paintings, which was donated to the people of Glasgow by Archibald McLellan together with a building to house it. At present Glasgow manages thirteen public museums covering a wide range of subjects.  \n  \nGlasgow’s Islamic collections come from all over the world with objects from Africa, Spain, the Middle East and Central Asia. The oldest items date back to the 10th and 11th centuries. The earliest objects to enter the museums’ collections were donated in the 1870s. Though many of these are private donations, some were purchased by the museum service. The Islamic collections are mainly housed at The Burrell Collection, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  \n  \nThe main strength of the Islamic collections lies in the large donation of Sir William Burrell and his wife, who gifted their massive and varied collection to Glasgow in 1944. It includes Iranian and Mughal Indian ceramics and carpets, Turkish and Uzbek textiles and embroideries, and Hispano-Moresque lustrewares. The other Islamic collections of Glasgow Museums include objects from Mughal India, Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt and Syria, the Ottoman Middle East, and 19th century Berber and Arab North Africa. In addition to all of the above, Glasgow Museums is interested in developing its contemporary Islamic collections by welcoming donations of modern Islamic arts and crafts, as well as strengthening the other areas within its Islamic collections.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550"},"defa425b-fe47-5a8e-bb82-33721be61de9":{"name":"Batha Museum","description":"Built in 1885, the original building was a courthouse and summer residence of the Alaouite sultan Moulay Hassan I before being renovated as a museum in 1915. The Batha Museum brings together archaeological collections, architectural elements and ethnographic objects relating to the city of Fez and its surrounding area. Since a reorganisation in 2006, the museum’s theme has revolved around spiritual life and the art of living.  \n  \nThrough large rooms overlooking the patio and garden, the tour begins with the city’s Islamic origins: manuscripts illuminated with gold leaf, liturgical wooden objects, planispheric brass astrolabes – and a rare example of a leather astrolabe dial. One section is dedicated to architectural elements. Wood is featured: friezes, panels, lintels and other corbels from different dynasties display Moroccan craftsmanship. Besides their artistic value, some pieces are historical and archaeological treasures, such as the beam dating from AD 877, the oldest wood in Islamic Morocco, evidence of the city of Kairouan’s artistic influences.  \n  \nZelliges (handmade terracotta tiles) are a distinctive feature of Moroccan-Andalusian Islamic architecture, with excellent collections here in the Batha Museum, with some dating back to the 14th century.  \n  \nAlso on exhibit are traditional arts from Fez, whose richness and variety are manifested in a collection of delicate embroidery in a single thread colour, and a variety of ornaments and wedding dresses for brides typically from the cities. There is also a rich collection of tin-based ceramics enamelled in a monochrome blue-grey.  \n  \nVisitors can discover rural crafts and museum-quality objects like jewellery and pottery outside the city of Fez.","city":"Fès","address":"Ksar El Batha  \nPlace du 11 janvier  \nFès, Morocco","phone":"+212 53 563 41 16"},"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"},"ebefa388-6b9b-5fa0-a9a7-a26465c1e27d":{"name":"Olomouc Museum of Art","description":"Olomouc Museum of Art consists of three museums. The original museum (formerly the Gallery of Fine Art founded in 1952) became an autonomous museum in 1990.  \n  \n1\\. The Museum of Modern Art came about when it moved into the building of the Olomouc Museum of Art in June 2006. The exhibition programme and acquisition activities are focused on modern art from the 20th and 21st centuries.  \n2\\. In 2006, the Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum (established 1998) was opened, representing the first museum of its type in Czech Lands. The proposed construction of an Archdiocesan Museum was possible after the historical buildings of the so-called Olomouc Castle were returned to the Catholic Church. On the basis of the contract drawn up between the Olomouc Archbishopric and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Olomouc Museum of Art was entrusted with bringing the project to completion. While the grounds of the Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum offer visitors the opportunity to view the architectural remains of an entire millennium, the Museum presents a permanent exhibition of the artistic culture of the Olomouc diocese from the 12th to the 18th centuries, bringing together artefacts from the historical territory of Moravia with a focus on art patronage and collections of the Olomouc bishops.  \n3\\. The Kroměříž Archdiocesan Museum was established in 2006 as part of the Olomouc Museum of Art, and detached from the rest of the Museum, is situated in the former Archbishop’s Château in Kroměříž. The Museum holds one of the largest château libraries in the country: almost 90,000 volumes, including illuminated manuscripts and a music archive of more than 6,000, mainly Baroque, compositions. There is also a rich collection of old-master drawings, graphic works and coins and medals.  \n  \nGuided tours are available to visitors through the halls, rooms with historic furniture, and the picture galleries.  \n  \nThe Archbishop’s Château in Kroměříž along with its gardens, were proclaimed a National Cultural Monument in 1995 and recorded on the UNESCO List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites in 1998.","city":"Olomouc","address":"Denisova 47,  \n771 11 Olomouc","website":"http://www.muo.cz/","phone":"+420 585 514 111, 585 514 277","email":"info@olmuart.cz"},"edb8cc68-6a7b-575f-9541-6421a991bf33":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Hama Museum**  \nHama, Syria"},"ee0a71f8-dc12-5d5d-b02a-4402969e8274":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Arts of Kairouan is located in Raqqada, in a former presidential palace that was converted into a cultural and educational centre in 1986. It contains four rooms on the main floor and upstairs.  \n  \nOn the ground floor are:  \n– The ceramics room, which houses objects dating back to the Aghlabid, Fatimid and Hafsid eras. Those of the Aghlabid era are characterised by the use of metallic lustre glazes, archaic Kufic script and stylised zoomorphic and anthropomorphic images. This room displays a collection of blue Iznik ceramic tiles from Anatolia.  \n  \n– The hall of the Great Mosque, which houses religious objects such as friezes with floral and epigraphic motifs that form part of the roofing. There is also a reconstruction of the *mihrab* from the mosque and the door of the *maqsoura* (private enclosure).  \n  \n– The Lapidary Inscriptions Room, which is under development, will house flat, prismatic and column-barrel gravestones from the Kairouan Cemetery. It will also contain the inscription of the foundation of the city of Sabra al-Mansouriya, characterised by its writing style and its imposing size.  \n  \n\\- The Sabra al-Mansouriya Hall, expected to receive objects from the Sabra excavation, now contains the casting furnace found on the same site.  \n  \nUpstairs:  \nThe glass cases of the coin and jewellery room hold a large collection of coins dating back to the Aghlabid, Fatimid, Hafsid and Ottoman eras, showing their evolution over time. This room also contains glass objects from the Sabra site and the lantern from al-Mouiz.  \n  \nThe manuscript room contains a rich collection of parchment Qur’an folios from the library of the Great Mosque of Kairouan displaying the evolution of writing and ornamentation styles (3rd / 9th to the 13th / 19th century). The collection owes its unique reputation to the famous “blue parchment” of the 4th / 10th century. Enclosing these folios are leather bindings embossed with floral and geometric designs.  \n  \nAn exhibition such as this one helps us interpret the history of the city of Kairouan. The newer Sabra Hall, the Hall of Lapidary Inscriptions and the Hall of the Great Mosque of Kairouan will further our understanding.","city":"Kairouan","address":"Musée des arts islamiques  \nKairouan-Raqqada","phone":"+216 77 228126"},"f0c1b6b9-8198-5a97-9aea-8ebedfa90ca3":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"At the order of Khedive Ismail Pasha in 1880 the collection of archaeological rarities from the Islamic era was begun in the mosque of Al- Hakim. The Council for the Preservation of Arab Antiquities, created in 1881 in association with the Ministry of Awqaf, supervised the House of Arab Antiquities, as it was then known, until 1930 when the museum was taken into the Ministry of Education.  \n  \nThe museum acquired only from mosques and public buildings in its first 20 years. Then it undertook its first excavation in 1910 in the vicinity of Doronka in Upper Egypt and a second excavation south of Cairo uncovering a section of the city of Fustat (first Islamic capital of Egypt).  \n  \nThe museum acquired many items through donations. King Fu’ad I gave a valuable collection of textiles, scales and seals as did King Farouk, Amir Muhammad Ali and Amir Yusuf Kamal. Amir Kamal al-Din Hussein, Yakub Artin Pasha and Ali Ibrahim Pasha also donated complete collections.  \n  \nThe collections, amounting to 7082 artefacts, were transferred to their current building, when the present museum was inaugurated in December 1903. In 1952, the name of the museum was changed to the ‘Museum of Islamic Art’ to reflect the scope of the collection: objects produced in the Islamic world and dating from the beginning of the Islamic era (AD 7th century) to the end of the AD 19th century. The number of recorded objects has now reached 103,000.  \n  \nThe collections include enamelled glass lamps, Egyptian ceramics and a rare collection of filigree waterpot filters of unpainted earthenware renowned for their lacework designs. There are also collections of woodwork, textiles and stones with inscriptions, while the collection of carpets is considered to be one of the greatest of its kind. Collections of scientific instruments display the extent to which Islamic civilisation has contributed to knowledge in many different fields. There is also an extraordinary collection of seals, weights, measures, gold, silver and copper coins.  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art, having one of the most comprehensive and complete Islamic art collections in the world continues to develop and expand its collections and to modernise the building with its 25 halls, facilities and archaeological garden.","city":"Cairo","website":"https://www.miaegypt.org/","phone":"+20 2 2390 1520"},"f0ceb925-0447-5995-bb7e-b90eeb1f59c7":{"name":"Vitromusée Romont","description":"The Vitromusée Romont opened in 1981 in the Savoyard wing of Romont Castle. This medieval monument provides a time-honoured setting for the Swiss Museum of Stained Glass and Glass Arts. A passageway built in 2006 connects the historic heart of the museum with the Fribourg wing, which is dedicated to reverse glass painting. The Vitromusée Romont is entirely focused on the glass arts and harbours significant collections in the fields of stained glass, reverse glass painting, glass and graphic arts, as well as tools and materials linked to the production of Swiss glass works. With over 14’000 objects, all aspects of glass arts from antiquity to the present are represented. The Vitromusée Romont is committed to fostering a lively culture and develops innovative cultural education programs at the interface of knowledge transfer, creative experience and exchange. It thereby advocates for conserving the history of an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage while also sharing it with a diverse public.","city":"Romont","address":"Au Château,  \n1680 Romont","website":"https://vitromusee.ch/en","phone":"+41 (0)26 652 10 95","email":"info@vitromusee.ch"},"f2458b82-49ff-540e-aaed-991eb2df207d":{"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"},"f2c2b5c1-dd0f-5208-8f82-ff80d06d5bde":{"name":"Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ Museums)","description":"Founded in 1998 by H.E. Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ) is the Sheikh’s brainchild and a monument to his enduring passion for collecting international items of peculiar and historical relevance.  \n  \nA museum with a global perspective, FBQ brings together over 30,000 objects from across the ages and a multitude of cultures. It represents, in effect, a modern version of a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’, the historic and eclectic room of marvels from the Renaissance.  \n  \nThe journey through more than 30 galleries ranges from the prehistoric to the present day, encompassing several themes: Islamic art, Qatari heritage, carpets, weapons, vehicles, jewellery and currency. Gallery highlights also include a rebuilt Syrian house and the Quran room. The artefacts showcased in FBQ’s galleries embody Islam’s visual culture and its far-reaching traditions from southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The thematic presentation of the works draws attention to the similarities of artistic forms and cultural expressions and their interdependence among societies.  \n  \nFBQ is much more than a museum. Since the construction of the main museum in Al Shahaniya in 1998 using local stone and traditional turrets, FBQ has been fulfilling the museum founder’s aim to create and share a new cultural heritage for Qatar and beyond. With the establishment of the Carpet Museum in the heart of Doha in 2014 and the addition of the Car Museum, the FBQ complex of museums aims to inspire people to engage with cultural heritage by sharing stories from near and far. FBQ strives to foster cross-cultural dialogue through exhibitions, education and public programs, both locally and internationally.  \n  \nIn 2010, the museum was selected by Qatar’s Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Heritage as one of the cultural landmarks of the ‘Doha 2010 Capital of Culture’ activities.","city":"Doha","address":"Zone 80, Street 9999 Building No. 365, Al Samariya  \nAl Shahaniya, Doha Qatar  \nP.O. Box number 006","website":"www.fbqmuseum.org","phone":"+974 4486 1444","email":"info@fbqmuseum.org"},"f441f494-4ff4-5fa6-a2ff-1f6f59c24cd8":{"name":"Museum for Islamic Art","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"},"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"},"f5c11bd8-33ca-5552-a5d9-8437afd6ee27":{"name":"The Lebanese University","description":"The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. The university has 17 faculties across Lebanon and serves various cultural, religious and social groups of students and teachers.  \n  \nThe independent university enjoys administrative, academic and financial freedom. Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and essential education to allow students to enter various professions.  \n  \nIn spite of the crisis in the region that has existed since 1975, leaving wounds and tragedies, the Lebanese University has remained the national home of science. Rivalling the most prestigious universities in Lebanon and abroad, and leading the process of human development that spread all over the country, its graduates became ambassadors of Lebanon in all the corners of the earth.  \n  \nOur university respects the national demand for academic freedom, which has become a right of scholars and specialists, based on laws and international conventions and regional organisations and sometimes more, applying the important rules of human rights: the right of learning and seeking knowledge with higher education and participation in international projects to develop academic programmes and exchange of research.The university has maintained the quality of higher education, although we seek more contact with the spirit of this modern age and its promising accomplishments by increasing relations and agreements with other universities and institutions all over the world. In spite of the political pressures on the people of the university and attempts to split them into factions, the majority of them have remained faithful to the spirit of the national organisation and the struggles of the early pioneers who insisted on building the edifice of national higher education, in the framework of the values of freedom and justice.","city":"Beirut","address":"Central Administration, Museum, Beirut  \n  \nPostal address: P.O. Box 6573/14 Badaro, Museum  \nBeirut  \nLebanon","website":"http://www.ul.edu.lb/","phone":"+961 1 612830; 1 612831","email":"ibady@ul.edu.lb"},"f6a3053d-d710-547e-be54-96097d448f7a":{"name":"National Museum of Damascus","description":"The National Museum in Damascus was established under the supervision of the Ministry of Education in 1919. The original core of this museum's contents was initially kept at the Madrasa al-'Adiliya. The collection gradually increased and the discovery of the Umayyad palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi in the Syrian desert in 1936 further spurred into action plans for a newer and bigger museum. A building located next to Al-Takiyya al-Sulaymaniya was chosen for the establishment of the National Museum of Damascus.  \n  \nQasr Al-Hayr Al-Gharbi added new emphasis to the importance of devoting more attention to the Islamic period and the Directors of Antiquities decided to incorporate these palatial finds into the National Museum of Damascus. After much hard work and technical expertise, the front façade of the Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi was transposed and carefully reconstructed as the National Museum's main entrance. The side halls and the second floor were designated for the most important artistic finds of this early Islamic palace. The completion of the display took several years and the official opening was celebrated in 1950.  \n  \nIn 1953 a three-storey wing was added to house and display ancient oriental antiquities, the Islamic period, modern Syrian art, and temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nOne of the more recent extensions included three double halls for the Islamic period, a new lecture hall and a library. The lecture hall was furnished as a 19th-century Damascene reception hall, a masterpiece of late decoration and ornamentation in its own right. The opening of this extension took place in 1963.  \n  \nIn 1974 there were further additions, this time devoted to the Palaeolithic period. And lastly, in 2004, the temporary exhibition wing was transformed into a permanent collection of Neolithic antiquities.  \n  \nAt present, the National Museum of Damascus consists of the following sections:  \n  \n1\\. Palaeolithic.  \n2\\. Neolithic.  \n3\\. Ancient Syrian Oriental.  \n4\\. Classical.  \n5\\. Islamic.  \n6\\. Modern Arts.","city":"Damascus","address":"Qasr el-Heir Street  \nDamascus, Syria","phone":"+963 11 2234331","email":"sam.orient@mail.sy"}}
+{"01ed0e00-4aed-5afc-bdea-937514669d4b":{"name":"Victoria and Albert Museum","description":"The Victoria and Albert (V&A) is the world’s leading museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. When the museum opened to the public in 1852, its mission was to reform design by making works of art available to all, improving the public’s understanding of the subject and providing inspiration for designers and manufacturers. Today, the V&A’s collections span over 5,000 years of human creativity in virtually every medium and from many parts of the world.  \n  \nThe V&A comprises a family of sites, including the V&A in South Kensington, Young V&A located in Bethnal Green, V&A Dundee in Scotland, the V&A Wedgwood Collection housed in Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, V&A Gallery at Design Society in Shekou, China, and opening in 2024/25 will be V&A East located within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford. Across these sites the museum showcases their collections to a wide range of audiences and aims to champion design and creativity in all its forms.  \n  \nThe V&A has specialised in collecting art and design from the Islamic world since the 1850s, and it was the first institution in the world to collect Islamic art in a systematic fashion. The museum's founders believed that Islamic ideas about structuring patterns and matching decoration to shape and function could improve British design. The collection grew to become the most significant in its field. Outstanding works include the AH 10th / AD 16th-century Ardabil carpet from Iran, a rock crystal ewer from AH 5th / AD 11th-century Egypt, and the world’s greatest collections of Islamic ceramics. The museum also houses the national collection of Islamic textiles.","city":"London","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nSW7 2RL  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 207 9422000","fax":"+44 207 9422335"},"035b4efa-ef31-5692-b2e2-aea30f71fa88":{"name":"Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts – Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation (RESSF)","description":"The RESSF is a private law and public utility institution founded in 1953 as a result of Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva’s donations of the Azurara Palace and its decorative art collection. The Foundation’s mission is to protect, sponsor, disseminate and pass on knowledge and know-how in the decorative arts – movable and immovable heritage – in all aspects, musicological, academic, technical and restoration.  \n  \nThe foundation’s structure is as follows: the Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts; 18 arts and crafts workshops; the school; and a conservation and restoration department.  \n  \nThis original organic model of the institution produces a dynamic relationship between the Museum, the school and the workshops, demonstrating not only a groundbreaking spirit but also the integrated approach that is the basis of the Foundation’s establishment. Moreover, RESSF’s acknowledgement that the artistic and heritage dimensions must be inseparable from training, qualification and dissemination of know-how, has provided additional patrimonial value.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Largo das Portas do Sol, 2  \n1100-411 Lisbon  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.fress.pt","phone":"+351 21 881 46 00","email":"museu@fress.pt; geral@fress.pt"},"04c60c4a-2430-5a48-ac2a-c1b3d488b403":{"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 1930 by Antonis Benakis, 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 culture from the Paleolithic period to the present day. The autonomous buildings include the exhibition centre on Pireos 138, the Toy Museum on the Athens seafront, the 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 Antonis Benakis 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 19th century 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. Then follow 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  \nAnother gallery displays a marble-lined reception room from a 17th-century mansion in Cairo, together with its fountain, qamariyya windows and a mashrabiyya screen. Other noteworthy exhibits are the collection of Iznik pottery and a 16th-century velvet saddle from Bursa. The display concludes with arms and armour and an important collection of Qajar jewellery that was collected by Argine Salvagos, sister of the founder.  \n  \nDuring preservation work, a large 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"},"0d000499-7a00-582c-874c-d9a09da9f256":{"name":"MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art","description":"The MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art – is one of the foremost museums of its kind in the world. The building located on Stubenring in the 1st district of Vienna was founded in 1863 as the k.k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry) and today houses a unique collection of applied arts, design, architecture and contemporary art.  \n  \nThe MAK collection encompasses European and international decorative arts ranging from the Early Middle Ages to the present. The museum's main holdings include textiles, ceramics, glass, furniture and metalwork as well as exquisite objects of the Wiener Werkstätte (craftworks) and Art Nouveau. Its collection of Oriental carpets and East Asian art are of the highest international significance.  \n  \nAmong the objects from the Islamic world, the collection of Oriental carpets is pre-eminent, and the museum holds the largest collection worldwide of paintings of the *Hamzanama* from the era of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. Important examples of the applied arts are preserved in the MAK Asia Collection, which most notably include objects from Iran and the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Vienna","address":"Stubenring, 5  \nA-1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.mak.at","phone":"+43 1 711 36-248","fax":"+43 1 713 10 26","email":"office@MAK.at"},"1232b5a2-7af1-5de4-a332-ff444943f8b0":{"name":"MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art","description":"The MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art – is one of the foremost museums of its kind in the world. The building located on Stubenring in the 1st district of Vienna was founded in 1863 as the k.k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry) and today houses a unique collection of applied arts, design, architecture and contemporary art.  \n  \nThe MAK collection encompasses European and international decorative arts ranging from the Early Middle Ages to the present. The museum's main holdings include textiles, ceramics, glass, furniture and metalwork as well as exquisite objects of the Wiener Werkstätte (craftworks) and Art Nouveau. Its collection of Oriental carpets and East Asian art are of the highest international significance.  \n  \nAmong the objects from the Islamic world, the collection of Oriental carpets is pre-eminent, and the museum holds the largest collection worldwide of paintings of the *Hamzanama* from the era of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. Important examples of the applied arts are preserved in the MAK Asia Collection, which most notably include objects from Iran and the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Vienna","address":"Stubenring, 5  \nA-1010 Vienna  \nAustria","website":"http://www.mak.at","phone":"+43 1 711 36-248","email":"office@MAK.at"},"159ca886-fdb4-5a93-98ef-f31ba3dd0b6b":{"name":"Technological Glass Museum. Royal Factory of Glass and Crystal of La Granja","description":"The Museo Tecnológico del Vidrio is located in the old Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja, one of the most important 18th Century European Industrial buildings and a truly distinguishing part of the Real Sitio de San Ildefonso and all its surroundings.  \n  \nThis noble construction, erected under the orders of the sovereign Carlos III, in accordance with the plans developed by builder Joseph Díaz Gamones in 1770 and declared BIC, gave rise to the creation of the Fundación Centro Nacional del Vidrio in 1982, with a view to restore the historic building, its history and most traditional techniques. Covering more than 25,000 square metres, it currently houses the Museo Tecnológico del Vidrio, the Library and the Escuela del Vidrio, in addition to Furnaces and Workshops.  \n  \nThe route around the Museum begins in the Furnace Hall, a majestic space with a basilica-shaped layout with two large brick domes in which the melting furnaces were located. The **Tecnología del Vidrio (Glass Technology)** exhibition can be found in this space. The furnace can be accessed from the wood patio and demonstrates how the master glass blowers skillfully reproduce the old glass pieces at La Granja, using traditional glass blowing techniques with a blowpipe. On one side of the Main Cowtyard is the woodshed, where various craftspeople can be seen cutting and decorating pieces of glass, in addition to making the glass chandeliers so characteristic of La Granja.  \n  \nThe ground floor is home to the **Maumejean Workshop Stained Glass Room**. This is a prestigious workshop, with headquarters in both France and Spain, which between the late 19th Century and the first half of the 20th Century provided for a number of religious and civil buildings, in addition to private houses from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.  \n  \nThis is then followed by the **History of Glass** rooms. It brings together a selection of glass work from Antiquity to the present day.  \n  \nThe Polishing Nave houses the remains of the old hydraulic machine that polished flat glass, designed by Demetrio Crow.  \n  \nThe upper floor hosts the **La Granja Glass Room**, consisting of numerous National Heritage deposits, the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas de Madrid and the Museo Nacional del Prado, in addition to other providers.  \n  \nIt then continues on to the **European Bottle and Container Room**, classified by country and with a chronology dating from the 16th to the 19th century.  \n  \nThe Polishing Nave leads to the **European Design Room** and the **Contemporary Glass Room**, with pieces created by designers and sculptors from Europe, Asia and The Americas.","city":"Real Sitio de San Ildefonso","address":"Pº Pocillo, 1 (40100)  \nReal Sitio de San Ildefonso (Segovia)","website":"http://www.realfabricadecristales.es","phone":"921010700","fax":"921010701","email":"museo@realfabricadecristales.es"},"19c6017a-4b0e-5530-b7ac-c09f8a4bf54d":{"name":"Calouste Gulbenkian Museum","description":"Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was born in Scutari in 1869 into a family of Armenian origin. A pioneer of the oil industry and an exceptionally discerning and knowledgeable collector, he came to Portugal in 1942 as the Second World War raged in Europe. Gulbenkian spent the remaining years of his life in Lisbon and died here in 1955.  \n  \nIn 1956 the Foundation which takes his name was created, fulfilling his wish that the works of art that he had assembled over four decades as a collector should be kept together under one roof.  \n  \nThis desire was fulfilled in 1969 with the inauguration of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. The museum’s collection numbers some 6000 pieces. The breadth of the collection reflects Gulbenkian’s own preferences and the personal tastes which always guided him. It covers various periods of the history of art, from classical and oriental Antiquity to European art of the early twentieth century.  \n  \nThe Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is set in the Parque Santa Gertrudes and is a landmark in museum architecture in Portugal. With numerous openings to the exterior, it offers visitors a continuous dialogue between Nature and Art.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition galleries are on the first floor of the building and distributed around two patios. Each gallery is linked with its successor according to a chronological and geographical system of classification which results in two independent itineraries within the general circuit of the museum.  \n  \nGulbenkian was especially interested in oriental art (perhaps because of his own origins) and the collection’s numerous ceramics, carpets, tapestries, illuminations, book bindings and mosque lamps from the East are an illustration of this interest. These exhibits trace the various artistic tendencies of Persia, Turkey, Syria, the Caucasus, Armenia and India from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, and are on display in the Islamic Orient gallery.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Av. Berna, 45 A  \n1067-001 Lisbon, Portugal","website":"https://gulbenkian.pt/","phone":"+351 217 823 000","fax":"+351 217 823 032","email":"museu@gulbenkian.pt"},"1d0ff55d-dcd7-59a9-b95d-18903aa4ab05":{"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 1930 by Antonis Benakis, 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 culture from the Paleolithic period to the present day. The autonomous buildings include the exhibition centre on Pireos 138, the Toy Museum on the Athens seafront, the 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 Antonis Benakis 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 19th century 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. Then follow 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  \nAnother gallery displays a marble-lined reception room from a 17th-century mansion in Cairo, together with its fountain, qamariyya windows and a mashrabiyya screen. Other noteworthy exhibits are the collection of Iznik pottery and a 16th-century velvet saddle from Bursa. The display concludes with arms and armour and an important collection of Qajar jewellery that was collected by Argine Salvagos, sister of the founder.  \n  \nDuring preservation work, a large 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  \n10674 Athens","website":"http://www.benaki.gr/","phone":"+30 210 325 1311","fax":"+30 210 322 5550","email":"islamic_collection@benaki.gr"},"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"},"2300bb0e-fc9f-55c5-ae2e-20f619a46cce":{"name":"Weltmuseum Wien","description":"The Weltmuseum Wien – formerly the Museum of Ethnology – houses comprehensive collections of ethnographic objects, historical photographs, and books on non-European civilisations, making it one of the world’s leading ethnographic museums. Its roots can be traced back to 1806, when the \"Imperial and Royal Ethnographic Collection\" was established as part of the combined Imperial and Royal Court Cabinet of Natural Objects, following the partial acquisition of the \"Cook Collection\" at a London auction. The continuously growing collections were transferred to the newly created “Department of Anthropology and Ethnography” of the Royal Court Museum of Natural History in 1876. Limited space and a goal of developing ethnology as a cultural science convinced political decision-makers to establish a unified, cohesive Museum of Ethnology. The “Museum of Ethnology” opened formally in 1928 taking up the entire building of the “Corps de Logis” in Neue Burg.  \n  \nIn 2001 the Museum of Ethnology was incorporated into the KHM-Museum Association. In April 2013 the Museum of Ethnology became the \"Weltmuseum Wien\" – a site of world cultures – at Vienna’s Heldenplatz. In October 2017, after extensive reparation and modernisation of the historical building, the Museum reopened in its entirety with 14 completely revised permanent exhibition galleries. The Museum’s collection, meanwhile, has expanded to well over 200,000 inventory numbers.","city":"Vienna","address":"Heldenplatz  \n1010 Vienna","website":"http://www.weltmuseumwien.at","phone":"+43 1 534 30-5052","email":"info@weltmuseumwien.at"},"2881eba3-5963-528b-98e1-f4c62946e3b5":{"name":"Museum of Applied Arts Budapest","description":"Located in Budapest, Hungary, following the establishment of similar intuitions in London, Vienna and Berlin, the Museum of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Múzeum) was founded by the Hungarian Parliament in 1872. Since its beginning, the Museum of Applied Arts realised the importance of handicrafts and industrial design and has collected contemporary and historical applied artworks from several sources. The core of the historical collection consists of artefacts provided by the Hungarian National Museum (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum). However, the contemporary collection has been accumulated through various purchases at world fairs (such as Vienna 1873, Paris 1878 and Paris 1889) and generous gifts from companies, like Herend Porcelain Manufactory (Herendi Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt) and Zsolnay (Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt). As the artefact collections expanded, a building was erected to accommodate their growth--the designated Museum of Applied Arts building was opened on 25 October 1896. The grand event marked the end of Hungary's Millennium celebrations and was attended by the monarch, Francis Joseph I.  \n  \nThe Museum of Applied Arts possesses one of the largest historic carpet collections worldwide. One-fourth of this circa 800-piece collection consists of Ottoman Turkish carpets from the 15th-19th centuries, making it the world's second most extensive collection of Turkish carpets. Ottoman Turkish carpets from the 16th and 17th centuries are especially present within the Museum of Applied Arts. Hungary and Transylvania's geographic location allowed for diplomatic and trade connections to acquire expensive oriental goods – horse trappings, exquisite textiles, weapons and carpets – resulting in the Museum of Applied Arts preserving a unique and great variety of Ottoman Turkish carpets from the 16th and 17th centuries.","city":"Budapest","address":"1091 Budapest,  \nÜllői út 33-37,  \nHungary  \n  \nPOSTAL ADDRESS:  \n1475 Budapest, Pf. 271.","website":"http://www.imm.hu","phone":"+36 1 4999 300","email":"titkarsag@imm.hu"},"2970af60-fdee-5b70-8e87-7b8865a0c88d":{"name":"Museum of Civilisations | Museum of Oriental Art","description":"The ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ Museum of Oriental Art opened to the public in 1958 and houses finds from several Italian archaeological missions conducted in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. As well as this are numerous objects purchased on the antique market, particularly those by Giuseppe Tucci during his voyages in Nepal and Tibet between 1928 and 1954.  \n  \nThe museum’s Islamic wing includes a rich collection of objects sourced from both archaeological excavations and private purchases. The provenance of the collection is wide-ranging including the items from the geographical territories that now make up the countries of Spain, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and India. Chronologically the material covers an extensive period from the 8th to 19th centuries CE. The collection is arranged along different classes of production including; ceramics, metal works, miniatures, manuscripts, numismatics, jewellery, textile art, glass, arms & armour and wood.  \n  \nOf particular importance is the collection of archaeological finds from the palace of the Ghaznavid Sultan, Mas’ud III (1099-1115 CE) in Ghazni, Afghanistan. The archaeology of the site and its associated finds was brought to light by excavations conducted by the Archaeological Mission of the IsMEO (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente) in the 1960’s. These consist mainly of elements of architectural decorations in brick and marble, marble funerary stones, ceramics and metals.  \n  \nThe museum's collection of Persian objects can be dated from the 8th to the 19th centuries. Ceramics from the Samanid (9th- 10th century) and Seljuk (11th -12th century) periods are well represented in the Museum collections. Ilkhanid period ceramics (13th -14th century), known for their use of ‘lajvardina’ glaze technique is also visible in the collections. The majority of metal objects within the Islamic collection stem from the Khorasan region of Eastern Iran and Western Afghanistan, a well-known historic centre for metallurgical production.  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \nSince September 2016, the National Museum of Oriental Art in Rome has merged into the new Museum of Civilisation, definitively closing in October 2017 for the transfer to its new headquarters in the Palazzo delle Scienze. While awaiting the definitive re-arrangement planned for the end of 2021, a temporary exhibition called “Open for Works” exhibits over 650 objects from the Oriental Museum (of which about 60 is considered Islamic Art) in the rooms of the Pigorini Museum.","city":"Rome","address":"Museo delle Civiltà | Museo d’arte orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”  \nPiazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Rome, Italy","website":"https://www.museodellecivilta.it/","phone":"+39 06 549521","fax":"+39 06 54952310","email":"mu-civ@cultura.gov.it"},"29d8d41a-b480-56bf-8b3d-e906281be54d":{"name":"Dar Si Said","description":"Dar Si Said is a large palatial residence built in the second half of the 19th century by Si Said Ben Moussa, who served as minister of war under the regency of his brother Ba Hmad.  \n  \nA living testimony to Moroccan art and domestic architecture of the 19th century, the monument presents architecture of grandeur and opulence.  \n  \nMost of the collections in this regional museum come from Marrakech and the southern regions of Morocco, particularly Tensift, Sous, High Atlas, Anti-Atlas, Bani and Tafilalet. These are related sets of woodwork, jewellery, vessels and ceramics, weapons, carpets and weavings, and some archaeological pieces, including a marble vat from the early 11th century.  \n  \nSince August 2002, the Dar Si Saïd Museum has been hosted an exceptional thematic exhibition focusing solely on wood: Wood – Art and Uses. Chosen from museums throughout the kingdom, the Dar Si Said Museum displays the best examples of wood art from the 12th century to today. In addition to their historical value (Almohad, Wattassid and Saadi pieces), the collections inform us about artisanal techniques (sculptures, engravings, carpentry, filming and painting) and decoration such as *tasstir* (geometric woodwork), and *mouqarnas* (ornamental vaults).  \n  \nThe exhibition is divided into four main areas:  \n– Liturgical furniture (first section on the ground floor) includes a *minbar*, rosaries and Qur’anic tablets.  \n– Architectural wood (second section on the ground floor) is represented by traditional pieces and elements of rural architecture: lintels, corbels, pedestals and doors.  \n– Domestic furnishings (upstairs) includes a wide range of furniture, chests, bridal goods, mirrors and cooking tools.  \n– Diverse objects (also upstairs) related to the various uses of wood in different fields. These are exhibited in the four rooms of the grand riad (traditional musical instruments and tools, antique weapons and objects for personal grooming).","city":"Marrakech","address":"Derb El Bahia, Riad  \nEl-Zaïtoun El-Jadid  \nMarrakech, Morocco","phone":"+212 524 389 564"},"2a23d23f-5624-56f3-828f-3db6b5689a95":{"name":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","description":"The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City – The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.  \n  \nSince it was founded in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum’s galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.  \n  \nThe Met Fifth Avenue  \n1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)  \nNew York, NY 10028  \n+1 212 535 7710  \nSunday–Thursday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nFriday and Saturday: 10:00am–9:00pm  \n  \nThe Met Breuer  \n945 Madison Avenue  \nNew York, NY 10021  \n+1 212 731 1675  \nClosed Monday  \nTuesday and Wednesday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nThursday and Friday: 10:00am–9:00pm  \nSaturday and Sunday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \n  \nThe Met Cloisters  \n99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park  \nNew York, NY 10040  \n+1 212 923 3700  \nMarch–October: 10:00am–5:15pm  \nMay 27–September 2, 2016: Open late on Fridays until 7:30pm  \nNovember–February: 10:00am–4:45pm  \n  \nAll locations closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, and January 1. The Met Fifth Avenue closed the first Monday in May.","city":"New York","address":"The Met Fifth Avenue  \n1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)  \nNew York, NY 10028  \nSunday–Thursday: 10:00am–5:30pm  \nFriday and Saturday: 10:00am–9:00pm","website":"http://www.metmuseum.org","phone":"+1 212 535 7710"},"2b1c0dc0-0010-5164-be2c-49145ffe45bb":{"name":"Museum of Macedonia","description":"The National Museum of Macedonia is a complex museum institution comprising the museums of History, Ethnography and Art History. The museum collects, researches, maintains, exhibits and publishes on objects of movable heritage in these domains. It preserves evidence of the way of life and culture in these territories from the settling of Slavs in the 6th century AD till the end of World War II. The icon gallery exhibits a collection of medieval icons including several masterpieces of Byzantine art. The highlight of the permanent display is the icon of the Virgin of Pelagonia painted by Makarie in 1422. The ethnological exhibition takes pride in the magnificent collections of folk costumes, traditional jewellery, traditional architecture, intangible heritage and musical instruments, traditional weaving, crafts and traditional husbandry.  \n  \nThe museum also includes the Documentation Section, Conservation Lab and advanced Marketing Services. The Educational Section in the museum provides guided tours and carries out elaborate educational projects focusing on different target groups.  \n  \nExtensive publishing activities have been developed throughout the years. The Museum of Macedonia has issued numerous exhibition catalogues, periodicals, monographs, studies and other publications. These are available in the museum shop, which also organises production, sales and distribution of replicas of the most outstanding museum items. All the products in the shop can be purchased on the Internet and delivered to any address.","city":"Skopje","address":"Josif Mihajlovic, 7  \n1000 Skopje  \nRepublic of Macedonia (FYROM)","phone":"+389 2 3116 044","fax":"+389 2 3116 439","email":"musmk@t-home.mk"},"2cdbceaa-4a4e-5e2e-9417-264e733de097":{"name":"Austrian Military Museum / Institute of Military History","description":"The Museum of Military History, one of the most important history museums in the world, is situated right in the centre of the Arsenal. In five major sections the museum shows the history of the Habsburg Empire from the end of the 16th century until 1918 and Austria's fate after the dissolution of the monarchy up to the year 1945. About 500 years of Austrian and European history are depicted in the collections exhibited in the main building, which, to the present day, has kept its character of an artistic synthesis, making visible, by means of thousands of original exhibits, a part of world cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe Military History Museum was built according to plans of Ludwig Foerster and Theophil Hansen from 1850 to 1856 and was thus the first Viennese museum. The styles of this town's oldest historic building range from Byzantine, Hispano-Moorish to Neo-Gothic.","city":"Vienna","address":"Arsenal Object, 1A  \n1030 Wien  \nAustria","website":"www.hgm.at/en/","phone":"+43 1 79561 0","fax":"+43 1 79561 10 17707","email":"contact@hgm.at"},"2f005cb4-4e26-5662-9d11-4deb0ef4fad8":{"name":"Museum of Arts and Crafts","description":"The Museum of Arts and Crafts was founded in 1880 by the Croatian Art Society.  \n  \nThe organisation of the Museum derived from the theoretical foundations of the Arts and Crafts movement. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the Arts and Crafts School was opened in 1882. The new headquarters building of the Museum and the School was completed in 1888, in the old Fair Square, today's Marshal Tito Square.  \n  \nThe basic collections of museum objects were created mostly from the donations of patriots. They were augmented through the purchase of several important collections from private collectors and also by programmed acquisitions, both within the country and from abroad.  \n  \nUp to World War One the Museum's scientific, professional and collection policy respected the conception laid down in the original motives underlying its establishment.  \n  \nBetween the two World Wars the concept of the Museum changed from being a collection of items to a cultural, historical and artistic institution.  \n  \nAfter World War Two the concept of modern museum communication became important, with many activities intended to involve the public.  \n  \nThe permanent display, opened in 1962, was of particular importance. Its backbone was the collection of furniture which, guided by the idea of a complex art museum that values equally all the fields of plastic arts design, was displayed in synthesis with other objects.  \n  \nThe present permanent display, created in 1995, has built on the positive experiences of earlier displays and has been broadened by new thematic units. With modern spatial differentiation and new multimedia contents the museum has become an experience which, by placing the visitor in an atmosphere of tangible historical heritage, essentially determines him or her as a cultural being.","city":"Zagreb","address":"Trg maršala Tita, 10  \n10000 Zagreb  \nCroatia","website":"http://www.muo.hr/","phone":"+385 1 4882111","fax":"+385 1 4828088","email":"muo@muo.hr"},"30450d1a-8787-5d54-abe3-c29aa7e8236b":{"name":"The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts","description":"Founded in 1860 as the Art Association of Montreal by a group of Montreal art collectors and patrons, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) was one of the first museums in North America to build up an encyclopedic collection worthy of the name. It now numbers over 41,000 works from Antiquity to today, making it unique in Canada. It comprises paintings, sculptures, graphic arts, photographs and decorative art objects displayed in four pavilions: the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion (international art), the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion (world cultures), the Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavilion (decorative arts and design) and the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion (Quebec and Canadian art). The latter, which was inaugurated in September 2011, includes a 444-seat concert hall – Bourgie Hall – featuring an important group of Tiffany stained glass windows. A fifth wing, the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace devoted to international art and education, will open in late 2016 to launch Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations.","city":"Montreal","address":"1380 Sherbrooke Street West,  \nMontreal, QC H3G 2E8  \nCanada  \n  \nPostal address:  \nP.O. Box 3000, Station “H”,  \nMontreal, Quebec H3G 2T9  \nCanada","website":"http://www.mbam.qc.ca/","phone":"+1 514 285 1600","email":"musee@mbamtl.org"},"31de84d4-3de2-5ea1-b1d4-c8712cbcb314":{"name":"Museum of Arts and Crafts","description":"The Museum of Arts and Crafts was founded in 1880 by the Croatian Art Society.  \n  \nThe organisation of the Museum derived from the theoretical foundations of the Arts and Crafts movement. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the Arts and Crafts School was opened in 1882. The new headquarters building of the Museum and the School was completed in 1888, in the old Fair Square, today's Marshal Tito Square.  \n  \nThe basic collections of museum objects were created mostly from the donations of patriots. They were augmented through the purchase of several important collections from private collectors and also by programmed acquisitions, both within the country and from abroad.  \n  \nUp to World War One the Museum's scientific, professional and collection policy respected the conception laid down in the original motives underlying its establishment.  \n  \nBetween the two World Wars the concept of the Museum changed from being a collection of items to a cultural, historical and artistic institution.  \n  \nAfter World War Two the concept of modern museum communication became important, with many activities intended to involve the public.  \n  \nThe permanent display, opened in 1962, was of particular importance. Its backbone was the collection of furniture which, guided by the idea of a complex art museum that values equally all the fields of plastic arts design, was displayed in synthesis with other objects.  \n  \nThe present permanent display, created in 1995, has built on the positive experiences of earlier displays and has been broadened by new thematic units. With modern spatial differentiation and new multimedia contents the museum has become an experience which, by placing the visitor in an atmosphere of tangible historical heritage, essentially determines him or her as a cultural being.  \n  \nFor the Baroque period the Museum's holdings include many outstanding European artefacts, especially in the applied arts, including one of the largest collections of Baroque church art in Croatia.","city":"Zagreb","address":"Trg maršala Tita, 10  \n10000 Zagreb  \nCroatia","website":"http://www.muo.hr","phone":"+385 1 4882111","fax":"+385 1 4828088","email":"muo@muo.hr"},"325b7505-1527-5442-99ea-6a40f8c43d3f":{"name":"Islamic Museum at Al-Aqsa Mosque","description":"The museum was officially inaugurated in AH 1341 / AD 1922. In AH 1348 / AD 1929, it was transferred to its present site in the southwestern corner of the Haram al-Sharif. The museum is administered through the Department of Islamic Awqaf in Jerusalem, under the auspices of the Ministry of Jordanian Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Places.  \n  \nThe museum comprises three buildings with an exhibition space of over 1,000 square m. The oldest hall is from the AH 6th / AD 12th century and is a rare Crusader monument in the holy city. The second hall was an Ayyubid mosque (AH 7th / AD 13th century) historically known as al-Malikiya mosque or the Jami’a al-Mughariba. The third hall is known as the *al-Fakhriya* corner and its history goes back to the Mamluk period (AH 8th / AD 14th century).  \n  \nThe collection consists of artefacts and remains from the Islamic and non-Islamic epochs, representing various facets of Islamic civilisation ranging in geography, theme and period. Most of the artefacts represent the heritage of al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem and Palestine at large including cities such as Hebron and Nablus.  \n  \nThe museum contains woodwork from different Islamic eras, the oldest dating to the Umayyad period. Metalwork in iron, copper and silver includes the iron enclosure from the Dome of the Rock, candlesticks, swords, daggers, daises, incense burners, coins, rings and memorial pieces. The collection includes marble and glazed tiles that panelled the the Dome of the Rock in the period of Sultan Sülayman the Magnificent (r. AH 926–74 / AD 1520–66) and his successors. There is a collection of earthenware, inscriptions on stone from different Islamic periods and its precursors, and columns and capitals from the Roman and Byzantine periods. There is a valuable collection of Qur’ans, the oldest from the AH 9th / AD 15 th century, and many Mamluk manuscripts whose themes deal with social and economic life in the holy city. The museum displays part of its textile collection, with costumes, grave coverings, pieces from the *kiswa* (covering) of the Ka’ba and pieces of carpet.","city":"Jerusalem","address":"Al-Haram al-Sharif  \nAmro  \nP.O. Box 75085  \nJerusalem","website":"http://www.facebook.com/islamic.museum1922/","phone":"02 6283286","fax":"02 6283286","email":"jerusalem.museum@gmail.com"},"36670bdc-150b-5f89-8906-79b8e4e2518d":{"name":"The David Collection","description":"The David Collection was founded by C. L. David (1878-1960), a prominent Danish attorney, who had begun to collect fine and decorative art in the 1910s. In this last field, he was aided by directors of the Danish Museum of Art and Design, who gradually also guided him to another area that had previously attracted little interest in Denmark: Islamic art. The Islamic part of David’s collection was, however, still rather modest at the time of his death in 1960.  \n  \nA bachelor and childless, C. L. David left his Copenhagen townhouse and works of art to a private foundation, along with financial means that made it possible to expand his collections. From the 1970s, a decision was consequently made to place increasing emphasis on expanding the Islamic holdings. The Islamic Collection has grown to become not only the museum’s most important, with over 4,000 objects, but also Scandinavia’s most significant in its field.  \n  \nThe Islamic Collection has been built up in keeping with the classical pattern for Western collections of this kind. It embodies works of art from Spain in the west to India in the east, but not works from Sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia. Chronologically, the collection ranges from works dating to shortly after the advent of Islam to the middle of the 19th century. The collection encompasses all types of materials, but since the small rooms of 19th-century buildings like C. L. David’s townhouse, now the museum’s home, make it impossible to exhibit large objects, the museum consequently has only a modest collection of carpets, and they are either of small size or fragments of larger carpets.  \n  \nFollowing the museum’s refurbishment and reinstallation of its collections in 2009, the David Collection is now divided into three parts: European 18th-Century Art, Danish Early Modern Art, and Islamic Art. The collection of Islamic Art is presented in a new, contemporary setting, enhanced by digital and other modern techniques used to elucidate the objects on display. The backbone of the collection is 20 chronological/geographical sections, but the display also contains special galleries for light-sensitive materials as well as others dedicated to themes such as cultural history and artistic techniques.","city":"Copenhagen","address":"Kronprinsessegade, 30  \nCopenhagen  \nDenmark  \n  \nPostal address: Kronprinsessegade 30-32","website":"http://www.davidmus.dk/en","phone":"+45 33734949","fax":"+45 33734948","email":"museum@davidmus.dk"},"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"},"42eb1281-cf64-5be3-9aeb-3b6b9a72e3f7":{"name":"National Museum in Kraków ‒ MNK","description":"The National Museum in Kraków ‒ MNK, founded in 1879, is the oldest public museum in Poland.  \n  \nThe Museum stores rich collections of European and world cultural heritage ‒ almost 780,000 objects from every period of history.  \n  \nThe core of the collection is Polish art (painting, sculpture, drawing and decorative art), though there are also numerous western European works, a collection of religious art related to the Orthodox Church, and an extremely valuable collection of Oriental art, mainly from Japan.  \n  \nThe MNK possesses a separate collection of ancient art, collections of medieval and modern art, craft, arms and armour and recent works acquired from contemporary artists. Besides works of art, the Museum also keeps library collections (including old prints, manuscripts and cartography), numismatics and historical photographs.  \n  \nThe Museum also conducts scientific research and conservation in its own conservation workshops.  \n  \nThe Museum popularises this valuable heritage by arranging permanent exhibitions, temporary exhibitions in Poland and abroad, as well as various educational workshops for adults and children, realised in cooperation with many societies and foundations. The best evidence of the Museum’s commitment and event-management skills is seen in the numbers: in 2015, over 800,000 visitors attended exhibitions and events organised by the MNK.  \n  \nIn addition, the National Museum in Kraków is recognised for its record of realising local, national and international projects funded by the European Union and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. To fulfil its mission, the Museum protects the national legacy put in its care, and in doing so applies the latest technologies, yet not without due respect for tradition.","city":"Kraków","address":"Al. 3 Maja, 1  \n30-062 Kraków  \nPoland","website":"http://www.mnk.pl","phone":"+48 12 433 55 00","fax":"+48 12 433 55 55","email":"dyrekcja@mnk.pl"},"4456ae4f-8839-5955-824e-44355a235903":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Bologna**  \n  \nArt Collection of the Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna  \n[http://www.fondazionecarisbo.it/](http://www.fondazionecarisbo.it/)  \n  \nCivic Museum of the Risorgimento, Certosa of Bologna  \n[http://www.comune.bologna.it/museorisorgimento/](http://www.comune.bologna.it/museorisorgimento/)  \n[http://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/certosa](http://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/certosa)  \n  \nEcclesiastical Cultural Heritage Office of the Diocese of Bologna  \n  \nInternational Museum and Music Library  \n[http://www.museomusicabologna.it/](http://www.museomusicabologna.it/)  \n  \nMuseums at Palazzo Poggi, University of Bologna  \n[http://www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it/](http://www.museopalazzopoggi.unibo.it/)","city":"Bologna"},"48a95fcc-1e73-5c2a-b2b7-c1e8072a42e8":{"name":"MATHAF","description":"Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art serves as the Arab world’s leading museum of modern and contemporary art. The museum offers a welcoming, vibrant environment that invites evolving discussions about modern art in the region and beyond. Home to a permanent collection that offers a distinctively unique comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art from North Africa and the Middle East, Mathaf (“museum” in Arabic) also performs an important role as a centre for dialogue and scholarship and a resource for fostering creativity. Mathaf was opened by Qatar Museums (QM) in partnership with Qatar Foundation (QF) in 2010 and is located in Doha’s Education City.  \n  \nOver the past 10 years, Mathaf has made major contributions to research and debate around modern and contemporary art. The Museum evolved into a meeting point for art practitioners and scholars from across the region around education programmes, conferences and publications. In looking ahead to the next decade, Mathaf will continue to serve as a dynamic platform for artists, facilitating the creation and exploration of contemporary works that presents and examines their society and culture while further expanding its global reach through the large-scale digitisation of the museum, providing experience and knowledge of the Mathaf collection through the texts of the Mathaf Encyclopedia specialised in art history, criticism and thought.","city":"Doha","address":"Education City, Qatar Foundation, P.O. Box 2777, Doha, Qatar","website":"http:// mathaf.org.qa/en/","phone":"+974 4402 8830","email":"mathaf@qm.org.qa"},"51cf5c23-c4db-50c3-ac00-9fdeecc2adec":{"name":"MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art","description":"The MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art – is one of the foremost museums of its kind in the world. The building located on Stubenring in the 1st district of Vienna was founded in 1863 as the k.k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry) and today houses a unique collection of applied arts, design, architecture and contemporary art.  \n  \nThe MAK collection encompasses European and international decorative arts ranging from the Early Middle Ages to the present. The museum's main holdings include textiles, ceramics, glass, furniture and metalwork as well as exquisite objects of the Wiener Werkstätte (craftworks) and Art Nouveau. Its collection of Oriental carpets and East Asian art are of the highest international significance.  \n  \nAmong the objects from the Islamic world, the collection of Oriental carpets is pre-eminent, and the museum holds the largest collection worldwide of paintings of the *Hamzanama* from the era of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. Important examples of the applied arts are preserved in the MAK Asia Collection, which most notably include objects from Iran and the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Vienna","address":"Stubenring, 5  \nA-1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.mak.at","phone":"+43 1 711 36-248","fax":"+43 1 713 10 26","email":"office@MAK.at"},"559ab197-7289-5af4-a295-1118bde9afce":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, State Museums","description":"**The Museum of Islamic Art is closed from October 2023 to March 2027 due to renovation and expansion works.**  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Berlin is the only institution of its kind in Germany, the oldest in the West and with its c. 93,000 pieces it houses one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from nearly all regions of Islamic rule.  \n  \nIts collections are especially rich in objects from an architectural context including the monumental façade of the caliphal palace of Mshatta (Jordan), dating from the mid-8th century. It is the largest artefact of Islamic Art in any museum worldwide. The unique dome from the Alhambra Palace in Granada (Spain) and 13th-century prayer niches from Kashan (Iran) and Konya (Turkey) are among the highlights. Most loved by our visitors is the finely painted wooden panelling of an upper-class house from Aleppo (Syria) from the early 17th century – it is the oldest surviving exemplar from the Ottoman World. Among the several archaeological groups from major excavations in the Islamic world the finds from the 9th-century caliphal capital of Samarra (Iraq) stand out. The collection also has a large number of important Ottoman and Persian carpets and bibliographical works of art, including numerous miniatures from the Mughal Empire.  \n  \nThe collection is displayed chronologically, allowing the visitor to follow the different stylistic phases of Islamic art and to develop a notion of the complex Islamic history and its artistic merits. Because of the large number of visitors (up to 900,000 yearly), only a small number of the most important works of art are on display. The museum will move inside Pergamon-Museum and will triple its exhibition space (3,000sq.m) by 2020. The layout and concept will discover new and innovative ways to present the cultural legacy.  \n  \nWith its rich art and archaeological collection, the Museum of Islamic Art is one of the leading research institutions dedicated to the material culture of the Middle East and neighbouring regions. Our many research, conservation and exhibition projects amount to a probing investigation of the urban legacies of the Near and Middle East. The institution houses important collections of archival photographs on Islamic art and architecture as well as an internationally outstanding library focused on art, architecture and archaeology in the world of Islam.","city":"Berlin","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","fax":"+49 30 266 42 5202","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"580cdad2-5404-58c6-b0fb-d45e73ede7cb":{"name":"Edirne Museum","description":"The Edirne Archaeology and Ethnography Museum, opened in 1971, consists of archaeology and ethnography sections and a garden exhibition area. Located near the eastern gate of Selimiye Mosque, it stands beside the grounds where Ottoman tombstones are displayed. At the entrance, an Aiol column capital from the Enez temple greets visitors, while the southern section highlights Ottoman water culture with examples such as Edirne fishponds and birdhouses.  \n  \nThe ethnography halls feature Balkan traditional clothes, calligraphy samples, carpets, rugs and reconstructions of spaces such as the Edirne Bridal Room and a Living Room. Among the exhibits are also items personally used by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during his visit to Edirne.  \n  \nThe archaeology section begins with fossils, including rhino and horse remains discovered in the region. Thracian artifacts, such as cavalry relief steles and marble statues, are displayed alongside finds from excavations. Enez, once an important port city linking the Balkans, Anatolia and the Aegean, provides some of the museum’s most valuable objects. Excavations there, conducted since 1971, revealed continuous settlement from the Neolithic Age to the present. Engraved amphorae, terracotta figurines, ceramics, marble pieces, steles and ornaments highlight this collection.  \nArtifacts seized at border gates such as Kapıkule and İpsala, together with a diverse range of Anatolian Civilizations objects, enrich the museum. Glassware, jewellery, terracotta works, statues and thousands of coins are exhibited, offering a wide perspective on the region’s cultural heritage.","city":"Edirne","address":"Meydan Mah. Kadirpaşa Mektep Sok. No:7","website":"https://www.turkishmuseums.com/museum/detail/2037-edirne-museum/2037/4","phone":"+90 284 225 11 20"},"5a99ecbe-b976-5037-8760-a07c629142f6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia - from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are housed in the Neue Burg (i.e. the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury), and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Vienna","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"5c8c36bb-1ee8-5468-bdc7-ec865b742d71":{"name":"National Museum of Art of Romania","description":"The National Museum of Art of Romania was founded in 1948 with works drawn from local private and public collections, as well as from the royal collection. It has been housed ever since in the former royal palace situated in the very heart of Bucharest. The Museum is home to the largest and finest art collection in the country. The current holdings, which include over 100,000 works, are divided among five curatorial departments, one of them dedicated to Oriental art.  \n  \nSince its establishment in 1954, the Oriental art collection of the Museum has been steadily expanded and consolidated around two main areas of interest: Islamic art, on the one hand, Chinese and Japanese art, on the other. It is the largest Oriental collection housed by a Romanian museum, and it consists of items from the royal collection, the Toma Stelian Museum, as well as gifts and acquisitions. The Department of Oriental Art currently holds over 5,000 objects. The holdings of three other departments of the Museum, namely the Department of Medieval Romanian Art, that of Decorative Art, as well as the Art Collections Museum (which is part of the National Museum of Art of Romania) include notable Islamic artworks, some of which have been selected for this site.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition was closed for a much-needed ample renovation of the building, and will be redisplayed in newly refurbished areas in compliance with European standards of conservation. Meanwhile, exhibitions of Oriental art are being shown regularly. About four hundred carpets covering a wide geographical area and spanning four centuries are at the core of the collection of Islamic art. Even though less extensive, the collections of ceramics, embroideries, and metalwork boast some outstanding works, providing a meaningful insight into distinct areas of Islamic art.  \n  \nAlongside the Art Collections Museum, which holds a considerable number of Islamic artefacts donated over the years by Romanian art collectors, the National Museum of Art of Romania manages two other museums in Bucharest: K. H. Zambaccian Museum and Theodor Pallady Museum.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Calea Victoriei 49-53  \nsector 1  \n010063 Bucureşti","website":"https://www.mnar.arts.ro/en/","phone":"+40 21 313 30 30","fax":"+40 21 312 43 27","email":"secretariat@art.museum.ro"},"5d522a8a-1898-5ba2-ad72-6707194ec569":{"name":"National Museum of Ancient Art ‒ MNAA","description":"Created in 1884, and housed in the Palácio Alvor for almost 130 years, the National Museum of Ancient Art ‒ MNAA ‒ has held its current title for more than a century. It is the home to Portugal’s most important public art collection, one that ranges from paintings to sculpture and gold and silverware, as well as decorative arts from Europe, Africa and the Far East.  \nComprising over 40,000 items, the MNAA collection has the largest number of works classified by the Portuguese State as “National treasures”. In its various sections, it also holds a number of major works of art in the context of world artistic heritage.  \n  \nAs a historical legacy (as a result of the incorporation of both the country’s ecclesiastical property and the contents of its royal palaces), the MNAA collection has been further enhanced over the years through generous donations and important purchases. The MNAA collection illustrates at a level of objective excellence some of the most accomplished and precious works of art produced by or accumulated in the above-mentioned ecclesiastical and royal properties in Portugal, between the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Contemporary Era.  \n  \nAs a major partner in international collaborations between museums, the MNAA historically has enjoyed a reputation and the respect among the world’s major national museums. The MNAA has helped establish the accepted norms for good practice in keeping with international standards, both in the area of conservation and museum management and under the scope of its educational services, which are considered a pioneering body in Portugal.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua das Janelas Verdes  \n1249‒017 Lisbon  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.museudearteantiga.pt/","phone":"+351 213 912 800","email":"geral@mnaa.dgpc.pt"},"5db20458-bdcf-5050-98fb-3fb2d1392a0a":{"name":"Museum for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities","description":"When it was founded in 1954, the Museum for Mediterranean and Near East Antiquities comprised collections of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Cypriote antiquities. As a department of the National History Museum, the museum was primarily of an archaeological nature aimed at showing the origins of western civilization. However, in 1982, a large part of the Swedish collections of Islamic art were added to it, in response to increasing understanding of the Mediterranean countries as a region of close relations and interactions over the centuries. With its incorporation, in 1999, in the National Museum of World Culture, an organization consisting of the four Swedish state museums with foreign collections, the focus changed to the diversity of culture within the region of the Mediterranean and in relation to the rest of the world.  \n  \nThe Islamic collection of the museum consists of ceramics, metal works, textiles and miniatures, mostly from Iran and Turkey. It also includes well-known collections such as the so-called Hannibal collection of glass fragments. Although Sweden does not border any Islamic lands, there are many cultural objects in archives, libraries and other museums testifying to its diplomatic and commercial relations with Islamic countries. Examples from these institutions were selected to characterize the development of the Islamic collections in Sweden.  \n  \nThe Islamic collection is displayed in two rooms accessible from the main hall. As an introduction, the Muslim way of life is depicted by objects from a religious context. The exhibition itself displays artefacts from different regions and periods and of various materials according to aesthetic traditions. Located near finds from other Mediterranean cultures the exhibition encourages visitors to understand relationships, traditions and influences.","city":"Stockholm","address":"Fredsgatan 2  \nBox 16008  \n10321 Stockholm, Sweden","website":"http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/medelhavsmuseet/","phone":"+46 010 456 12 00","email":"info@medelhavsmuseet.se"},"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"},"6021cc63-7507-5dd7-8c81-4b04847b92d2":{"name":"Ethnography Museum","description":"The Ethnography Museum is located on a hill donated by the General Directorate of Foundations to the Ministry of National Education. The architect Arif Hikmet (Koyunoğlu) is one of the most renowned architects of the early Republican period. The building has a rectangular plan with a single dome. The stone walls are faced with coarse sandstone, and the marble pediment has carved decoration.  \n  \nA special commission to collect and purchase artefacts was established in Istanbul, headed by Prof. Celal Esad (Arseven) in 1924 and then by Halil Ethem (Eldem), Director of Istanbul Museums, in 1925. 1,250 purchased artefacts were placed in the museum whose construction was completed in 1927. Hamit Zübeyr Koşay was appointed as the director. The equestrian bronze statue of Atatürk that stands in front of the Museum was made by the Italian sculptor B. Conanica at the request of the Ministry of National Education in 1927.  \n  \nOn 15 April 1928, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) visited the museum and on his request the museum was opened to public on 18 July 1930 on the occasion of the visit of Afghan King Amanullah Han. In November 1938 the inner courtyard was reserved as a temporary mausoleum for Atatürk until his body was transferred to his own mausoleum, the Anıtkabir, in 1953. This section is stil kept as a symbolic cenotaph in Atatürk’s memory. Between 1953 and 1956, renovations were carried out for the International Museums Week in 1956 when the museum was reopened to the public.  \n  \nThe Ethnography Museum houses examples of Turkish art dating from the Seljuq period to modern times.  \n  \nTo the right of the entrance are halls displaying items related to the Anatolian wedding ceremony and bridal dresses, Turkish embroidery, Turkish carpets, Anatolian coffee culture and the circumcision ceremony.  \n  \nTo the left of the entrance are halls housing tile and glass artefacts, objects donated by Besim Atalay, Ottoman calligraphy and some of the finest wooden artefacts from the Seljuq and Emirate periods.","city":"Ankara","address":"Talatpaşa Bulvarı, Ülkü Sokak, 4  \n(Eski Türk Ocağı yanı) Opera  \nAnkara, Turkey","website":"https://muze.gov.tr/muze-detay?SectionId=AET01&DistId=MRK","phone":"+90 312 311 30 07","fax":"+90 312 311 95 56","email":"ankaraetnografyamuze@kultur.gov.tr"},"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"},"646d2ec3-07ab-58ec-88a5-80936d9d1b9a":{"name":"Ankara Ethnography Museum","description":"The Ethnography Museum is located on a hill donated by the General Directorate of Foundations to the Ministry of National Education. The architect Arif Hikmet (Koyunoğlu) is one of the most renowned architects of the early Republican period. The building has a rectangular plan with a single dome. The stone walls are faced with coarse sandstone, and the marble pediment has carved decoration.  \n  \nA special commission to collect and purchase artefacts was established in Istanbul, headed by Prof. Celal Esad (Arseven) in 1924 and then by Halil Ethem (Eldem), Director of Istanbul Museums, in 1925. 1,250 purchased artefacts were placed in the museum whose construction was completed in 1927. Hamit Zübeyr Koşay was appointed as the director. The equestrian bronze statue of Atatürk that stands in front of the Museum was made by the Italian sculptor B. Conanica at the request of the Ministry of National Education in 1927.  \n  \nOn 15 April 1928, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) visited the museum and on his request the museum was opened to public on 18 July 1930 on the occasion of the visit of Afghan King Amanullah Han. In November 1938 the inner courtyard was reserved as a temporary mausoleum for Atatürk until his body was transferred to his own mausoleum, the Anıtkabir, in 1953. This section is stil kept as a symbolic cenotaph in Atatürk’s memory. Between 1953 and 1956, renovations were carried out for the International Museums Week in 1956 when the museum was reopened to the public.  \n  \nThe Ethnography Museum houses examples of Turkish art dating from the Seljuq period to modern times.  \n  \nTo the right of the entrance are halls displaying items related to the Anatolian wedding ceremony and bridal dresses, Turkish embroidery, Turkish carpets, Anatolian coffee culture and the circumcision ceremony.  \n  \nTo the left of the entrance are halls housing tile and glass artefacts, objects donated by Besim Atalay, Ottoman calligraphy and some of the finest wooden artefacts from the Seljuq and Emirate periods.","city":"Ankara","address":"Talatpaşa Bulvarı, Ülkü Sokak, 4  \n(Eski Türk Ocağı yanı) Opera  \nAnkara, Turkey","website":"https://muze.gov.tr/muze-detay?SectionId=AET01&DistId=MRK","phone":"+90 312 311 30 07","fax":"+90 312 311 95 56","email":"ankaraetnografyamuze@kultur.gov.tr"},"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"},"6502b77d-6a33-5675-bcdf-5e8765f63fbd":{"name":"Museum of the Arab World Institute","description":"The 'institut du monde arabe' (Museum of the Arab world) in Paris houses a museum, labeled as a \"Musée de France,\" dedicated to the discovery and promotion of Arab culture. Located in the heart of the French capital, it holds a rich and diverse collection of artworks, historical objects, and cultural artifacts representing the various facets of the Arab world beyond stereotypes, showcasing its full diversity of cultures, ethnicities, languages, and faiths, from its origins to the present day. The museum's permanent and temporary exhibitions explore various themes covering a historical range from ancient Mediterranean civilizations to contemporary times, thanks to a rich collection of Islamic art and ethnographic objects as well as a collection of modern and contemporary artworks. The remarkable architecture of the building, designed by Jean Nouvel, blends tradition and modernity, offering visitors an immersive and captivating experience. The museum also offers educational activities, lectures, film screenings, and special events throughout the year, aiming to raise awareness about the richness and diversity of Arab culture. With its commitment to promoting intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding, the Institut du monde arabe's museum is a must-visit destination for art enthusiasts and curious individuals eager to explore the treasures of Arab heritage.","city":"Paris","address":"1, rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard  \nPlace Mohammed V  \n75 236 Paris Cédex 5","website":"https://www.imarabe.org/fr","phone":"+33 (0)1 40 51 38 38"},"6da08597-8da7-5d02-a911-09a5273c1265":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska Museet)**  \nBox 5428  \nNarvavägen 13–17  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955600  \n[www.historiska.se](http://www.historiska.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Ethnography (Etnografiska museet)**  \nDjurgårdsbrunnsvägen 34,  \nBox 27140,  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 010 4561299  \n[www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/](http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/)  \n  \n**National Museum of Fine Arts (Nationalmuseum)**  \nBox 16176  \n103 24 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Södra Blasieholmshamnen  \nTel.: +46 8 51954300  \n[www.nationalmuseum.se](http://www.nationalmuseum.se)  \n  \n**Royal Coin Cabinet (Kungl. Myntkabinettet)**  \nSlottsbacken 6,  \nBox 5428  \n114 84 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 51955300  \n[www.myntkabinettet.se](http://www.myntkabinettet.se)  \n  \n**Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren)**  \nSlottsbacken 3,  \n111 30 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 8 4023000  \n[www.lrk.lsh.se](http://www.lrk.lsh.se)  \n  \n**National Maritime Museum (Sjöhistoriska museet)**  \nBox 27131  \n102 52 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 24  \nTel.: +46 8 51954900  \n[www.sjohistoriska.se](http://www.sjohistoriska.se)  \n  \n**Army Museum (Armémuseum)**  \nBox 14095,  \n104 41 Stockholm  \nAddress for visitors: Riddargatan 13  \nTel.: +46 8 51956310  \n[www.sfhm.se](http://www.sfhm.se)  \n  \n**Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet)**  \nFyrverkarbacken 13,  \nBox 12541,  \n102 29 Stockholm  \nTel: +46 010 4767000  \n[www.riksarkivet.se](http://www.riksarkivet.se)  \n  \n**Hallwyl Museum (Hallwylska Museet)**  \nHamngatan 4,  \n111 47 Stockholm  \nTel.: +46 8 4023099  \n[http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se](http://www.hallwylskamuseet.se)  \n  \n**Museum of Cultural History**  \nBox 1095  \n221 04 Lund  \nAddress for visitors:  \nTegnérsplatsen  \n223 50 Lund  \nTel.: +46 046 350400  \n[www.kulturen.com](http://www.kulturen.com)  \n  \n**Uppsala University Library**  \nBox 510,  \n751 20 Uppsala  \nAddress for visitors: Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1  \nTel.: +46 18 4713900  \n[www.ub.uu.se](http://www.ub.uu.se)"},"6f59c776-1dfb-5c86-a785-81769fa9be34":{"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"},"70de1706-9586-5047-bb4b-f1cf7fb14120":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Tavira Municipal Museum**  \nTavira, Faro, Portugal  \n  \n**National Museum of Ancient Art**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Moura Municipal Museum**  \nMoura, Beja, Portugal  \n  \n**Santarém Municipal Museum**  \nSantarém, Portugal  \n  \n**Lisbon Cathedral**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Carmo Museum of Archaeology**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**City Museum**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Cathedral of Braga Treasury**  \nBraga, Portugal  \n  \n**Infante D. Henrique Archaeological and Lapidary Museum**  \nFaro, Portugal  \n  \n**Évora Museum**  \nÉvora, Portugal  \n  \n**National Museum of Archaeology**  \nLisbon, Portugal  \n  \n**Queen Leonor Regional Museum**  \nBeja, Portugal  \n  \n**Machado de Castro National Museum**  \nCoimbra, Portugal"},"71715b75-3521-53ee-8c85-91fca0b977d0":{"name":"National Museums Scotland","description":"The collections of what is now National Museums Scotland were built over more than two centuries, with two strands of history coming together in the story of the organisation’s development. First the desire to have a museum reflecting Scottish history and second the wish to have a museum demonstrating international cultures, natural and physical sciences, and decorative art for Scotland.  \n  \nThe Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in 1780, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment, to collect the archaeology of Scotland. Its collections passed into public ownership in 1851 as the original collections of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. In 1985 the National Museum of Antiquities was amalgamated with the Royal Scottish Museum. The latter was founded in 1854 as the Industrial Museum of Scotland and reflected the impetus of Victorian ideals of education. It started international collecting and research as well as forming close links to the collections and teaching of Edinburgh University, which continue today. Renamed the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, it opened in its first bespoke buildings, designed by Francis Fowke, on Chambers Street in 1866. The 1985 amalgamation created the largest multi-disciplinary museum in Scotland, with 12 million items in its collections and the largest body of curatorial and conservation expertise in the country. Today, National Museums Scotland includes the National Museum of Scotland, the National War Museum, and the National Museums Collections Centre - a research, storage, and conservation facility in Edinburgh, as well as the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian, and the National Museum of Rural Life in Lanarkshire.  \n  \nNational Museums Scotland started acquiring material culture from West Asia and North Africa in 1854. Today, material from West Asia comprises more than 4,000 items from a geographical area that spans from Turkey to Central Asia to Yemen, alongside over 500 objects in our collections from North African countries. Dating from the 7th to the 21st centuries, they give an insight into the past and the present of the people living in these regions, particularly through representations of their different crafts, and the skills and social values associated with them. The museum’s collections reflect British and Scottish collectors’ interests in the Islamic world and embody entangled colonial histories and interrelations.","city":"Edinburgh","address":"Chambers Street,  \nEdinburgh EH1 1JF","website":"http://www.nms.ac.uk","phone":"+ 44 (0)300 123 6789","email":"info@nms.ac.uk"},"7712e497-33e4-5529-91c3-47abff00f87c":{"name":"National Archaeological Museum","description":"The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional or MAN) is Spain’s most important museum of history. It preserves, researches and presents its collections of archaeology, art and history to the public. In doing so, the museum aspires to offer all visitors an accurate, attractive, interesting and critical interpretation of the meaning of objects from the past, in the hopes that a deeper knowledge of history will help them to better analyse and understand the reality of today. Given the relevance and scope of its collections, the National Archaeological Museum is comparable in its specialty to prominent Spanish museums (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía or the Royal Collections Gallery), by showing our country’s diversity and affluence in terms of cultural history.  \n  \nThe museum occupies a monumental building in the heart of the Salamanca quarter, one of Madrid’s busiest shopping and leisure districts, and is strategically positioned along the Recoletos-Prado artery, which boasts the highest concentration of art and culture institutions in the city. The museum’s magnificent building in the heart of Madrid offers a historical infrastructure — complete with building, garden and fence —which is fully renovated and accessible.  \n  \nThe MAN has grown and evolved constantly since it was created in 1867, almost 160 years ago, and is still changing today to meet the needs of the 21st century. After a complete overhaul between 2008 and 2014, the institution reopened in April 2014 with a brand-new look and layout, claiming its place among Europe’s most modern museums. The renovated building is divided into six floors and has a total surface area of nearly 30,000 m2, of which 18,304 m2 are reserved for public use (the permanent exhibition alone occupies 9,239 m2). The museum has also been fitted out with different service areas, including a spacious vestibule, café, shop and activity rooms.  \n  \nThe MAN’s extraordinary collection, which includes a large number of priceless historical and cultural artefacts, comprises over one million archaeological, historical and artistic objects.  \n  \nIts holdings are vast and varied: Palaeolithic bifaces, practically the only tool in existence for millennia; delicate ivory carvings that combine aesthetic appeal with practical functionality; prehistoric engravings found in the Cave of El Castillo, evidence of humanity’s earliest artistic and symbolic expressions; the abstract aesthetics of the “Idol of Extremadura”; the classical, timeless beauty of the Lady of Elche; ancient Roman sculptures; the extraordinary treasure of Guarrazar; the Romanesque crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha; the lovely equestrian figure of Hector by Il Filarete; and the ornamental paintings of Luis Paret on a Baroque armchair are just some of the treasures it houses.  \n  \nThe Museum's Islamic Art collection largely comes from the different historical periods of Al-Andalus, the name that the Muslims gave to the territory they conquered in the Iberian Peninsula. The aesthetic quality achieved by Andalusian art is demonstrated in the capitals, arches, marble panels and alabaster and plaster decorations of the period, especially from the Caliphate of Córdoba. Added to this is the museum's collection of decorative and highly refined objects made in the Andalusian palace workshops, such as metal, ivory and glazed ceramics. Likewise, a large collection of objects is preserved that show the symbiosis of Hispano-Islamic and Christian forms in the Iberian Peninsula, as the dome of the Torrijos Palace.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001  \nMadrid, Spain","website":"http://www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","fax":"+34 91 432 68 40","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"7df32468-b6ba-51bb-bf7d-829daebb9ef6":{"name":"Mohammed VI Museum for the Civilisation of Water in Morocco","description":"The Mohammed VI Museum of Water Civilisation in Morocco is a historical, scientific, cultural, educational, and recreational space unique to Morocco and Africa. It is the result of the commitment by the Ministry of Habous and Islamic Affairs to preserve Morocco’s hydraulic heritage.  \n  \nThe museum was established in recognition of Moroccan ingenuity in water management through tools and techniques historically adapted to the country’s ecosystems and geomorphology. It serves as a tribute to the dam policy and water laws introduced by the late King Hassan II. It acknowledges the vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI in developing modern water infrastructure, which led to the National Water Strategy for 2030 and the National Water Plan for 2020–2050.  \n  \nThis museum is the first building specifically designed to showcase the history of water management in Morocco. Its inauguration was honoured by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan on 5 January 2017, and it opened to the public in May of that year. In June 2019, the Crown Prince was elected to the steering committee of Wamu-Net, a global network of water museums affiliated with UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO-IHP). In 2021, he was promoted to the position of vice president.  \n  \nBeyond its primary mission of raising awareness about the importance of water resources, and urging short- and long-term behavioural changes in water usage, the museum encourages visitors to appreciate Moroccan water engineering through the centuries.  \nAs a bridge between past and present, the Mohammed VI Museum for the Civilisation of Water in Morocco invites people to experience the history, heritage, and rich hydraulic culture of Morocco, and to share that heritage through accessible scientific and cultural programs intended for a wide audience.  \n  \nThe museum covers 20,000 square metres. It includes permanent exhibition space; rooms for education, events, and meetings; a cafeteria, gift shop, and offices. Its ideal location at the entrance to the *Palmeraie* (Palm Grove) enhances the social and cultural life of Marrakech.","city":"Marrakech","address":"Entrance of the palm grove circuit Abdelkrim El Khattabi Avenue Road to Casablanca- Marrakech 40000.","website":"www.museeaman.ma","fax":"+212524291592","email":"museemohammedvi.aman@gmail.com"},"7ebb1bd0-65c4-52db-bd88-e46008069989":{"name":"National Museum in Kraków ‒ MNK","description":"The National Museum in Kraków ‒ MNK, founded in 1879, is the oldest public museum in Poland.  \n  \nThe Museum stores rich collections of European and world cultural heritage ‒ almost 780,000 objects from every period of history.  \n  \nThe core of the collection is Polish art (painting, sculpture, drawing and decorative art), though there are also numerous western European works, a collection of religious art related to the Orthodox Church, and an extremely valuable collection of Oriental art, mainly from Japan.  \n  \nThe MNK possesses a separate collection of ancient art, collections of medieval and modern art, craft, arms and armour and recent works acquired from contemporary artists. Besides works of art, the Museum also keeps library collections (including old prints, manuscripts and cartography), numismatics and historical photographs.  \n  \nThe Museum also conducts scientific research and conservation in its own conservation workshops.  \n  \nThe Museum popularises this valuable heritage by arranging permanent exhibitions, temporary exhibitions in Poland and abroad, as well as various educational workshops for adults and children, realised in cooperation with many societies and foundations. The best evidence of the Museum’s commitment and event-management skills is seen in the numbers: in 2015, over 800,000 visitors attended exhibitions and events organised by the MNK.  \n  \nIn addition, the National Museum in Kraków is recognised for its record of realising local, national and international projects funded by the European Union and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. To fulfil its mission, the Museum protects the national legacy put in its care, and in doing so applies the latest technologies, yet not without due respect for tradition.","city":"Kraków","address":"Al. 3 Maja, 1  \n30-062 Kraków  \nPoland","website":"http://www.mnk.pl","phone":"+48 12 433 55 00","fax":"+48 12 433 55 55","email":"dyrekcja@mnk.pl"},"85fff507-bb71-531b-85a8-f2b6d6324d8e":{"name":"Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art","description":"Built in Honolulu, Hawai'i from 1936–1938, Shangri La overlooks the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Head and houses Doris Duke’s (1912–1993) collection of Islamic art. Of the many homes that Duke inhabited, Shangri La is the only one that she built from the ground up and filled from the inside out.  \n  \nThe five-acre complex integrates a 14,000-square-foot house, a Playhouse, and a pool, comprising a series of interlocking spaces, both indoors and out: rooms, courtyards, lanais, terraces, gardens, and numerous water features. While design and early construction were underway, Duke traveled extensively in the Middle East, visiting historical monuments and providing the architect with photographs of architectural decoration to be incorporated into Shangri La's design. She also placed large commissions with contemporary artisans in India, Morocco, Iran, and Syria to create art and architectural elements, utilizing traditional forms, patterns, and means of fabrication.  \n  \nFor nearly 60 years, Doris Duke continued to collect Islamic art, ultimately forming a collection of about 2,500 objects, many of which are embedded into the structure of the house. Iranian ceramic tile panels, carved and painted ceilings from Morocco, jali (perforated screen) doors and windows, and textiles and carpets create a living environment of Islamic art and architectural decoration.  \n  \nThe later centuries of production (c. 1600–1940) are better represented, and ceramics, metalwork, wood, glass and textiles are favored over the arts of the book and works on paper. The collection ranges from items of the finest artistic quality, including medieval Persian tilework and painted interiors from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Damascus, to ethnographic objects such as leather saddles and a bedouin-style tent, reflecting Duke's broad and inclusive sense of aesthetics.  \n  \nToday, Shangri La is nationally recognized for its high artistic value and as one of Hawai'i's most architecturally significant homes. It is open to the public for guided tours and educational programs such as lectures, performances and occasional symposia. Shangri La also supports residencies for contemporary artists and for scholars researching Islamic art.","city":"Honolulu","address":"4055 Papu Circle  \nHonolulu, HI 96816","website":"http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/","phone":"(808) 734-1941","fax":"(808) 732-4361","email":"shangrilahawaii@ddcf.org"},"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"},"8a41ae85-1217-5a1f-a8f2-68da1d74234d":{"name":"National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art","description":"The National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa. The collection was set up in 1835, five years after the French occupation, by the then Governor General Marshal Clauzel who appointed Adrien Berbrugger as its first curator. From 1838 onward, the early museum hosted pieces, of Algerian provenance, from Antiquity up until the Ottoman periods. Between 1838 and 1896, this early museum occupied different places of the lower Casbah, before settling in a beautiful park located on the heights of Mustapha Pasha - now known as the Park of Liberty - where it was officially inaugurated in 1897.  \n  \nSince then these two divisions of the museum’s collection, Antiquity and Islamic, have continued to grow. This collection makes it possible to exhibit the history of Algeria from its Libyan-Punic era through to the 20th century. The objects are displayed in two separate buildings: one houses the pre-Islamic collection whilst the other houses the collection of Islamic art, which was inaugurated in May 2003.  \n  \nThe ancient collection is very rich and includes collections of mosaics, sculptures, Libyan and Latin inscriptions, coins and medals, bronze, ivory, bone, ceramics and wooden objects.  \n  \nThe Islamic section was formed from the first collection of 1854, which included Algerian and Oriental objects. It has gradually been enriched by pieces uncovered through archaeological excavations carried throughout the country. This wide-ranging collection includes sculpted plasterboard from 10th century Sedrata, marble or plaster sculptures of the 11th century Qal'a of Beni Hammad as well as the chairs of the 11th century Almoravid mosques in Algiers and the 12th century mosque of Nedroma.  \n  \nThe furniture arts of North Africa is also widely represented in this museum. Shop windows contain Ottoman-era embroidery, clothing, ceramics, weapons, jewellery, chiselled brass and worked repoussé that comes from the urban centres as well as rural areas. Manuscripts and miniatures complete the collection.  \n  \nThe museum’s numismatic collection is exhibited in a reading room that was inaugurated in May 2006.","city":"Algiers","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","fax":"+213 0 21 68 12 56","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"8a9b0307-9388-5b17-a6d9-29ad46d82ecf":{"name":"Eszterháza Centre for Culture, Research and Festivals","description":"The independent Eszterháza Centre for Culture, Research and Festivals was established on 1 March 2014. The establishment of the institution is a great step in the life of the Esterházy palace since it opens the path for a blossoming revival of the palace and the estate of Eszterháza. It means not only the refurbishment and re-installation of the palace museum but also the foundation of an international Haydn Research Centre, the care of the gardens and the estate and, last but not at least, the refreshment of the music life of the site.  \n  \nThe newly established institution will provide opportunities for experts, scholars, students and artists in many domains to study and explore the multifaceted cultural life of the Esterhazy court in the past and will also establish a creative environment of concerts and master classes for world famous and established artists and for young talents as well. The centre would like to cultivate collaboration, cultural dialogue and creative and active exchange between artists and scholars at the academic and university level. The aim is to break disciplinary boundaries, to introduce new perspectives and to provide a suitable, internationally networked environment for interdisciplinary research. Concerts and festivals are organised within the boundaries and the education of the young generation in the framework of the museum pedagogical activities (including special music pedagogy) is emphasised. In addition to the museum, research and musical activities there is an intense horticultural life since there is a huge garden accessible to the general public. The institution runs a series of projects including the partnership with MWNF.","city":"Fertőd","address":"HU-9431 Fertőd,  \nJoseph Haydn út 2.  \nHungary  \n  \nPostal address: HU-1250 Budapest, Pf. 29.","website":"http://www.eszterhaza.hu","phone":"+36 99 537 640","email":"info@eszterhaza.hu"},"8fd06198-6d39-5611-a37e-45ac296ac304":{"name":"Museum of Russian Icons","description":"In the 1960’s, plastics engineer Gordon B. Lankton went to work at Nypro, an international injection molded plastics company, in Clinton, Massachusetts. In 1989, on a business trip to Russia, Mr. Lankton purchased his first icon at an open-air market. His collection quickly grew, and eventually gave birth to the idea of starting a museum. Mr. Lankton chose Clinton for the location to give back to the community that had supported him.  \n  \nThe Museum is housed in a 150-year-old former mill building. Three floors of galleries display the permanent collection. A dedicated gallery features special exhibitions ranging from contemporary Russian art to icons from other Orthodox cultures. It is the only museum in the USA dedicated to Russian icons, and the largest collection of icons outside of Russia.  \n  \nAn icon is an image of a holy person or event, created by an iconographer who follows the strict standards of the Orthodox Church. Most of the objects in the Museum’s collection are created with paint on wooden board; icons can also be made in other materials, including mosaic, fresco, embroidery, and metal. Iconography is a living tradition, and icons today are painted in the same way that they have been for hundreds of years. The Museum collection includes icons dating to the 1400s to contemporary icons painted in the last few years, with the majority dating from the 17th to 19th centuries.  \n  \nMISSION  \nThe Museum of Russian Icons inspires the appreciation and study of Russian culture by collecting and exhibiting icons and related objects; igniting the interest of national and international audiences; and offering interactive educational programs. The Museum serves as a leading center for research and scholarship through the Center for Icon Studies and other institutional collaborations.","city":"Clinton","address":"203 Union Street,  \nClinton,  \nMA, 15010","website":"https://www.museumofrussianicons.org/","phone":"(978)-598-5000","email":"info@museumofrussianicons.org"},"916efdb9-cc4a-59ca-8c4c-a5d2e193f7e0":{"name":"Dresden State Art Collections, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery)","description":"The Dresden Old Masters Picture Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) was created in the first half of the 18th century. Although it is true that numerous paintings were already held in the “Kunstkammer” (Art Chamber) of the Electors of Saxony, which was founded in 1560, the systematic expansion of the collection of paintings did not begin until the reigns of Augustus II the Strong (1670–1733) and, in particular, his son Augustus III (1696–1763). All over Europe their agents purchased large numbers of 16th, 17th and 18th-century masterpieces for their collection.  \n  \nThe fame of the Gallery is based on widely known paintings such as Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna”, Giorgione’s “Sleeping Venus”, Correggio’s “Holy Night”, and Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window”. With other famous works by artists such as Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Rubens, Dürer, Holbein, Titian, Veronese, Canaletto, Poussin, Watteau, El Greco, Murillo, Raeburn, and Graff the Old Masters Picture Gallery displays the crème de la crème of European art from the late Renaissance to the Rococo period.  \n  \nThe collection is located in the gallery building at the Zwinger. This was constructed in 1855 according to plans drawn up by the architect Gottfried Semper, and it was one of the most important museum projects in Germany during the 19th century. The Gemäldegalerie welcomes more than half a million visitors each year – a number that is still on the rise.","city":"Dresden","address":"Zwinger  \nTheaterplatz 1  \n01067 Dresden  \nGermany  \n  \nPostal address:  \nPostfach 120 551  \n01006 Dresden  \nGermany","website":"https://gemaeldegalerie.skd.museum/en/","phone":"+49 (0)351 49 14 66 79","fax":"+49 (0)351 49 14 66 94","email":"gam@skd.museum"},"95021a9d-9348-5201-bc82-c46c9467b353":{"name":"Imperial War Museums","description":"IWM (Imperial War Museums) **tells the story of people who have lived, fought and died in conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth since the First World War.**  \n  \nOur unique collections, made up of the everyday and the exceptional, reveal stories of people, places, ideas and events. Using these, we tell vivid personal stories and create powerful physical experiences across our five museums that reflect the realities of war as both a destructive and creative force. We challenge people to look at conflict from different perspectives, enriching their understanding of the causes, course and consequences of war and its impact on people’s lives.  \n  \n**IWM’s five branches which attract over 2 million visitors each year are IWM London**, which has recently transformed with new, permanent and free Second World War Galleries, The Holocaust Galleries and the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries; **IWM North**, housed in an iconic award-winning building designed by Daniel Libeskind; **IWM Duxford**, Britain's best preserved wartime airfield; Churchill War Rooms, housed in Churchill’s secret headquarters below Whitehall; and the Second World War cruiser **HMS *Belfast***.  \n  \n**IWM London**  \n  \nIWM London tells the stories of those whose lives have been shaped by war through the depth, breadth and impact of our Galleries, displays and events. Explore the First World War Galleries and iconic Atrium; extensive new Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries; IWM’s rich and diverse art, film and photography collection in the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries or take in our latest major temporary exhibitions.","city":"London","address":"Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ","website":"http://www.iwm.org.uk/","phone":"+44 (0)20 7091 3067 (Customer","email":"No direct email use https://www.iwm.org.uk/contact-us"},"a05b0a22-d90a-5e08-85e3-53fd66868e26":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is a pioneering project spotlighting the cultural vision of the State of Qatar, both in the region and across the world. Under the guiding vision of His Excellency, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the project is the cornerstone for the State of Qatar in its establishment as a global capital of culture.  \n  \nThe 35,500 sq. m museum was designed by I.M. Pei, taking inspiration from the 13th-century *sabil* (ablutions fountain) of the 9th-century Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun in Cairo. The museum comprises a five-level main building and a two-storey Education Wing, connected across a fountain courtyard. The main building’s angular planes form ascending pinnacles, rising around an atrium. Inside, a dome is revealed, concealed from outside view by the walls of a central tower. A window on the building’s north side rises to a height of 54 m., providing dramatic views from all five floors. The ground floor is home to a temporary gallery space for touring international exhibitions and the café, giftshop and Information Services. The museum’s permanent exhibition is installed on two floors of galleries designed by the French firm Jean-Michel Wilmotte & Associés. The fourth floor contains temporary galleries showcasing the research topics of museum staff, using items either not seen in the permanent galleries or with new information to see them in a new way.  \n  \n**Overview of the collections**  \nThe MIA houses artefacts highlighting the creative achievements of the Islamic world's richest cultures and spanning nearly a thousand years. The collection represents the full scope of Islamic art in all media, from manuscripts to ceramics, metalwork, glass, stone, ivory, textiles, wood, precious stones and jewellery.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition of *c.* 850 artefacts offers an insight into the diverse art of the Islamic world. Two floors are dedicated to the exploration of historical eras and interpretation of the themes of Islamic art and material culture, from the 8th century to the cusp of the 19th century.  \n  \nThe MIA also holds thousands more objects, some destined to be seen in future displays and others providing a resource for education and research.  \n  \nHighlights of the collection include: a distinguished group of carpets and textiles, a range of Ayyubid and Mamluk metalwork and enamelled glass, an outstanding strength in early ceramics, a comprehensive collection of astrolabes and scientific instruments, masterpieces of Mughal jewellery and rare manuscripts and miniatures.  \n  \n**The Department of Education and Information**  \nThe department’s main goal is to create materials, programmes and workshops that will engage the public, allowing them to explore the world through Islamic art, promoting a culture of learning within an atmosphere of knowledge and entertainment.  \n  \n**The Curatorial Department**  \nThe department of internationally trained curators is committed to studying, documenting and publicising the MIA’s collection and establishing the MIA as a world-class centre of scholarly research.  \n  \n**The Conservation Department**  \nSet to become a leading regional service centre for museums, the department is committed to restoring, preserving and caring for the collection through the application of innovative scientific methods.  \n  \n**International partnerships**  \nThe MIA is committed to building a network of partnerships around the world and offering institutes and museums collective access to information, research and images. It has strong ties with many world-class museums and collections, including the Louvre, France, the British Museum, UK, the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA, the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Germany, the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, the Gulbenkian, Portugal, and the National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art, Algeria.","city":"Doha","address":"Museum of Islamic Art roundabout, the Corniche  \nPostal Address: P.O. Box 2777  \nDoha, Qatar","website":"http://mia.org.qa/","phone":"+974 4422 4444","fax":"+974 4422 4447","email":"infomia@qma.org.qa; educationmia@qma.org.qa; librarymia@qma.org.qa"},"a3753de5-842a-5f0b-a8c7-50bb2e312ce6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia – from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections are housed in the Neue Burg (the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury) and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the KHM.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"a7852a46-ca7f-566a-a49e-d5bb01321099":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is a pioneering project spotlighting the cultural vision of the State of Qatar, both in the region and across the world. Under the guiding vision of His Excellency, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the project is the cornerstone for the State of Qatar in its establishment as a global capital of culture.  \n  \nThe 35,500 sq. m museum was designed by I.M. Pei, taking inspiration from the 13th-century sabil (ablutions fountain) of the 9th-century Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun in Cairo. The museum comprises a five-level main building and a two-storey Education Wing, connected across a fountain courtyard. The main building’s angular planes form ascending pinnacles, rising around an atrium. Inside, a dome is revealed, concealed from outside view by the walls of a central tower. A window on the building’s north side rises to a height of 54 m., providing dramatic views from all five floors. The ground floor is home to a temporary gallery space for touring international exhibitions and the café, giftshop and Information Services. The museum’s permanent exhibition is installed on two floors of galleries designed by the French firm Jean-Michel Wilmotte & Associés. The fourth floor contains temporary galleries showcasing the research topics of museum staff, using items either not seen in the permanent galleries or with new information to see them in a new way.  \n  \nOverview of the collections  \nThe MIA houses artefacts highlighting the creative achievements of the Islamic world's richest cultures and spanning nearly a thousand years. The collection represents the full scope of Islamic art in all media, from manuscripts to ceramics, metalwork, glass, stone, ivory, textiles, wood, precious stones and jewellery.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition of c. 850 artefacts offers an insight into the diverse art of the Islamic world. Two floors are dedicated to the exploration of historical eras and interpretation of the themes of Islamic art and material culture, from the 8th century to the cusp of the 19th century.  \n  \nThe MIA also holds thousands more objects, some destined to be seen in future displays and others providing a resource for education and research.  \n  \nHighlights of the collection include: a distinguished group of carpets and textiles, a range of Ayyubid and Mamluk metalwork and enamelled glass, an outstanding strength in early ceramics, a comprehensive collection of astrolabes and scientific instruments, masterpieces of Mughal jewellery and rare manuscripts and miniatures.  \n  \nThe Department of Education and Information  \nThe department’s main goal is to create materials, programmes and workshops that will engage the public, allowing them to explore the world through Islamic art, promoting a culture of learning within an atmosphere of knowledge and entertainment.  \n  \nThe Curatorial Department  \nThe department of internationally trained curators is committed to studying, documenting and publicising the MIA’s collection and establishing the MIA as a world-class centre of scholarly research.  \n  \nThe Conservation Department  \nSet to become a leading regional service centre for museums, the department is committed to restoring, preserving and caring for the collection through the application of innovative scientific methods.  \n  \nInternational partnerships  \nThe MIA is committed to building a network of partnerships around the world and offering institutes and museums collective access to information, research and images. It has strong ties with many world-class museums and collections, including the Louvre, France, the British Museum, UK, the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA, the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Germany, the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, the Gulbenkian, Portugal, and the National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art, Algeria.","city":"Doha","address":"Postal Address: P.O. Box 2777  \nDoha, Qatar","website":"mia.org.qa/","phone":"+974 4422 4444","fax":"+974 4422 4447","email":"infomia@qma.org.qa; educationmia@qma.org.qa; librarymia@qma.org.qa"},"b01aedf8-4844-5526-8c45-e7dc4bd7a559":{"name":"Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation","description":"The Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation aims to display, interpret, research and further develop the museum's collections for a wide range of local, national and international audiences, and to stimulate knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of Islamic art, history, science and culture.  \n  \nThe magnificent building that houses the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation first opened in 1987 as the Souq al-Majarrah and quickly became a popular landmark, both among the people of Sharjah themselves and visiting tourists. The building was only the second of its kind in the Gulf region, after Sharjah’s “’New”’ or “Central’’ Souq constructed in 1977, to use traditional, Arab-Islamic design elements in its ground-plan and décor. The building with its impressive architecture and attractive design features was subsequently renovated and reopened in 2008 as the Museum of Islamic Civilisation. Its most outstanding feature is its majestic, gilt central dome, decorated on the inside with an intricate mosaic depicting the night sky and the signs of the zodiac.  \n  \nThe building now transformed into a state-of-the art cultural venue, the new **Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation**, houses more than five thousand exquisite Islamic artefacts from all over the Islamic World, arranged according to themes over seven spacious galleries and display areas.  \n  \nOn the ground floor you can visit the **Abu Bakr Gallery of Islamic Faith**, the **Ibn al Haitham Gallery of Islamic Science and Innovation**, a prominent display of **Islamic Coinage**, and the **Al Majarrah Gallery for temporary exhibitions** which is scheduled to hold regular exhibitions of international standing.  \n  \nThe entire first floor of the **Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation** is devoted to **Islamic Art**. Four spacious galleries take the visitor on a journey of artistic discovery which starts in the early Islamic period and leads all the way to modern times. Start your explorations with a visit to our state-of-the-art audiovisual show. Enjoy stunning images from all over the Muslim world and learn about the artistic achievements of its calligraphers and artisans.","city":"Sharjah","address":"Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, Corniche Road, Al Majarrah Area, Sharjah.  \nPostal address: P.O.BOX 39939, Sharjah.","website":"https://www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+97165655455","fax":"+97165652988","email":"info@islamicmuseum.ae"},"b43ae2c6-2060-5819-bd1c-dd9ca66b9f11":{"name":"Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)","description":"With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors annually.  \n  \nLACMA’s seven-building complex is located on twenty acres in the heart of Los Angeles, halfway between the ocean and downtown. The campus is undergoing a ten-year expansion and renovation known as the Transformation and designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.  \n  \nLACMA’s collections encompass the geographic world and virtually the entire history of art. The museum houses a highly significant collection of Islamic art. These widely diverse arts, from an area extending from southern Spain to Central Asia, trace the distinctive visual imagination of Islamic artists over a period of fourteen hundred years. The collection consists of over 1,700 works, of which some 150 examples are on view; these include glazed ceramics, inlaid metalwork, enameled glass, carved wood and stone, and manuscript illustration, illumination, and calligraphy. Particular strengths of the collection are glazed pottery and tiles from Iran and Turkey; glass, especially from the late seventh to the mid-thirteenth century; and Persian and Turkish arts of the book.  \n  \nThe museum began to concentrate seriously on Islamic art in 1973, with the acquisition of the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, the generous gift of Joan Palevsky. Although the Heeramaneck collection forms the nucleus of the Islamic holdings, the focus and scope of the collection have developed considerably since 1973. Two important additions, both gifts, occurred in the 1980s. In 1985 the noted collector Edwin Binney, 3rd, bequeathed more than one hundred works, in particular examples of the arts of the book and ceramics of the Ottoman period. Approximately fifty glass objects, primarily of the early Islamic period, from Hans and Varya Cohn's splendid collection were given to the museum in 1988. The collection has been augmented further over the past two decades through gift and purchase, most notably the acquisition in 2002 of the Madina Collection of Islamic Art, made possible in large part by a generous gift from longtime LACMA benefactor and Trustee Camilla Chandler Frost. Its addition has created a new international focus on Los Angeles and on LACMA.","city":"Los Angeles","address":"5905 Wilshire Boulevard  \nLos Angeles, CA 90036","website":"http://www.lacma.org/","phone":"323 857 6000","email":"publicinfo@lacma.org"},"b4586981-2102-51f3-a3a7-5094a3b23509":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Numismatic Museum of the al-Maghreb Bank**  \nRabat, Morocco  \n  \n**National Library**  \nRabat, Morocco  \n  \n**Badi Palace**  \nMarrakesh, Morocco  \n  \n**Royal Library**  \nRabat, Morocco  \n  \n**Ethnographic Museum**  \nTetouan, Morocco  \n  \n**Archeological Museum**  \nTetouan, Morocco  \n  \n**Museum of Ceramics**  \nSalé, Morocco  \n  \n**Kasbah Museum**  \nTangiers, Morocco","city":"Rabat, Marrakech, Tetouan, Salé, Tangiers"},"b49b6caf-2037-5450-9920-62d736638529":{"name":"Madaba Archaeological Museum","description":"This museum was founded in 1974 in one of the old houses of Madaba that was purchased by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and transformed into a museum.  \n  \nThis museum holds artefacts and finds that have been recovered during excavations in many archaeological sites in Madaba region. These artefacts consist mainly of pottery and glass vessels, metalwork, coins and mosaic floors. Their dates range from the Iron Age to the Islamic periods.","city":"Madaba","address":"P.O.B. 12  \nMadaba, Jordan","phone":"+962 5 3244189","fax":"+962 5 3244189"},"bb94125a-04ef-5227-b3bb-8ebc7dfdafbe":{"name":"Jordan Museum for Costumes and Jewellery","description":"In the eastern section of Amman’s Roman theatre, the museum exhibits a comprehensive collection of clothing, textiles and silver jewellery from the West and East Bank. Founded in 1971 by the Department of Antiquities, the museum illustrates in detail the variety of traditional costumes of men and women from cities, villages and Bedouin communities. The exhibition gives the visitor the opportunity to know more about daily and domestic life, work and traditional craftsmanship, illustrating through textiles, embroidery and costume the meaning of decorative patterns, revealing the trousseau each woman prepared since childhood for her marriage and showing the importance of jewellery in relation to events such as marriage and dowry. The costumes and jewellery are also important examples of how local craftsmanship was a significant source of trade and income.","city":"Amman","address":"Quraysh Street  \nAmman","website":"goo.gl/joSyZT"},"bd5ab87c-f83d-5fb3-87a9-cae4d57dff07":{"name":"Sharjah Heritage Museum","description":"Sharjah Heritage Museum first opened its doors in 2005. It has been renovated and re-opened in 2012 in Bait Saeed Al Taweel Al Shamsi, in the Heart of Sharjah.  \n  \nThe museum offers a great chance to engage in the rich heritage of Sharjah and Emirati culture, with a focus on lifestyle, deep rooted customs such as hospitality, traditions, trade and traditional knowledge. A visitor can explore the diverse environments of coast, desert and mountain that was naturally reflected in their lifestyle, habits and crafts. The museum provides a child-friendly atmosphere, with a series of folklore tales, old sayings and puzzles.","city":"Sharjah","address":"P O Box 39939, Al-Layyeh, Sharjah, UAE","website":"https://www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+971 6 5680006","fax":"+971 6 5566003","email":"info@sma.gov.ae"},"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"},"c4647cf3-9e83-5e5e-9a5b-4af7ed883bb1":{"name":"The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts","description":"The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts (The Khanenko Museum) keeps the key national collection of world arts in Ukraine. It was established in 1919 on the basis of rich private collection of art and antiquities made up by a couple of outstanding Ukrainian art amateurs, collectors and philanthropists Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko. The historical private mansion of the Khanenkos, built in late 1880s, is a particular object of interest and fascination due to its exquisite stylised interiors.  \n  \nToday the museum holds more than 25 000 works of painting, sculpture, prints as well as various kinds of applied arts of Europe (14th -19th century), Western, Central and Eastern Asia (3rd century BC – 20th century) and the Ancient World (4th millennium BC – 4th century). The world-famous rarities, four oldest Byzantine “Sinai” icons from 6th and 7th centuries, are an important part of the museum collection and display.  \n  \nThe museum permanent exhibition area is about 1300 m2. There are also two halls for temporary exhibitions with total area of 150 m2 that host Ukrainian and international museum art projects. In coming years the museum plans to enlarge its exhibition, educational, and depository areas by adding a new contemporary building in the yard.  \n  \nBeing the leading Ukrainian institution of informal education the Khanenko museum offers a wide spectrum of programs for adults, youth and children, visitors with disabilities. A new accessible official museum website in Ukrainian and English is currently under development planned to be launched in November 2019.","city":"Kyiv","address":"Tereshchenkivska Street 15-17  \n01004","website":"https://www.khanenkomuseum.kiev.ua/en/main","phone":"+38044 2350206","fax":"+38044 2350206"},"c4e2bffb-1a54-5ec8-9d21-bcd0d3d8a6a6":{"name":"Glasgow Museums","description":"Although not the capital, Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland. It prides itself on its multi-cultural scene with a prosperous Muslim community representing the largest non-white Scottish group in the city and in Scotland. The Glasgow Museums collection is the biggest managed by any local authority in the United Kingdom and one of a handful of municipal collections that are recognized to have national importance. This service was founded in 1854 with the McLellan collection of European paintings, which was donated to the people of Glasgow by Archibald McLellan together with a building to house it. At present Glasgow manages thirteen public museums covering a wide range of subjects.  \n  \nGlasgow’s Islamic collections come from all over the world with objects from Africa, Spain, the Middle East and Central Asia. The oldest items date back to the 10th and 11th centuries. The earliest objects to enter the museums’ collections were donated in the 1870s. Though many of these are private donations, some were purchased by the museum service. The Islamic collections are mainly housed at The Burrell Collection, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  \n  \nThe main strength of the Islamic collections lies in the large donation of Sir William Burrell and his wife, who gifted their massive and varied collection to Glasgow in 1944. It includes Iranian and Mughal Indian ceramics and carpets, Turkish and Uzbek textiles and embroideries, and Hispano-Moresque lustrewares. The other Islamic collections of Glasgow Museums include objects from Mughal India, Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt and Syria, the Ottoman Middle East, and 19th century Berber and Arab North Africa. In addition to all of the above, Glasgow Museums is interested in developing its contemporary Islamic collections by welcoming donations of modern Islamic arts and crafts, as well as strengthening the other areas within its Islamic collections.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550","fax":"+44 141 2872597"},"c4e6ffe7-9558-5187-95b6-26ee80fdbe18":{"name":"The National Museum of Art of Romania","description":"The National Museum of Art of Romania was founded in 1948 with works drawn from local private and public collections, as well as from the royal collection. It has been housed ever since in the former royal palace situated in the very heart of Bucharest. The Museum is home to the largest and finest art collection in the country. The current holdings, which include over 100,000 works, are divided among five curatorial departments, one of them dedicated to Oriental art.  \n  \nSince its establishment in 1954, the Oriental art collection of the Museum has been steadily expanded and consolidated around two main areas of interest: Islamic art, on the one hand, Chinese and Japanese art, on the other. It is the largest Oriental collection housed by a Romanian museum, and it consists of items from the royal collection, the Toma Stelian Museum, as well as gifts and acquisitions. The Department of Oriental Art currently holds over 5,000 objects.  \n  \nThe permanent exhibition was closed for a much needed extensive renovation of the building, and will be redisplayed in newly refurbished areas in compliance with European standards of conservation. Meanwhile, exhibitions of Oriental art are being shown regularly. About four hundred carpets covering a wide geographical area and spanning four centuries are at the core of the collection of Islamic art. Most of them are nineteenth-century Ottoman rugs, but the holdings also include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Transylvanian rugs, alongside Caucasian, Central Asian, and Iranian rugs and carpets.  \n  \nThe National Museum of Art of Romania also manages other three museums in Bucharest: The Art Collections Museum (whose display features a considerable number of Oriental rugs and carpets donated over the years by Romanian art collectors), the K. H. Zambaccian Museum and the Theodor Pallady Museum.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Calea Victoriei, 49-53  \nsector 1  \n010063 Bucharest","website":"https://www.mnar.arts.ro/en/","phone":"+40 021 313 30 30","fax":"+40 021 312 43 27","email":"secretariat@art.museum.ro"},"c79c9bf0-7954-5ad4-95e9-6020467c3765":{"name":"Istanbul Water Museum (İstanbul Su Müzesi)","description":"Established in January 2021 within Topkar Inc., the Istanbul Water Museum is dedicated to water, water civilisation and the cultural heritage of the Turkish bath.  \n  \nThe Topçu family, which owns the company, has cultivated for four generations a tradition of preserving everyday household objects. As one of Türkiye’s leading manufacturers of bathroom and kitchen fittings, the family united this passion with their profession and began collecting faucets, water vessels and related objects over 25 years ago, laying the foundation of the museum’s collection. In 2008, they became officially registered collectors with the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum.  \n  \nThe collection encompasses themes such as the relationship between water and humanity; fountains; sebils and faucets; water and belief; water and healing; cleanliness, bathing and hammam culture; and Istanbul’s famous spring waters. The collection includes a wide range of water-related objects, manuscripts, ephemera, postcards, engravings, paintings, calligraphy, marbling (*ebru*) and miniature artworks. Artefacts dating from the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman and early Republican eras are exhibited chronologically and, in some sections, thematically across two galleries totalling 800 square metres. The Istanbul Water Museum is a member and Türkiye’s representative of the UNESCO Global Network of Water Museums (WAMU-Net).  \n  \nTopkar regards the museum as a sustainable social responsibility project aimed at promoting water and hammam culture, preserving endangered traditions, fostering public awareness of water use and creating lasting cultural memory. The Topkar family celebrates its 40th anniversary with this meaningful initiative.","city":"Istanbul","address":"İkitelli OSB. Mh. Hürriyet Bulvarı No:54 Başakşehir-İstanbul-Türkiye 34490","website":"http://www.istanbulsumuzesi.org","phone":"+90 486 20 20"},"c8825cec-041d-5069-bbce-82c394d5e619":{"name":"National Museum Oman","description":"The National Museum of the Sultanate of Oman, established by royal decree in 2013 and opened July 30, 2016, is the Sultanate's flagship cultural institution, showcasing the nation’s heritage from the earliest human settlement in the Oman Peninsula some two million years ago through to the present day. As a national institution with global outreach, the museum is dedicated to ensuring that Oman’s cultural heritage is understood and appreciated not only within the Sultanate, but also internationally. Further, it aims to provide opportunities for cultural expression, innovation, and the transfer of traditional skills and knowledge from one generation to the next.  \n  \nThe museum is located in the heart of Muscat in a purpose-designed building. The total area of the building is 13,700 square metres (147,000 sq ft), including 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) allocated for 14 permanent galleries – The Land and the People Gallery, Maritime History Gallery, Arms and Armour Gallery, Aflaj Gallery, Currency Gallery, Prehistory and Ancient History Galleries, Splendours of Islam Gallery, Oman and the World Gallery, Intangible Heritage Gallery and Renaissance Gallery, among others. A further 400 square metres (4,300 sq ft) are allocated for temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nThe National Museum houses 5,466 objects and offers 43 digital immersive experiences, a fully equipped Learning Centre, conservation facilities, an ultra-high definition cinema, and discovery areas for children. It features an integrated infrastructure for special needs and is the first museum in the Middle East to adopt Arabic Braille script for the visually impaired. The museum contains a voluminous collection of prehistoric metallic artefacts. It also houses the region’s first open-plan museum storage concept, where visitors can learn about the various processes that artefacts go through before they are put on display.","city":"Muscat","address":"P.O.Box: (1105)  \n113 Muscat","website":"https://www.nm.gov.om/","email":"booking@nm.gov.om"},"cc176d16-7f00-5907-8a82-b1f3d06b7d4d":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Zagreb**  \nCity Museum  \nCroatian History Museum  \nDiocese Museum of the Zagreb Archdiocese  \nMetropolitan Library, Valvasor Collection of prints and drawings  \nStrossmayer Gallery of Old Masters  \nZagreb Cathedral Treasury  \n  \n**Dubrovnik**  \nDubrovnik Cultural History Museum  \nMuseum of Icons of the Serbian Orthodox Church Community  \n  \n**Ilok**  \nCity Museum  \n  \n**Klanjec**  \nFranciscan Monastery  \n  \n**Osijek**  \nGallery of Fine Arts  \n  \n**Požega**  \nDiocese Museum of the Požega Diocese  \n  \n**Trakošćan**  \nTrakošćan Castle  \n  \n**Varaždin**  \nCity Museum"},"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"},"d2b9c791-32d7-590a-9a1b-3f6766d360d6":{"name":"Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ Museums)","description":"Founded in 1998 by H.E. Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ) is the Sheikh’s brainchild and a monument to his enduring passion for collecting international items of peculiar and historical relevance.  \n  \nA museum with a global perspective, FBQ brings together over 30,000 objects from across the ages and a multitude of cultures. It represents, in effect, a modern version of a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’, the historic and eclectic room of marvels from the Renaissance.  \n  \nThe journey through more than 30 galleries ranges from the prehistoric to the present day, encompassing several themes: Islamic art, Qatari heritage, carpets, weapons, vehicles, jewellery and currency. Gallery highlights also include a rebuilt Syrian house and the Quran room. The artefacts showcased in FBQ’s galleries embody Islam’s visual culture and its far-reaching traditions from southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The thematic presentation of the works draws attention to the similarities of artistic forms and cultural expressions and their interdependence among societies.  \n  \nFBQ is much more than a museum. Since the construction of the main museum in Al Shahaniya in 1998 using local stone and traditional turrets, FBQ has been fulfilling the museum founder’s aim to create and share a new cultural heritage for Qatar and beyond. With the establishment of the Carpet Museum in the heart of Doha in 2014 and the addition of the Car Museum, the FBQ complex of museums aims to inspire people to engage with cultural heritage by sharing stories from near and far. FBQ strives to foster cross-cultural dialogue through exhibitions, education and public programs, both locally and internationally.  \n  \nIn 2010, the museum was selected by Qatar’s Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Heritage as one of the cultural landmarks of the ‘Doha 2010 Capital of Culture’ activities.","city":"Doha","address":"Zone 80, Street 9999 Building No. 365, Al Samariya  \nAl Shahaniya, Doha Qatar  \nP.O. Box number 006","website":"www.fbqmuseum.org","phone":"+974 4486 1444","fax":"+974 4486 2555","email":"info@fbqmuseum.org"},"d321bef5-3599-590f-a696-aa3a0d57d455":{"name":"Benaki Museum","description":"The Benaki Museum is the largest and oldest museum in Greece operating as a foundation under private law. It was founded in 1931 by Antoni Benaki, a member of a leading Greek family of Alexandria. The current museum is decentralised: its hub is the neoclassical mansion presenting the evolution of Greek art from the Neolithic period to the present day. The autonomous buildings include the exhibition centre on Pireos Street, the historical archives in the Delta house, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika gallery and the Museum of Islamic Art.  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art is a renovated neoclassical building in Athens’ historic centre near the ancient Agora. It opened in 2004 to house the collection formed by Antoni Benaki during the early part of the 20th century, while he was living in Egypt. Subsequently enriched by other donations, today it contains c. 10,000 objects from the Middle East, Iran, Turkey, North Africa and India. It demonstrates the evolution of Islamic art up to the Ottoman period and corresponding developments to the middle of the 20th century. The collection includes ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, woodwork, glassware, ivories, funerary steles and arms and armour.  \n  \nThe visitor first finds exhibits from the 7th to the 12th century. Highlights are lustreware, door panels from Iraq, Fatimid metalwork, *tiraz* textiles and a unique reed mat from 10th-century Tiberias. The second gallery exhibits objects from the 12th to the 16th century with Seljuq ceramics, Mamluk metalwork and pottery and highlights a brass box with the signature of Isma’il ibn al-Ward al-Mawsili dated 1220 and the astrolabe of Ahmad ibn al-Sarraj dated 1328/29.  \n  \nThe third gallery displays a marble-lined reception room from a 17th-century Cairo mansion and its fountain, *qamariyya* windows and a *mashrabiyya* screen. Other exhibits include Iznik pottery and a 16th-century velvet saddle from Bursa. The last gallery presents arms and armour, and Qajar jewellery collected by Argine Salvagos, sister of the founder.  \n  \nDuring preservation work, a section of the ancient city wall of Athens from the 4th century BC was uncovered and remains *in situ* at basement level, accessible to visitors.","city":"Athens","address":"22 Agion Asomaton & 12 Dipilou Street  \nAthens  \nGreece","website":"http://www.benaki.gr/","phone":"+30 210 325 1311","fax":"+30 210 322 5550","email":"islamic_collection@benaki.gr"},"d4a98989-670f-57f0-806b-0923d3e7b276":{"name":"National Museum Oman","description":"The National Museum of the Sultanate of Oman, established by royal decree in 2013 and opened July 30, 2016, is the Sultanate's flagship cultural institution, showcasing the nation’s heritage from the earliest human settlement in the Oman Peninsula some two million years ago through to the present day. As a national institution with global outreach, the museum is dedicated to ensuring that Oman’s cultural heritage is understood and appreciated not only within the Sultanate, but also internationally. Further, it aims to provide opportunities for cultural expression, innovation, and the transfer of traditional skills and knowledge from one generation to the next.  \n  \nThe museum is located in the heart of Muscat in a purpose-designed building. The total area of the building is 13,700 square metres (147,000 sq ft), including 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) allocated for 14 permanent galleries – The Land and the People Gallery, Maritime History Gallery, Arms and Armour Gallery, Aflaj Gallery, Currency Gallery, Prehistory and Ancient History Galleries, Splendours of Islam Gallery, Oman and the World Gallery, Intangible Heritage Gallery and Renaissance Gallery, among others. A further 400 square metres (4,300 sq ft) are allocated for temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nThe National Museum houses 5,466 objects and offers 43 digital immersive experiences, a fully equipped Learning Centre, conservation facilities, an ultra-high definition cinema, and discovery areas for children. It features an integrated infrastructure for special needs and is the first museum in the Middle East to adopt Arabic Braille script for the visually impaired. The museum contains a voluminous collection of prehistoric metallic artefacts. It also houses the region’s first open-plan museum storage concept, where visitors can learn about the various processes that artefacts go through before they are put on display.","city":"Muscat","address":"P.O.Box: (1105)  \n113 Muscat","website":"https://www.nm.gov.om/","email":"booking@nm.gov.om"},"d5cbde37-0645-5fff-928c-0190e87f0c5b":{"name":"City Museum","description":"The Brno City Museum was established in 1904. Since 1960, the museum has been seated in Špilberk Castle, the Baroque fortress known as the “Dungeon of the nations”. The permanent exhibition presents casemates that were part of the Baroque fortress system converted into the civil prison during the reign of Emperor Joseph II. On display are the collections of historic weapons, watches, glass, porcelain, furniture, fashion accessories, vedute, paintings and sculptures. The most important collection presents the prominent Late-Baroque Moravian sculptor, Ondřej Schweigl’s (1735–1812) life and work, and its association with Brno.","city":"Brno","address":"Špilberk 1  \n662 24 Brno  \nCzech Republic","website":"http://www.spilberk.cz","phone":"+420 542 123 611","fax":"+420 542 123 613","email":"muzeum.brno@spilberk.cz"},"d9f6c12d-ca03-5d6e-b33c-c1a37daec1fa":{"name":"Glasgow Museums","description":"Although not the capital, Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland. It prides itself on its multi-cultural scene with a prosperous Muslim community representing the largest non-white Scottish group in the city and in Scotland. The Glasgow Museums collection is the biggest managed by any local authority in the United Kingdom and one of a handful of municipal collections that are recognized to have national importance. This service was founded in 1854 with the McLellan collection of European paintings, which was donated to the people of Glasgow by Archibald McLellan together with a building to house it. At present Glasgow manages thirteen public museums covering a wide range of subjects.  \n  \nGlasgow’s Islamic collections come from all over the world with objects from Africa, Spain, the Middle East and Central Asia. The oldest items date back to the 10th and 11th centuries. The earliest objects to enter the museums’ collections were donated in the 1870s. Though many of these are private donations, some were purchased by the museum service. The Islamic collections are mainly housed at The Burrell Collection, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  \n  \nThe main strength of the Islamic collections lies in the large donation of Sir William Burrell and his wife, who gifted their massive and varied collection to Glasgow in 1944. It includes Iranian and Mughal Indian ceramics and carpets, Turkish and Uzbek textiles and embroideries, and Hispano-Moresque lustrewares. The other Islamic collections of Glasgow Museums include objects from Mughal India, Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt and Syria, the Ottoman Middle East, and 19th century Berber and Arab North Africa. In addition to all of the above, Glasgow Museums is interested in developing its contemporary Islamic collections by welcoming donations of modern Islamic arts and crafts, as well as strengthening the other areas within its Islamic collections.","city":"Glasgow","address":"The Burrell Collection  \nPollok Country Park  \n2060 Pollokshaws Road  \nG43 1AT  \nGlasgow, United Kingdom","website":"http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/","phone":"+44 141 2872550","fax":"+44 141 2872597"},"defa425b-fe47-5a8e-bb82-33721be61de9":{"name":"Batha Museum","description":"Built in 1885, the original building was a courthouse and summer residence of the Alaouite sultan Moulay Hassan I before being renovated as a museum in 1915. The Batha Museum brings together archaeological collections, architectural elements and ethnographic objects relating to the city of Fez and its surrounding area. Since a reorganisation in 2006, the museum’s theme has revolved around spiritual life and the art of living.  \n  \nThrough large rooms overlooking the patio and garden, the tour begins with the city’s Islamic origins: manuscripts illuminated with gold leaf, liturgical wooden objects, planispheric brass astrolabes – and a rare example of a leather astrolabe dial. One section is dedicated to architectural elements. Wood is featured: friezes, panels, lintels and other corbels from different dynasties display Moroccan craftsmanship. Besides their artistic value, some pieces are historical and archaeological treasures, such as the beam dating from AD 877, the oldest wood in Islamic Morocco, evidence of the city of Kairouan’s artistic influences.  \n  \nZelliges (handmade terracotta tiles) are a distinctive feature of Moroccan-Andalusian Islamic architecture, with excellent collections here in the Batha Museum, with some dating back to the 14th century.  \n  \nAlso on exhibit are traditional arts from Fez, whose richness and variety are manifested in a collection of delicate embroidery in a single thread colour, and a variety of ornaments and wedding dresses for brides typically from the cities. There is also a rich collection of tin-based ceramics enamelled in a monochrome blue-grey.  \n  \nVisitors can discover rural crafts and museum-quality objects like jewellery and pottery outside the city of Fez.","city":"Fès","address":"Ksar El Batha  \nPlace du 11 janvier  \nFès, Morocco","phone":"+212 53 563 41 16"},"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"},"ebefa388-6b9b-5fa0-a9a7-a26465c1e27d":{"name":"Olomouc Museum of Art","description":"Olomouc Museum of Art consists of three museums. The original museum (formerly the Gallery of Fine Art founded in 1952) became an autonomous museum in 1990.  \n  \n1\\. The Museum of Modern Art came about when it moved into the building of the Olomouc Museum of Art in June 2006. The exhibition programme and acquisition activities are focused on modern art from the 20th and 21st centuries.  \n2\\. In 2006, the Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum (established 1998) was opened, representing the first museum of its type in Czech Lands. The proposed construction of an Archdiocesan Museum was possible after the historical buildings of the so-called Olomouc Castle were returned to the Catholic Church. On the basis of the contract drawn up between the Olomouc Archbishopric and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Olomouc Museum of Art was entrusted with bringing the project to completion. While the grounds of the Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum offer visitors the opportunity to view the architectural remains of an entire millennium, the Museum presents a permanent exhibition of the artistic culture of the Olomouc diocese from the 12th to the 18th centuries, bringing together artefacts from the historical territory of Moravia with a focus on art patronage and collections of the Olomouc bishops.  \n3\\. The Kroměříž Archdiocesan Museum was established in 2006 as part of the Olomouc Museum of Art, and detached from the rest of the Museum, is situated in the former Archbishop’s Château in Kroměříž. The Museum holds one of the largest château libraries in the country: almost 90,000 volumes, including illuminated manuscripts and a music archive of more than 6,000, mainly Baroque, compositions. There is also a rich collection of old-master drawings, graphic works and coins and medals.  \n  \nGuided tours are available to visitors through the halls, rooms with historic furniture, and the picture galleries.  \n  \nThe Archbishop’s Château in Kroměříž along with its gardens, were proclaimed a National Cultural Monument in 1995 and recorded on the UNESCO List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites in 1998.","city":"Olomouc","address":"Denisova 47,  \n771 11 Olomouc","website":"http://www.muo.cz/","phone":"+420 585 514 111, 585 514 277","fax":"+420 585 223 166, 585 514 240","email":"info@olmuart.cz"},"edb8cc68-6a7b-575f-9541-6421a991bf33":{"name":"Further Associated Museums","description":"**Hama Museum**  \nHama, Syria"},"ee0a71f8-dc12-5d5d-b02a-4402969e8274":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"The Museum of Islamic Arts of Kairouan is located in Raqqada, in a former presidential palace that was converted into a cultural and educational centre in 1986. It contains four rooms on the main floor and upstairs.  \n  \nOn the ground floor are:  \n– The ceramics room, which houses objects dating back to the Aghlabid, Fatimid and Hafsid eras. Those of the Aghlabid era are characterised by the use of metallic lustre glazes, archaic Kufic script and stylised zoomorphic and anthropomorphic images. This room displays a collection of blue Iznik ceramic tiles from Anatolia.  \n  \n– The hall of the Great Mosque, which houses religious objects such as friezes with floral and epigraphic motifs that form part of the roofing. There is also a reconstruction of the *mihrab* from the mosque and the door of the *maqsoura* (private enclosure).  \n  \n– The Lapidary Inscriptions Room, which is under development, will house flat, prismatic and column-barrel gravestones from the Kairouan Cemetery. It will also contain the inscription of the foundation of the city of Sabra al-Mansouriya, characterised by its writing style and its imposing size.  \n  \n\\- The Sabra al-Mansouriya Hall, expected to receive objects from the Sabra excavation, now contains the casting furnace found on the same site.  \n  \nUpstairs:  \nThe glass cases of the coin and jewellery room hold a large collection of coins dating back to the Aghlabid, Fatimid, Hafsid and Ottoman eras, showing their evolution over time. This room also contains glass objects from the Sabra site and the lantern from al-Mouiz.  \n  \nThe manuscript room contains a rich collection of parchment Qur’an folios from the library of the Great Mosque of Kairouan displaying the evolution of writing and ornamentation styles (3rd / 9th to the 13th / 19th century). The collection owes its unique reputation to the famous “blue parchment” of the 4th / 10th century. Enclosing these folios are leather bindings embossed with floral and geometric designs.  \n  \nAn exhibition such as this one helps us interpret the history of the city of Kairouan. The newer Sabra Hall, the Hall of Lapidary Inscriptions and the Hall of the Great Mosque of Kairouan will further our understanding.","city":"Kairouan","address":"Musée des arts islamiques  \nKairouan-Raqqada","phone":"+216 77 228126","fax":"+216 77 228469"},"f0c1b6b9-8198-5a97-9aea-8ebedfa90ca3":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art","description":"At the order of Khedive Ismail Pasha in 1880 the collection of archaeological rarities from the Islamic era was begun in the mosque of Al- Hakim. The Council for the Preservation of Arab Antiquities, created in 1881 in association with the Ministry of Awqaf, supervised the House of Arab Antiquities, as it was then known, until 1930 when the museum was taken into the Ministry of Education.  \n  \nThe museum acquired only from mosques and public buildings in its first 20 years. Then it undertook its first excavation in 1910 in the vicinity of Doronka in Upper Egypt and a second excavation south of Cairo uncovering a section of the city of Fustat (first Islamic capital of Egypt).  \n  \nThe museum acquired many items through donations. King Fu’ad I gave a valuable collection of textiles, scales and seals as did King Farouk, Amir Muhammad Ali and Amir Yusuf Kamal. Amir Kamal al-Din Hussein, Yakub Artin Pasha and Ali Ibrahim Pasha also donated complete collections.  \n  \nThe collections, amounting to 7082 artefacts, were transferred to their current building, when the present museum was inaugurated in December 1903. In 1952, the name of the museum was changed to the ‘Museum of Islamic Art’ to reflect the scope of the collection: objects produced in the Islamic world and dating from the beginning of the Islamic era (AD 7th century) to the end of the AD 19th century. The number of recorded objects has now reached 103,000.  \n  \nThe collections include enamelled glass lamps, Egyptian ceramics and a rare collection of filigree waterpot filters of unpainted earthenware renowned for their lacework designs. There are also collections of woodwork, textiles and stones with inscriptions, while the collection of carpets is considered to be one of the greatest of its kind. Collections of scientific instruments display the extent to which Islamic civilisation has contributed to knowledge in many different fields. There is also an extraordinary collection of seals, weights, measures, gold, silver and copper coins.  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art, having one of the most comprehensive and complete Islamic art collections in the world continues to develop and expand its collections and to modernise the building with its 25 halls, facilities and archaeological garden.","city":"Cairo","website":"https://www.miaegypt.org/","phone":"+20 2 2390 1520"},"f0ceb925-0447-5995-bb7e-b90eeb1f59c7":{"name":"Vitromusée Romont","description":"The Vitromusée Romont opened in 1981 in the Savoyard wing of Romont Castle. This medieval monument provides a time-honoured setting for the Swiss Museum of Stained Glass and Glass Arts. A passageway built in 2006 connects the historic heart of the museum with the Fribourg wing, which is dedicated to reverse glass painting. The Vitromusée Romont is entirely focused on the glass arts and harbours significant collections in the fields of stained glass, reverse glass painting, glass and graphic arts, as well as tools and materials linked to the production of Swiss glass works. With over 14’000 objects, all aspects of glass arts from antiquity to the present are represented. The Vitromusée Romont is committed to fostering a lively culture and develops innovative cultural education programs at the interface of knowledge transfer, creative experience and exchange. It thereby advocates for conserving the history of an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage while also sharing it with a diverse public.","city":"Romont","address":"Au Château,  \n1680 Romont","website":"https://vitromusee.ch/en","phone":"+41 (0)26 652 10 95","fax":"+41 (0)26 652 49 17","email":"info@vitromusee.ch"},"f2458b82-49ff-540e-aaed-991eb2df207d":{"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"},"f2c2b5c1-dd0f-5208-8f82-ff80d06d5bde":{"name":"Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ Museums)","description":"Founded in 1998 by H.E. Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ) is the Sheikh’s brainchild and a monument to his enduring passion for collecting international items of peculiar and historical relevance.  \n  \nA museum with a global perspective, FBQ brings together over 30,000 objects from across the ages and a multitude of cultures. It represents, in effect, a modern version of a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’, the historic and eclectic room of marvels from the Renaissance.  \n  \nThe journey through more than 30 galleries ranges from the prehistoric to the present day, encompassing several themes: Islamic art, Qatari heritage, carpets, weapons, vehicles, jewellery and currency. Gallery highlights also include a rebuilt Syrian house and the Quran room. The artefacts showcased in FBQ’s galleries embody Islam’s visual culture and its far-reaching traditions from southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The thematic presentation of the works draws attention to the similarities of artistic forms and cultural expressions and their interdependence among societies.  \n  \nFBQ is much more than a museum. Since the construction of the main museum in Al Shahaniya in 1998 using local stone and traditional turrets, FBQ has been fulfilling the museum founder’s aim to create and share a new cultural heritage for Qatar and beyond. With the establishment of the Carpet Museum in the heart of Doha in 2014 and the addition of the Car Museum, the FBQ complex of museums aims to inspire people to engage with cultural heritage by sharing stories from near and far. FBQ strives to foster cross-cultural dialogue through exhibitions, education and public programs, both locally and internationally.  \n  \nIn 2010, the museum was selected by Qatar’s Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Heritage as one of the cultural landmarks of the ‘Doha 2010 Capital of Culture’ activities.","city":"Doha","address":"Zone 80, Street 9999 Building No. 365, Al Samariya  \nAl Shahaniya, Doha Qatar  \nP.O. Box number 006","website":"www.fbqmuseum.org","phone":"+974 4486 1444","fax":"+974 4486 2555","email":"info@fbqmuseum.org"},"f441f494-4ff4-5fa6-a2ff-1f6f59c24cd8":{"name":"Museum for Islamic Art","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"},"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"},"f5c11bd8-33ca-5552-a5d9-8437afd6ee27":{"name":"The Lebanese University","description":"The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. The university has 17 faculties across Lebanon and serves various cultural, religious and social groups of students and teachers.  \n  \nThe independent university enjoys administrative, academic and financial freedom. Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and essential education to allow students to enter various professions.  \n  \nIn spite of the crisis in the region that has existed since 1975, leaving wounds and tragedies, the Lebanese University has remained the national home of science. Rivalling the most prestigious universities in Lebanon and abroad, and leading the process of human development that spread all over the country, its graduates became ambassadors of Lebanon in all the corners of the earth.  \n  \nOur university respects the national demand for academic freedom, which has become a right of scholars and specialists, based on laws and international conventions and regional organisations and sometimes more, applying the important rules of human rights: the right of learning and seeking knowledge with higher education and participation in international projects to develop academic programmes and exchange of research.The university has maintained the quality of higher education, although we seek more contact with the spirit of this modern age and its promising accomplishments by increasing relations and agreements with other universities and institutions all over the world. In spite of the political pressures on the people of the university and attempts to split them into factions, the majority of them have remained faithful to the spirit of the national organisation and the struggles of the early pioneers who insisted on building the edifice of national higher education, in the framework of the values of freedom and justice.","city":"Beirut","address":"Central Administration, Museum, Beirut  \n  \nPostal address: P.O. Box 6573/14 Badaro, Museum  \nBeirut  \nLebanon","website":"http://www.ul.edu.lb/","phone":"+961 1 612830; 1 612831","email":"ibady@ul.edu.lb"},"f6a3053d-d710-547e-be54-96097d448f7a":{"name":"National Museum of Damascus","description":"The National Museum in Damascus was established under the supervision of the Ministry of Education in 1919. The original core of this museum's contents was initially kept at the Madrasa al-'Adiliya. The collection gradually increased and the discovery of the Umayyad palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi in the Syrian desert in 1936 further spurred into action plans for a newer and bigger museum. A building located next to Al-Takiyya al-Sulaymaniya was chosen for the establishment of the National Museum of Damascus.  \n  \nQasr Al-Hayr Al-Gharbi added new emphasis to the importance of devoting more attention to the Islamic period and the Directors of Antiquities decided to incorporate these palatial finds into the National Museum of Damascus. After much hard work and technical expertise, the front façade of the Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi was transposed and carefully reconstructed as the National Museum's main entrance. The side halls and the second floor were designated for the most important artistic finds of this early Islamic palace. The completion of the display took several years and the official opening was celebrated in 1950.  \n  \nIn 1953 a three-storey wing was added to house and display ancient oriental antiquities, the Islamic period, modern Syrian art, and temporary exhibitions.  \n  \nOne of the more recent extensions included three double halls for the Islamic period, a new lecture hall and a library. The lecture hall was furnished as a 19th-century Damascene reception hall, a masterpiece of late decoration and ornamentation in its own right. The opening of this extension took place in 1963.  \n  \nIn 1974 there were further additions, this time devoted to the Palaeolithic period. And lastly, in 2004, the temporary exhibition wing was transformed into a permanent collection of Neolithic antiquities.  \n  \nAt present, the National Museum of Damascus consists of the following sections:  \n  \n1\\. Palaeolithic.  \n2\\. Neolithic.  \n3\\. Ancient Syrian Oriental.  \n4\\. Classical.  \n5\\. Islamic.  \n6\\. Modern Arts.","city":"Damascus","address":"Qasr el-Heir Street  \nDamascus, Syria","phone":"+963 11 2234331","fax":"+963 11 2247983","email":"sam.orient@mail.sy"}}