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The collection, which focuses on confectionery, shows that everyday objects such as boxes containing biscuits, candy and chocolate, reflected the events that surrounded them; from the first tin, produced in the late 19th century in the era of industrialisation, passing through monarchy, fascism, the African campaign, World War II and the post-war period until the economic boom.","city":"Gerano (Rome)","address":"Via del Palazzo, 8  \n00025 Gerano (RM)  \nItaly","website":"www.casadellescatole.org","phone":"+39 348 7960033","email":"scatolemarina@hotmail.com"},"03192ec8-3f89-5671-83e5-48f444feab3c":{"name":"IMARET – Institute Mohammed Ali for the Research of the Eastern Tradition","description":"Institute Mohammed Ali for the Research of the Eastern Tradition (IMARET) was established in 2006 in Kavala, Greece, as a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, with its headquarters located in the house of Mohammed Ali. Embarking on its multicultural heritage, the institute’s mission is to act as a hub between the Arab and the Mediterranean cultures and the Western world, by promoting the study, knowledge and understanding of Arab civilisation's achievements in the fields of science, art, philosophy, history and culture, and underlining their influence on the development of Western thought. Beginning with two unique Egyptian monuments, the institute has founded a museum and a residency programme addressing various creative disciplines.  \n  \nThe institute's activities are widespread in the areas of culture, education and community development, offering a multifaceted programme that covers all areas of art and culture, including music and theatre performances, visual arts exhibitions and educational activities for young people, as well as international conferences, seminars and publications that open debate around ideas and intellectual exchange.","city":"Kavala","address":"Mohammed Ali Square, Panagia,  \n65110, Kavala  \nGreece","website":"www.imaret.org.gr","phone":"+30 2510 620 515","email":"info@imaret.org.gr"},"0568b6d0-c08b-5443-8e4a-57ba3acd5c27":{"name":"The National Museum","description":"The National Museum in Belgrade was established on 10 May 1844. It is the oldest, largest and main museum in Serbia. Intense activity in the field of collecting and collection development, exhibitions, together with research and publishing activities, has made the museum the centre of information on particular national values, but also of European cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe multifaceted museum is dedicated to the protection, interpretation and promotion of the multicul-tural heritage of the central Balkans and Europe. The museum collects, preserves and protects ob-jects and improves knowledge. It interprets historical and contemporary culture and national identity and serves as a source of knowledge and an active centre of learning in the community and environ-ment. The museum’s vision is to be the most important museological centre in the Balkans, a role model for other museums in the country and the region. It should be a national cultural centre of re-gional and global significance, a favourite destination for Serbia’s own citizens and tourists from around the world, known to the public. It should stimulate curiosity and inspire.  \n  \nThe museum is rich with around 500,000 objects in collections of prehistory, Greek and Roman art, the Middle Ages, and painting of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, graphics, sculptures, all organ-ised into departments of archeology, numismatics, Middle Ages, in recent history. The museum con-tains the Centre for Conservation and Restoration, Education Department, Library, Department of Documentation as well as departments for the realisation of programmes and numerous ancillary ser-vices. The National Museum in Belgrade includes the following exhibition spaces: Museum of Vuk and Dositej, Gallery of Frescoes, Archaeological Museum in Djerdap, Memory Museum of Nadezda and Rastko Petrovic.","city":"Belgrade","address":"Trg Republike, 1a  \n11000 Belgrade  \nSerbia","website":"http://www.narodnimuzej.rs/","phone":"+381 11 330 6000","fax":"+381 11 262 7721","email":"kontakt@narodnimuzej.rs"},"05962a8b-bfa0-546b-b0fe-325dd90488cc":{"name":"Vehbi Koç Foundation Sadberk Hanim Museum","description":"Sadberk Hanım Museum opened in October 1980 as Turkey’s first private museum, established by the Vehbi Koç Foundation to exhibit the collection of Sadberk Koç, the wife of Vehbi Koç. Today the museum holds over 18,000 items in its Turkish Islamic and archaeological collections. The museum gives priority to outstanding examples of Ottoman period works. In particular, its collections of İznik tiles and ceramics and Ottoman period women’s costume and embroidery rank among the best in the world. The collections of Anatolian and Turkish objects are arranged chronologically, from 6,000 BC to the present day.  \n  \nAs well as archaeological and early Islamic items, the museum collects the finest examples of works of art ranging from calligraphy to silk fabrics produced over the six centuries of the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Piyasa Caddesi, 25-29  \nBüyükdere Sarıyer  \n34453 Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.sadberkhanimmuzesi.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 242 38 13 / 14","fax":"+90 212 242 03 65","email":"shm@biri.com.tr"},"0861be47-3ebb-54de-98c6-63d82061a5f8":{"name":"Topkapı Palace Museum","description":"Topkapı Palace, the administrative and residential palace of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul, was completed by AH 882 / AD 1478 after the city had been conquered by Mehmed II. It was used continuously by the Ottoman rulers until they moved to the palaces built along the Bosphorus in the 13th / 19th century. After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey, the palace became a museum on 3 April 1924 by order of Atatürk.  \nThe palace became a grandiose, multi-functional structure through continual development and additional construction by different sultans, which also reflects the institutional structure of the Ottoman Empire. The splendour and multi-level structure of Ottoman protocol and hierarchy can clearly be seen in the architecture. Even the rise and the fall of the empire found its artistic expression in the palace. As well as being a stage for the dramatic events of the past, this palace is one of the few examples of its kind that survived along with its historical lifestyle.  \n  \nAmong the items exhibited in the museum are portraits and costumes of the sultans, Chinese and Japanese porcelains used in the palace, metal kitchenware, Yıldız porcelain and glassware, European porcelain and silver items, Islamic and Turkish weapons. Holy relics of Prophet Mohammed and the first caliphs that were brought from Medina in the early 10th / 16th century by Selim I are exhibited in the Holy Relics section. Among those relics are the mantle of the Prophet Mohammed, his swords and his foot print.  \n  \nFour thrones, aigrette-holders, the Topkapı dagger and the diamond of Kaşıkçı are the most famous examples of the items from the treasury of the Ottomans. The museum's archive holds important documents of correspondence of the Ottoman Sultans and its library contains famous manuscripts from the Byzantine, Islamic and Ottoman periods.  \n  \nTopkapı Palace Museum operates under the Directorate of National Palaces of the Presidency of the Republic.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sultanahmet  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/en","phone":"+90 212 512 04  80; +90 212 23","fax":"+90 212 259 32 92","email":"info@ millisaraylar.gov.tr"},"0c7e047f-ecdc-56f7-b09a-6f86bbc33101":{"name":"National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) / Museums of the University of Lisbon","description":"MUHNAC documents the diversity and history of the natural world, through innovative research and development in the life sciences and history of science, and promotes scientific culture through the accessibility of its collections, and through exhibitions, educational programmes and hands-on activities. It hosts researchers and PhD and MSc students, focusing their research on biodiversity, systematics, evolution, paleontology of vertebrates, sedimentary geology and environmental education, as well as on science communication, astronomy, history of science, material and visual culture of science, scientific heritage and history of museums and collections. Besides leading the Portuguese Research Infrastructure of Scientific Collections, the museum is engaged in national and international projects.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua da Escola Politécnica, 56/58  \n1250-102 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"http://museus.ulisboa.pt/","phone":"+351 21 392 18 00","email":"geral@museus.ul.pt"},"127e31d2-7caf-5a5e-92a4-86a95c9fe043":{"name":"Sorolla Museum","description":"Housed in the Sorolla family mansion, the museum has been left almost exactly as it was when the artist’s wife Clotilde bequeathed it to the state in 1925. It is as though the family has just left, with Joaquin Sorolla’s brushes, palettes and personal possessions still in place.  \n  \nThe three-storey mansion and lush garden functioned as inspiration, studio and home. The artist’s works are displayed in the three studios he designed alongside his family’s living quarters.  \n  \nFull of movement and colour Sorolla’s paintings bring the beach to central Madrid. Fishermen and sailors rub shoulders with elegant ladies and children in scenes that bridge the gap between social classes. From social realism to landscapes, from portraits of wealthy madrileños to scenes of Andalusian courtyards, Sorolla was an incredibly versatile artist.","city":"Madrid","address":"General Martínez Campos, 37  \n28010 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museosorolla.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 91 310 15 84","fax":"+34 91 308 59 25","email":"fundacionmuseosorolla@gmail.com"},"12c51f32-f594-596a-bd88-fb016dda65a9":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Catania","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Catania","address":"Via Vittorio Emanuele, 156  \n95131 Catania  \nItaly","website":"www.ascatania.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 095 7159860","fax":"+39 095 7150465","email":"as-ct@beniculturali.it"},"15c3f796-e9e4-5984-a07b-97ea019d9da5":{"name":"Istanbul Archaeological Museums","description":"The name Istanbul Archaeological Museums denotes three museums under the same administration: the Archaeological Museum, the Ancient Orient Museum and the Tiled Kiosk Museum. The museum, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is located in Sultanahmet, on the Osman Hamdi Bey slope connecting Gülhane Park with the Topkapı Palace.  \n  \nIstanbul Archaeological Museums, displaying artifacts from civilisations of different historical periods, is one of the ten most important world-class museums designed and used as a museum building. It is also the first institution in Turkey arranged as a museum. Besides its spectacular collections, the architectural aspects of the buildings and beautiful gardens in which they are situated are of historical and natural importance.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Alemdar Caddesi,  \nOsman Hamdi Bey Yokuşu Sokak,  \n34122 Gülhane/Fatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/arkeoloji","phone":"+90 212 520 77 40-41","fax":"+90 212 527 43 00","email":"info@istanbularkeoloji.gov.tr"},"17c3ad70-453d-563a-a810-46017f0ec9d8":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Turin","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Turin","address":"Piazza Castello, 209  \n1024 Torino  \n  \nVia Piave, 21  \n1022 Torino  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatotorino.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 011 540382; 011 4604111","fax":"+39 011 546176; 011 4364795","email":"as-to@beniculturali.it"},"1e9ebf9c-d61f-53bf-b587-c45ec279349e":{"name":"Manor and Gardens of Regaleira","description":"Quinta da Regaleira is one of the most surprising of all Sintra’s monuments. Located on the outskirts of the town, it was built between 1904 and 1910 by A.A. Carvalho Monteiro as his favourite country estate. He commissioned this unique project with the Italian set-designer and architect Luigi Manini. The art and architecture of the mansion and the chapel, built in neo-Manueline style, were collocated with other buildings in the bosom of an Edenic garden. A “philosopher’s dwelling” par excellence, conveying a message addressed to those who are ready to engage in the adventure of self-knowledge, Quinta da Regaleira emerges from the Sintra cultural landscape as an example of the “total work of art” and as an expression of a new mythical territory, where philosophy, art and nature come together.","city":"Sintra","address":"Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra  \n  \nPostal address:  \nRua Barbosa do Bocage, 7  \n2710-567 Sintra  \nPortugal","website":"www.regaleira.pt","phone":"+351 21 910 66 50","fax":"+351 21 924 47 25","email":"mail.regaleira@telepac.pt"},"22547ca7-10d6-5cc9-afc8-7b479e6eea75":{"name":"Ethnography Museum","description":"The Ethnography Museum’s 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  \nThe Ethnography Museum houses examples of Turkish art dating from the Seljuq period to modern times. To 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. To 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  \nOpera, Ankara  \nTurkey","website":"https://muze.gov.tr/muze-detay?SectionId=AET01&DistId=MRK","phone":"+90 312 311 30 00","fax":"+90 312 311 95 56","email":"ankaraetnografyamuze@kultur.gov.tr"},"250ffc21-2d2d-526c-85ce-a588e42b01f2":{"name":"MIBACT | Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation","description":"The ICCD was founded in 1975 and is a branch of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Its mission is to manage Italy’s national catalogue of archaeological, architectural, artistic and demo-ethno-anthropological heritage. The ICCD also preserves important photograph collections and provides access to them. It produces exhibitions, catalogues and other publications to support cataloguing and to improve awareness and knowledge of its historic collections.  \n  \nThe ICCD inherited the functions of two earlier institutions: the Office for Cataloguing, founded in 1969, which was responsible for defining national cataloguing methodologies; and the National Photographic Bureau (Gabinetto fotografico nazionale), founded in 1892, the principle national institution for the production and collection of photographic documentation.","city":"Rome","address":"Via di San Michele, 18  \n00153 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 585521","fax":"+39 06 58332313","email":"ic-cd@beniculturali.it"},"27a276c8-6ef6-5ed8-8dd8-7c2e21407e3e":{"name":"Not know yet"},"28ecd84f-8e9b-5020-bb00-419f40e1e408":{"name":"MIBACT | Central State Archives of Italy","description":"The Kingdom’s Archives was created in 1875 with the aim of preserving the records produced by the central administrative organs of the Italian state subsequent to national unification (1861). In 1953 it was transformed into the Central State Archives (ACS) and in 1960 it moved to its present location. Since 2008 the ACS has had special autonomy within the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.  \n  \nThe ACS holdings include the archives created by central state departments, archives of various private and public bodies and papers of politicians and of other individuals playing an important role in national life.  \n  \nResearch is free of charge. The reproduction of documents must be previously authorised and is carried out by internal staff or by researchers using a personal digital camera.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazzale degli Archivi, 27  \n00144 Roma Eur  \nItaly","website":"www.acs.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 545 481","fax":"+39 06 541 362 0","email":"acs@beniculturali.it"},"2b1c0dc0-0010-5164-be2c-49145ffe45bb":{"name":"Museum of Macedonia","description":"The National Museum of Macedonia is a complex museum institution comprising the museums of History, Ethnography and Art History. The museum collects, researches, maintains, exhibits and publishes on objects of movable heritage in these domains. It preserves evidence of the way of life and culture in these territories from the settling of Slavs in the 6th century AD till the end of World War II. The icon gallery exhibits a collection of medieval icons including several masterpieces of Byzantine art. The highlight of the permanent display is the icon of the Virgin of Pelagonia painted by Makarie in 1422. The ethnological exhibition takes pride in the magnificent collections of folk costumes, traditional jewellery, traditional architecture, intangible heritage and musical instruments, traditional weaving, crafts and traditional husbandry.  \n  \nThe museum also includes the Documentation Section, Conservation Lab and advanced Marketing Services. The Educational Section in the museum provides guided tours and carries out elaborate educational projects focusing on different target groups.  \n  \nExtensive publishing activities have been developed throughout the years. The Museum of Macedonia has issued numerous exhibition catalogues, periodicals, monographs, studies and other publications. These are available in the museum shop, which also organises production, sales and distribution of replicas of the most outstanding museum items. All the products in the shop can be purchased on the Internet and delivered to any address.","city":"Skopje","address":"Josif Mihajlovic, 7  \n1000 Skopje  \nRepublic of Macedonia (FYROM)","phone":"+389 2 3116 044","fax":"+389 2 3116 439","email":"musmk@t-home.mk"},"2b67bf65-83b3-524f-8614-d81d59a41063":{"name":"Yıldız Palace Museum","description":"Yıldız Palace is located on the Yıldız hill. Sultan Ahmed I was the first to build a pavilion there. At the end of the 18th century, Sultan Selim III built Yıldız Pavilion and a fountain. Sultan Abdülaziz built the State Apartments, Cit Pavilion, Malta and Cadir Kiosks.  \n  \nThe main construction started under Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876–1909). It was called Saray-I Hümayun (Central Palace) and comprised buildings for the sultan’s private use and for officials, repair shops and carpentry, a theatre, a museum, a library, Hasbahce inner garden and small independent buildings.  \n  \nAfter Sultan Vahidettin’s reign, the palace was allocated to the Staff Officers’ Academy. It was handed over to the Ministry of Culture in 1978 and began to serve as a museum under the name of “Directorate of the Museum of Yıldız Palace” from 1993.  \n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_  \n  \nThe Museum is no longer under the responsibility of the Ministry of Cuture but has been transferred to the Presidency. It is currently closed and under restoration (March 2019).","city":"Istanbul","address":"Barbaros Bulvarı  \nSerencebey Yokuşu, 62  \n34349 Beşiktaş, Istanbul  \nTurkey"},"2bb1dd80-9c9b-5b6c-95f5-603929bd863d":{"name":"Victoria and Albert Museum","description":"The Victoria and Albert (V&A) is the world’s leading museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. When the museum opened to the public in 1852, its mission was to reform design by making works of art available to all, improving the public’s understanding of the subject and providing inspiration for designers and manufacturers. Today, the V&A’s collections span over 5,000 years of human creativity in virtually every medium and from many parts of the world.  \n  \nThe V&A comprises a family of sites, including the V&A in South Kensington, Young V&A located in Bethnal Green, V&A Dundee in Scotland, the V&A Wedgwood Collection housed in Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, V&A Gallery at Design Society in Shekou, China, and opening in 2024/25 will be V&A East located within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford. Across these sites the museum showcases their collections to a wide range of audiences and aims to champion design and creativity in all its forms.","city":"London","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nLondon SW7 2RL  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 20 7942 2000","fax":"+44 20 7942 2335","email":"contact@vam.ac.uk"},"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"},"2e3463e0-e2cf-5e10-be14-9324b7a5c19e":{"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":"Joseph Haydn út 2.  \n9431 Fertőd  \nHungary","website":"www.eszterhaza.hu","phone":"+36 99 537 640","fax":"+36 99 537 640","email":"info@eszterhaza.hu"},"38b8a503-bba9-5234-b7db-0bbb2a054c57":{"name":"Qatar Museums","description":"Qatar Museums connects the museums, cultural institutions and heritage sites in Qatar and creates the conditions for them to thrive and flourish. It centralises resources and provides a comprehensive organisation for the development of museums and cultural projects, with a long term ambition of creating a strong and sustainable cultural infrastructure for Qatar. Under the patronage of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and led by its Chairperson, Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, QM is consolidating Qatar’s efforts to become a vibrant centre for the arts, culture and education, in the Middle East and beyond.  \n  \nSince its foundation in 2005, QM has overseen the development of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and the Al Zubarah World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. The QM also manages the QM Gallery at Katara and the ALRIWAQ DOHA Exhibition Space. Future projects include the opening of the Fire Station: Artists in Residence in 2014 and the launch of the highly anticipated National Museum of Qatar and the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum.  \n  \nQM is committed to instigating Qatar’s future generation of arts, heritage and museum professionals. At its core is a commitment to nurturing artistic talent, creating opportunities and developing the skills to service Qatar’s emerging art economy. By means of a multi-faceted program and public art initiatives, QM seeks to push the boundaries of the traditional museum model, and create cultural experiences that spill out onto the streets and seek to involve the widest possible audiences. Through a strong emphasis on originating art and culture from within and fostering a spirit of national participation, QM is helping Qatar find its own distinctive voice in today’s global cultural debates.","city":"Doha","address":"Al-Dafna, Doha  \nQM Tower  \nP.O Box 2777  \nDoha, State of Qatar","website":"www.qm.org.qa/en","phone":"+974 4452 5555","fax":"+974 4452 5556"},"3ca60fa4-b04d-5aac-8545-cd0a8f6b1935":{"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  \nUnited States of America","website":"http://www.lacma.org/","phone":"323 857 6000","email":"publicinfo@lacma.org"},"3cabd108-49d0-5d92-81a4-97d23084da2c":{"name":"National Tile Museum","description":"The museum collection features *azulejos* (decorative ceramic tiles) from the second half of the 15th century to the present day. As well as tiles, it includes ceramics, porcelain and faience from the 19th to the 20th century. Its permanent exhibition starts with a display of the materials and techniques used for manufacturing tiles. The National Tile Museum was established in 1965 and became a national museum in 1980. It is located in the former Convent of Madre de Deus, founded by Queen D. Leonor in 1509. The museum underwent different building campaigns that involved transformations such as in its 16th-century mannerist cloister.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua da Madre de Deus, 4  \n1900-312 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.museudoazulejo.pt","phone":"+351 218 100 340","fax":"+351 218 100 369","email":"geral@mnazulejo.dgpc.pt"},"42fb6391-e1f6-527a-85db-f9638b02d667":{"name":"Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia, University of Manouba","description":"The Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia (ISHCT) is a research centre for contemporary history in Tunisia. It houses a microfilm archive, audio-visual witness records, a collection of photographs and a library available on request to researchers, journalists, activists and students wishing to conduct in-depth research into the history of the colonisation and decolonisation of Tunisia. There are four research and study units (UER) bringing together historical researchers dedicated to using the different resources to improve understanding of this period of Tunisian history: UER Archives, UER Repositories of Memory and Museums, UER Oral History and UER History. Through the publication of a review (RAWAFID), conference papers, seminars and scientific meetings, memories from witnesses and document collections, ISHCT hopes to enhance the university library in line with advances in documentation and  methodology, thereby helping to stimulate research into this historical period by setting up scientific exchanges in Tunisia and abroad.","city":"Tunis","address":"Campus Universitaire de la Manouba,  \n2010 La Manouba  \nTunis  \nTunisia","phone":"+216 716 009 50","fax":"+216 716 002 77","email":"ishmn@ishmn.rnu.tn"},"49a3f2db-1c82-5f32-aa09-dc094c9680dd":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Reggio Calabria","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Reggio Calabria","address":"Via Lia Casalotto  \n89122 Reggio Calabria  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatoreggiocalabria.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 0965 653211","fax":"+39 0965 6532212","email":"as-rc@beniculturali.it"},"4ccab1e6-8757-5853-91a7-4ea115da9c2c":{"name":"Roma Tre University, Postgraduate Course in Peace Studies","description":"The Postgraduate Course in Peace Studies was established in the 2002/03 academic year in the Faculty of Humanities at Roma Tre University.  \n  \nIts education programme combines university studies with the achievement of specialised professional skills, offering two specific training paths (Advanced Modules) focusing on the following areas: Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution, and International Cooperation for Development.  \n  \nThe course takes advantage of partnerships with several institutions, organisations, NGOs and research centres, both Italian and foreign, which operate within the fields of international cooperation, human rights protection and conflicts prevention.  \n  \nSince its beginning, the education programme has included a seminar focused on The Artistic and Cultural Heritage as Peace Factor, offered in cooperation with MWNF.\n\nDepartment: Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures","city":"Rome","address":"Via del Valco di San Paolo, 19  \n00146 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://host.uniroma3.it/master/edupace","phone":"+39 06 5733 8545","email":"edupace@uniroma3.it"},"50f6f4b8-7cfa-537b-bccb-040d726b5a0f":{"name":"Electricity Museum","description":"The Electricity Museum is a cultural centre that presents the evolution of energy in the concept of museum of science and industrial archaeology, where themed and experimental exhibits live side by side with a great variety of cultural events. Located in the Belém area on terrain that Lisbon usurped from the Tagus (Tejo) River  at the end of the 19th century. A building classified as a Public Interest Project, the Electricity Museum unfolds along the perimeter of the old thermoelectric plant, the Tejo Power Station, which illuminated the city of Lisbon for more than four decades. The Electricity Museum is an integral part of the heritage and structure of the EDP Foundation, which belongs to the EDP Group - Energias de Portugal, SA.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Avenida de Brasília  \n1300-598 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.fundacaoedp.pt/museu-da-eletricidade","phone":"+351 21 002 81 30","fax":"+351 21 002 81 04 / 39","email":"museudaeletricidade@edp.pt"},"51411e01-8c76-5349-9fd4-11b2e8962d9e":{"name":"Bavarian Castle Department","description":"The Bavarian Administration of Palaces, Gardens and Lakes, otherwise known as the Bavarian Palace Administration, is one of the most traditional administrations in the Free State of Bavaria. Created as part of the administration at the court of the electors and kings, it is today one of the largest public authorities responsible for museums in Germany, managing 45 palaces, castles and residences as well as further monuments and artists' houses.  \n  \nIt is also responsible for a very special historical heritage: the many magnificent court gardens, palace parks, gardens and lakes. The unique ensembles of European architecture with their sumptuous artistic interiors attract over five million visitors annually from all over the world.  \n  \nSource: Bavarian Castle Department website","city":"Schloss Nymphenburg, München","website":"http://www.schloesser.bayern.de/englisch/palace/index.htm"},"5269b013-0d39-58b4-b8a0-fe1872233736":{"name":"Porto Stock Exchange Palace","description":"Porto Stock Exchange Palace was built in 1834 from the ruins of the former St Francisco Convent, which were donated to the Porto Trade Association by Queen Maria II. It is currently the association’s headquarters and was once the Court of Commerce. Later, it became the Porto Commodities and Stock Exchange, the origin of the palace’s name. This edifice is located in the city’s historic centre, which is recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. It is a fine example of the liberal bourgeoisie building of Porto, and its neoclassical façade veils a grand building, which took over 60 years to build, where various architectural and decorative styles blend together.","city":"Porto","address":"Rua Ferreira Borges  \n4050-253 Porto  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.palaciodabolsa.com","phone":"+351 223 399 031","fax":"+351 223 399 090","email":"correio@cciporto.pt"},"52bf77ae-f600-5ec2-b96d-71a387b2a8ca":{"name":"National Museum of Romanticism","description":"The Romantic Museum was created by the 2nd Marquis de la Vega Inclán (1858–1942) and donated to the state in 1921.  \n  \nThe building was built in 1776 by architect Manuel Rodriguez. The museum opened in 1924 with its founder’s artworks augmented by donations, such as paintings by Alenza donated by the Marquis de Cerralbo, and items belonging to several great writers.  \n  \nThe museum became a meeting place for intellectuals. During the Civil War, its importance was highlighted by the appointment of the iconic literary figure Rafael Alberti as director. Over the years, the collection has been enriched by purchases, donations and deposits.  \n  \nThe Romantic Museum closed in 2001 for complete renovation, reopening in 2009, with a new name, the Museum of Romanticism, more in line with its contents.","city":"Madrid","address":"Calle San Mateo, 13  \n28004 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museoromanticismo.mcu.es","phone":"+34 914 481 045; 914 480 163","fax":"+34 914 456 940","email":"informacion.romanticismo@mecd.es"},"56cd014d-0d80-5773-b80c-0eb7569f7c74":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Palermo","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Palermo","address":"Via Vittorio Emanuele, 31  \n90133 Palermo  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatodipalermo.it","phone":"+39 091 2510628-624","fax":"+39 091 5080681","email":"as-pa@beniculturali.it"},"56f4c115-c0aa-5202-ad60-93a543fb58f5":{"name":"Not know yet"},"5bb2ce10-016e-576b-8311-e51092b1d2e0":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Perugia","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Perugia","address":"Piazza Giordano Bruno, 10  \n06121 Perugia  \nItaly","website":"http://www.archiviodistatodiperugia.it","phone":"+39 075 5731549; 075 5724403","fax":"+39 075 5730476","email":"as-pg@beniculturali.it"},"5f93f9b7-2ad1-5419-9406-6e91b824f300":{"name":"National Archaeological Museum","description":"The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional or MAN) is Spain’s most important museum of history. It preserves, researches and presents its collections of archaeology, art and history to the public. In doing so, the museum aspires to offer all visitors an accurate, attractive, interesting and critical interpretation of the meaning of objects from the past, in the hopes that a deeper knowledge of history will help them to better analyse and understand the reality of today. Given the relevance and scope of its collections, the National Archaeological Museum is comparable in its specialty to prominent Spanish museums (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía or the Royal Collections Gallery), by showing our country’s diversity and affluence in terms of cultural history.  \n  \nThe museum occupies a monumental building in the heart of the Salamanca quarter, one of Madrid’s busiest shopping and leisure districts, and is strategically positioned along the Recoletos-Prado artery, which boasts the highest concentration of art and culture institutions in the city. The museum’s magnificent building in the heart of Madrid offers a historical infrastructure — complete with building, garden and fence —which is fully renovated and accessible.  \n  \nThe MAN has grown and evolved constantly since it was created in 1867, almost 160 years ago, and is still changing today to meet the needs of the 21st century. After a complete overhaul between 2008 and 2014, the institution reopened in April 2014 with a brand-new look and layout, claiming its place among Europe’s most modern museums. The renovated building is divided into six floors and has a total surface area of nearly 30,000 m2, of which 18,304 m2 are reserved for public use (the permanent exhibition alone occupies 9,239 m2). The museum has also been fitted out with different service areas, including a spacious vestibule, café, shop and activity rooms.  \n  \nThe MAN’s extraordinary collection, which includes a large number of priceless historical and cultural artefacts, comprises over one million archaeological, historical and artistic objects.  \n  \nIts holdings are vast and varied: Palaeolithic bifaces, practically the only tool in existence for millennia; delicate ivory carvings that combine aesthetic appeal with practical functionality; prehistoric engravings found in the Cave of El Castillo, evidence of humanity’s earliest artistic and symbolic expressions; the abstract aesthetics of the “Idol of Extremadura”; the classical, timeless beauty of the Lady of Elche; ancient Roman sculptures; the extraordinary treasure of Guarrazar; the Romanesque crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha; the lovely equestrian figure of Hector by Il Filarete; and the ornamental paintings of Luis Paret on a Baroque armchair are just some of the treasures it houses.  \n  \nThe Museum's Islamic Art collection largely comes from the different historical periods of Al-Andalus, the name that the Muslims gave to the territory they conquered in the Iberian Peninsula. The aesthetic quality achieved by Andalusian art is demonstrated in the architectural capitals, arches, marble panels and alabaster and plaster decorations of the period, especially from the Caliphate of Córdoba. Added to this is the museum's collection of decorative and highly refined objects made in the Andalusian palace workshops, such as metal, ivory and glazed ceramics. Likewise, a large collection of objects is preserved that show the symbiosis of Hispano-Islamic and Christian forms in the Iberian Peninsula, as the dome of the Torrijos Palace.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","fax":"+34 91 432 68 40","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"5ff47319-5ecd-5ef6-af6e-bb56229b0768":{"name":"Museo del Traje","description":"The Museo del Traje, Centro de Investigación del Patrimonio Etnológico (Centre for Research into Ethnological Heritage – CIPE) opened in 2004, but its collection started in 1925 with the Regional and Historic Costume exhibition. The main aim of the institution is “To demonstrate the historical evolution of costume, analysing its technical, social, ideological and creative implications though the diversity and continuous changes in the dress forms and habits”. Besides this, the museum also investigates the ethnological heritage of the Spanish people. The collection includes more than 160,000 items and documents, grouped in the following sections: historical dress, contemporary dress, traditional dress, jewellery, accessories, beauty, textiles, ethnological heritage and documentary collections.","city":"Madrid","address":"Avenida de Juan de Herrera, 2  \n28040 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museodeltraje.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 91 550 47 00","fax":"+34 91 544 69 70","email":"museodeltraje@mecd.es"},"60f5a305-cb9c-51f8-a325-c49888a08702":{"name":"MIBACT | Vallicelliana Library","description":"The Vallicelliana Library is housed in a building by the famous architect Francesco Borromini (1599–1667), the Oratorio dei Filippini. The library’s holdings mostly focus on the history of the Catholic Church, and in particular on the Reform and Counter Reform, on Medieval history and on paleography. The Vallicelliana also preserves a rich collection of manuscripts, which includes remarkable Medieval and humanist items. Since the 1990s, the library holding has also included photographic collections by famous photographers such as Giorgio Sommer, Giulio Brogi, Giorgio Conrad, Bonfils and many others.  \n  \nThe Vallicelliana Library is under the authority of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza della Chiesa Nuova, 18  \n00186 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.vallicelliana.it","phone":"+39 06 68802671","fax":"+39 06 6893868","email":"b-vall@beniculturali.it"},"64c2796c-d403-5a23-958e-760dfdfdff22":{"name":"Sharjah Museums Authority","description":"The Sharjah Museums Authority was established in 2006 as an independent government department by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah.  \n  \nSharjah Museums Authority includes 16 museums covering Islamic art and culture, Arab and International, modern and contemporary art, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life and the history of Sharjah and the region.  \n  \nThe museum collections featured in this project come from: the Sharjah Art Museum, opened in April 1997 and the largest art museum in the Gulf with both temporary exhibitions and permanent collections by renowned artists; the Sharjah Heritage Museum, re-opened in the Heritage Area (Heart of Sharjah) in 2012 and dedicated to highlighting Sharjah’s rich traditions, customs and culture as a source of pride and inspiration to the people of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its visitors; the Sharjah Maritime Museum, first opened in the Heritage Area in early 2003 to highlight the maritime life of the UAE and – in improved and expanded form – relocated to the Al Khan area in 2009 due to the importance of the sea and its significance in the region’s heritage; and the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, opened in 2008 as the first of its kind in the UAE, featuring more than 5,000 artefacts from all over the Islamic World, arranged to celebrate Islamic Faith, Science and Technology and Art.  \n  \nThe purpose of the Sharjah Museums Authority as a whole is to deliver the highest quality of museums services for the people of the Emirate of Sharjah and all its visitors, through its facilities, exhibitions, programmes of learning, research and community outreach. Sharjah Museums Authority aims to achieve locally and internationally an understanding, appreciation and respect for Sharjah’s identity and for the value of its cultural and natural heritage.","city":"Sharjah","address":"Al-Layyeh, Sharjah  \nP.O. Box 39939  \nTurkey","website":"www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+971 65 56 60 02","fax":"+971 65 56 60 03","email":"info@smd.gov.ae"},"66b9c3ea-8a0f-5e5a-bb44-96e499235d93":{"name":"The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)","description":"The PEF is the world's oldest society for the study of the Ancient Levant, established in 1865 as a non-political, non-religious society and funded by public subscription. A pioneer in the exploration and recording of the region, it houses a unique collection of written and drawn archives, photographs, paintings and sketches, scientific equipment, natural history, ethnographic and archaeological material relating to the work of PEF explorers and its associates during its 150-year history. Notable scholars include: Charles Wilson, Charles Warren, Kathleen Kenyon, Charles Watson, Walter Besant, Conrad Schick, Claude R. Conder, Charles Clermont-Ganneau, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Frederick Jones Bliss, T.E. Lawrence, C. Leonard Woolley, Olga Tufnell, John Garstang, William Simpson, William Flinders Petrie, Hilma Granqvist, John Crowfoot, R.A.S. Macalister, Duncan Mackenzie.","city":"London","address":"5-6 Dreadnought Walk  \nGreenwich  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"www.pef.org.uk/","phone":"+44 20 7935 5379","fax":"+44 20 7486 7438","email":"execsec@pef.org.uk"},"66e89f12-f678-5a86-9c94-789412c134aa":{"name":"Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT)","description":"CULTNAT is one of the research centres of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, supported by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. For more than 14 years, CULTNAT, using new advanced technologies, has striven to document, manage, and disseminate knowledge of Egypt’s huge cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, as well as its natural heritage. CULTNAT’s multilingual databases, a huge repository of heritage information, are reinforced by 2-D and 3-D high quality. This wealth of knowledge is disseminated through different channels: the patented panoramic interactive display system, CULTURAMA, books, multimedia applications, documentary films, websites, virtual reality, augmented reality, mobile applications and GIS applications.","city":"Giza","address":"Smart Village,  \nCairo-Alexandria Desert Road, km 28,  \n12577 Giza  \nEgypt","website":"www.cultnat.org","phone":"+20 2 3534 3111","fax":"+20 2 3534 3055","email":"public.relations@cultnat.org"},"6b5a7912-690b-5b77-bd02-833438267070":{"name":"Ministry of Culture","description":"The Ministry of Culture was presented under this title for the first time in 1982, during the government of Abdelghani III. Since the independence of Algeria, other institutions with different names had been established, namely the Ministry of Information and Culture or the Ministry of Tourism and Culture.  \n  \nCurrently, the functioning of the Ministry of Culture is governed by a decree of 2005 (Executive Decree No. 05-79 of 17 Moharram 1426 H.E./ February 26, 20051 A.D.)\\*, approved by Ahmed Ouyahia IV’s government. This text defines the four main missions of the ministry which are: protection and enhancement of the cultural heritage; promotion of the live arts and performing arts; preservation and enhancement of traditional cultures; research and training.  \n  \n(Source: Wikipedia)","city":"Algiers","address":"Palais de la Culture Moufdi Zakaria  \nPlateau des Annassers BP 100  \n16006 Kouba  \nAlgérie","website":"https://www.m-culture.gov.dz/mc2/fr/index.php"},"6c9f6b97-7619-5be4-a904-0f96ffa2c698":{"name":"Austrian National Library","description":"The Austrian National Library (ANL) regards itself as a centre of information and research oriented towards serving the public, as an outstanding custodian of the national memory and as a multifaceted centre of education and culture. As the central academic library of the Republic of Austria, the ANL looks at a history rich in tradition from as far back as the 14th century. It is a living bridge between the rich heritage of the past and the future-oriented demands of a modern information society.  \n  \nThe ANL offers its users access to and professional advice on its own holdings (almost 8 million objects) and also on international data pools. It also accepts commissions on scientific research and operates documentation centres and service facilities. In the digital age services are increasingly processed online via the ANL home page.","city":"Vienna","address":"Josefsplatz, 1  \n1015 Wien  \nAustria","website":"www.onb.ac.at","phone":"+43 1 534 10 0","fax":"+43 1 534 10 280","email":"onb@onb.ac.at"},"6cf9f545-cd2f-5d4f-b5fa-1d9bb64042b2":{"name":"Istanbul Railway Museum","description":"Istanbul Railway Museum, located in the historical Istanbul Sirkeci Terminal, Fatih district, is owned and operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD). It opened to visitors on 23 September 2005. Sirkeci Station was the last stop of the Orient Express.  \n  \nThe museum displays 300 objects: the original site plans, drawings, photos, railway equipment, furniture and silver services of the Orient Express, station office equipment, driver’s cab of an electric suburban train, communication tools of Rumeli railways and Trakia line, objects from the railway school and hospital in 19th century.  \n  \nThe foundation stone of Sirkeci Main Station was laid on 11 February 1888. It opened on 3 November 1890. Planned by the German architect and engineer A. Jasmund, the building’s style was inspired by local architectural traditions.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sirkeci Garı, Ankara Cad.  \n34410 Eminönü, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 527 12 01;5206575/7885","fax":"+90 212 512 64 44","email":"istanbuldemiryolumuzesi@tcdd.gov.tr"},"6ecec2e6-bbbf-5697-aaf3-7ae3c5bb536f":{"name":"MIBACT | Authority for the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont","description":"The Authority for the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont preserves the photographic archive of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Turin.  \n  \nThe foundation of the Museum was a milestone in the rediscovery of ancient Egypt. In 1824 King Carlo Felice of Savoy purchased Egyptian antiquities from the French consul Drovetti to provide Turin with an archaeological museum comparable with the great museums of the European capitals. The museum was later enriched by finds acquired from excavations led by E. Schiaparelli, the museum’s director from 1894.  \n  \nThe photographic archive includes a library of historical photographs by Beato, Bonfils and others, bought in Egypt in antiquities markets and portraying landscapes and monuments of Egypt and Nubia, and the Schiaparelli collection, which captures the shipyards and the excavation sites of the Italian Archaeological Missions. The collection has increased since World War II. Ongoing digitisation facilitates consultation and conservation.","city":"Turin","address":"Piazza San Giovanni, 2  \n10122 Torino  \nItaly","website":"http://archeo.piemonte.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 011 195244","fax":"+39 011 5213145","email":"sar-pie@beniculturali.it"},"6f3cdc51-1adf-525e-99e8-9a95671e60e6":{"name":"Department of Antiquities","description":"In 1923 the Department of Antiquities (DoA) of Jordan was established under the management of Mr Ridha Tawfeq, who relocated it from Jarash to Amman. Law No. 24 for the year 1934 was the first piece of legislation concerning antiquities in Jordan; it was amended by Law No. 21 for the year 1988, and later on by Law No. 22 for the year 2004.  \n  \nThe main goal of the DoA at that time was to protect all antiquities defined according to the law as any movable or immovable object made, written, inscribed, built, discovered or modified by human beings including caves, sculpture, coins, pottery, manuscripts and other kinds of manufactured products that indicate the beginning and development of science, arts, handicrafts, religions, traditions of previous civilisations, or any part added or rebuilt after that time.  \n  \nThe DoA as an independent department has its own budget and director within the Jordanian Government.","city":"Amman","address":"10 Sultan al-Atrash Street,  \n11183 Amman  \nJordan","website":"www.doa.gov.jo","phone":"+962 6 4644336","fax":"+962 6 4615848","email":"info@doa.gov.jo"},"6f8662f2-e7a2-5d1b-b24a-be1c39f6bde4":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Verbania","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Verbania","address":"Via Cadorna, 37  \n28922 Verbania  \nItaly","phone":"+39 0323 501403","fax":"+39 0323 507617","email":"as-vb@beniculturali.it"},"70c67f69-48f3-55ab-abd2-0e678dca303b":{"name":"National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado Museum","description":"The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado Museum was established on 26 May 1911 in Lisbon. The museum houses a collection of Portuguese contemporary art ranging from the 1850s to the present (paintings, sculptures, drawings, videos, photographs and installations). The museum is housed in the Convent of St Francis, next to the Academy of Fine Arts. Located in the historic centre of the city, the museum is a must for those interested in Portuguese art. The permanent collection boasts paintings, sculptures and drawings dating up to 1975, featuring 19th-century prominent Romantic and Symbolist authors alongside 20th-century Modernist and conceptual art exhibits. Works from 1975 onwards are displayed in temporary exhibitions.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua Serpa Pinto, 4  \n1200-444 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.museuartecontemporanea.pt","phone":"+351 213 432 148","fax":"+351 213 432 151","email":"museuchiado@mnac.dgpc.pt"},"71396e5b-ca3a-5c08-b428-1959e047ae57":{"name":"Jordan Folklore Museum","description":"The museum is located in the western section of Amman’s Roman theatre. Founded by the Department of Antiquities, it opened in 1975. The museum exhibits items of daily life in the cities and villages and of the Badu (Bedouin) groups who lived on the West and East Bank during the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Musical instruments, vessels and tools for domestic activities and craftsmanship illustrate traditional daily life and economic activities of the time. Tents, domestic furniture and items to prepare coffee illustrate the way of life, work and the rules of hospitality among Bedouin men and women. As well as the traditional products of the local society and economy, imported weapons and objects testify to how local communities came into contact with the inventions and commercial products that were changing the world in the 19th and early 20th century.","city":"Amman","address":"Quraysh Street  \nAmman","website":"goo.gl/DNPGbL"},"74856c7c-763f-57b5-8a22-0a7d4b112ca7":{"name":"Public Domain"},"757c8322-4a40-517f-8dd8-ad7d8cc26bc3":{"name":"Enrico Sturani Private Collection","description":"Enrico Sturani is a collector and scholar in the field of postcards. He has collected more than 150,000 postcards, from a wide variety of time periods and geographical contexts.  \n  \nThe author of many books and essays on the history of postcards, he has contributed to numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.","city":"Rome","email":"sturamail@yahoo.it"},"75fbd82a-86c2-5a79-a047-243f70baa4ed":{"name":"Pera Museum","description":"Inaugurated in 2005, Pera Museum is a private museum founded by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation. The aim of offering a range of diverse high-quality cultural and art services is as important today as when it first opened to the public.  \n  \nSince its inauguration, Pera Museum has collaborated annually with national and international institutions of art and education to hold exhibitions that support young artists. All the exhibitions are accompanied by books, catalogues, audio-visual events and education programmes. Parallel to its seasonal programmes and events, Pera Film offers visitors and film buffs a wide range of screenings that extend from classics and independent films to animated films and documentaries. Pera Film also hosts special shows directly linked to the themes of the temporary exhibitions.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Meşrutiyet Cad, 65  \n34443 Tepebaşi, Beyoğlu, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.peramuzesi.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 334 99 00","fax":"+90 212 245 95 11","email":"info@peramuzesi.org.tr"},"7c6208ec-fb2f-53d4-acaa-935c3bf9962a":{"name":"Sabancı University, Sakip Sabanci Museum","description":"Opened in 2002, the museum consists of a large house designed and built by the Italian architect Edoardo de Nari in 1925–27 and a three-storey exhibition building.  \n  \nSakıp Sabancı bought the Horse Mansion (so-called from a statue in the garden) and its furnishings in 1951 and began to enrich the collection of antiques inherited from his father. From the early 1970s he purchased paintings from the Ottoman and Turkish Republic periods, European and Chinese porcelain, decorative objects, calligraphic works, Qur’ans and manuscripts. In the 1980s he added private manuscript collections.  \n  \nSakıp Sabancı donated his collection, the house and surrounding premises to Sabancı University. The museum presents a versatile environment with its permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, conservation units and educational programmes.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sakip Sabanci Caddesi, 42  \n34467 Emirgan, Sariyer, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"http://www.sakipsabancimuzesi.org","phone":"+90 212 277 22 00","fax":"+90 212 229 49 14","email":"ssminfo@sabanciuniv.edu"},"7dfff38c-303b-557b-9cb3-9735ce4cab7b":{"name":"National Museum of Anthropology","description":"The National Museum of Anthropology is Spain's first anthropological museum. Its establishment was due in large part to the efforts of one Pedro González Velasco, a doctor of Segovian heritage, and was officially inaugurated in 1875 by King Alfonso XII to serve as a museum that showcased objects relating to anatomy and anthropology. The current museum hosts an exhibition room that pays tribute to this inaugural history.  \n  \nAfter the museum became a public institution, under the authority of the former Natural History Cabinet, it was converted into the National Museum of Natural Sciences. Subsequently, under the auspices of Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific Research, the site was rededicated as the Museum of Anthropology, Ethnography and Prehistory and later a National Museum of Ethnology, making it a museum dedicated exclusively to cultural anthropology.  \n  \nVelasco’s original collection was augmented by objects brought back by expeditions organised by Spanish scientific institutions in the last years of the nineteenth century. The acquisition of these objects were paid for by the funds of the Museum of Natural Sciences. Amongst these are a collection of ethnographic objects that formed part of the 1887 Philippine Exhibition, the last colonial exhibition of the Spanish Empire that was organised in Madrid’s ‘Parque del Retiro’. The Museum’s collection have grown since the 1960s, thanks to donations and acquisitions made by the General Directorate of Fine Arts, Cultural Property, Archives and Libraries.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Alfonso XII, 68  \n28014 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://mnantropologia.mcu.es","phone":"+34 91 530 64 18/91 539 59 95","fax":"+34 91 467 70 98","email":"antropologico@mecd.es"},"8128a827-15fb-5166-902e-e23aab2a8fd7":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, State Museums","description":"**The Museum of Islamic Art is closed from October 2023 to March 2027 due to renovation and expansion works.**  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Berlin is the only institution of its kind in Germany, the oldest in the West and with its c. 93,000 pieces it houses one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from nearly all regions of Islamic rule.  \n  \nIts collections are especially rich in objects from an architectural context including the monumental façade of the caliphal palace of Mshatta (Jordan), dating from the mid-8th century. It is the largest artefact of Islamic Art in any museum worldwide. The unique dome from the Alhambra Palace in Granada (Spain) and 13th-century prayer niches from Kashan (Iran) and Konya (Turkey) are among the highlights. Most loved by our visitors is the finely painted wooden panelling of an upper-class house from Aleppo (Syria) from the early 17th century – it is the oldest surviving exemplar from the Ottoman World. Among the several archaeological groups from major excavations in the Islamic world the finds from the 9th-century caliphal capital of Samarra (Iraq) stand out. The collection also has a large number of important Ottoman and Persian carpets and bibliographical works of art, including numerous miniatures from the Mughal Empire.  \n  \nThe collection is displayed chronologically, allowing the visitor to follow the different stylistic phases of Islamic art and to develop a notion of the complex Islamic history and its artistic merits. Because of the large number of visitors (up to 900,000 yearly), only a small number of the most important works of art are on display. The museum will move inside Pergamon-Museum and will triple its exhibition space (3,000sq.m) by 2020. The layout and concept will discover new and innovative ways to present the cultural legacy.  \n  \nWith its rich art and archaeological collection, the Museum of Islamic Art is one of the leading research institutions dedicated to the material culture of the Middle East and neighbouring regions. Our many research, conservation and exhibition projects amount to a probing investigation of the urban legacies of the Near and Middle East. The institution houses important collections of archival photographs on Islamic art and architecture as well as an internationally outstanding library focused on art, architecture and archaeology in the world of Islam.","city":"Berlin","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","fax":"+49 30 266 42 5202","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"837224f1-ccca-5dbc-a1ac-6b18c9c00997":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Cosenza","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Cosenza","address":"Via Gian Vincenzo Gravina, 12  \n87100 Cosenza  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatocosenza.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 0984 791790","fax":"+39 0984 793120","email":"as-cs@beniculturali.it"},"83b5a171-0257-50b2-84c9-f6a1e6d481e2":{"name":"Italian Geographical Society (SGI)","description":"Founded in 1867 for the purpose of promoting geographic research and the popular distribution of geographic knowledge, the SGI has realised its objectives with reference to the various parts of the world.  \n  \nA distinctive feature of the SGI’s history has been the organisation of numerous expeditions and scientific missions. But irrespective of the level of involvement by the SGI, interesting accounts of almost all journeys can be found in the society’s archives, since even when an organisation or mission was not directly connected with the SGI, the society was regarded as the most prestigious custodian of the memory of its venture. For this reason, the society’s archives have accumulated a unique legacy (books, maps, photographs) of the history of travel.","city":"Rome","address":"Via della Navicella, 12  \n00184 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.societageografica.it","phone":"+39 06 7008279","fax":"+39 06 77079518","email":"segreteria@societageografica.it"},"869f6729-a0ed-56b2-a24b-3c19813a3082":{"name":"National Library of France","description":"The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, National Library of France) holds heritage assets collected over the last 500 years through legal deposit and an active policy of acquisitions: 14 million books and printed items, periodicals, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps and plans, sheet music, coins, medals, audio documents, video, multimedia documents, sets and costumes. Its archives grow by around 150,000 items per year, covering the full range of intellectual, artistic and scientific disciplines.  \n  \nIt conserves, analyses, classifies and organises these treasures in order to make them available to the public, for research or general knowledge purposes.  \n  \nIt publicises them by organising exhibitions, conferences, talks and publishing works.  \n  \nIn addition to its reading rooms, which welcome more than 940,000 people every year, the BnF provides access to more than 1.5 million documents via the Gallica digital library.  \n  \nIt is also at the heart of the national network for cooperation between libraries, and it runs an international exchange and cooperation scheme.  \n  \nA dynamic institution that is open to the challenges of the future, BnF is developing projects to give it a new dimension, thereby helping to increase its influence and its leading role in taking on the major cultural challenges of tomorrow: the legal deposit of Internet documents, the development of on-line digital libraries (Gallica and its upgrade Gallica 2) and the mass digitisation of its collections.","city":"Paris","address":"Quai François-Mauriac  \n75706 Paris Cedex 13  \nFrance","website":"http://www.bnf.fr/","phone":"+33 (0)1 537 959 59"},"86a5966f-9e5a-5365-b1f4-2a9826d0e74c":{"name":"Ministry of Antiquities","description":"The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is the main body of the Ministry of Antiquities. The SCA was established in 1859 as the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, changed by presidential decree no. 28 1992 to the SCA. It is responsible for overseeing all matters relating to the cultural heritage of Egypt including the safety, administration, protection, conservation and documentation of the cultural heritage as well as research and media representation. Services for enforcing these tasks are carried out in six sectors, covering all administrative, financial, legal, technical, engineering and scientific needs. The six sectors are: the General Secretariat, the Egyptology and Greek-Roman department, the Department of Coptic and Islamic Antiquities, Financial Support, Museums and Projects.  \n  \nThe highest authority in the SCA is the supervisory board, which acts as the governing body. President of the SCA is the Minister of Antiquities (previously the president was the Minister of Culture), which is the only legal representative of sectors of the SCA. The directors of the six sectors make up the executive body of the supervisory board, as permanent members. The General Secretariat is the executive director of the sectors of the SCA.  \n  \nThe General Secretariat established the Department of Models, which is responsible for reproducing replicas of the Egyptian antiquities such as the Tut Ankh Amun collections. The department is located in the citadel, with a branch in the building of the Ministry of Antiquities. Lecture and conference halls are located in the building of the Ministry of Antiquities in addition to the other halls that are located in the building of the SCA: the Egyptian, Islamic and Coptic museums.","city":"Cairo","address":"Address 1:  \nMinistry of Antiquities  \nAl Adel Abou Bakr Street, 3  \nZamalek, Cairo  \nEgypt  \n  \nAddress 2:  \nSupreme Council of Antiquities  \nFakhri Abdel Nour Street, 14  \nAbbasia, Cairo  \nEgypt","website":"http://www.sca-egypt.org/eng/main.htm","phone":"+20 2 2735 8761","fax":"+20 2 2735 7239","email":"ministry.antiquities@gmail.com"},"86f92392-e181-5f6b-b6d0-390d5f88993c":{"name":"MIBACT | Directorate General of Archives","description":"The Directorate General of Archives, which comes under the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and of Tourism (Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo), coordinates a vast network of 101 State Archives, 35 Sections of State Archives, the Central State Archives, 19 Archival Supervision Agencies and the Central Institute for Archives. It carries out functions of high-level management, guidance and coordination of the archival sector at a national level as regards protection, preservation, control over current state records, supervision, technology and IT, information systems, preservation of digital records, professional training and development and publishing as well as promoting awareness and utilisation of the archival heritage.","city":"Rome","address":"Via Gaeta, 8a  \n00185 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.archivi.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 492251","fax":"+39 06 4882358","email":"dg-a@beniculturali.it"},"8b0b152b-8977-5c8e-a347-e7a9890985cb":{"name":"Archivio Progetti – Università Iuav di Venezia","description":"Founded in 1987, the Archivio Progetti is part of the Università Iuav di Venezia. Its main mission is to acquire, arrange, catalogue and keep archives related to architecture, making them available for historical and technical research. Materials are collected mainly from architects and architectural practices, engineers, town planners, designers, photographers and corporates.  \n  \nThe Archivio Progetti owns (2013) 40 archives, with many thousands of drawings, papers, photographs and about 350 architectural models. Researchers from across the world access the reading room or refer to the on-line catalogues. Items from the collections are put on display for theme-based exhibitions in the gallery next to the reading room; others are lent to museums all over the world for their temporary exhibitions.","city":"Venice","address":"Dorsoduro, 2196  \nVenezia  \nItaly","website":"www.iuav.it/archivioprogetti","phone":"+39 041 2571012","fax":"+39 041 2572626","email":"archivioprogetti@iuav.it"},"8cde1ffe-e1cc-52a8-9261-ee16bcaac48f":{"name":"National Museum of Romanian History","description":"The National Museum of Romanian History is Romania's most important museum, being the holder of the most valuable objects in the country's historical heritage. It was founded in 1970 and inaugurated two years later. The palace that hosts the museum is a neoclassical construction built between 1894 and 1900 by the Romanian architect Alexandru Savulescu and used until 1970 by the Romanian Postal Service.  \n  \nThe museum has a collection of 687,579 objects, constantly enriched through acquisitions, donations and new archeological discoveries. Because it is currently under renovation, most of the museum is closed to the public, who can visit only a part of its permanent exhibition, the Historical Treasure of Romania, which contains golden hoards and jewellery dating from Antiquity until the 20th century; Trajan's Column – a replica of the monument found in Rome, whose bas-reliefs tell the story of the Daco-Roman wars (101–102, 105–106 AD), which ended with Dacia (a province that was in present-day Romania's territory) being conquered by the Romans; and the Lapidarium – a collection of sculptures, architectural elements, different types of stone engravings (civil, honorific, funerary, votive monuments) from Antiquity to the 19th century. In addition, temporary exhibitions on various subjects are periodically organised, some of them in collaboration with other Romanian museums and cultural institutions or with foreign partners.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Victoria Avenue, 12, sector 3  \n030026 Bucharest  \nRomania","website":"http://www.mnir.ro/","phone":"+40 21 315 82 07","fax":"+40 21 311 33 56","email":"direct@mnir.ro"},"8ea7243d-fe8e-5011-a9ca-75ebd26660ac":{"name":"Ministry of Culture, Directorate for Cultural Heritage","description":"The Directorate of Cultural Heritage is part of the Ministry of Culture. Its mission is to ensure the protection, conservation, restoration, maintenance and promotion of the architectural, archaeological and ethnographic heritage. It is also in charge of the country’s museums and its various artistic treasures.","city":"Rabat","address":"Avenue Michlifen, 17  \nAgdal, Rabat  \nMorocco","website":"www.minculture.gov.ma","phone":"+212 537 274 001 / 03","fax":"+212 537 274 002"},"8f0d2773-afea-51e8-ab5b-624187d06f77":{"name":"Ministry of Culture and Tourism (General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums)","description":"Hosting many civilisations on its soil throughout the ages, Turkey can be identified as the cradle of civilisations and its culture is enriched by the ancient history of Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the Caucasus, eastern Europe and the Aegean. Turkey is now among the most important cultural and touristic places in the world with its thousands of years of cultural accumulation, unique geography, intercontinental location and natural beauty. Duties and activities including promotion, preservation and the transfer of cultural heritage into the future are the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The ministry creates policies that keep abreast of contemporary socioeconomic and strategic developments occurring in the world and carries out its activities within the powers delegated by law.","city":"Ankara","address":"II. TBMM Binası Yanı  \n06110 Ulus/Ankara  \nTurkey","website":"www.kultur.gov.tr","phone":"+90 312 470 80 00","fax":"+90 312 470 65 32","email":"kulturvalikmuze@gov.tr"},"90c06d5c-38e7-56ec-a14e-d86afa002610":{"name":"National Museum of Archaeology","description":"The National Museum of Archaeology (MNA) was founded in 1893 by José Leite de Vasconcelos as the Museum of the Portuguese People, “attempting to bring together material elements of culture that […] will define the character traits of our people”. The MNA accumulated remarkable holdings encompassing different themes: archaeology, ethnography, gold and silverware, coins and medals, pre-Latin and Latin epigraphy, sculpture, written documentation, mosaics and physical anthropology. It also boasts archaeological and ethnographic “comparative collections” (Ancient Egypt and the Portuguese Royal House), along with different legacies and donations. The bulk of its holdings includes vast collections of Portuguese archaeology from the pre- and protohistoric, Roman, Arab and medieval periods.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Praça do Império  \n1400-206 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.museuarqueologia.pt/","phone":"+351 21 3620000","fax":"+351 21 3620016","email":"geral@mnarqueologia.dgpc.pt"},"92402cc0-9a0d-5f5e-a47f-8d33edfa26a5":{"name":"No Partner","description":"Our Collection includes some items that were contributed by private persons, with no Partner institution involved."},"9340dcc4-aefc-5da9-9c6f-1a9d5229bc8d":{"name":"Military Museum and Cultural Centre Command","description":"The Military Museum and Cultural Centre Command is subordinate to the Military History and Strategic Studies (ATASE) Division, General Staff, deployed in Harbiye district of Istanbul. The Harbiye district, meaning “military”, derives its name from the service buildings of the Military Museum which were used by the Ottoman Empire in its later periods as the Military Academy. The founder of the Republic, the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, graduated from this school.  \n  \nThe museum collects, classifies, maintains and renovates the works of art that can be regarded as cultural military assets, and stores and exhibits them using modern methods in order to hand them on to future generations.  \n  \nThere are approximately 55,000 objects in its inventory, 5,000 of which are displayed in the museum’s exhibition halls.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Harbiye, Şişli  \nIstanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 233 27 20","fax":"+90 212 296 86 18","email":"askerimuze@tsk.tr"},"9430e534-166d-564f-9847-926b347ec975":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Livorno","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Livorno","address":"Palazzo del Governo  \nVia Fiume, 40  \n57123 Livorno  \nItaly","website":"www.aslivorno.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 0586 897776; 0586 880028","fax":"+39 0586 896782","email":"as-li@beniculturali.it"},"97c4b416-b7b0-59ba-a78b-d0769f52ed9b":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Florence","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Florence","address":"Viale della Giovine Italia, 6  \n50122 Firenze  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistato.firenze.it","phone":"+39 055 263201","fax":"+39 055 2341159","email":"as-fi@beniculturali.it"},"9d2766e4-df9b-5798-b7be-07e6280042d0":{"name":"National Library of Algeria","description":"Founded in 1835 by Adrian Berbrugger at the impetus of the War Ministry, the National Library of Algeria aims to keep and preserve the documents seized by the colonial occupation of Algeria after 1830.  \n  \nThe National Library of Algeria had different seats before settling down in the barracks of the janissaries for ten years. Thanks to donations, the library’s documentary fund expanded to in include confiscated of manuscripts and consignments from the French War Ministry. In 1863, the National Library changed location and found a new home at Dar Mustapha Pacha.  \n  \nDar Mustapha Pacha is one of the greatest examples of 18th-century Islamic Moorish architecture. The first floor of the palace is dedicated to the library while the second floor houses an archive museum. In 1890, the two institutions were separated by a decree.  \n  \nDespite its wealth of architectural beauty and ornamentation, the palace is ill-suited to serving as a library. By 1947, a lack of reading rooms, poor conditions for book preservation, and lack of storage pushed authorities to build a more modern structure. It is the first such library on the African soil and in the Arab world able to compete with world standard libraries.  \n  \nIn 1958, the National Library of Algeria moved into its new building on the capital hills. With a total area of 4,800 square metres, it had three reading rooms and storage spanning over six floors, displaying 1,200,000 books.  \n  \nIn 1984, the construction of a new seat was launched. Set in the El-Hamma aera, south of Algiers, one of its goals was to boost the community while enjoying the natural beauty of a primary location overlooking the sea and adjacent to the Jardin d’Essai. On November 1st, 1994, the new National Library of Algeria was inaugurated and public access to all its rooms was granted in 1998.  \n  \nThe Library can accommodate 2,300 readers at a time. It boasts cutting edge technology ensuring the proper restoration, processing and book binding. The National Library has many extensions throughout the country, ensuring proximity with the public, fostering the cultural spread and promoting literacy.","city":"Algiers","website":"https://www.m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/etablissements-sous-tutelle/bibliotheque-nationale-d-algerie"},"a3753de5-842a-5f0b-a8c7-50bb2e312ce6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia – from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections are housed in the Neue Burg (the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury) and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the KHM.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"a3feae57-66bd-5351-89da-2ae9a91af07c":{"name":"MIBACT | Egyptian Museum, Florence","description":"Florence’s Egyptian Museum is second only in Italy to the Egyptian Museum in Turin. Egyptian artefacts were already held in the 18th century in the Medici-Lorena collections, but during the 19th century these increased thanks to the efforts of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II, who sponsored a scientific expedition to Egypt in 1828 and 1829. The expedition was led by Jean François Champollion, the hieroglyphics decipherer, and by Ippolito Rosellini, the father of Italian Egyptology; the material collected during the expedition was divided between the Louvre in Paris and Florence. In 1855 the Egyptian Museum in Florence was formally established. Ernesto Schiaparelli, its director, reorganised the collection in the 1880s. Currently the museum houses over 14,000 pieces ranging from prehistoric material to the Coptic period, with steles, statues and statuettes, coffins, textiles, furniture, vases and amulets.","city":"Florence","address":"Piazza SS Annunziata, 9/b  \n50121 Firenze  \nItaly","phone":"+39 055 23575","fax":"+39 055 242213"},"a7a10d29-2e2e-5062-8d2d-2c122a8b9457":{"name":"General Secretariat of TBMM (National Palaces)","description":"The Department of National Palaces, a unit within the structure of the General Secretariat of TBMM (Turkish Grand National Assembly), is commissioned to maintain, repair, restore and administer the affiliated palaces, pavilions, museums and factories in accordance with international museum and conservation standards. Today there are two palaces, two kiosks, eight pavilions, three museums and two factories within the National Palaces organisation founded in the early years of the Republic. The basic function of the department is the preservation and restoration of all of these structures and the historical objects they contain while being faithful to their cultural and historical backgrounds and to enable them to be visited by domestic and foreign visitors within the context of modern museum practice.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Dolmabahçe Sarayı  \n34357 Beşiktaş, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/saraylar/dolmabahce-sarayi","phone":"+90 212 236 90 00","fax":"+90 212 259 32 92","email":"millisaraylar@tbmm.gov.tr"},"aa83efa6-6a45-5fd6-adf6-3d369fe66c16":{"name":"National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions","description":"Inaugurated in 1961, the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions (NMPAT) is located in the lower casbah neighborhood, also known as \\*Souk el Djemaa\\*, where a poultry market used to take place on Fridays. The museum’s main goal is to promote the Algerian, traditional and rural heritage. Its inception dates back to the early 20th century, with the aim of boosting manual know-how and craftmanship while safeguarding local traditions. The museum was first set in a palace built in 1570 by Ramdane Pacha. By the end of the 18th century, it went to Hassan Khaznadji, treasurer to Dey Mohamed Ben Othman, who gave it to his daughter Khedaoudj. Legend has it that the young princess had lost her sight, struck by her own beauty while admiring her reflection in a mirror. The palace was then inhabited by Jacob Cohen Bacri, a rich wheat trader. After French colonisation in 1830, the French government turned the building into the first city hall of Algiers. In 1860, part of the palace was transformed to welcome Empress Eugenia de Montijo. During her visit, Aziza Bacri, Jacob Cohen Bacri’s granddaughter was her interpreter. In 1987, a decree officially turned Dar Khedaoudj El Amia into the NMPAT. The collection has been made possible thanks to several purchases and donations. It consists of items made for domestic use, some of which were made for competitions for the best artisan of France as well as products by famous Algeria craftsmen. Visitors can admire copper flasks, silver chests, colourful fabrics displaying geometric patterns from the Boussaada area, rugs from Chechar, ceramics from Taher and the Aures, knotted rugs weavings from the Babar area, jewels, traditional costumes and furniture from the city of Algiers. The collection also includes musical instruments, home furnishing fabrics woven with silk threads from the M'zab, costumes and embroideries, pottery and tools made by the Targuis, by the Kabyles or from the Aures, as well as silver rings from Timimoun and Tamanrasset, and fibulas from Setif and El Bayadh. An exhibition room is dedicated to mirrors. Among these delicately ornate objects, one is suspected to have led to princess Khedaoudj’s blindness. Beside the ethnographic collection, the Museum keeps a photographic fund with over 20,000 items, including ancient photos, Ektachromes, diapositives and black and white pictures. Please contact \\[management@museumwnf.net\\]() for further updates of this content.","city":"Algiers","address":"9 rue Mohamed Akli Malek  \nCasbah 16000, Algiers  \nAlgeria","website":"http://cnra.dz/atlas/musee-national-des-arts-et-traditions-populaires/","phone":"+213 21 43 99 08"},"ac11a4ca-f2da-5488-8462-098e6588e37c":{"name":"Zoological Botanical Garden Wilhelma","description":"Wilhelma is the most popular recreational facility in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg's capital city. Every year more than 2 million visitors visit the unique Wilhelma Park. Not only does it combine extensive botanical gardens with a modern zoo: owing to its historical Moorish- style buildings, but it is also known as the “Alhambra on the River Neckar”, and in grounds covering more than 74 acres visitors can immerse themselves in the history of Baden-Württemberg. A highly diverse world of flora and fauna also awaits them, with rich botanical collections comprising more than 7,000 plant species, while the zoo is home to more than 1,100 species – some 9,000 animals.","city":"Stuttgart","address":"Wilhelma, 13  \n70376 Stuttgart  \nGermany  \n  \nPostfach 50 12 27  \n70342 Stuttgart  \nGermany","website":"www.wilhelma.de","phone":"+49 711 5402 0","fax":"+49 711 5402 222","email":"info@wilhelma.de"},"ade41604-f524-5e89-9783-ad827a3b4e8f":{"name":"Cerrahpaşa Medical History Museum","description":"During the 1893 cholera epidemic in Istanbul, Takiyeddin Paşa Konağı (Mansion of Takiyeddin Pasha) in Cerrahpaşa district was purchased by the municipality and turned into a cholera hospital to treat and isolate patients. In 2005, the building opened as Cerrahpaşa Medical History Museum. Most of the objects exhibited date to the late Ottoman and early Republican period. The collection includes Turkish medical manuscripts, plant pictures copied from old plant books and copies of Ottoman and Seljuq miniatures documenting the historical development of Turkish medical history. There is a collection of apparatus, instruments and tools used for medical education, photographs of education, research and diagnostic laboratories where these materials were used, and drawings, portraits, edicts, insignia and badges.  \n  \n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_  \n  \nThe Museum is currently closed for restoration (March 2019).","city":"Istanbul","address":"Tıp Tarihi Müze Müdürlüğü Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi  \nYerleşkesi Kocamustafapaşa Caddesi, 53  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey  \n  \nCerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi  \nKocamustafapaşa Caddesi, 53  \n34098 Cerrahpaşa  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 414 30 00","fax":"+90 212 632 00 25","email":"ctfmuze@istanbul.edu.tr"},"af01a84d-b174-5718-b9a7-b741c8957086":{"name":"The British Museum","description":"The British Museum was established by Act of Parliament in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all “studious and curious persons”. The founding collection was that of Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy physician and collector. The original British Museum comprised three departments: Printed Books; Manuscripts (including coins); and Natural and Artificial Productions, which included everything from sculpture to mineral samples and zoological specimens. In January 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public.  \n  \nAs a product of the Enlightenment, the museum's job was to be a storehouse of knowledge for the use and benefit of the public, advancing all fields of scholarship. The museum therefore aimed to collect all kinds of material; it remains one of the few places in the world in which it is possible to see the world under one roof. During the 19th century the museum acquired representative collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, as well as material from across the Islamic world.  \n  \nThe museum itself had to grow to offer space to display the growing collections. Between 1823 and 1847 the original building was replaced by four large wings built around a central courtyard. In 1854 construction began on the iconic Round Reading Room in the central courtyard. The natural history collections were given their own home in the new Museum of Natural History in 1881. By 1973 the British Library and British Museum were administratively separated, and in 1999 the new British Library building opened at St Pancras. The British Museum site was expanded and modernised. In 2000 the Great Court opened, envisioned as a sunny piazza at the centre of the building, with up-to-date facilities such as lecture theatres, an education centre and facilities for school children, as well as restaurants and shops. In 2014 the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre opened to the public, offering state-of-the-art facilities to care for, manage, research and display the collections.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St.,  \nLondon WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","fax":"+44 20 7323 8616","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"b0954476-7987-560c-9d72-015054dd0737":{"name":"University of Évora (History Department)","description":"The University of Évora is organised in four schools: Arts, Sciences and Technology, Social Sciences and Nursing. Research and development (R&D) covers several scientific areas through a network of 14 research units, all of them submitted to international evaluation, under the coordination of the Institute for Research and Advanced Studies. The University of Évora also established three Chairs in areas of excellence: Biodiversity, Renewable Energies and Heritage, sponsored by private capital holders. Over the years, the university has fostered close links with the community through the creation of working networks and dissemination of knowledge such as the participation in the Science and Technology Park.  \n  \nThe creation of the University of Évora dates back to the 16th century when Cardinal D. Henrique (1512–80), 1st Archbishop of Évora, under King João III (1502–57), ordered it to house the community of Jesuits in Évora. The first academic year began on 1 November 1559. The university was authorised to teach philosophy, morals, scripture, speculative theology, rhetoric, grammar and humanities. In the 17th century the teaching of mathematics, geography, physics and military architecture was added. By 1759 the university was closed by the Marquis of Pombal (Lisbon, 1699 – Pombal, 1782) and the Jesuits were expelled from Portugal. Over the following 200 years, the University of Évora remained closed until its renewal in 1973, reopening its doors as a public university.","city":"Évora","address":"Largo dos Colegiais  \n7000 Évora  \nPortugal","website":"www.uevora.pt","phone":"+351 266 740 800","email":"gabrieit@uevora.pt"},"b103b986-c8c1-5a48-a968-086e171abf4d":{"name":"Austrian State Archives","description":"The Austrian State Archives are among the most important archives worldwide. They are a subordinate agency of the Federal Chancellery and serve two purposes: on the one hand, they are central archives for the federal services of the Republic of Austria (supreme bodies and ministries), which have a legal responsibility to transfer their acts and documents to the State Archives. On the other hand, their historical departments are the keepers of the archival heritage of the Hapsburg Empire (1526–1918) and its central authorities and of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (until 1806). The oldest item in the collection of acts and charters dates back to 816. Due to the supra-regional nature of its holdings, the Austrian State Archives are a contact point for researchers from all over the world.","city":"Vienna","address":"Nottendorfer Gasse, 2  \nA-1030 Wien (main building)  \nAustria  \n  \nMinoritenplatz, 1  \n1010 Wien (branch office)  \nAustria","website":"www.oesta.gv.at","phone":"+43 1 795 40 0","email":"gdpost@oesta.gv.at"},"b1dd01e5-c655-5ba8-9ee1-725321fc390a":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Venice","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Venice","address":"San Polo, 3002  \nI 30125 Venezia  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatovenezia.it","phone":"+39 041 5222281","fax":"+39 041 5229220","email":"as-ve@beniculturali.it"},"b3d5e8a5-90ae-5442-bf21-9067f8e77ed1":{"name":"Cerralbo Museum","description":"Cerralbo Palace, now Museum, was built between 1884 and 1892 in a historicist style with classical echoes, also shared by its garden. It contains the collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17th Marquis of Cerralbo (1845–1922), a politician, historian, collector and pioneer of archaeology in Spain. After his death, he bequeathed his collection to the Spanish state. Paintings, furniture, clocks, porcelain, lamps, sculptures, arms and armour, textiles, books, coins and archaeological objects are displayed in the various rooms where the first inhabitants of the palace led their daily lives. Cerralbo Museum also has the distinction of being one of the few buildings in Madrid that shows the original decorative ambience of an aristocratic residence, thoroughly restored in the first decade of the 21st century.","city":"Madrid","address":"C / Ventura Rodríguez, 17  \n28008 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museocerralbo.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 915 47 36 46 / 47","fax":"+34 915 59 11 71","email":"museo.cerralbo@mecd.es"},"b524e75b-5fc9-5689-8424-4d211d82ee8a":{"name":"Italian War History Museum","description":"The museum, founded in 1921, is located in the castle of Rovereto. Its extensive documentation deals not only with military matters, but also with sociocultural aspects of World War I and wars concerning Italy from the end of the 19th century to World War II. The exhibition area is dedicated to armies and soldiers from the 19th century to World War I (soon to be extended to World War II), with objects and photographs, material relating to trench warfare, flyers, posters and testimonies of the experiences of combatants and civilians.  \n  \nIn the castle towers are collections of modern weapons (16th–18th centuries) and of weapons and instruments from prehistory to medieval times. Temporary exhibits are dedicated to the memory of the World War I and of modern conflicts, with educational activities for families and schools. The museum also promotes study and research, oversees the publication of historical and documentary works and participates in film-making.","city":"Rovereto","address":"Via Castelbarco, 7  \n38068 Rovereto (TN)  \nItaly","website":"http://www.museodellaguerra.it/","phone":"+39 0464 438100","fax":"+39 0464 423410","email":"info@museodellaguerra.it"},"b5ea6933-458f-5e3f-bce3-210363a13ff0":{"name":"National Museum of Fine Arts","description":"Inaugurated in 1930, the **National Museum of Fine Arts** houses one of the most important art collections on the continent – if not the entire Arab world. Located on a hill in the Hamma neighborhood, it faces the Bay of Algiers. Its rich collection is the result of donations and various purchases from artists and private art collectors, with more than 8,000 items. The collection is quite varied, and including paintings, engravings, ancient prints, decorative objects, and an assemblage of numismatic items.  \n  \nEver since the country achieved independence 50 years ago, the museum has developed new sections. In addition to the “historical” collection revolving around the most ancient fund of the museum, a chronological exhibition spans six centuries of European art history, from the primitives to the 18th century. Since 2007, two new exhibition rooms have showcased 18th century orientalist art as well as works from mid-19th century Algeria. The rooms are named after two great Algerian contemporary artists: Mohamed Temam and Mohamed Louaïl.  \n  \nObviously, Algerian artists hold a place of honor at the Museum. The Bachir Yellès room showcase works by Algerian painters of the first generation. A whole floor is dedicated to 20th-century Algerian art. The “School of Algiers” and Abd-El-Tif residents fund counts over 1,500 artists, including painters, engravers and watercolorists born in Algeria, some of whom reached international fame (e.g. Paul Belmondo, a sculptor awarded the Prix de Rome and the Grand prix of Algeria in 1936).  \n  \nSince 1963, thanks to the “Art and Revolution fund”, the museum has boasted a contemporary art collection with works done by famous international artists who showed support to the Algerian people in their fight for independence.  \n  \nSculpture is well represented through pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. An itinerary is suggested to cover all the different rooms and gardens.  \n  \nDecorative arts – ceramic, glass works– and ancient furniture mainly come from two period homes. The Prints Cabinet remains one of the highlights of the Museum, showing works from a master of Algerian miniature: Mohamed Racim, considered a genuine national treasure.","city":"Algiers","website":"http://www.musee-beauxarts.dz/"},"b638c12f-d633-5a86-aac2-5546f55dc8b4":{"name":"Eça de Queirós School","description":"Eça de Queirós School offers wide and comprehensive education and training and is committed to promoting a strategy for continuous improvement of results with regard to school success, without neglecting educational success. Students regularly participate in national and international projects, achieving excellent ratings in competitions and tournaments. The school also invests substantially in adult education and training, targeted at those wishing to gain qualifications either through formal education or through recognition of competences gained through lifelong learning, with the pleasure of gaining knowledge regardless of educational level.  \n  \nThe school maintains a large number of national and international partnerships and protocols and is always open to innovation and new cultural proposals.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua Cidade de Benguela,  \n1800-071 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.queiroz.pt","phone":"+351 218 540 710","fax":"+351 218 540 713","email":"agrupamento@queiroz.pt"},"b7d617eb-89f8-58d6-bf7b-c3fef44a8efb":{"name":"Vista Alegre Museum","description":"Set in a former workshop of the Vista Alegre porcelain factory the mission of the Vista Alegre Museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the cultural heritage of the factory. In its rooms can be seen porcelain and glass, documents and photographs that tell fascinating histories of an industry, covering its human, cultural and technological heritage.","city":"Ílhavo","address":"Vista Alegre  \n3830-392 Ílhavo  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.myvistaalegre.com/int/t/vaa_VisiteMuseudaVistaAlegre_MissaoeObjetivos-1","phone":"+351 234 320 885; 234 320 600","fax":"+351 234 793","email":"centro.visitas.va@vaa.pt"},"bb594122-ba49-5d7f-bd0d-5be50be2e93a":{"name":"Population Exchange Museum (The Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants)","description":"One of the most important mass migrations was the compulsory migration resulting from the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed in Lausanne in 1923 by the Turkish and Greek governments. With the support of the 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency and cooperation with the Lausanne Treaty Foundation and Çatalca Municipality, Turkey’s first museum of migration opened in 2010.  \n  \nMigrants carried only their portable possessions and their culture, traditions, customs and manners to their new homelands. Bridal troussseau pieces make up the museum’s largest section. There are also old photographs, documents, forms, maps, a Qur’an, stamps, banknotes, books, musical instruments, an embroidery prospectus and a copy of *Sabah* newspaper from the end of the 19th century.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Kaleiçi Mahallesi, Bahar Sokak, 4  \nÇatalca, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.lozanmubadilleri.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 245 61 55","fax":"+90 212 293 25 68","email":"lozanmubadilleri@ttmail.com"},"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"},"bc08e5f9-b067-531d-b2c7-115fddfc214f":{"name":"Prussian Palaces (Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin Brandenburg)","description":"The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (German: Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg) or SPSG, was founded by a treaty of 23 August 1994 between the German federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg as a public foundation following German reunification. The treaty came into force on 1 January 1995. The foundation is separate from the considerably larger Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz).  \n  \nSource Wikipedia","city":"Potsdam","address":"Postfach 60 14 62,  \n14414 Potsdam  \nGermany","website":"https://www.spsg.de/en/home/"},"c0f4bd16-caed-59a5-8c05-07349e063e43":{"name":"State Castles and Gardens Baden-Württemberg","description":"The SSG is in charge of the preservation, management, presentation and marketing of the most important palaces, gardens, castles and monasteries owned by the State of Baden-Württemberg and conducts scientific research as well as providing educational offers. It was founded in 1987 and is an unincorporated public institution within the state enterprise Assets and Construction Baden Württemberg, which belongs to the state’s Ministry of Finance. Approximately 150 staff members and 230 seasonal workers located in one central and 11 decentralised administration units take care of 60 historic monuments in total.","city":"Bruchsal","address":"Schlossraum, 22a  \n76646 Bruchsal  \nGermany","website":"www.schloesser-und-gaerten.de/","phone":"+49 72 51 74 27 70","fax":"+49 72 51 74 27 11","email":"info@ssg.bwl.de"},"c258945a-5860-5c80-86dd-712268f42608":{"name":"Ege University Museum of Ethnography","description":"The Museum and Archive of Folkloric Musical Instruments, Folk Dance, Traditional Attire and Folk Songs in the Balkans and Anatolia Project began in 2004. Its main aim was to document the evolution of regional folk dress and musical instruments by collecting samples from the past to the present, preserving local traditions for future generations.  \n  \nThe museum features unique folkloric clothing, musical instruments and thousands of material objects from the Turkish world. On display are 3,040 objects including 2,300 items of traditional clothing, 110 folk musical instruments, 265 pieces of jewellery and accessories, 24 pieces of weaponry, chests, and closets. It is hoped that the museum will gain a worldwide reputation as an ethnographic repository for traditional Turkish and Balkan customs and material culture.","city":"Izmir","address":"Fevzi Çakmak Caddesi, 33  \nBornova, Izmir  \nTurkey","website":"www.etnografyamuzesi.ege.edu.tr","phone":"+90 232 342 48 78","fax":"+90 232 342 49 95","email":"ethnomuseumege@gmail.com"},"c2663ec9-f434-5a4e-a8d3-fb95be4adb76":{"name":"MIBACT | National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM)","description":"The gallery, founded in 1881, is housed in a building designed by Bazzani to house the exhibition (1911) celebrating the 50th anniversary of Italian unification. The collection, representing regional and foreign schools acquired at national exhibitions and the Venice Biennale, represented the best of 19th-century Italian art. It was expanded by donations and bequests (e.g. of Celentano and Balla) and acquisitions of Macchiaoli, Divisionists, Modigliani, Burri and Fontana. Under the direction of Venturi, Bucarelli and Argan it acquired international prestige thanks to a broader museography, with Picasso, Mondrian and Pollock exhibitions.  \n  \nAlthough the advent of the Ministry of Culture deprived it of independence, acqusitions of the Transavanguardia movement and the promotion of young artists made it a museum of the 19th and 20th centuries.","city":"Rome","address":"Viale delle Belle Arti, 131  \n00196 Roma  \nItaly  \nEntrance for special needs: Via Gramsci, 71","website":"www.gnam.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 322 98","fax":"+39 06 322 15 79","email":"s-gnam@beniculturali.it"},"c9aa9059-5518-5ca9-a74a-4a00a4a866ec":{"name":"Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation","description":"The Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, opened to the public in July 1983. Its collection now consists of more than 10,000 works covering Portuguese art from the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as some important international artists. Among these artworks and artists, there is an important collection of British art from the late 1950s / early 1960s; works by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and her husband Arpad Szenes, painters in Paris; works by Arshile Gorky, part of the Armenian background of this artist. The Modern Art Centre programming focuses on temporary exhibitions, showing Portuguese and international artists, and on exhibitions of the collection. Its mission is to make the artistic heritage accessible to the people.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian  \nRua Dr. Nicolau de Bettencourt  \n1050-078 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.cam.gulbenkian.pt","phone":"+351 21 782 3417","email":"cam@gulbenkian.pt"},"cd600584-2d8d-5ce0-bf43-af2c0ea23530":{"name":"National Railway Museum of Portugal","description":"The National Railway Museum of Portugal, inaugurated in 2007, is a multi-centred institution, constituting a central museum situated in Entroncamento and various branches distributed throughout the country. The central museum includes 19 railway tracks, the Head Office of the Foundation, the old Provisions Warehouse and other relevant historic buildings, about to be readapted as Exhibition Areas, Reserved area and Support Services. The mission of the National Railway Museum is the identification, conservation and enhancement of the railway heritage throughout its different technological phases, closely related to the history of transport and of industrial production, particularly the evolution of the services and equipment from the railway exploration.","city":"Entroncamento","address":"Rua Eng. Ferreira de Mesquita, Complexo Ferroviário do Entroncamento  \n2330-152 Entroncamento  \nPortugal","website":"www.fmnf.pt","phone":"+351 249130377","fax":"+351 21 1021773","email":"museu@fmnf.pt"},"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"},"d321bef5-3599-590f-a696-aa3a0d57d455":{"name":"Benaki Museum","description":"The Benaki Museum is the largest and oldest museum in Greece operating as a foundation under private law. It was founded in 1931 by Antoni Benaki, a member of a leading Greek family of Alexandria. The current museum is decentralised: its hub is the neoclassical mansion presenting the evolution of Greek art from the Neolithic period to the present day. The autonomous buildings include the exhibition centre on Pireos Street, the historical archives in the Delta house, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika gallery and the Museum of Islamic Art.  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art is a renovated neoclassical building in Athens’ historic centre near the ancient Agora. It opened in 2004 to house the collection formed by Antoni Benaki during the early part of the 20th century, while he was living in Egypt. Subsequently enriched by other donations, today it contains c. 10,000 objects from the Middle East, Iran, Turkey, North Africa and India. It demonstrates the evolution of Islamic art up to the Ottoman period and corresponding developments to the middle of the 20th century. The collection includes ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, woodwork, glassware, ivories, funerary steles and arms and armour.  \n  \nThe visitor first finds exhibits from the 7th to the 12th century. Highlights are lustreware, door panels from Iraq, Fatimid metalwork, *tiraz* textiles and a unique reed mat from 10th-century Tiberias. The second gallery exhibits objects from the 12th to the 16th century with Seljuq ceramics, Mamluk metalwork and pottery and highlights a brass box with the signature of Isma’il ibn al-Ward al-Mawsili dated 1220 and the astrolabe of Ahmad ibn al-Sarraj dated 1328/29.  \n  \nThe third gallery displays a marble-lined reception room from a 17th-century Cairo mansion and its fountain, *qamariyya* windows and a *mashrabiyya* screen. Other exhibits include Iznik pottery and a 16th-century velvet saddle from Bursa. The last gallery presents arms and armour, and Qajar jewellery collected by Argine Salvagos, sister of the founder.  \n  \nDuring preservation work, a section of the ancient city wall of Athens from the 4th century BC was uncovered and remains *in situ* at basement level, accessible to visitors.","city":"Athens","address":"22 Agion Asomaton & 12 Dipilou Street  \nAthens  \nGreece","website":"http://www.benaki.gr/","phone":"+30 210 325 1311","fax":"+30 210 322 5550","email":"islamic_collection@benaki.gr"},"d341b529-0fe1-52db-a7ea-c367edf0bc03":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Naples","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Naples","address":"Piazzetta Grande Archivio, 5  \n80138 Napoli  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatonapoli.it","phone":"+39 081 5638311","fax":"+39 081 5638300","email":"as-na@beniculturali.it"},"d5996b1b-7dd7-5d6e-af21-dc732123cc8c":{"name":"MIBACT | Borghese Gallery","description":"The Borghese Gallery is one of the seven museums under the Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio storico artistico ed etnoantropologico e per il Polo museale della città di Roma (Superintendence for the historical, artistic and ethno-anthropological heritage and the museums of Rome). The palace was built in the 17th century by the architects Ponzio and Vasanzio inside the largest park in Rome and was intended to provide a suburban villa and accommodate Cardinal Scipione Borghese’s passion for collecting. A kind of museum before the term existed, it houses one of the most enchanting collections of art in the world, with works by Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Lanfranco, Domenichino, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Canova, the 18th-century room in Egyptian style and even a huge collection of Roman sculptures, ancient mosaics as well as precious wood furnishings.  \n  \nThe origin of the collection stemmed from Scipione’s interest in antique and classical art and his desire to exalt the nobility of his family, but later it was enriched with gifts and acquisitions. In particular, in 1607, through the requisition of the paintings from Cavalier d’Arpino workshop and the acquisition of Della Porta and Ceuli collections, the cardinal took possession of dozen of works of art; in 1608 he bought 71 extraordinary paintings belonging to Cardinal Sfondrato, including the famous *Amor sacro, Amor profano* by Titian.  \n  \nAt the end of 1700s Marco Antonio IV Borghese entrusted Antonio Asprucci to launch a radical renovation that followed the modern criteria of the neoclassical style. In 1805 Camillo Borghese commissioned the sculptor Canova to portray Pauline Bonaparte as a *Venus Victrix*. A serious loss was sustained in 1807, when over 695 works were sold to Napoleon and moved to the Louvre in Paris. Since 1833 a trust forbade any other dispersal until 1902, when the Galleria Borghese was acquired by the Italian state.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5  \nI-00197 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it/it","phone":"+39 06 8413979","fax":"+39 06 8840756","email":"sspsae-rm.galleriaborghese@beniculturali.it"},"d8cdb3eb-45fb-5ddf-a4cb-305d3f9d955b":{"name":"Istanbul Postal Museum","description":"The Istanbul Postal Museum is dedicated to the historical development of mail and telecommunication services in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, exhibiting related equipment, instruments and postage stamps.  \n  \nThe museum is situated inside the Main Post Office building in Sirkeci quarter of Fatih district in Istanbul. The museum has a separate entrance and occupies four storeys in the western part of the building. It informs visitors about the country’s history of communication and telecommunication services, which officially began on 23 October 1840 with the foundation of the Ottoman Ministry of Post. Established on 6 May 2000 by the Turkish Post, the museum consists of four sections for mail, telegraphy, telephony and postage stamps. Photographs taken during the construction of the building are also displayed.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Hobyar Mahallesi,  \nBüyük Postane Caddesi, 25  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.ptt.gov.tr","phone":"+90 212 519 19 99","fax":"+90 212 512 09 49","email":"istav-muze@ptt.gov.tr"},"da058c7a-9e86-5354-8deb-cc489c7fb154":{"name":"Gramsci Institute Foundation","description":"The Gramsci Institute Foundation preserves archives of major importance for the study of the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Italy, with particular reference to the history of Republican Italy, including those of the Italian Communist Party (1921–91), Antonio Gramsci’s prison notebooks and letters from prison, and the papers of Luchino Visconti, Sibilla Aleramo and Luigi Squarzina. The foundation has a library of approximately 150,000 volumes and 4,000 periodicals.  \n  \nThe foundation carries out research projects in its areas of expertise and organises scholarly conferences and seminars, courses, exhibitions and training activities. It publishes the journal *Studi Storici* and a wide range of scholarly volumes, including the national edition of the writings of Antonio Gramsci.","city":"Rome","address":"Legal office:  \nVia Portuense, 95/c  \n00153 Roma  \n  \nOperational Headquarters:  \nVia Sebino, 43a  \n00199 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.fondazionegramsci.org","phone":"+39 06 065806646","fax":"+39 06 48887530","email":"info@fondazionegramsci.org"},"dbffb8f8-6183-5d07-a911-b7386d37aaab":{"name":"Lázaro Galdiano Museum","description":"The Museo Lázaro Galdiano is a result of the generous spirit of collector D. Jose Lázaro, who left to the Spanish state under his will of 1947 his house, library of 20,000 volumes and 13,000 artworks.  \nThe museum was installed in the neo-Renaissance palace that was the Lázaro family home and opened in 1951. In 2005 it was restored, with a rearrangement of the collections that highlights the importance of Spanish art. The museum spaces evoke the places where the collection was enjoyed by the leading intellectuals of the time. Works by Goya, El Greco, Velázquez, Reynolds, Isenbrandt, Hubert van Eyck and Constable coexist with important collections of sculpture, ivories, enamels, bronzes and textiles. José Lázaro took special interest in Hispano-Muslim art and art of the first Spanish Renaissance.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Serrano, 122  \n28006 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"www.flg.es","phone":"+34 91 561 60 84","fax":"+34 91 561 77 93","email":"amparo.lopez@flg.es"},"dc1c7f07-b903-5bd2-bf64-bf760b8a5dca":{"name":"Bibliotheca Alexandrina","description":"The objective of the new library remains the same as that of the old library: to act as a public research library and to support the people of the Arab world and the Middle East to retain their long-standing position as scholars and researchers in different fields of science.  \n  \nThe Library of Alexandria provides more than a library. In addition to the usual library facilities, the Library also contains other cultural and educational functions including a planetarium, several museums, an Internet archive, an audio-visual library, a school for information science, and conservation facilities. A Young Person’s Library is available for younger students and visitors. In addition to this, a new conference centre is linked to an existing auditorium on the site, making the Library a centrepiece for both learning and debate.  \n  \nToday, the Library of Alexandria is receiving about 1.5 million visitors a year. Its webcast service provides live and archived access to all the conferences, lectures and presentations taking place at the Library.","city":"Alexandria","address":"PO Box 138  \nChatby 21526  \nAlexandria  \nEgypt","website":"www.bibalex.org","phone":"+20 3 4839999"},"de796842-f078-5eec-9f69-8b497cfb8d37":{"name":"Revoltella Civic Museum","description":"The Revoltella Museum is a modern art gallery whose origins lie in the institution founded in 1872 under the will of Baron Pasquale Revoltella (1795–1869). He was one of the most outstanding and authoritative figures of imperial Trieste and played a major role in both economic and political affairs. His main endeavours were concentrated on facilitating the opening of the Suez Canal. Trieste, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918, was a major port, and Revoltella believed it to be crucial to developing the empire’s economy through maritime trade. In 1852 Revoltella entrusted Berlin architect Friedrich Hitzig to design his palace. Revoltella bequeathed his palace and his art collection to the city of Trieste. He also bestowed significant revenues on the museum, enabling a continuous increase of patrimony and accumulation of a considerable art collection.","city":"Trieste","address":"Via Diaz, 27  \n34123 Trieste  \nItaly","website":"http://www.museorevoltella.it/","phone":"+39 040 675 4350","fax":"+39 040 6754137","email":"revoltella@comune.trieste.it"},"deba9281-0964-556f-8e97-45ad230e0348":{"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](http://shangrilahawaii.org/History/Doris-Duke/) (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](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Programs/Tours/Virtual-Tour/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](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Islamic-Art-Collection/Collection-Highlights/Commissions-and-Recreations-1935-1938/) 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](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Programs/Tours/Guided-Tour/) and [educational programs](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Programs/Calendar-of-Events/) such as lectures, performances and occasional symposia. Shangri La also supports residencies for [contemporary artists](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Programs/Artists-in-Residence-Program/) and for [scholars](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Research/Scholars-in-Residence/) researching Islamic art.","city":"Honolulu, Hawai'i","address":"4055 Papu Circle  \nHonolulu, HI 96816  \nHawai'i, United States of America","website":"http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/","phone":"808 734 1941","fax":"808 732 4361","email":"shangrilahawaii@ddcf.org"},"e0e750b1-944e-5ed9-b290-6a31c17d5cff":{"name":"Numismatic Museum (Ahli Bank)","description":"The Numismatic Museum of Jordan Ahli Bank was established in 1999, securing Dr. Nayef G. Goussous’ knowledge and expertise as its curator, and ensuring the continuity and preservation of the collection and its passing on to future generation.  \n  \nThe bank museum is the first of its kind in the country, with collections numbering well over 40,000 coins. The ideals of the collector and the wisdom and generosity of a banking institution come together to produce an excellent educational legacy beneficial to society.  \n  \nThe Jordan Ahli Bank Numismatic Museum is a specialised museum containing coin collections spanning nearly 2,500 years, the earliest dating back to 600 BC and the latest coming from recent commemorative issues. The museum boasts one of the best Umayyad copper coin collections in the world, published in Dr Goussous’ *Rare and Inedited Copper Umayyad Coins* (2004). In addition, the museum has an outstanding collection of Mesopotamian, Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic weights. Furthermore, the museum has extensive collections of Nabataean coins and from Decapolis and provincial Arabia, many of which are still unpublished.  \n  \nThere are more than 4,500 coins and artefacts displayed in 25 cabinets. The museum is open to the public. The visitors can enjoy seeing the collections and learning about their history from the coins. The specialist certainly benefits from the coin collections and the library, with many graduate college students and numismatists regularly visiting the museum where they are welcomed and assisted.  \n  \nThere is continuing academic work on unpublished coins numbering well over 1,200 coins. Two volumes of rare and unpublished coins, dated to Ancient, Classical and Nabataen periods as well as Islamic periods, from the museum collection are in press.","city":"Amman","address":"Shmeisani – Queen Nour st.  \n11181 Amman  \nP.O. Box 3103  \nJordan","website":"https://ahli.com/the-numismatic-museum/","phone":"+962 6 5687090","fax":"+962 6 5685848"},"e4d6eb3a-21a4-5299-a027-9e5b305d4232":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Trieste","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Trieste","address":"Via A. La Marmora, 17  \n34139 Trieste  \nItaly","website":"www.astrieste.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 040 0647921","fax":"+39 040 9380033","email":"as-ts@beniculturali.it"},"e5ac5384-736d-5352-a209-14c391605bea":{"name":"MIBACT | Archival Superintendency of Umbria","description":"The Archival Superintendencies (Soprintendenze Archivistiche) are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Their functions include deciding which private archives should be considered of special cultural interest, inspecting private archives and the records of public bodies to make sure that they are correctly preserved, providing archival advice free of charge to the owners of materials under their jurisdiction, and producing search aids.  \n  \nThe Soprintendenza Archivistica per l’Umbria also organises conferences and exhibitions, and publishes catalogues and search aids. It edits three series of volumes (*Segni di civiltà*, *Scaffali senza polvere* and *La nave di Ulisse*) under the supervision of the Superintendent Mario Squadroni.","city":"Perugia","address":"Via Martiri dei Lager, 65  \n06128 Perugia  \nItaly","website":"www.sa-umbria.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 075 5055715; 075 5052198","fax":"+39 075 5055715; 075 5052198","email":"sa-umb@beniculturali.it"},"e637a315-429f-522d-9983-e51d695c47bb":{"name":"German Historical Museum","description":"The German Historical Museum is Germany’s national historical museum. Located in Berlin’s historic district of Mitte, it sees itself as a place of active communication and discussion of history. The Permanent Exhibition in the Zeughaus, “German History in Images and Artefacts”, with more than 7,000 objects, provides a unique overview of German history within its international context. The museum’s temporary Special Exhibitions can be seen in the Exhibition Hall. They are devoted to formative historical events, epochs and social developments. The collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum now comprises some 900,000 objects. Scholars and history aficionados can attend events such as lectures, panel discussions and conferences at the museum.","city":"Berlin","address":"Unter den Linden, 2  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"www.dhm.de","phone":"+49 30 203040","fax":"+49 30 30304 456","email":"info@dhm.de"},"e739fb88-b66e-5e6e-91b9-d916f7571fc9":{"name":"Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism (MIBACT)","description":"The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, also known by the acronym MIBACT (Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo), is the department of the Italian government in charge of the protection of the Italian culture and performing arts, of the conservation of the artistic and cultural heritage and landscapes and related tourism policies.  \n  \nWithin *Sharing History* the MIBACT is represented by Borghese Gallery and by the Directorate General of Archives, both acting as heads of a network covering institutions from all over the country. Institutions that are under the umbrella of the MIBACT are marked by ‘MIBACT’ preceeding the name of the institution.","city":"Rome","address":"Via del Collegio Romano, 27  \n00186 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/index.html#&panel1-1","phone":"+39 06 67231;06 6723 2980,2990","fax":"+39 06 6798441","email":"urp@beniculturali.it"},"e8b57a0a-b7bf-5928-ad5a-f258a088b575":{"name":"MIBACT | Collection of former Museum of Industrial Art (M.A.I.)","description":"MAI was founded in Rome in 1874 on the initiative of Baldassarre Odescalchi, Augusto Castellani and Raffaele Erculei to collect handmade artefacts – glass, ceramics, sculptures, painted fabrics and plaster casts – from ancient times to the 17th century, and to be a training school for craftworkers on the model of other European institutions, such as South Kensington Museum, London. Combining theory and experimentation in cooperation with the schools, it never became a national museum. Located for a year in the former convent of San Lorenzo in Lucina, it was moved to the Collegio Romano and then to other locations, until its closure during World War II, when the collections were moved to the storerooms of various Roman museums: Palazzo Venezia, Palazzo Barberini, Castel Sant'Angelo, Palazzo Braschi, the Museum of Roman Civilisation and the State Institute of Art Galileo Galilei.  \n  \nThe National Gallery Palazzo Barberini houses the core of c. 2,000 objects, in particular ceramics, glass, porcelain and wooden sculptures.","city":"Rome","address":"Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13  \n00184 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 4814591","email":"sspsae-rm.gnaa@beniculturali.it"},"e916188b-3d88-5514-afb4-d5123a65224f":{"name":"National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art","description":"The National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa. The collection was set up in 1835, five years after the French occupation, by the then Governor General Marshal Clauzel who appointed Adrien Berbrugger as its first curator. From 1838 onward, the early museum hosted pieces, of Algerian provenance, from Antiquity up until the Ottoman periods. Between 1838 and 1896, this early museum occupied different places of the lower Casbah, before settling in a beautiful park located on the heights of Mustapha Pasha - now known as the Park of Liberty - where it was officially inaugurated in 1897.  \n  \nSince then these two divisions of the museum’s collection, Antiquity and Islamic, have continued to grow. This collection makes it possible to exhibit the history of Algeria from its Libyan-Punic era through to the 20th century. The objects are displayed in two separate buildings: one houses the pre-Islamic collection whilst the other houses the collection of Islamic art, which was inaugurated in May 2003.  \n  \nThe ancient collection is very rich and includes collections of mosaics, sculptures, Libyan and Latin inscriptions, coins and medals, bronze, ivory, bone, ceramics and wooden objects.  \n  \nThe Islamic section was formed from the first collection of 1854, which included Algerian and Oriental objects. It has gradually been enriched by pieces uncovered through archaeological excavations carried throughout the country. This wide-ranging collection includes sculpted plasterboard from 10th century Sedrata, marble or plaster sculptures of the 11th century Qal'a of Beni Hammad as well as the chairs of the 11th century Almoravid mosques in Algiers and the 12th century mosque of Nedroma.  \n  \nThe furniture arts of North Africa is also widely represented in this museum. Shop windows contain Ottoman-era embroidery, clothing, ceramics, weapons, jewellery, chiselled brass and worked repoussé that comes from the urban centres as well as rural areas. Manuscripts and miniatures complete the collection.  \n  \nThe museum’s numismatic collection is exhibited in a reading room that was inaugurated in May 2006.","city":"Algiers","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","fax":"+213 0 21 68 12 56","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"ec988066-7b5c-53d3-929b-d979b812f14f":{"name":"MIBACT | State Library of Modern and Contemporary History","description":"The State Library of Modern and Contemporary History was established in 1937 as a resource for documents on political and social Italian and European history in 19th and 20th centuries. The library has approximately 12,000 manuscripts (mainly letters of the major figures of the Italian unification and independence process, such as Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Ugo Foscolo, as well as of political figures of the liberal and fascist periods and of World War I); 600,000 books and pamphlets; and 3,000 editions of the 18th century. It holds important collections of books and pamphlets on the working class and anarchist movements; Fascism and the two World Wars.  \n  \nThe library updates its collections on the basis of historiographical production: particular attention is given to specialised scholarly journals and databases.","city":"Rome","address":"Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32  \n00186 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.bsmc.it","phone":"+39 06 6828171","fax":"+39 06 68807662","email":"b-stmo@beniculturali.it"},"ede901a2-76ea-58be-9bd2-2facec09cc51":{"name":"Aşiyan Museum","description":"The Aşiyan Museum is situated in the house of the Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915), who lived there between 1906 and 1915. On the initiative of Lütfi Kırdar, the mayor and governer of Istanbul during that period, it was purchased by the city in 1940 from Fikret’s wife, Nazime Hanim, beginning its services as a museum under the name Edebiyat-ı Cedide Museum (New Literary Movement Museum) in 1945.  \n  \nThe museum displays rooms dedicated to the poet Nigar Hanim, the Edebiyat-ı Cedide authors and the poet Abdülhak Hamit, with their personal belongings and documents, and as well as displaying Tevfik Fikret’s bedroom, his personal belongings, his study and paintings. In 1961, the museum was renamed Aşiyan Museum. It is one of the museums operated by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and an important place for lovers of literature.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Aşiyan Yokuşu, 15  \n34342 Bebek-Beşiktaş, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 263 69 86","fax":"+90 212 263 69 86","email":"asiyanmuzesi@ibb.gov.tr"},"f5c11bd8-33ca-5552-a5d9-8437afd6ee27":{"name":"The Lebanese University","description":"The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. The university has 17 faculties across Lebanon and serves various cultural, religious and social groups of students and teachers.  \n  \nThe independent university enjoys administrative, academic and financial freedom. Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and essential education to allow students to enter various professions.  \n  \nIn spite of the crisis in the region that has existed since 1975, leaving wounds and tragedies, the Lebanese University has remained the national home of science. Rivalling the most prestigious universities in Lebanon and abroad, and leading the process of human development that spread all over the country, its graduates became ambassadors of Lebanon in all the corners of the earth.  \n  \nOur university respects the national demand for academic freedom, which has become a right of scholars and specialists, based on laws and international conventions and regional organisations and sometimes more, applying the important rules of human rights: the right of learning and seeking knowledge with higher education and participation in international projects to develop academic programmes and exchange of research.The university has maintained the quality of higher education, although we seek more contact with the spirit of this modern age and its promising accomplishments by increasing relations and agreements with other universities and institutions all over the world. In spite of the political pressures on the people of the university and attempts to split them into factions, the majority of them have remained faithful to the spirit of the national organisation and the struggles of the early pioneers who insisted on building the edifice of national higher education, in the framework of the values of freedom and justice.","city":"Beirut","address":"Central Administration, Museum, Beirut  \n  \nPostal address: P.O. Box 6573/14 Badaro, Museum  \nBeirut  \nLebanon","website":"http://www.ul.edu.lb/","phone":"+961 1 612830; 1 612831","email":"ibady@ul.edu.lb"},"f7e39862-fd17-55f3-bcf9-cb93787c8817":{"name":"MIBACT | National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”","description":"The National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography was founded in 1875 by Luigi Pigorini. The museum is the main Italian centre for the preservation and display of pre-historic and non-European collections. Its main tasks are: archaeological and anthropological research; study, documentation and conservation of the museum’s collections; management of permanent and temporary exhibitions; educational programmes; and training in conservation, museological, archaeological and anthropological fields.  \n  \nToday, testifying to the new Italian multicultural reality, the Pigorini Museum offers itself as a cultural point of reference and a privileged interlocutor for immigrants and for the ethnic minorities already settled in the country.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.pigorini.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 549521","fax":"+39 06 54952310","email":"s-mnpe@beniculturali.it"},"f937f9c2-61b9-5201-b1ec-08251315e395":{"name":"National Museum of Decorative Arts","description":"The National Museum of Decorative Arts (MNAD) devotes its permanent collection to historical and current domestic spaces and allows visitors to experience the daily life of various cultures. Temporary exhibitions focus primarily on the contemporary designers and artists – both established and emerging – that create our environment. Through these visiting exhibits, the museum is able to display parts of the permanent collection kept in storage and generally not visible to the public.  \n  \nThe museum houses a permanent collection of over 70,000 objects from several geographic origins; mainly Spain, but also other European countries and the Far East. The collection covers a long chronological period. The oldest pieces date from the 4th century BC, but the chronological sequence goes from the 14th century until the first half of the 21st century, including the collection of avant-garde design as well as recent acquisitions of contemporary design.  \n  \nThis broad collection includes a full range of materials, techniques and typologies, including textiles, metalwork, furniture, ceramics, glass, costumes, silver, ironwork, ivory, photographs, prints and documents.  \n  \nIn 1934 the museum moved to its present location, a mansion built in 1878 by the architect José María González for Doña María del Carmen Espinosa, the Duchess of Santoña. Part of the original red-brick and stone facade, the imperial staircase of white Italian marble decorated with medallions and the Italian mosaic floors by Pellerin and Domenico still remain from the original concept of the building, a residence in the Romantic style. In the 1940s the architect Luis Moya added two floors above the original ones, structured in enfilade around a central court. Since then, the museum has undergone various improvements.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Montalbán, 12  \n28014 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://mnartesdecorativas.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 91 532 64 99","fax":"+34 91 523 20 86","email":"mnad@mecd.es"},"fd9463f8-e9ef-5011-8ad7-7bcf2e1863bc":{"name":"MIBACT | Central Institute for Ethno-Anthropology, National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions","description":"The institute promotes ethno-anthropological Italian heritage through the documentation, study and divulgation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions exhibition section of the institute was created after the Italian exhibition on ethnography held in Rome in 1911 to celebrate the 50th anniversary Italian. The founder, ethnologist Lamberto Loria, realised after several expeditions in non-European countries that ethnographic research was required to document the culture of a country that at the time was undergoing changes due to industrialisation and emigration from rural areas. The Loria programme gave a central role to the museum, underlining the importance of the study of national ethnography as a means to understand the cultural history of a nation.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 8/10  \n00144 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.idea.mat.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 5926148; 06 5910709","fax":"+39 06 5911848","email":"ic-d@beniculturali.it"},"fdce3078-0f3e-504f-8c9d-b8c96d6ff7fb":{"name":"The National Museum","description":"The Saudi National Museum is part of the King Abdul Aziz Historical Centre administered by the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities. It was established in Riyadh on 6.10.1419 AH / 23.1.1999 AD in celebration of 100 years of unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  \n  \nThe National Museum is the main building in the King Abdul Aziz Historical Centre, covering an area of 28,000 square meters, including exhibition halls. It is a cultural landmark displaying the antiquities and heritage of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and presenting past cultures, civilisations and historic events that occurred in the Arabian Peninsula in general and in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in particular through exhibitions using the most modern resources and technology.  \n  \nThe Museum consists of eight galleries; each represents a particular cultural and historical period in chronological order from prehistoric times until the modern period. The principal objective of the National Museum is to highlight the national cultural identity and its depth and dimensions through the antiquities and heritage of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.","city":"Riyadh","address":"King Abdul Aziz Historical Center, Al-Muraba  \nP.O. Box: 3734  \n11481 Riyadh  \nSaudi Arabia","website":"www.nationalmuseum.org.sa","phone":"+966 1 1 4029500","fax":"+966 1 1 4030306","email":"TNM@scta.gov.sa"},"ff287b46-8f3d-5d2f-80c3-15f8013c3d54":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Genoa","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Genoa","address":"Piazza S. Maria in Via Lata, 7  \n16128 Genova  \nItaly","website":"www.asgenova.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 010 537561","fax":"+39 010 5375636","email":"as-ge@beniculturali.it"},"ff8390b0-0228-5e07-8b42-389afca07810":{"name":"MIBACT | National Central Library of Rome","description":"The National Central Library of Rome houses and preserves all Italian publications. Opening in 1876 inside the Collegio Romano, a century later it moved to Castro Pretorio to meet the requirements of a modern library. Designed by architects Castellazzi, Dell'Anese and Vitellozzi, it had increased book depositories and reading rooms as well as a cafe and a bookshop. Known as “Vittorio Emanuele II”, it includes 7 million printed books and 8,000 manuscripts.  \n  \nThrough a continuous programme, the library seeks to confirm its role in the cultural circuit involving authors and artists, associations and exchanges of literature, cinema and music. The purpose is to communicate contemporary issues, always bearing in mind the educational and popular aspects, in the belief that it is essential to spread awareness first of all to young people in schools and universities.","city":"Rome","address":"Viale Castro Pretorio, 105  \n00185 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.bncrm.librari.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 49891","fax":"+39 06 4457635","email":"bnc-rm@beniculturali.it"}}
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The collection, which focuses on confectionery, shows that everyday objects such as boxes containing biscuits, candy and chocolate, reflected the events that surrounded them; from the first tin, produced in the late 19th century in the era of industrialisation, passing through monarchy, fascism, the African campaign, World War II and the post-war period until the economic boom.","city":"Gerano (Rome)","address":"Via del Palazzo, 8  \n00025 Gerano (RM)  \nItaly","website":"www.casadellescatole.org","phone":"+39 348 7960033","email":"scatolemarina@hotmail.com"},"03192ec8-3f89-5671-83e5-48f444feab3c":{"name":"IMARET – Institute Mohammed Ali for the Research of the Eastern Tradition","description":"Institute Mohammed Ali for the Research of the Eastern Tradition (IMARET) was established in 2006 in Kavala, Greece, as a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, with its headquarters located in the house of Mohammed Ali. Embarking on its multicultural heritage, the institute’s mission is to act as a hub between the Arab and the Mediterranean cultures and the Western world, by promoting the study, knowledge and understanding of Arab civilisation's achievements in the fields of science, art, philosophy, history and culture, and underlining their influence on the development of Western thought. Beginning with two unique Egyptian monuments, the institute has founded a museum and a residency programme addressing various creative disciplines.  \n  \nThe institute's activities are widespread in the areas of culture, education and community development, offering a multifaceted programme that covers all areas of art and culture, including music and theatre performances, visual arts exhibitions and educational activities for young people, as well as international conferences, seminars and publications that open debate around ideas and intellectual exchange.","city":"Kavala","address":"Mohammed Ali Square, Panagia,  \n65110, Kavala  \nGreece","website":"www.imaret.org.gr","phone":"+30 2510 620 515","email":"info@imaret.org.gr"},"0568b6d0-c08b-5443-8e4a-57ba3acd5c27":{"name":"The National Museum","description":"The National Museum in Belgrade was established on 10 May 1844. It is the oldest, largest and main museum in Serbia. Intense activity in the field of collecting and collection development, exhibitions, together with research and publishing activities, has made the museum the centre of information on particular national values, but also of European cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe multifaceted museum is dedicated to the protection, interpretation and promotion of the multicul-tural heritage of the central Balkans and Europe. The museum collects, preserves and protects ob-jects and improves knowledge. It interprets historical and contemporary culture and national identity and serves as a source of knowledge and an active centre of learning in the community and environ-ment. The museum’s vision is to be the most important museological centre in the Balkans, a role model for other museums in the country and the region. It should be a national cultural centre of re-gional and global significance, a favourite destination for Serbia’s own citizens and tourists from around the world, known to the public. It should stimulate curiosity and inspire.  \n  \nThe museum is rich with around 500,000 objects in collections of prehistory, Greek and Roman art, the Middle Ages, and painting of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, graphics, sculptures, all organ-ised into departments of archeology, numismatics, Middle Ages, in recent history. The museum con-tains the Centre for Conservation and Restoration, Education Department, Library, Department of Documentation as well as departments for the realisation of programmes and numerous ancillary ser-vices. The National Museum in Belgrade includes the following exhibition spaces: Museum of Vuk and Dositej, Gallery of Frescoes, Archaeological Museum in Djerdap, Memory Museum of Nadezda and Rastko Petrovic.","city":"Belgrade","address":"Trg Republike, 1a  \n11000 Belgrade  \nSerbia","website":"http://www.narodnimuzej.rs/","phone":"+381 11 330 6000","fax":"+381 11 262 7721","email":"kontakt@narodnimuzej.rs"},"05962a8b-bfa0-546b-b0fe-325dd90488cc":{"name":"Vehbi Koç Foundation Sadberk Hanim Museum","description":"Sadberk Hanım Museum opened in October 1980 as Turkey’s first private museum, established by the Vehbi Koç Foundation to exhibit the collection of Sadberk Koç, the wife of Vehbi Koç. Today the museum holds over 18,000 items in its Turkish Islamic and archaeological collections. The museum gives priority to outstanding examples of Ottoman period works. In particular, its collections of İznik tiles and ceramics and Ottoman period women’s costume and embroidery rank among the best in the world. The collections of Anatolian and Turkish objects are arranged chronologically, from 6,000 BC to the present day.  \n  \nAs well as archaeological and early Islamic items, the museum collects the finest examples of works of art ranging from calligraphy to silk fabrics produced over the six centuries of the Ottoman Empire.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Piyasa Caddesi, 25-29  \nBüyükdere Sarıyer  \n34453 Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.sadberkhanimmuzesi.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 242 38 13 / 14","fax":"+90 212 242 03 65","email":"shm@biri.com.tr"},"0861be47-3ebb-54de-98c6-63d82061a5f8":{"name":"Topkapı Palace Museum","description":"Topkapı Palace, the administrative and residential palace of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul, was completed by AH 882 / AD 1478 after the city had been conquered by Mehmed II. It was used continuously by the Ottoman rulers until they moved to the palaces built along the Bosphorus in the 13th / 19th century. After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey, the palace became a museum on 3 April 1924 by order of Atatürk.  \nThe palace became a grandiose, multi-functional structure through continual development and additional construction by different sultans, which also reflects the institutional structure of the Ottoman Empire. The splendour and multi-level structure of Ottoman protocol and hierarchy can clearly be seen in the architecture. Even the rise and the fall of the empire found its artistic expression in the palace. As well as being a stage for the dramatic events of the past, this palace is one of the few examples of its kind that survived along with its historical lifestyle.  \n  \nAmong the items exhibited in the museum are portraits and costumes of the sultans, Chinese and Japanese porcelains used in the palace, metal kitchenware, Yıldız porcelain and glassware, European porcelain and silver items, Islamic and Turkish weapons. Holy relics of Prophet Mohammed and the first caliphs that were brought from Medina in the early 10th / 16th century by Selim I are exhibited in the Holy Relics section. Among those relics are the mantle of the Prophet Mohammed, his swords and his foot print.  \n  \nFour thrones, aigrette-holders, the Topkapı dagger and the diamond of Kaşıkçı are the most famous examples of the items from the treasury of the Ottomans. The museum's archive holds important documents of correspondence of the Ottoman Sultans and its library contains famous manuscripts from the Byzantine, Islamic and Ottoman periods.  \n  \nTopkapı Palace Museum operates under the Directorate of National Palaces of the Presidency of the Republic.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sultanahmet  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/en","phone":"+90 212 512 04  80; +90 212 23","fax":"+90 212 259 32 92","email":"info@ millisaraylar.gov.tr"},"0c7e047f-ecdc-56f7-b09a-6f86bbc33101":{"name":"National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) / Museums of the University of Lisbon","description":"MUHNAC documents the diversity and history of the natural world, through innovative research and development in the life sciences and history of science, and promotes scientific culture through the accessibility of its collections, and through exhibitions, educational programmes and hands-on activities. It hosts researchers and PhD and MSc students, focusing their research on biodiversity, systematics, evolution, paleontology of vertebrates, sedimentary geology and environmental education, as well as on science communication, astronomy, history of science, material and visual culture of science, scientific heritage and history of museums and collections. Besides leading the Portuguese Research Infrastructure of Scientific Collections, the museum is engaged in national and international projects.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua da Escola Politécnica, 56/58  \n1250-102 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"http://museus.ulisboa.pt/","phone":"+351 21 392 18 00","email":"geral@museus.ul.pt"},"127e31d2-7caf-5a5e-92a4-86a95c9fe043":{"name":"Sorolla Museum","description":"Housed in the Sorolla family mansion, the museum has been left almost exactly as it was when the artist’s wife Clotilde bequeathed it to the state in 1925. It is as though the family has just left, with Joaquin Sorolla’s brushes, palettes and personal possessions still in place.  \n  \nThe three-storey mansion and lush garden functioned as inspiration, studio and home. The artist’s works are displayed in the three studios he designed alongside his family’s living quarters.  \n  \nFull of movement and colour Sorolla’s paintings bring the beach to central Madrid. Fishermen and sailors rub shoulders with elegant ladies and children in scenes that bridge the gap between social classes. From social realism to landscapes, from portraits of wealthy madrileños to scenes of Andalusian courtyards, Sorolla was an incredibly versatile artist.","city":"Madrid","address":"General Martínez Campos, 37  \n28010 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museosorolla.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 91 310 15 84","fax":"+34 91 308 59 25","email":"fundacionmuseosorolla@gmail.com"},"12c51f32-f594-596a-bd88-fb016dda65a9":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Catania","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Catania","address":"Via Vittorio Emanuele, 156  \n95131 Catania  \nItaly","website":"www.ascatania.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 095 7159860","fax":"+39 095 7150465","email":"as-ct@beniculturali.it"},"15c3f796-e9e4-5984-a07b-97ea019d9da5":{"name":"Istanbul Archaeological Museums","description":"The name Istanbul Archaeological Museums denotes three museums under the same administration: the Archaeological Museum, the Ancient Orient Museum and the Tiled Kiosk Museum. The museum, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is located in Sultanahmet, on the Osman Hamdi Bey slope connecting Gülhane Park with the Topkapı Palace.  \n  \nIstanbul Archaeological Museums, displaying artifacts from civilisations of different historical periods, is one of the ten most important world-class museums designed and used as a museum building. It is also the first institution in Turkey arranged as a museum. Besides its spectacular collections, the architectural aspects of the buildings and beautiful gardens in which they are situated are of historical and natural importance.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Alemdar Caddesi,  \nOsman Hamdi Bey Yokuşu Sokak,  \n34122 Gülhane/Fatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://muze.gen.tr/muze-detay/arkeoloji","phone":"+90 212 520 77 40-41","fax":"+90 212 527 43 00","email":"info@istanbularkeoloji.gov.tr"},"17c3ad70-453d-563a-a810-46017f0ec9d8":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Turin","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Turin","address":"Piazza Castello, 209  \n1024 Torino  \n  \nVia Piave, 21  \n1022 Torino  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatotorino.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 011 540382; 011 4604111","fax":"+39 011 546176; 011 4364795","email":"as-to@beniculturali.it"},"1e9ebf9c-d61f-53bf-b587-c45ec279349e":{"name":"Manor and Gardens of Regaleira","description":"Quinta da Regaleira is one of the most surprising of all Sintra’s monuments. Located on the outskirts of the town, it was built between 1904 and 1910 by A.A. Carvalho Monteiro as his favourite country estate. He commissioned this unique project with the Italian set-designer and architect Luigi Manini. The art and architecture of the mansion and the chapel, built in neo-Manueline style, were collocated with other buildings in the bosom of an Edenic garden. A “philosopher’s dwelling” par excellence, conveying a message addressed to those who are ready to engage in the adventure of self-knowledge, Quinta da Regaleira emerges from the Sintra cultural landscape as an example of the “total work of art” and as an expression of a new mythical territory, where philosophy, art and nature come together.","city":"Sintra","address":"Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra  \n  \nPostal address:  \nRua Barbosa do Bocage, 7  \n2710-567 Sintra  \nPortugal","website":"www.regaleira.pt","phone":"+351 21 910 66 50","fax":"+351 21 924 47 25","email":"mail.regaleira@telepac.pt"},"22547ca7-10d6-5cc9-afc8-7b479e6eea75":{"name":"Ethnography Museum","description":"The Ethnography Museum’s 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  \nThe Ethnography Museum houses examples of Turkish art dating from the Seljuq period to modern times. To 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. To 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  \nOpera, Ankara  \nTurkey","website":"https://muze.gov.tr/muze-detay?SectionId=AET01&DistId=MRK","phone":"+90 312 311 30 00","fax":"+90 312 311 95 56","email":"ankaraetnografyamuze@kultur.gov.tr"},"250ffc21-2d2d-526c-85ce-a588e42b01f2":{"name":"MIBACT | Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation","description":"The ICCD was founded in 1975 and is a branch of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Its mission is to manage Italy’s national catalogue of archaeological, architectural, artistic and demo-ethno-anthropological heritage. The ICCD also preserves important photograph collections and provides access to them. It produces exhibitions, catalogues and other publications to support cataloguing and to improve awareness and knowledge of its historic collections.  \n  \nThe ICCD inherited the functions of two earlier institutions: the Office for Cataloguing, founded in 1969, which was responsible for defining national cataloguing methodologies; and the National Photographic Bureau (Gabinetto fotografico nazionale), founded in 1892, the principle national institution for the production and collection of photographic documentation.","city":"Rome","address":"Via di San Michele, 18  \n00153 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 585521","fax":"+39 06 58332313","email":"ic-cd@beniculturali.it"},"27a276c8-6ef6-5ed8-8dd8-7c2e21407e3e":{"name":"Not know yet"},"28ecd84f-8e9b-5020-bb00-419f40e1e408":{"name":"MIBACT | Central State Archives of Italy","description":"The Kingdom’s Archives was created in 1875 with the aim of preserving the records produced by the central administrative organs of the Italian state subsequent to national unification (1861). In 1953 it was transformed into the Central State Archives (ACS) and in 1960 it moved to its present location. Since 2008 the ACS has had special autonomy within the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.  \n  \nThe ACS holdings include the archives created by central state departments, archives of various private and public bodies and papers of politicians and of other individuals playing an important role in national life.  \n  \nResearch is free of charge. The reproduction of documents must be previously authorised and is carried out by internal staff or by researchers using a personal digital camera.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazzale degli Archivi, 27  \n00144 Roma Eur  \nItaly","website":"www.acs.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 545 481","fax":"+39 06 541 362 0","email":"acs@beniculturali.it"},"2b1c0dc0-0010-5164-be2c-49145ffe45bb":{"name":"Museum of Macedonia","description":"The National Museum of Macedonia is a complex museum institution comprising the museums of History, Ethnography and Art History. The museum collects, researches, maintains, exhibits and publishes on objects of movable heritage in these domains. It preserves evidence of the way of life and culture in these territories from the settling of Slavs in the 6th century AD till the end of World War II. The icon gallery exhibits a collection of medieval icons including several masterpieces of Byzantine art. The highlight of the permanent display is the icon of the Virgin of Pelagonia painted by Makarie in 1422. The ethnological exhibition takes pride in the magnificent collections of folk costumes, traditional jewellery, traditional architecture, intangible heritage and musical instruments, traditional weaving, crafts and traditional husbandry.  \n  \nThe museum also includes the Documentation Section, Conservation Lab and advanced Marketing Services. The Educational Section in the museum provides guided tours and carries out elaborate educational projects focusing on different target groups.  \n  \nExtensive publishing activities have been developed throughout the years. The Museum of Macedonia has issued numerous exhibition catalogues, periodicals, monographs, studies and other publications. These are available in the museum shop, which also organises production, sales and distribution of replicas of the most outstanding museum items. All the products in the shop can be purchased on the Internet and delivered to any address.","city":"Skopje","address":"Josif Mihajlovic, 7  \n1000 Skopje  \nRepublic of Macedonia (FYROM)","phone":"+389 2 3116 044","fax":"+389 2 3116 439","email":"musmk@t-home.mk"},"2b67bf65-83b3-524f-8614-d81d59a41063":{"name":"Yıldız Palace Museum","description":"Yıldız Palace is located on the Yıldız hill. Sultan Ahmed I was the first to build a pavilion there. At the end of the 18th century, Sultan Selim III built Yıldız Pavilion and a fountain. Sultan Abdülaziz built the State Apartments, Cit Pavilion, Malta and Cadir Kiosks.  \n  \nThe main construction started under Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876–1909). It was called Saray-I Hümayun (Central Palace) and comprised buildings for the sultan’s private use and for officials, repair shops and carpentry, a theatre, a museum, a library, Hasbahce inner garden and small independent buildings.  \n  \nAfter Sultan Vahidettin’s reign, the palace was allocated to the Staff Officers’ Academy. It was handed over to the Ministry of Culture in 1978 and began to serve as a museum under the name of “Directorate of the Museum of Yıldız Palace” from 1993.  \n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_  \n  \nThe Museum is no longer under the responsibility of the Ministry of Cuture but has been transferred to the Presidency. It is currently closed and under restoration (March 2019).","city":"Istanbul","address":"Barbaros Bulvarı  \nSerencebey Yokuşu, 62  \n34349 Beşiktaş, Istanbul  \nTurkey"},"2bb1dd80-9c9b-5b6c-95f5-603929bd863d":{"name":"Victoria and Albert Museum","description":"The Victoria and Albert (V&A) is the world’s leading museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. When the museum opened to the public in 1852, its mission was to reform design by making works of art available to all, improving the public’s understanding of the subject and providing inspiration for designers and manufacturers. Today, the V&A’s collections span over 5,000 years of human creativity in virtually every medium and from many parts of the world.  \n  \nThe V&A comprises a family of sites, including the V&A in South Kensington, Young V&A located in Bethnal Green, V&A Dundee in Scotland, the V&A Wedgwood Collection housed in Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, V&A Gallery at Design Society in Shekou, China, and opening in 2024/25 will be V&A East located within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford. Across these sites the museum showcases their collections to a wide range of audiences and aims to champion design and creativity in all its forms.","city":"London","address":"Cromwell Road  \nSouth Kensington  \nLondon SW7 2RL  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"www.vam.ac.uk","phone":"+44 20 7942 2000","fax":"+44 20 7942 2335","email":"contact@vam.ac.uk"},"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"},"2e3463e0-e2cf-5e10-be14-9324b7a5c19e":{"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":"Joseph Haydn út 2.  \n9431 Fertőd  \nHungary","website":"www.eszterhaza.hu","phone":"+36 99 537 640","fax":"+36 99 537 640","email":"info@eszterhaza.hu"},"38b8a503-bba9-5234-b7db-0bbb2a054c57":{"name":"Qatar Museums","description":"Qatar Museums connects the museums, cultural institutions and heritage sites in Qatar and creates the conditions for them to thrive and flourish. It centralises resources and provides a comprehensive organisation for the development of museums and cultural projects, with a long term ambition of creating a strong and sustainable cultural infrastructure for Qatar. Under the patronage of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and led by its Chairperson, Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, QM is consolidating Qatar’s efforts to become a vibrant centre for the arts, culture and education, in the Middle East and beyond.  \n  \nSince its foundation in 2005, QM has overseen the development of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and the Al Zubarah World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. The QM also manages the QM Gallery at Katara and the ALRIWAQ DOHA Exhibition Space. Future projects include the opening of the Fire Station: Artists in Residence in 2014 and the launch of the highly anticipated National Museum of Qatar and the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum.  \n  \nQM is committed to instigating Qatar’s future generation of arts, heritage and museum professionals. At its core is a commitment to nurturing artistic talent, creating opportunities and developing the skills to service Qatar’s emerging art economy. By means of a multi-faceted program and public art initiatives, QM seeks to push the boundaries of the traditional museum model, and create cultural experiences that spill out onto the streets and seek to involve the widest possible audiences. Through a strong emphasis on originating art and culture from within and fostering a spirit of national participation, QM is helping Qatar find its own distinctive voice in today’s global cultural debates.","city":"Doha","address":"Al-Dafna, Doha  \nQM Tower  \nP.O Box 2777  \nDoha, State of Qatar","website":"www.qm.org.qa/en","phone":"+974 4452 5555","fax":"+974 4452 5556"},"3ca60fa4-b04d-5aac-8545-cd0a8f6b1935":{"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  \nUnited States of America","website":"http://www.lacma.org/","phone":"323 857 6000","email":"publicinfo@lacma.org"},"3cabd108-49d0-5d92-81a4-97d23084da2c":{"name":"National Tile Museum","description":"The museum collection features *azulejos* (decorative ceramic tiles) from the second half of the 15th century to the present day. As well as tiles, it includes ceramics, porcelain and faience from the 19th to the 20th century. Its permanent exhibition starts with a display of the materials and techniques used for manufacturing tiles. The National Tile Museum was established in 1965 and became a national museum in 1980. It is located in the former Convent of Madre de Deus, founded by Queen D. Leonor in 1509. The museum underwent different building campaigns that involved transformations such as in its 16th-century mannerist cloister.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua da Madre de Deus, 4  \n1900-312 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.museudoazulejo.pt","phone":"+351 218 100 340","fax":"+351 218 100 369","email":"geral@mnazulejo.dgpc.pt"},"42fb6391-e1f6-527a-85db-f9638b02d667":{"name":"Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia, University of Manouba","description":"The Higher Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of Tunisia (ISHCT) is a research centre for contemporary history in Tunisia. It houses a microfilm archive, audio-visual witness records, a collection of photographs and a library available on request to researchers, journalists, activists and students wishing to conduct in-depth research into the history of the colonisation and decolonisation of Tunisia. There are four research and study units (UER) bringing together historical researchers dedicated to using the different resources to improve understanding of this period of Tunisian history: UER Archives, UER Repositories of Memory and Museums, UER Oral History and UER History. Through the publication of a review (RAWAFID), conference papers, seminars and scientific meetings, memories from witnesses and document collections, ISHCT hopes to enhance the university library in line with advances in documentation and  methodology, thereby helping to stimulate research into this historical period by setting up scientific exchanges in Tunisia and abroad.","city":"Tunis","address":"Campus Universitaire de la Manouba,  \n2010 La Manouba  \nTunis  \nTunisia","phone":"+216 716 009 50","fax":"+216 716 002 77","email":"ishmn@ishmn.rnu.tn"},"49a3f2db-1c82-5f32-aa09-dc094c9680dd":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Reggio Calabria","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Reggio Calabria","address":"Via Lia Casalotto  \n89122 Reggio Calabria  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatoreggiocalabria.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 0965 653211","fax":"+39 0965 6532212","email":"as-rc@beniculturali.it"},"4ccab1e6-8757-5853-91a7-4ea115da9c2c":{"name":"Roma Tre University, Postgraduate Course in Peace Studies","description":"The Postgraduate Course in Peace Studies was established in the 2002/03 academic year in the Faculty of Humanities at Roma Tre University.  \n  \nIts education programme combines university studies with the achievement of specialised professional skills, offering two specific training paths (Advanced Modules) focusing on the following areas: Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution, and International Cooperation for Development.  \n  \nThe course takes advantage of partnerships with several institutions, organisations, NGOs and research centres, both Italian and foreign, which operate within the fields of international cooperation, human rights protection and conflicts prevention.  \n  \nSince its beginning, the education programme has included a seminar focused on The Artistic and Cultural Heritage as Peace Factor, offered in cooperation with MWNF.\n\nDepartment: Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures","city":"Rome","address":"Via del Valco di San Paolo, 19  \n00146 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://host.uniroma3.it/master/edupace","phone":"+39 06 5733 8545","email":"edupace@uniroma3.it"},"50f6f4b8-7cfa-537b-bccb-040d726b5a0f":{"name":"Electricity Museum","description":"The Electricity Museum is a cultural centre that presents the evolution of energy in the concept of museum of science and industrial archaeology, where themed and experimental exhibits live side by side with a great variety of cultural events. Located in the Belém area on terrain that Lisbon usurped from the Tagus (Tejo) River  at the end of the 19th century. A building classified as a Public Interest Project, the Electricity Museum unfolds along the perimeter of the old thermoelectric plant, the Tejo Power Station, which illuminated the city of Lisbon for more than four decades. The Electricity Museum is an integral part of the heritage and structure of the EDP Foundation, which belongs to the EDP Group - Energias de Portugal, SA.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Avenida de Brasília  \n1300-598 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.fundacaoedp.pt/museu-da-eletricidade","phone":"+351 21 002 81 30","fax":"+351 21 002 81 04 / 39","email":"museudaeletricidade@edp.pt"},"51411e01-8c76-5349-9fd4-11b2e8962d9e":{"name":"Bavarian Castle Department","description":"The Bavarian Administration of Palaces, Gardens and Lakes, otherwise known as the Bavarian Palace Administration, is one of the most traditional administrations in the Free State of Bavaria. Created as part of the administration at the court of the electors and kings, it is today one of the largest public authorities responsible for museums in Germany, managing 45 palaces, castles and residences as well as further monuments and artists' houses.  \n  \nIt is also responsible for a very special historical heritage: the many magnificent court gardens, palace parks, gardens and lakes. The unique ensembles of European architecture with their sumptuous artistic interiors attract over five million visitors annually from all over the world.  \n  \nSource: Bavarian Castle Department website","city":"Schloss Nymphenburg, München","website":"http://www.schloesser.bayern.de/englisch/palace/index.htm"},"5269b013-0d39-58b4-b8a0-fe1872233736":{"name":"Porto Stock Exchange Palace","description":"Porto Stock Exchange Palace was built in 1834 from the ruins of the former St Francisco Convent, which were donated to the Porto Trade Association by Queen Maria II. It is currently the association’s headquarters and was once the Court of Commerce. Later, it became the Porto Commodities and Stock Exchange, the origin of the palace’s name. This edifice is located in the city’s historic centre, which is recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. It is a fine example of the liberal bourgeoisie building of Porto, and its neoclassical façade veils a grand building, which took over 60 years to build, where various architectural and decorative styles blend together.","city":"Porto","address":"Rua Ferreira Borges  \n4050-253 Porto  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.palaciodabolsa.com","phone":"+351 223 399 031","fax":"+351 223 399 090","email":"correio@cciporto.pt"},"52bf77ae-f600-5ec2-b96d-71a387b2a8ca":{"name":"National Museum of Romanticism","description":"The Romantic Museum was created by the 2nd Marquis de la Vega Inclán (1858–1942) and donated to the state in 1921.  \n  \nThe building was built in 1776 by architect Manuel Rodriguez. The museum opened in 1924 with its founder’s artworks augmented by donations, such as paintings by Alenza donated by the Marquis de Cerralbo, and items belonging to several great writers.  \n  \nThe museum became a meeting place for intellectuals. During the Civil War, its importance was highlighted by the appointment of the iconic literary figure Rafael Alberti as director. Over the years, the collection has been enriched by purchases, donations and deposits.  \n  \nThe Romantic Museum closed in 2001 for complete renovation, reopening in 2009, with a new name, the Museum of Romanticism, more in line with its contents.","city":"Madrid","address":"Calle San Mateo, 13  \n28004 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museoromanticismo.mcu.es","phone":"+34 914 481 045; 914 480 163","fax":"+34 914 456 940","email":"informacion.romanticismo@mecd.es"},"56cd014d-0d80-5773-b80c-0eb7569f7c74":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Palermo","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Palermo","address":"Via Vittorio Emanuele, 31  \n90133 Palermo  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatodipalermo.it","phone":"+39 091 2510628-624","fax":"+39 091 5080681","email":"as-pa@beniculturali.it"},"56f4c115-c0aa-5202-ad60-93a543fb58f5":{"name":"Not know yet"},"5bb2ce10-016e-576b-8311-e51092b1d2e0":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Perugia","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Perugia","address":"Piazza Giordano Bruno, 10  \n06121 Perugia  \nItaly","website":"http://www.archiviodistatodiperugia.it","phone":"+39 075 5731549; 075 5724403","fax":"+39 075 5730476","email":"as-pg@beniculturali.it"},"5f93f9b7-2ad1-5419-9406-6e91b824f300":{"name":"National Archaeological Museum","description":"The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional or MAN) is Spain’s most important museum of history. It preserves, researches and presents its collections of archaeology, art and history to the public. In doing so, the museum aspires to offer all visitors an accurate, attractive, interesting and critical interpretation of the meaning of objects from the past, in the hopes that a deeper knowledge of history will help them to better analyse and understand the reality of today. Given the relevance and scope of its collections, the National Archaeological Museum is comparable in its specialty to prominent Spanish museums (Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofía or the Royal Collections Gallery), by showing our country’s diversity and affluence in terms of cultural history.  \n  \nThe museum occupies a monumental building in the heart of the Salamanca quarter, one of Madrid’s busiest shopping and leisure districts, and is strategically positioned along the Recoletos-Prado artery, which boasts the highest concentration of art and culture institutions in the city. The museum’s magnificent building in the heart of Madrid offers a historical infrastructure — complete with building, garden and fence —which is fully renovated and accessible.  \n  \nThe MAN has grown and evolved constantly since it was created in 1867, almost 160 years ago, and is still changing today to meet the needs of the 21st century. After a complete overhaul between 2008 and 2014, the institution reopened in April 2014 with a brand-new look and layout, claiming its place among Europe’s most modern museums. The renovated building is divided into six floors and has a total surface area of nearly 30,000 m2, of which 18,304 m2 are reserved for public use (the permanent exhibition alone occupies 9,239 m2). The museum has also been fitted out with different service areas, including a spacious vestibule, café, shop and activity rooms.  \n  \nThe MAN’s extraordinary collection, which includes a large number of priceless historical and cultural artefacts, comprises over one million archaeological, historical and artistic objects.  \n  \nIts holdings are vast and varied: Palaeolithic bifaces, practically the only tool in existence for millennia; delicate ivory carvings that combine aesthetic appeal with practical functionality; prehistoric engravings found in the Cave of El Castillo, evidence of humanity’s earliest artistic and symbolic expressions; the abstract aesthetics of the “Idol of Extremadura”; the classical, timeless beauty of the Lady of Elche; ancient Roman sculptures; the extraordinary treasure of Guarrazar; the Romanesque crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha; the lovely equestrian figure of Hector by Il Filarete; and the ornamental paintings of Luis Paret on a Baroque armchair are just some of the treasures it houses.  \n  \nThe Museum's Islamic Art collection largely comes from the different historical periods of Al-Andalus, the name that the Muslims gave to the territory they conquered in the Iberian Peninsula. The aesthetic quality achieved by Andalusian art is demonstrated in the architectural capitals, arches, marble panels and alabaster and plaster decorations of the period, especially from the Caliphate of Córdoba. Added to this is the museum's collection of decorative and highly refined objects made in the Andalusian palace workshops, such as metal, ivory and glazed ceramics. Likewise, a large collection of objects is preserved that show the symbiosis of Hispano-Islamic and Christian forms in the Iberian Peninsula, as the dome of the Torrijos Palace.","city":"Madrid","address":"Serrano, 13  \n28001 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"www.man.es/","phone":"+34 91 577 79 12","fax":"+34 91 432 68 40","email":"secretaria.man@mecd.es"},"5ff47319-5ecd-5ef6-af6e-bb56229b0768":{"name":"Museo del Traje","description":"The Museo del Traje, Centro de Investigación del Patrimonio Etnológico (Centre for Research into Ethnological Heritage – CIPE) opened in 2004, but its collection started in 1925 with the Regional and Historic Costume exhibition. The main aim of the institution is “To demonstrate the historical evolution of costume, analysing its technical, social, ideological and creative implications though the diversity and continuous changes in the dress forms and habits”. Besides this, the museum also investigates the ethnological heritage of the Spanish people. The collection includes more than 160,000 items and documents, grouped in the following sections: historical dress, contemporary dress, traditional dress, jewellery, accessories, beauty, textiles, ethnological heritage and documentary collections.","city":"Madrid","address":"Avenida de Juan de Herrera, 2  \n28040 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museodeltraje.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 91 550 47 00","fax":"+34 91 544 69 70","email":"museodeltraje@mecd.es"},"60f5a305-cb9c-51f8-a325-c49888a08702":{"name":"MIBACT | Vallicelliana Library","description":"The Vallicelliana Library is housed in a building by the famous architect Francesco Borromini (1599–1667), the Oratorio dei Filippini. The library’s holdings mostly focus on the history of the Catholic Church, and in particular on the Reform and Counter Reform, on Medieval history and on paleography. The Vallicelliana also preserves a rich collection of manuscripts, which includes remarkable Medieval and humanist items. Since the 1990s, the library holding has also included photographic collections by famous photographers such as Giorgio Sommer, Giulio Brogi, Giorgio Conrad, Bonfils and many others.  \n  \nThe Vallicelliana Library is under the authority of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza della Chiesa Nuova, 18  \n00186 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.vallicelliana.it","phone":"+39 06 68802671","fax":"+39 06 6893868","email":"b-vall@beniculturali.it"},"64c2796c-d403-5a23-958e-760dfdfdff22":{"name":"Sharjah Museums Authority","description":"The Sharjah Museums Authority was established in 2006 as an independent government department by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah.  \n  \nSharjah Museums Authority includes 16 museums covering Islamic art and culture, Arab and International, modern and contemporary art, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life and the history of Sharjah and the region.  \n  \nThe museum collections featured in this project come from: the Sharjah Art Museum, opened in April 1997 and the largest art museum in the Gulf with both temporary exhibitions and permanent collections by renowned artists; the Sharjah Heritage Museum, re-opened in the Heritage Area (Heart of Sharjah) in 2012 and dedicated to highlighting Sharjah’s rich traditions, customs and culture as a source of pride and inspiration to the people of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its visitors; the Sharjah Maritime Museum, first opened in the Heritage Area in early 2003 to highlight the maritime life of the UAE and – in improved and expanded form – relocated to the Al Khan area in 2009 due to the importance of the sea and its significance in the region’s heritage; and the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, opened in 2008 as the first of its kind in the UAE, featuring more than 5,000 artefacts from all over the Islamic World, arranged to celebrate Islamic Faith, Science and Technology and Art.  \n  \nThe purpose of the Sharjah Museums Authority as a whole is to deliver the highest quality of museums services for the people of the Emirate of Sharjah and all its visitors, through its facilities, exhibitions, programmes of learning, research and community outreach. Sharjah Museums Authority aims to achieve locally and internationally an understanding, appreciation and respect for Sharjah’s identity and for the value of its cultural and natural heritage.","city":"Sharjah","address":"Al-Layyeh, Sharjah  \nP.O. Box 39939  \nTurkey","website":"www.sharjahmuseums.ae/","phone":"+971 65 56 60 02","fax":"+971 65 56 60 03","email":"info@smd.gov.ae"},"66b9c3ea-8a0f-5e5a-bb44-96e499235d93":{"name":"The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)","description":"The PEF is the world's oldest society for the study of the Ancient Levant, established in 1865 as a non-political, non-religious society and funded by public subscription. A pioneer in the exploration and recording of the region, it houses a unique collection of written and drawn archives, photographs, paintings and sketches, scientific equipment, natural history, ethnographic and archaeological material relating to the work of PEF explorers and its associates during its 150-year history. Notable scholars include: Charles Wilson, Charles Warren, Kathleen Kenyon, Charles Watson, Walter Besant, Conrad Schick, Claude R. Conder, Charles Clermont-Ganneau, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Frederick Jones Bliss, T.E. Lawrence, C. Leonard Woolley, Olga Tufnell, John Garstang, William Simpson, William Flinders Petrie, Hilma Granqvist, John Crowfoot, R.A.S. Macalister, Duncan Mackenzie.","city":"London","address":"5-6 Dreadnought Walk  \nGreenwich  \nLondon  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"www.pef.org.uk/","phone":"+44 20 7935 5379","fax":"+44 20 7486 7438","email":"execsec@pef.org.uk"},"66e89f12-f678-5a86-9c94-789412c134aa":{"name":"Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT)","description":"CULTNAT is one of the research centres of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, supported by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. For more than 14 years, CULTNAT, using new advanced technologies, has striven to document, manage, and disseminate knowledge of Egypt’s huge cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, as well as its natural heritage. CULTNAT’s multilingual databases, a huge repository of heritage information, are reinforced by 2-D and 3-D high quality. This wealth of knowledge is disseminated through different channels: the patented panoramic interactive display system, CULTURAMA, books, multimedia applications, documentary films, websites, virtual reality, augmented reality, mobile applications and GIS applications.","city":"Giza","address":"Smart Village,  \nCairo-Alexandria Desert Road, km 28,  \n12577 Giza  \nEgypt","website":"www.cultnat.org","phone":"+20 2 3534 3111","fax":"+20 2 3534 3055","email":"public.relations@cultnat.org"},"6b5a7912-690b-5b77-bd02-833438267070":{"name":"Ministry of Culture","description":"The Ministry of Culture was presented under this title for the first time in 1982, during the government of Abdelghani III. Since the independence of Algeria, other institutions with different names had been established, namely the Ministry of Information and Culture or the Ministry of Tourism and Culture.  \n  \nCurrently, the functioning of the Ministry of Culture is governed by a decree of 2005 (Executive Decree No. 05-79 of 17 Moharram 1426 H.E./ February 26, 20051 A.D.)\\*, approved by Ahmed Ouyahia IV’s government. This text defines the four main missions of the ministry which are: protection and enhancement of the cultural heritage; promotion of the live arts and performing arts; preservation and enhancement of traditional cultures; research and training.  \n  \n(Source: Wikipedia)","city":"Algiers","address":"Palais de la Culture Moufdi Zakaria  \nPlateau des Annassers BP 100  \n16006 Kouba  \nAlgérie","website":"https://www.m-culture.gov.dz/mc2/fr/index.php"},"6c9f6b97-7619-5be4-a904-0f96ffa2c698":{"name":"Austrian National Library","description":"The Austrian National Library (ANL) regards itself as a centre of information and research oriented towards serving the public, as an outstanding custodian of the national memory and as a multifaceted centre of education and culture. As the central academic library of the Republic of Austria, the ANL looks at a history rich in tradition from as far back as the 14th century. It is a living bridge between the rich heritage of the past and the future-oriented demands of a modern information society.  \n  \nThe ANL offers its users access to and professional advice on its own holdings (almost 8 million objects) and also on international data pools. It also accepts commissions on scientific research and operates documentation centres and service facilities. In the digital age services are increasingly processed online via the ANL home page.","city":"Vienna","address":"Josefsplatz, 1  \n1015 Wien  \nAustria","website":"www.onb.ac.at","phone":"+43 1 534 10 0","fax":"+43 1 534 10 280","email":"onb@onb.ac.at"},"6cf9f545-cd2f-5d4f-b5fa-1d9bb64042b2":{"name":"Istanbul Railway Museum","description":"Istanbul Railway Museum, located in the historical Istanbul Sirkeci Terminal, Fatih district, is owned and operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD). It opened to visitors on 23 September 2005. Sirkeci Station was the last stop of the Orient Express.  \n  \nThe museum displays 300 objects: the original site plans, drawings, photos, railway equipment, furniture and silver services of the Orient Express, station office equipment, driver’s cab of an electric suburban train, communication tools of Rumeli railways and Trakia line, objects from the railway school and hospital in 19th century.  \n  \nThe foundation stone of Sirkeci Main Station was laid on 11 February 1888. It opened on 3 November 1890. Planned by the German architect and engineer A. Jasmund, the building’s style was inspired by local architectural traditions.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sirkeci Garı, Ankara Cad.  \n34410 Eminönü, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 527 12 01;5206575/7885","fax":"+90 212 512 64 44","email":"istanbuldemiryolumuzesi@tcdd.gov.tr"},"6ecec2e6-bbbf-5697-aaf3-7ae3c5bb536f":{"name":"MIBACT | Authority for the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont","description":"The Authority for the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont preserves the photographic archive of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Turin.  \n  \nThe foundation of the Museum was a milestone in the rediscovery of ancient Egypt. In 1824 King Carlo Felice of Savoy purchased Egyptian antiquities from the French consul Drovetti to provide Turin with an archaeological museum comparable with the great museums of the European capitals. The museum was later enriched by finds acquired from excavations led by E. Schiaparelli, the museum’s director from 1894.  \n  \nThe photographic archive includes a library of historical photographs by Beato, Bonfils and others, bought in Egypt in antiquities markets and portraying landscapes and monuments of Egypt and Nubia, and the Schiaparelli collection, which captures the shipyards and the excavation sites of the Italian Archaeological Missions. The collection has increased since World War II. Ongoing digitisation facilitates consultation and conservation.","city":"Turin","address":"Piazza San Giovanni, 2  \n10122 Torino  \nItaly","website":"http://archeo.piemonte.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 011 195244","fax":"+39 011 5213145","email":"sar-pie@beniculturali.it"},"6f3cdc51-1adf-525e-99e8-9a95671e60e6":{"name":"Department of Antiquities","description":"In 1923 the Department of Antiquities (DoA) of Jordan was established under the management of Mr Ridha Tawfeq, who relocated it from Jarash to Amman. Law No. 24 for the year 1934 was the first piece of legislation concerning antiquities in Jordan; it was amended by Law No. 21 for the year 1988, and later on by Law No. 22 for the year 2004.  \n  \nThe main goal of the DoA at that time was to protect all antiquities defined according to the law as any movable or immovable object made, written, inscribed, built, discovered or modified by human beings including caves, sculpture, coins, pottery, manuscripts and other kinds of manufactured products that indicate the beginning and development of science, arts, handicrafts, religions, traditions of previous civilisations, or any part added or rebuilt after that time.  \n  \nThe DoA as an independent department has its own budget and director within the Jordanian Government.","city":"Amman","address":"10 Sultan al-Atrash Street,  \n11183 Amman  \nJordan","website":"www.doa.gov.jo","phone":"+962 6 4644336","fax":"+962 6 4615848","email":"info@doa.gov.jo"},"6f8662f2-e7a2-5d1b-b24a-be1c39f6bde4":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Verbania","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Verbania","address":"Via Cadorna, 37  \n28922 Verbania  \nItaly","phone":"+39 0323 501403","fax":"+39 0323 507617","email":"as-vb@beniculturali.it"},"70c67f69-48f3-55ab-abd2-0e678dca303b":{"name":"National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado Museum","description":"The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado Museum was established on 26 May 1911 in Lisbon. The museum houses a collection of Portuguese contemporary art ranging from the 1850s to the present (paintings, sculptures, drawings, videos, photographs and installations). The museum is housed in the Convent of St Francis, next to the Academy of Fine Arts. Located in the historic centre of the city, the museum is a must for those interested in Portuguese art. The permanent collection boasts paintings, sculptures and drawings dating up to 1975, featuring 19th-century prominent Romantic and Symbolist authors alongside 20th-century Modernist and conceptual art exhibits. Works from 1975 onwards are displayed in temporary exhibitions.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua Serpa Pinto, 4  \n1200-444 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.museuartecontemporanea.pt","phone":"+351 213 432 148","fax":"+351 213 432 151","email":"museuchiado@mnac.dgpc.pt"},"71396e5b-ca3a-5c08-b428-1959e047ae57":{"name":"Jordan Folklore Museum","description":"The museum is located in the western section of Amman’s Roman theatre. Founded by the Department of Antiquities, it opened in 1975. The museum exhibits items of daily life in the cities and villages and of the Badu (Bedouin) groups who lived on the West and East Bank during the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Musical instruments, vessels and tools for domestic activities and craftsmanship illustrate traditional daily life and economic activities of the time. Tents, domestic furniture and items to prepare coffee illustrate the way of life, work and the rules of hospitality among Bedouin men and women. As well as the traditional products of the local society and economy, imported weapons and objects testify to how local communities came into contact with the inventions and commercial products that were changing the world in the 19th and early 20th century.","city":"Amman","address":"Quraysh Street  \nAmman","website":"goo.gl/DNPGbL"},"74856c7c-763f-57b5-8a22-0a7d4b112ca7":{"name":"Public Domain"},"757c8322-4a40-517f-8dd8-ad7d8cc26bc3":{"name":"Enrico Sturani Private Collection","description":"Enrico Sturani is a collector and scholar in the field of postcards. He has collected more than 150,000 postcards, from a wide variety of time periods and geographical contexts.  \n  \nThe author of many books and essays on the history of postcards, he has contributed to numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.","city":"Rome","email":"sturamail@yahoo.it"},"75fbd82a-86c2-5a79-a047-243f70baa4ed":{"name":"Pera Museum","description":"Inaugurated in 2005, Pera Museum is a private museum founded by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation. The aim of offering a range of diverse high-quality cultural and art services is as important today as when it first opened to the public.  \n  \nSince its inauguration, Pera Museum has collaborated annually with national and international institutions of art and education to hold exhibitions that support young artists. All the exhibitions are accompanied by books, catalogues, audio-visual events and education programmes. Parallel to its seasonal programmes and events, Pera Film offers visitors and film buffs a wide range of screenings that extend from classics and independent films to animated films and documentaries. Pera Film also hosts special shows directly linked to the themes of the temporary exhibitions.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Meşrutiyet Cad, 65  \n34443 Tepebaşi, Beyoğlu, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.peramuzesi.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 334 99 00","fax":"+90 212 245 95 11","email":"info@peramuzesi.org.tr"},"7c6208ec-fb2f-53d4-acaa-935c3bf9962a":{"name":"Sabancı University, Sakip Sabanci Museum","description":"Opened in 2002, the museum consists of a large house designed and built by the Italian architect Edoardo de Nari in 1925–27 and a three-storey exhibition building.  \n  \nSakıp Sabancı bought the Horse Mansion (so-called from a statue in the garden) and its furnishings in 1951 and began to enrich the collection of antiques inherited from his father. From the early 1970s he purchased paintings from the Ottoman and Turkish Republic periods, European and Chinese porcelain, decorative objects, calligraphic works, Qur’ans and manuscripts. In the 1980s he added private manuscript collections.  \n  \nSakıp Sabancı donated his collection, the house and surrounding premises to Sabancı University. The museum presents a versatile environment with its permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, conservation units and educational programmes.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Sakip Sabanci Caddesi, 42  \n34467 Emirgan, Sariyer, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"http://www.sakipsabancimuzesi.org","phone":"+90 212 277 22 00","fax":"+90 212 229 49 14","email":"ssminfo@sabanciuniv.edu"},"7dfff38c-303b-557b-9cb3-9735ce4cab7b":{"name":"National Museum of Anthropology","description":"The National Museum of Anthropology is Spain's first anthropological museum. Its establishment was due in large part to the efforts of one Pedro González Velasco, a doctor of Segovian heritage, and was officially inaugurated in 1875 by King Alfonso XII to serve as a museum that showcased objects relating to anatomy and anthropology. The current museum hosts an exhibition room that pays tribute to this inaugural history.  \n  \nAfter the museum became a public institution, under the authority of the former Natural History Cabinet, it was converted into the National Museum of Natural Sciences. Subsequently, under the auspices of Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific Research, the site was rededicated as the Museum of Anthropology, Ethnography and Prehistory and later a National Museum of Ethnology, making it a museum dedicated exclusively to cultural anthropology.  \n  \nVelasco’s original collection was augmented by objects brought back by expeditions organised by Spanish scientific institutions in the last years of the nineteenth century. The acquisition of these objects were paid for by the funds of the Museum of Natural Sciences. Amongst these are a collection of ethnographic objects that formed part of the 1887 Philippine Exhibition, the last colonial exhibition of the Spanish Empire that was organised in Madrid’s ‘Parque del Retiro’. The Museum’s collection have grown since the 1960s, thanks to donations and acquisitions made by the General Directorate of Fine Arts, Cultural Property, Archives and Libraries.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Alfonso XII, 68  \n28014 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://mnantropologia.mcu.es","phone":"+34 91 530 64 18/91 539 59 95","fax":"+34 91 467 70 98","email":"antropologico@mecd.es"},"8128a827-15fb-5166-902e-e23aab2a8fd7":{"name":"Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, State Museums","description":"**The Museum of Islamic Art is closed from October 2023 to March 2027 due to renovation and expansion works.**  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum Berlin is the only institution of its kind in Germany, the oldest in the West and with its c. 93,000 pieces it houses one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from nearly all regions of Islamic rule.  \n  \nIts collections are especially rich in objects from an architectural context including the monumental façade of the caliphal palace of Mshatta (Jordan), dating from the mid-8th century. It is the largest artefact of Islamic Art in any museum worldwide. The unique dome from the Alhambra Palace in Granada (Spain) and 13th-century prayer niches from Kashan (Iran) and Konya (Turkey) are among the highlights. Most loved by our visitors is the finely painted wooden panelling of an upper-class house from Aleppo (Syria) from the early 17th century – it is the oldest surviving exemplar from the Ottoman World. Among the several archaeological groups from major excavations in the Islamic world the finds from the 9th-century caliphal capital of Samarra (Iraq) stand out. The collection also has a large number of important Ottoman and Persian carpets and bibliographical works of art, including numerous miniatures from the Mughal Empire.  \n  \nThe collection is displayed chronologically, allowing the visitor to follow the different stylistic phases of Islamic art and to develop a notion of the complex Islamic history and its artistic merits. Because of the large number of visitors (up to 900,000 yearly), only a small number of the most important works of art are on display. The museum will move inside Pergamon-Museum and will triple its exhibition space (3,000sq.m) by 2020. The layout and concept will discover new and innovative ways to present the cultural legacy.  \n  \nWith its rich art and archaeological collection, the Museum of Islamic Art is one of the leading research institutions dedicated to the material culture of the Middle East and neighbouring regions. Our many research, conservation and exhibition projects amount to a probing investigation of the urban legacies of the Near and Middle East. The institution houses important collections of archival photographs on Islamic art and architecture as well as an internationally outstanding library focused on art, architecture and archaeology in the world of Islam.","city":"Berlin","address":"Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 6  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/home.html","phone":"+49 30 266 42 5201","fax":"+49 30 266 42 5202","email":"isl@smb.spk-berlin.de"},"837224f1-ccca-5dbc-a1ac-6b18c9c00997":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Cosenza","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Cosenza","address":"Via Gian Vincenzo Gravina, 12  \n87100 Cosenza  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatocosenza.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 0984 791790","fax":"+39 0984 793120","email":"as-cs@beniculturali.it"},"83b5a171-0257-50b2-84c9-f6a1e6d481e2":{"name":"Italian Geographical Society (SGI)","description":"Founded in 1867 for the purpose of promoting geographic research and the popular distribution of geographic knowledge, the SGI has realised its objectives with reference to the various parts of the world.  \n  \nA distinctive feature of the SGI’s history has been the organisation of numerous expeditions and scientific missions. But irrespective of the level of involvement by the SGI, interesting accounts of almost all journeys can be found in the society’s archives, since even when an organisation or mission was not directly connected with the SGI, the society was regarded as the most prestigious custodian of the memory of its venture. For this reason, the society’s archives have accumulated a unique legacy (books, maps, photographs) of the history of travel.","city":"Rome","address":"Via della Navicella, 12  \n00184 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.societageografica.it","phone":"+39 06 7008279","fax":"+39 06 77079518","email":"segreteria@societageografica.it"},"869f6729-a0ed-56b2-a24b-3c19813a3082":{"name":"National Library of France","description":"The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, National Library of France) holds heritage assets collected over the last 500 years through legal deposit and an active policy of acquisitions: 14 million books and printed items, periodicals, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps and plans, sheet music, coins, medals, audio documents, video, multimedia documents, sets and costumes. Its archives grow by around 150,000 items per year, covering the full range of intellectual, artistic and scientific disciplines.  \n  \nIt conserves, analyses, classifies and organises these treasures in order to make them available to the public, for research or general knowledge purposes.  \n  \nIt publicises them by organising exhibitions, conferences, talks and publishing works.  \n  \nIn addition to its reading rooms, which welcome more than 940,000 people every year, the BnF provides access to more than 1.5 million documents via the Gallica digital library.  \n  \nIt is also at the heart of the national network for cooperation between libraries, and it runs an international exchange and cooperation scheme.  \n  \nA dynamic institution that is open to the challenges of the future, BnF is developing projects to give it a new dimension, thereby helping to increase its influence and its leading role in taking on the major cultural challenges of tomorrow: the legal deposit of Internet documents, the development of on-line digital libraries (Gallica and its upgrade Gallica 2) and the mass digitisation of its collections.","city":"Paris","address":"Quai François-Mauriac  \n75706 Paris Cedex 13  \nFrance","website":"http://www.bnf.fr/","phone":"+33 (0)1 537 959 59"},"86a5966f-9e5a-5365-b1f4-2a9826d0e74c":{"name":"Ministry of Antiquities","description":"The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is the main body of the Ministry of Antiquities. The SCA was established in 1859 as the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, changed by presidential decree no. 28 1992 to the SCA. It is responsible for overseeing all matters relating to the cultural heritage of Egypt including the safety, administration, protection, conservation and documentation of the cultural heritage as well as research and media representation. Services for enforcing these tasks are carried out in six sectors, covering all administrative, financial, legal, technical, engineering and scientific needs. The six sectors are: the General Secretariat, the Egyptology and Greek-Roman department, the Department of Coptic and Islamic Antiquities, Financial Support, Museums and Projects.  \n  \nThe highest authority in the SCA is the supervisory board, which acts as the governing body. President of the SCA is the Minister of Antiquities (previously the president was the Minister of Culture), which is the only legal representative of sectors of the SCA. The directors of the six sectors make up the executive body of the supervisory board, as permanent members. The General Secretariat is the executive director of the sectors of the SCA.  \n  \nThe General Secretariat established the Department of Models, which is responsible for reproducing replicas of the Egyptian antiquities such as the Tut Ankh Amun collections. The department is located in the citadel, with a branch in the building of the Ministry of Antiquities. Lecture and conference halls are located in the building of the Ministry of Antiquities in addition to the other halls that are located in the building of the SCA: the Egyptian, Islamic and Coptic museums.","city":"Cairo","address":"Address 1:  \nMinistry of Antiquities  \nAl Adel Abou Bakr Street, 3  \nZamalek, Cairo  \nEgypt  \n  \nAddress 2:  \nSupreme Council of Antiquities  \nFakhri Abdel Nour Street, 14  \nAbbasia, Cairo  \nEgypt","website":"http://www.sca-egypt.org/eng/main.htm","phone":"+20 2 2735 8761","fax":"+20 2 2735 7239","email":"ministry.antiquities@gmail.com"},"86f92392-e181-5f6b-b6d0-390d5f88993c":{"name":"MIBACT | Directorate General of Archives","description":"The Directorate General of Archives, which comes under the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and of Tourism (Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo), coordinates a vast network of 101 State Archives, 35 Sections of State Archives, the Central State Archives, 19 Archival Supervision Agencies and the Central Institute for Archives. It carries out functions of high-level management, guidance and coordination of the archival sector at a national level as regards protection, preservation, control over current state records, supervision, technology and IT, information systems, preservation of digital records, professional training and development and publishing as well as promoting awareness and utilisation of the archival heritage.","city":"Rome","address":"Via Gaeta, 8a  \n00185 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.archivi.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 492251","fax":"+39 06 4882358","email":"dg-a@beniculturali.it"},"8b0b152b-8977-5c8e-a347-e7a9890985cb":{"name":"Archivio Progetti – Università Iuav di Venezia","description":"Founded in 1987, the Archivio Progetti is part of the Università Iuav di Venezia. Its main mission is to acquire, arrange, catalogue and keep archives related to architecture, making them available for historical and technical research. Materials are collected mainly from architects and architectural practices, engineers, town planners, designers, photographers and corporates.  \n  \nThe Archivio Progetti owns (2013) 40 archives, with many thousands of drawings, papers, photographs and about 350 architectural models. Researchers from across the world access the reading room or refer to the on-line catalogues. Items from the collections are put on display for theme-based exhibitions in the gallery next to the reading room; others are lent to museums all over the world for their temporary exhibitions.","city":"Venice","address":"Dorsoduro, 2196  \nVenezia  \nItaly","website":"www.iuav.it/archivioprogetti","phone":"+39 041 2571012","fax":"+39 041 2572626","email":"archivioprogetti@iuav.it"},"8cde1ffe-e1cc-52a8-9261-ee16bcaac48f":{"name":"National Museum of Romanian History","description":"The National Museum of Romanian History is Romania's most important museum, being the holder of the most valuable objects in the country's historical heritage. It was founded in 1970 and inaugurated two years later. The palace that hosts the museum is a neoclassical construction built between 1894 and 1900 by the Romanian architect Alexandru Savulescu and used until 1970 by the Romanian Postal Service.  \n  \nThe museum has a collection of 687,579 objects, constantly enriched through acquisitions, donations and new archeological discoveries. Because it is currently under renovation, most of the museum is closed to the public, who can visit only a part of its permanent exhibition, the Historical Treasure of Romania, which contains golden hoards and jewellery dating from Antiquity until the 20th century; Trajan's Column – a replica of the monument found in Rome, whose bas-reliefs tell the story of the Daco-Roman wars (101–102, 105–106 AD), which ended with Dacia (a province that was in present-day Romania's territory) being conquered by the Romans; and the Lapidarium – a collection of sculptures, architectural elements, different types of stone engravings (civil, honorific, funerary, votive monuments) from Antiquity to the 19th century. In addition, temporary exhibitions on various subjects are periodically organised, some of them in collaboration with other Romanian museums and cultural institutions or with foreign partners.","city":"Bucharest","address":"Victoria Avenue, 12, sector 3  \n030026 Bucharest  \nRomania","website":"http://www.mnir.ro/","phone":"+40 21 315 82 07","fax":"+40 21 311 33 56","email":"direct@mnir.ro"},"8ea7243d-fe8e-5011-a9ca-75ebd26660ac":{"name":"Ministry of Culture, Directorate for Cultural Heritage","description":"The Directorate of Cultural Heritage is part of the Ministry of Culture. Its mission is to ensure the protection, conservation, restoration, maintenance and promotion of the architectural, archaeological and ethnographic heritage. It is also in charge of the country’s museums and its various artistic treasures.","city":"Rabat","address":"Avenue Michlifen, 17  \nAgdal, Rabat  \nMorocco","website":"www.minculture.gov.ma","phone":"+212 537 274 001 / 03","fax":"+212 537 274 002"},"8f0d2773-afea-51e8-ab5b-624187d06f77":{"name":"Ministry of Culture and Tourism (General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums)","description":"Hosting many civilisations on its soil throughout the ages, Turkey can be identified as the cradle of civilisations and its culture is enriched by the ancient history of Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the Caucasus, eastern Europe and the Aegean. Turkey is now among the most important cultural and touristic places in the world with its thousands of years of cultural accumulation, unique geography, intercontinental location and natural beauty. Duties and activities including promotion, preservation and the transfer of cultural heritage into the future are the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The ministry creates policies that keep abreast of contemporary socioeconomic and strategic developments occurring in the world and carries out its activities within the powers delegated by law.","city":"Ankara","address":"II. TBMM Binası Yanı  \n06110 Ulus/Ankara  \nTurkey","website":"www.kultur.gov.tr","phone":"+90 312 470 80 00","fax":"+90 312 470 65 32","email":"kulturvalikmuze@gov.tr"},"90c06d5c-38e7-56ec-a14e-d86afa002610":{"name":"National Museum of Archaeology","description":"The National Museum of Archaeology (MNA) was founded in 1893 by José Leite de Vasconcelos as the Museum of the Portuguese People, “attempting to bring together material elements of culture that […] will define the character traits of our people”. The MNA accumulated remarkable holdings encompassing different themes: archaeology, ethnography, gold and silverware, coins and medals, pre-Latin and Latin epigraphy, sculpture, written documentation, mosaics and physical anthropology. It also boasts archaeological and ethnographic “comparative collections” (Ancient Egypt and the Portuguese Royal House), along with different legacies and donations. The bulk of its holdings includes vast collections of Portuguese archaeology from the pre- and protohistoric, Roman, Arab and medieval periods.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Praça do Império  \n1400-206 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.museuarqueologia.pt/","phone":"+351 21 3620000","fax":"+351 21 3620016","email":"geral@mnarqueologia.dgpc.pt"},"92402cc0-9a0d-5f5e-a47f-8d33edfa26a5":{"name":"No Partner","description":"Our Collection includes some items that were contributed by private persons, with no Partner institution involved."},"9340dcc4-aefc-5da9-9c6f-1a9d5229bc8d":{"name":"Military Museum and Cultural Centre Command","description":"The Military Museum and Cultural Centre Command is subordinate to the Military History and Strategic Studies (ATASE) Division, General Staff, deployed in Harbiye district of Istanbul. The Harbiye district, meaning “military”, derives its name from the service buildings of the Military Museum which were used by the Ottoman Empire in its later periods as the Military Academy. The founder of the Republic, the great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, graduated from this school.  \n  \nThe museum collects, classifies, maintains and renovates the works of art that can be regarded as cultural military assets, and stores and exhibits them using modern methods in order to hand them on to future generations.  \n  \nThere are approximately 55,000 objects in its inventory, 5,000 of which are displayed in the museum’s exhibition halls.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Harbiye, Şişli  \nIstanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 233 27 20","fax":"+90 212 296 86 18","email":"askerimuze@tsk.tr"},"9430e534-166d-564f-9847-926b347ec975":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Livorno","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Livorno","address":"Palazzo del Governo  \nVia Fiume, 40  \n57123 Livorno  \nItaly","website":"www.aslivorno.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 0586 897776; 0586 880028","fax":"+39 0586 896782","email":"as-li@beniculturali.it"},"97c4b416-b7b0-59ba-a78b-d0769f52ed9b":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Florence","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Florence","address":"Viale della Giovine Italia, 6  \n50122 Firenze  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistato.firenze.it","phone":"+39 055 263201","fax":"+39 055 2341159","email":"as-fi@beniculturali.it"},"9d2766e4-df9b-5798-b7be-07e6280042d0":{"name":"National Library of Algeria","description":"Founded in 1835 by Adrian Berbrugger at the impetus of the War Ministry, the National Library of Algeria aims to keep and preserve the documents seized by the colonial occupation of Algeria after 1830.  \n  \nThe National Library of Algeria had different seats before settling down in the barracks of the janissaries for ten years. Thanks to donations, the library’s documentary fund expanded to in include confiscated of manuscripts and consignments from the French War Ministry. In 1863, the National Library changed location and found a new home at Dar Mustapha Pacha.  \n  \nDar Mustapha Pacha is one of the greatest examples of 18th-century Islamic Moorish architecture. The first floor of the palace is dedicated to the library while the second floor houses an archive museum. In 1890, the two institutions were separated by a decree.  \n  \nDespite its wealth of architectural beauty and ornamentation, the palace is ill-suited to serving as a library. By 1947, a lack of reading rooms, poor conditions for book preservation, and lack of storage pushed authorities to build a more modern structure. It is the first such library on the African soil and in the Arab world able to compete with world standard libraries.  \n  \nIn 1958, the National Library of Algeria moved into its new building on the capital hills. With a total area of 4,800 square metres, it had three reading rooms and storage spanning over six floors, displaying 1,200,000 books.  \n  \nIn 1984, the construction of a new seat was launched. Set in the El-Hamma aera, south of Algiers, one of its goals was to boost the community while enjoying the natural beauty of a primary location overlooking the sea and adjacent to the Jardin d’Essai. On November 1st, 1994, the new National Library of Algeria was inaugurated and public access to all its rooms was granted in 1998.  \n  \nThe Library can accommodate 2,300 readers at a time. It boasts cutting edge technology ensuring the proper restoration, processing and book binding. The National Library has many extensions throughout the country, ensuring proximity with the public, fostering the cultural spread and promoting literacy.","city":"Algiers","website":"https://www.m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/etablissements-sous-tutelle/bibliotheque-nationale-d-algerie"},"a3753de5-842a-5f0b-a8c7-50bb2e312ce6":{"name":"Kunsthistorisches Museum","description":"The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna is one of the foremost museums in the world, with rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia – from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century. The collections of Renaissance and Baroque art are of particular importance.  \n  \nThe KHM’s extensive holdings are on show at different locations: the main building on Ringstrasse houses the Picture Gallery, the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Coin Collection and the Kunstkammer.  \n  \nOther collections are housed in the Neue Burg (the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Collection of Arms and Armour, and the Ephesus Museum), in Hofburg Palace (the Treasury) and in Schönbrunn Palace (the Collection of Historical Carriages).  \n  \nThe collections on show at Ambras Palace are also part of the holdings of the KHM.  \n  \nSince January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology on Heldenplatz and the Austrian Theatre Museum on Lobkowitz Square have been incorporated into the KHM.","city":"Vienna","address":"Burgring, 5  \n1010 Wien  \nAustria","website":"http://www.khm.at/","phone":"+43 1 525 24-0","email":"info@khm.at"},"a3feae57-66bd-5351-89da-2ae9a91af07c":{"name":"MIBACT | Egyptian Museum, Florence","description":"Florence’s Egyptian Museum is second only in Italy to the Egyptian Museum in Turin. Egyptian artefacts were already held in the 18th century in the Medici-Lorena collections, but during the 19th century these increased thanks to the efforts of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II, who sponsored a scientific expedition to Egypt in 1828 and 1829. The expedition was led by Jean François Champollion, the hieroglyphics decipherer, and by Ippolito Rosellini, the father of Italian Egyptology; the material collected during the expedition was divided between the Louvre in Paris and Florence. In 1855 the Egyptian Museum in Florence was formally established. Ernesto Schiaparelli, its director, reorganised the collection in the 1880s. Currently the museum houses over 14,000 pieces ranging from prehistoric material to the Coptic period, with steles, statues and statuettes, coffins, textiles, furniture, vases and amulets.","city":"Florence","address":"Piazza SS Annunziata, 9/b  \n50121 Firenze  \nItaly","phone":"+39 055 23575","fax":"+39 055 242213"},"a7a10d29-2e2e-5062-8d2d-2c122a8b9457":{"name":"General Secretariat of TBMM (National Palaces)","description":"The Department of National Palaces, a unit within the structure of the General Secretariat of TBMM (Turkish Grand National Assembly), is commissioned to maintain, repair, restore and administer the affiliated palaces, pavilions, museums and factories in accordance with international museum and conservation standards. Today there are two palaces, two kiosks, eight pavilions, three museums and two factories within the National Palaces organisation founded in the early years of the Republic. The basic function of the department is the preservation and restoration of all of these structures and the historical objects they contain while being faithful to their cultural and historical backgrounds and to enable them to be visited by domestic and foreign visitors within the context of modern museum practice.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Dolmabahçe Sarayı  \n34357 Beşiktaş, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"https://www.millisaraylar.gov.tr/saraylar/dolmabahce-sarayi","phone":"+90 212 236 90 00","fax":"+90 212 259 32 92","email":"millisaraylar@tbmm.gov.tr"},"aa83efa6-6a45-5fd6-adf6-3d369fe66c16":{"name":"National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions","description":"Inaugurated in 1961, the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions (NMPAT) is located in the lower casbah neighborhood, also known as *Souk el Djemaa*, where a poultry market used to take place on Fridays. The museum’s main goal is to promote the Algerian, traditional and rural heritage. Its inception dates back to the early 20th century, with the aim of boosting manual know-how and craftmanship while safeguarding local traditions.  \n  \nThe museum was first set in a palace built in 1570 by Ramdane Pacha. By the end of the 18th century, it went to Hassan Khaznadji, treasurer to Dey Mohamed Ben Othman, who gave it to his daughter Khedaoudj. Legend has it that the young princess had lost her sight, struck by her own beauty while admiring her reflection in a mirror. The palace was then inhabited by Jacob Cohen Bacri, a rich wheat trader. After French colonisation in 1830, the French government turned the building into the first city hall of Algiers. In 1860, part of the palace was transformed to welcome Empress Eugenia de Montijo. During her visit, Aziza Bacri, Jacob Cohen Bacri’s granddaughter was her interpreter. In 1987, a decree officially turned Dar Khedaoudj El Amia into the NMPAT.  \n  \nThe collection has been made possible thanks to several purchases and donations. It consists of items made for domestic use, some of which were made for competitions for the best artisan of France as well as products by famous Algeria craftsmen. Visitors can admire copper flasks, silver chests, colourful fabrics displaying geometric patterns from the Boussaada area, rugs from Chechar, ceramics from Taher and the Aures, knotted rugs weavings from the Babar area, jewels, traditional costumes and furniture from the city of Algiers. The collection also includes musical instruments, home furnishing fabrics woven with silk threads from the M'zab, costumes and embroideries, pottery and tools made by the Targuis, by the Kabyles or from the Aures, as well as silver rings from Timimoun and Tamanrasset, and fibulas from Setif and El Bayadh.  \n  \nAn exhibition room is dedicated to mirrors. Among these delicately ornate objects, one is suspected to have led to princess Khedaoudj’s blindness.  \n  \nBeside the ethnographic collection, the Museum keeps a photographic fund with over 20,000 items, including ancient photos, Ektachromes, diapositives and black and white pictures.  \n  \nPlease contact [management@museumwnf.net](<mailto:management@museumwnf.net >) for further updates of this content.","city":"Algiers","address":"9 rue Mohamed Akli Malek  \nCasbah 16000, Algiers  \nAlgeria","website":"http://cnra.dz/atlas/musee-national-des-arts-et-traditions-populaires/","phone":"+213 21 43 99 08"},"ac11a4ca-f2da-5488-8462-098e6588e37c":{"name":"Zoological Botanical Garden Wilhelma","description":"Wilhelma is the most popular recreational facility in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg's capital city. Every year more than 2 million visitors visit the unique Wilhelma Park. Not only does it combine extensive botanical gardens with a modern zoo: owing to its historical Moorish- style buildings, but it is also known as the “Alhambra on the River Neckar”, and in grounds covering more than 74 acres visitors can immerse themselves in the history of Baden-Württemberg. A highly diverse world of flora and fauna also awaits them, with rich botanical collections comprising more than 7,000 plant species, while the zoo is home to more than 1,100 species – some 9,000 animals.","city":"Stuttgart","address":"Wilhelma, 13  \n70376 Stuttgart  \nGermany  \n  \nPostfach 50 12 27  \n70342 Stuttgart  \nGermany","website":"www.wilhelma.de","phone":"+49 711 5402 0","fax":"+49 711 5402 222","email":"info@wilhelma.de"},"ade41604-f524-5e89-9783-ad827a3b4e8f":{"name":"Cerrahpaşa Medical History Museum","description":"During the 1893 cholera epidemic in Istanbul, Takiyeddin Paşa Konağı (Mansion of Takiyeddin Pasha) in Cerrahpaşa district was purchased by the municipality and turned into a cholera hospital to treat and isolate patients. In 2005, the building opened as Cerrahpaşa Medical History Museum. Most of the objects exhibited date to the late Ottoman and early Republican period. The collection includes Turkish medical manuscripts, plant pictures copied from old plant books and copies of Ottoman and Seljuq miniatures documenting the historical development of Turkish medical history. There is a collection of apparatus, instruments and tools used for medical education, photographs of education, research and diagnostic laboratories where these materials were used, and drawings, portraits, edicts, insignia and badges.  \n  \n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_  \n  \nThe Museum is currently closed for restoration (March 2019).","city":"Istanbul","address":"Tıp Tarihi Müze Müdürlüğü Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi  \nYerleşkesi Kocamustafapaşa Caddesi, 53  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey  \n  \nCerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi  \nKocamustafapaşa Caddesi, 53  \n34098 Cerrahpaşa  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 414 30 00","fax":"+90 212 632 00 25","email":"ctfmuze@istanbul.edu.tr"},"af01a84d-b174-5718-b9a7-b741c8957086":{"name":"The British Museum","description":"The British Museum was established by Act of Parliament in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all “studious and curious persons”. The founding collection was that of Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy physician and collector. The original British Museum comprised three departments: Printed Books; Manuscripts (including coins); and Natural and Artificial Productions, which included everything from sculpture to mineral samples and zoological specimens. In January 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public.  \n  \nAs a product of the Enlightenment, the museum's job was to be a storehouse of knowledge for the use and benefit of the public, advancing all fields of scholarship. The museum therefore aimed to collect all kinds of material; it remains one of the few places in the world in which it is possible to see the world under one roof. During the 19th century the museum acquired representative collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, as well as material from across the Islamic world.  \n  \nThe museum itself had to grow to offer space to display the growing collections. Between 1823 and 1847 the original building was replaced by four large wings built around a central courtyard. In 1854 construction began on the iconic Round Reading Room in the central courtyard. The natural history collections were given their own home in the new Museum of Natural History in 1881. By 1973 the British Library and British Museum were administratively separated, and in 1999 the new British Library building opened at St Pancras. The British Museum site was expanded and modernised. In 2000 the Great Court opened, envisioned as a sunny piazza at the centre of the building, with up-to-date facilities such as lecture theatres, an education centre and facilities for school children, as well as restaurants and shops. In 2014 the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre opened to the public, offering state-of-the-art facilities to care for, manage, research and display the collections.","city":"London","address":"Great Russell St.,  \nLondon WC1B 3DG  \nUnited Kingdom","website":"http://www.britishmuseum.org","phone":"+44 20 7323 8000 / 8299","fax":"+44 20 7323 8616","email":"information@britishmuseum.org"},"b0954476-7987-560c-9d72-015054dd0737":{"name":"University of Évora (History Department)","description":"The University of Évora is organised in four schools: Arts, Sciences and Technology, Social Sciences and Nursing. Research and development (R&D) covers several scientific areas through a network of 14 research units, all of them submitted to international evaluation, under the coordination of the Institute for Research and Advanced Studies. The University of Évora also established three Chairs in areas of excellence: Biodiversity, Renewable Energies and Heritage, sponsored by private capital holders. Over the years, the university has fostered close links with the community through the creation of working networks and dissemination of knowledge such as the participation in the Science and Technology Park.  \n  \nThe creation of the University of Évora dates back to the 16th century when Cardinal D. Henrique (1512–80), 1st Archbishop of Évora, under King João III (1502–57), ordered it to house the community of Jesuits in Évora. The first academic year began on 1 November 1559. The university was authorised to teach philosophy, morals, scripture, speculative theology, rhetoric, grammar and humanities. In the 17th century the teaching of mathematics, geography, physics and military architecture was added. By 1759 the university was closed by the Marquis of Pombal (Lisbon, 1699 – Pombal, 1782) and the Jesuits were expelled from Portugal. Over the following 200 years, the University of Évora remained closed until its renewal in 1973, reopening its doors as a public university.","city":"Évora","address":"Largo dos Colegiais  \n7000 Évora  \nPortugal","website":"www.uevora.pt","phone":"+351 266 740 800","email":"gabrieit@uevora.pt"},"b103b986-c8c1-5a48-a968-086e171abf4d":{"name":"Austrian State Archives","description":"The Austrian State Archives are among the most important archives worldwide. They are a subordinate agency of the Federal Chancellery and serve two purposes: on the one hand, they are central archives for the federal services of the Republic of Austria (supreme bodies and ministries), which have a legal responsibility to transfer their acts and documents to the State Archives. On the other hand, their historical departments are the keepers of the archival heritage of the Hapsburg Empire (1526–1918) and its central authorities and of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (until 1806). The oldest item in the collection of acts and charters dates back to 816. Due to the supra-regional nature of its holdings, the Austrian State Archives are a contact point for researchers from all over the world.","city":"Vienna","address":"Nottendorfer Gasse, 2  \nA-1030 Wien (main building)  \nAustria  \n  \nMinoritenplatz, 1  \n1010 Wien (branch office)  \nAustria","website":"www.oesta.gv.at","phone":"+43 1 795 40 0","email":"gdpost@oesta.gv.at"},"b1dd01e5-c655-5ba8-9ee1-725321fc390a":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Venice","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Venice","address":"San Polo, 3002  \nI 30125 Venezia  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatovenezia.it","phone":"+39 041 5222281","fax":"+39 041 5229220","email":"as-ve@beniculturali.it"},"b3d5e8a5-90ae-5442-bf21-9067f8e77ed1":{"name":"Cerralbo Museum","description":"Cerralbo Palace, now Museum, was built between 1884 and 1892 in a historicist style with classical echoes, also shared by its garden. It contains the collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17th Marquis of Cerralbo (1845–1922), a politician, historian, collector and pioneer of archaeology in Spain. After his death, he bequeathed his collection to the Spanish state. Paintings, furniture, clocks, porcelain, lamps, sculptures, arms and armour, textiles, books, coins and archaeological objects are displayed in the various rooms where the first inhabitants of the palace led their daily lives. Cerralbo Museum also has the distinction of being one of the few buildings in Madrid that shows the original decorative ambience of an aristocratic residence, thoroughly restored in the first decade of the 21st century.","city":"Madrid","address":"C / Ventura Rodríguez, 17  \n28008 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://museocerralbo.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 915 47 36 46 / 47","fax":"+34 915 59 11 71","email":"museo.cerralbo@mecd.es"},"b524e75b-5fc9-5689-8424-4d211d82ee8a":{"name":"Italian War History Museum","description":"The museum, founded in 1921, is located in the castle of Rovereto. Its extensive documentation deals not only with military matters, but also with sociocultural aspects of World War I and wars concerning Italy from the end of the 19th century to World War II. The exhibition area is dedicated to armies and soldiers from the 19th century to World War I (soon to be extended to World War II), with objects and photographs, material relating to trench warfare, flyers, posters and testimonies of the experiences of combatants and civilians.  \n  \nIn the castle towers are collections of modern weapons (16th–18th centuries) and of weapons and instruments from prehistory to medieval times. Temporary exhibits are dedicated to the memory of the World War I and of modern conflicts, with educational activities for families and schools. The museum also promotes study and research, oversees the publication of historical and documentary works and participates in film-making.","city":"Rovereto","address":"Via Castelbarco, 7  \n38068 Rovereto (TN)  \nItaly","website":"http://www.museodellaguerra.it/","phone":"+39 0464 438100","fax":"+39 0464 423410","email":"info@museodellaguerra.it"},"b5ea6933-458f-5e3f-bce3-210363a13ff0":{"name":"National Museum of Fine Arts","description":"Inaugurated in 1930, the **National Museum of Fine Arts** houses one of the most important art collections on the continent – if not the entire Arab world. Located on a hill in the Hamma neighborhood, it faces the Bay of Algiers. Its rich collection is the result of donations and various purchases from artists and private art collectors, with more than 8,000 items. The collection is quite varied, and including paintings, engravings, ancient prints, decorative objects, and an assemblage of numismatic items.  \n  \nEver since the country achieved independence 50 years ago, the museum has developed new sections. In addition to the “historical” collection revolving around the most ancient fund of the museum, a chronological exhibition spans six centuries of European art history, from the primitives to the 18th century. Since 2007, two new exhibition rooms have showcased 18th century orientalist art as well as works from mid-19th century Algeria. The rooms are named after two great Algerian contemporary artists: Mohamed Temam and Mohamed Louaïl.  \n  \nObviously, Algerian artists hold a place of honor at the Museum. The Bachir Yellès room showcase works by Algerian painters of the first generation. A whole floor is dedicated to 20th-century Algerian art. The “School of Algiers” and Abd-El-Tif residents fund counts over 1,500 artists, including painters, engravers and watercolorists born in Algeria, some of whom reached international fame (e.g. Paul Belmondo, a sculptor awarded the Prix de Rome and the Grand prix of Algeria in 1936).  \n  \nSince 1963, thanks to the “Art and Revolution fund”, the museum has boasted a contemporary art collection with works done by famous international artists who showed support to the Algerian people in their fight for independence.  \n  \nSculpture is well represented through pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. An itinerary is suggested to cover all the different rooms and gardens.  \n  \nDecorative arts – ceramic, glass works– and ancient furniture mainly come from two period homes. The Prints Cabinet remains one of the highlights of the Museum, showing works from a master of Algerian miniature: Mohamed Racim, considered a genuine national treasure.","city":"Algiers","website":"http://www.musee-beauxarts.dz/"},"b638c12f-d633-5a86-aac2-5546f55dc8b4":{"name":"Eça de Queirós School","description":"Eça de Queirós School offers wide and comprehensive education and training and is committed to promoting a strategy for continuous improvement of results with regard to school success, without neglecting educational success. Students regularly participate in national and international projects, achieving excellent ratings in competitions and tournaments. The school also invests substantially in adult education and training, targeted at those wishing to gain qualifications either through formal education or through recognition of competences gained through lifelong learning, with the pleasure of gaining knowledge regardless of educational level.  \n  \nThe school maintains a large number of national and international partnerships and protocols and is always open to innovation and new cultural proposals.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Rua Cidade de Benguela,  \n1800-071 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.queiroz.pt","phone":"+351 218 540 710","fax":"+351 218 540 713","email":"agrupamento@queiroz.pt"},"b7d617eb-89f8-58d6-bf7b-c3fef44a8efb":{"name":"Vista Alegre Museum","description":"Set in a former workshop of the Vista Alegre porcelain factory the mission of the Vista Alegre Museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the cultural heritage of the factory. In its rooms can be seen porcelain and glass, documents and photographs that tell fascinating histories of an industry, covering its human, cultural and technological heritage.","city":"Ílhavo","address":"Vista Alegre  \n3830-392 Ílhavo  \nPortugal","website":"http://www.myvistaalegre.com/int/t/vaa_VisiteMuseudaVistaAlegre_MissaoeObjetivos-1","phone":"+351 234 320 885; 234 320 600","fax":"+351 234 793","email":"centro.visitas.va@vaa.pt"},"bb594122-ba49-5d7f-bd0d-5be50be2e93a":{"name":"Population Exchange Museum (The Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants)","description":"One of the most important mass migrations was the compulsory migration resulting from the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed in Lausanne in 1923 by the Turkish and Greek governments. With the support of the 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency and cooperation with the Lausanne Treaty Foundation and Çatalca Municipality, Turkey’s first museum of migration opened in 2010.  \n  \nMigrants carried only their portable possessions and their culture, traditions, customs and manners to their new homelands. Bridal troussseau pieces make up the museum’s largest section. There are also old photographs, documents, forms, maps, a Qur’an, stamps, banknotes, books, musical instruments, an embroidery prospectus and a copy of *Sabah* newspaper from the end of the 19th century.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Kaleiçi Mahallesi, Bahar Sokak, 4  \nÇatalca, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.lozanmubadilleri.org.tr","phone":"+90 212 245 61 55","fax":"+90 212 293 25 68","email":"lozanmubadilleri@ttmail.com"},"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"},"bc08e5f9-b067-531d-b2c7-115fddfc214f":{"name":"Prussian Palaces (Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin Brandenburg)","description":"The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (German: Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg) or SPSG, was founded by a treaty of 23 August 1994 between the German federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg as a public foundation following German reunification. The treaty came into force on 1 January 1995. The foundation is separate from the considerably larger Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz).  \n  \nSource Wikipedia","city":"Potsdam","address":"Postfach 60 14 62,  \n14414 Potsdam  \nGermany","website":"https://www.spsg.de/en/home/"},"c0f4bd16-caed-59a5-8c05-07349e063e43":{"name":"State Castles and Gardens Baden-Württemberg","description":"The SSG is in charge of the preservation, management, presentation and marketing of the most important palaces, gardens, castles and monasteries owned by the State of Baden-Württemberg and conducts scientific research as well as providing educational offers. It was founded in 1987 and is an unincorporated public institution within the state enterprise Assets and Construction Baden Württemberg, which belongs to the state’s Ministry of Finance. Approximately 150 staff members and 230 seasonal workers located in one central and 11 decentralised administration units take care of 60 historic monuments in total.","city":"Bruchsal","address":"Schlossraum, 22a  \n76646 Bruchsal  \nGermany","website":"www.schloesser-und-gaerten.de/","phone":"+49 72 51 74 27 70","fax":"+49 72 51 74 27 11","email":"info@ssg.bwl.de"},"c258945a-5860-5c80-86dd-712268f42608":{"name":"Ege University Museum of Ethnography","description":"The Museum and Archive of Folkloric Musical Instruments, Folk Dance, Traditional Attire and Folk Songs in the Balkans and Anatolia Project began in 2004. Its main aim was to document the evolution of regional folk dress and musical instruments by collecting samples from the past to the present, preserving local traditions for future generations.  \n  \nThe museum features unique folkloric clothing, musical instruments and thousands of material objects from the Turkish world. On display are 3,040 objects including 2,300 items of traditional clothing, 110 folk musical instruments, 265 pieces of jewellery and accessories, 24 pieces of weaponry, chests, and closets. It is hoped that the museum will gain a worldwide reputation as an ethnographic repository for traditional Turkish and Balkan customs and material culture.","city":"Izmir","address":"Fevzi Çakmak Caddesi, 33  \nBornova, Izmir  \nTurkey","website":"www.etnografyamuzesi.ege.edu.tr","phone":"+90 232 342 48 78","fax":"+90 232 342 49 95","email":"ethnomuseumege@gmail.com"},"c2663ec9-f434-5a4e-a8d3-fb95be4adb76":{"name":"MIBACT | National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM)","description":"The gallery, founded in 1881, is housed in a building designed by Bazzani to house the exhibition (1911) celebrating the 50th anniversary of Italian unification. The collection, representing regional and foreign schools acquired at national exhibitions and the Venice Biennale, represented the best of 19th-century Italian art. It was expanded by donations and bequests (e.g. of Celentano and Balla) and acquisitions of Macchiaoli, Divisionists, Modigliani, Burri and Fontana. Under the direction of Venturi, Bucarelli and Argan it acquired international prestige thanks to a broader museography, with Picasso, Mondrian and Pollock exhibitions.  \n  \nAlthough the advent of the Ministry of Culture deprived it of independence, acqusitions of the Transavanguardia movement and the promotion of young artists made it a museum of the 19th and 20th centuries.","city":"Rome","address":"Viale delle Belle Arti, 131  \n00196 Roma  \nItaly  \nEntrance for special needs: Via Gramsci, 71","website":"www.gnam.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 322 98","fax":"+39 06 322 15 79","email":"s-gnam@beniculturali.it"},"c9aa9059-5518-5ca9-a74a-4a00a4a866ec":{"name":"Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation","description":"The Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, opened to the public in July 1983. Its collection now consists of more than 10,000 works covering Portuguese art from the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as some important international artists. Among these artworks and artists, there is an important collection of British art from the late 1950s / early 1960s; works by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and her husband Arpad Szenes, painters in Paris; works by Arshile Gorky, part of the Armenian background of this artist. The Modern Art Centre programming focuses on temporary exhibitions, showing Portuguese and international artists, and on exhibitions of the collection. Its mission is to make the artistic heritage accessible to the people.","city":"Lisbon","address":"Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian  \nRua Dr. Nicolau de Bettencourt  \n1050-078 Lisboa  \nPortugal","website":"www.cam.gulbenkian.pt","phone":"+351 21 782 3417","email":"cam@gulbenkian.pt"},"cd600584-2d8d-5ce0-bf43-af2c0ea23530":{"name":"National Railway Museum of Portugal","description":"The National Railway Museum of Portugal, inaugurated in 2007, is a multi-centred institution, constituting a central museum situated in Entroncamento and various branches distributed throughout the country. The central museum includes 19 railway tracks, the Head Office of the Foundation, the old Provisions Warehouse and other relevant historic buildings, about to be readapted as Exhibition Areas, Reserved area and Support Services. The mission of the National Railway Museum is the identification, conservation and enhancement of the railway heritage throughout its different technological phases, closely related to the history of transport and of industrial production, particularly the evolution of the services and equipment from the railway exploration.","city":"Entroncamento","address":"Rua Eng. Ferreira de Mesquita, Complexo Ferroviário do Entroncamento  \n2330-152 Entroncamento  \nPortugal","website":"www.fmnf.pt","phone":"+351 249130377","fax":"+351 21 1021773","email":"museu@fmnf.pt"},"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"},"d321bef5-3599-590f-a696-aa3a0d57d455":{"name":"Benaki Museum","description":"The Benaki Museum is the largest and oldest museum in Greece operating as a foundation under private law. It was founded in 1931 by Antoni Benaki, a member of a leading Greek family of Alexandria. The current museum is decentralised: its hub is the neoclassical mansion presenting the evolution of Greek art from the Neolithic period to the present day. The autonomous buildings include the exhibition centre on Pireos Street, the historical archives in the Delta house, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika gallery and the Museum of Islamic Art.  \n  \nThe Museum of Islamic Art is a renovated neoclassical building in Athens’ historic centre near the ancient Agora. It opened in 2004 to house the collection formed by Antoni Benaki during the early part of the 20th century, while he was living in Egypt. Subsequently enriched by other donations, today it contains c. 10,000 objects from the Middle East, Iran, Turkey, North Africa and India. It demonstrates the evolution of Islamic art up to the Ottoman period and corresponding developments to the middle of the 20th century. The collection includes ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, woodwork, glassware, ivories, funerary steles and arms and armour.  \n  \nThe visitor first finds exhibits from the 7th to the 12th century. Highlights are lustreware, door panels from Iraq, Fatimid metalwork, *tiraz* textiles and a unique reed mat from 10th-century Tiberias. The second gallery exhibits objects from the 12th to the 16th century with Seljuq ceramics, Mamluk metalwork and pottery and highlights a brass box with the signature of Isma’il ibn al-Ward al-Mawsili dated 1220 and the astrolabe of Ahmad ibn al-Sarraj dated 1328/29.  \n  \nThe third gallery displays a marble-lined reception room from a 17th-century Cairo mansion and its fountain, *qamariyya* windows and a *mashrabiyya* screen. Other exhibits include Iznik pottery and a 16th-century velvet saddle from Bursa. The last gallery presents arms and armour, and Qajar jewellery collected by Argine Salvagos, sister of the founder.  \n  \nDuring preservation work, a section of the ancient city wall of Athens from the 4th century BC was uncovered and remains *in situ* at basement level, accessible to visitors.","city":"Athens","address":"22 Agion Asomaton & 12 Dipilou Street  \nAthens  \nGreece","website":"http://www.benaki.gr/","phone":"+30 210 325 1311","fax":"+30 210 322 5550","email":"islamic_collection@benaki.gr"},"d341b529-0fe1-52db-a7ea-c367edf0bc03":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Naples","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Naples","address":"Piazzetta Grande Archivio, 5  \n80138 Napoli  \nItaly","website":"www.archiviodistatonapoli.it","phone":"+39 081 5638311","fax":"+39 081 5638300","email":"as-na@beniculturali.it"},"d5996b1b-7dd7-5d6e-af21-dc732123cc8c":{"name":"MIBACT | Borghese Gallery","description":"The Borghese Gallery is one of the seven museums under the Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio storico artistico ed etnoantropologico e per il Polo museale della città di Roma (Superintendence for the historical, artistic and ethno-anthropological heritage and the museums of Rome). The palace was built in the 17th century by the architects Ponzio and Vasanzio inside the largest park in Rome and was intended to provide a suburban villa and accommodate Cardinal Scipione Borghese’s passion for collecting. A kind of museum before the term existed, it houses one of the most enchanting collections of art in the world, with works by Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Lanfranco, Domenichino, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Canova, the 18th-century room in Egyptian style and even a huge collection of Roman sculptures, ancient mosaics as well as precious wood furnishings.  \n  \nThe origin of the collection stemmed from Scipione’s interest in antique and classical art and his desire to exalt the nobility of his family, but later it was enriched with gifts and acquisitions. In particular, in 1607, through the requisition of the paintings from Cavalier d’Arpino workshop and the acquisition of Della Porta and Ceuli collections, the cardinal took possession of dozen of works of art; in 1608 he bought 71 extraordinary paintings belonging to Cardinal Sfondrato, including the famous *Amor sacro, Amor profano* by Titian.  \n  \nAt the end of 1700s Marco Antonio IV Borghese entrusted Antonio Asprucci to launch a radical renovation that followed the modern criteria of the neoclassical style. In 1805 Camillo Borghese commissioned the sculptor Canova to portray Pauline Bonaparte as a *Venus Victrix*. A serious loss was sustained in 1807, when over 695 works were sold to Napoleon and moved to the Louvre in Paris. Since 1833 a trust forbade any other dispersal until 1902, when the Galleria Borghese was acquired by the Italian state.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5  \nI-00197 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it/it","phone":"+39 06 8413979","fax":"+39 06 8840756","email":"sspsae-rm.galleriaborghese@beniculturali.it"},"d8cdb3eb-45fb-5ddf-a4cb-305d3f9d955b":{"name":"Istanbul Postal Museum","description":"The Istanbul Postal Museum is dedicated to the historical development of mail and telecommunication services in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, exhibiting related equipment, instruments and postage stamps.  \n  \nThe museum is situated inside the Main Post Office building in Sirkeci quarter of Fatih district in Istanbul. The museum has a separate entrance and occupies four storeys in the western part of the building. It informs visitors about the country’s history of communication and telecommunication services, which officially began on 23 October 1840 with the foundation of the Ottoman Ministry of Post. Established on 6 May 2000 by the Turkish Post, the museum consists of four sections for mail, telegraphy, telephony and postage stamps. Photographs taken during the construction of the building are also displayed.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Hobyar Mahallesi,  \nBüyük Postane Caddesi, 25  \nFatih, Istanbul  \nTurkey","website":"www.ptt.gov.tr","phone":"+90 212 519 19 99","fax":"+90 212 512 09 49","email":"istav-muze@ptt.gov.tr"},"da058c7a-9e86-5354-8deb-cc489c7fb154":{"name":"Gramsci Institute Foundation","description":"The Gramsci Institute Foundation preserves archives of major importance for the study of the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Italy, with particular reference to the history of Republican Italy, including those of the Italian Communist Party (1921–91), Antonio Gramsci’s prison notebooks and letters from prison, and the papers of Luchino Visconti, Sibilla Aleramo and Luigi Squarzina. The foundation has a library of approximately 150,000 volumes and 4,000 periodicals.  \n  \nThe foundation carries out research projects in its areas of expertise and organises scholarly conferences and seminars, courses, exhibitions and training activities. It publishes the journal *Studi Storici* and a wide range of scholarly volumes, including the national edition of the writings of Antonio Gramsci.","city":"Rome","address":"Legal office:  \nVia Portuense, 95/c  \n00153 Roma  \n  \nOperational Headquarters:  \nVia Sebino, 43a  \n00199 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.fondazionegramsci.org","phone":"+39 06 065806646","fax":"+39 06 48887530","email":"info@fondazionegramsci.org"},"dbffb8f8-6183-5d07-a911-b7386d37aaab":{"name":"Lázaro Galdiano Museum","description":"The Museo Lázaro Galdiano is a result of the generous spirit of collector D. Jose Lázaro, who left to the Spanish state under his will of 1947 his house, library of 20,000 volumes and 13,000 artworks.  \nThe museum was installed in the neo-Renaissance palace that was the Lázaro family home and opened in 1951. In 2005 it was restored, with a rearrangement of the collections that highlights the importance of Spanish art. The museum spaces evoke the places where the collection was enjoyed by the leading intellectuals of the time. Works by Goya, El Greco, Velázquez, Reynolds, Isenbrandt, Hubert van Eyck and Constable coexist with important collections of sculpture, ivories, enamels, bronzes and textiles. José Lázaro took special interest in Hispano-Muslim art and art of the first Spanish Renaissance.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Serrano, 122  \n28006 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"www.flg.es","phone":"+34 91 561 60 84","fax":"+34 91 561 77 93","email":"amparo.lopez@flg.es"},"dc1c7f07-b903-5bd2-bf64-bf760b8a5dca":{"name":"Bibliotheca Alexandrina","description":"The objective of the new library remains the same as that of the old library: to act as a public research library and to support the people of the Arab world and the Middle East to retain their long-standing position as scholars and researchers in different fields of science.  \n  \nThe Library of Alexandria provides more than a library. In addition to the usual library facilities, the Library also contains other cultural and educational functions including a planetarium, several museums, an Internet archive, an audio-visual library, a school for information science, and conservation facilities. A Young Person’s Library is available for younger students and visitors. In addition to this, a new conference centre is linked to an existing auditorium on the site, making the Library a centrepiece for both learning and debate.  \n  \nToday, the Library of Alexandria is receiving about 1.5 million visitors a year. Its webcast service provides live and archived access to all the conferences, lectures and presentations taking place at the Library.","city":"Alexandria","address":"PO Box 138  \nChatby 21526  \nAlexandria  \nEgypt","website":"www.bibalex.org","phone":"+20 3 4839999"},"de796842-f078-5eec-9f69-8b497cfb8d37":{"name":"Revoltella Civic Museum","description":"The Revoltella Museum is a modern art gallery whose origins lie in the institution founded in 1872 under the will of Baron Pasquale Revoltella (1795–1869). He was one of the most outstanding and authoritative figures of imperial Trieste and played a major role in both economic and political affairs. His main endeavours were concentrated on facilitating the opening of the Suez Canal. Trieste, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918, was a major port, and Revoltella believed it to be crucial to developing the empire’s economy through maritime trade. In 1852 Revoltella entrusted Berlin architect Friedrich Hitzig to design his palace. Revoltella bequeathed his palace and his art collection to the city of Trieste. He also bestowed significant revenues on the museum, enabling a continuous increase of patrimony and accumulation of a considerable art collection.","city":"Trieste","address":"Via Diaz, 27  \n34123 Trieste  \nItaly","website":"http://www.museorevoltella.it/","phone":"+39 040 675 4350","fax":"+39 040 6754137","email":"revoltella@comune.trieste.it"},"deba9281-0964-556f-8e97-45ad230e0348":{"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](http://shangrilahawaii.org/History/Doris-Duke/) (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](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Programs/Tours/Virtual-Tour/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](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Islamic-Art-Collection/Collection-Highlights/Commissions-and-Recreations-1935-1938/) 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](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Programs/Tours/Guided-Tour/) and [educational programs](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Programs/Calendar-of-Events/) such as lectures, performances and occasional symposia. Shangri La also supports residencies for [contemporary artists](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Programs/Artists-in-Residence-Program/) and for [scholars](http://shangrilahawaii.org/Research/Scholars-in-Residence/) researching Islamic art.","city":"Honolulu, Hawai'i","address":"4055 Papu Circle  \nHonolulu, HI 96816  \nHawai'i, United States of America","website":"http://www.shangrilahawaii.org/","phone":"808 734 1941","fax":"808 732 4361","email":"shangrilahawaii@ddcf.org"},"e0e750b1-944e-5ed9-b290-6a31c17d5cff":{"name":"Numismatic Museum (Ahli Bank)","description":"The Numismatic Museum of Jordan Ahli Bank was established in 1999, securing Dr. Nayef G. Goussous’ knowledge and expertise as its curator, and ensuring the continuity and preservation of the collection and its passing on to future generation.  \n  \nThe bank museum is the first of its kind in the country, with collections numbering well over 40,000 coins. The ideals of the collector and the wisdom and generosity of a banking institution come together to produce an excellent educational legacy beneficial to society.  \n  \nThe Jordan Ahli Bank Numismatic Museum is a specialised museum containing coin collections spanning nearly 2,500 years, the earliest dating back to 600 BC and the latest coming from recent commemorative issues. The museum boasts one of the best Umayyad copper coin collections in the world, published in Dr Goussous’ *Rare and Inedited Copper Umayyad Coins* (2004). In addition, the museum has an outstanding collection of Mesopotamian, Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic weights. Furthermore, the museum has extensive collections of Nabataean coins and from Decapolis and provincial Arabia, many of which are still unpublished.  \n  \nThere are more than 4,500 coins and artefacts displayed in 25 cabinets. The museum is open to the public. The visitors can enjoy seeing the collections and learning about their history from the coins. The specialist certainly benefits from the coin collections and the library, with many graduate college students and numismatists regularly visiting the museum where they are welcomed and assisted.  \n  \nThere is continuing academic work on unpublished coins numbering well over 1,200 coins. Two volumes of rare and unpublished coins, dated to Ancient, Classical and Nabataen periods as well as Islamic periods, from the museum collection are in press.","city":"Amman","address":"Shmeisani – Queen Nour st.  \n11181 Amman  \nP.O. Box 3103  \nJordan","website":"https://ahli.com/the-numismatic-museum/","phone":"+962 6 5687090","fax":"+962 6 5685848"},"e4d6eb3a-21a4-5299-a027-9e5b305d4232":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Trieste","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Trieste","address":"Via A. La Marmora, 17  \n34139 Trieste  \nItaly","website":"www.astrieste.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 040 0647921","fax":"+39 040 9380033","email":"as-ts@beniculturali.it"},"e5ac5384-736d-5352-a209-14c391605bea":{"name":"MIBACT | Archival Superintendency of Umbria","description":"The Archival Superintendencies (Soprintendenze Archivistiche) are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Their functions include deciding which private archives should be considered of special cultural interest, inspecting private archives and the records of public bodies to make sure that they are correctly preserved, providing archival advice free of charge to the owners of materials under their jurisdiction, and producing search aids.  \n  \nThe Soprintendenza Archivistica per l’Umbria also organises conferences and exhibitions, and publishes catalogues and search aids. It edits three series of volumes (*Segni di civiltà*, *Scaffali senza polvere* and *La nave di Ulisse*) under the supervision of the Superintendent Mario Squadroni.","city":"Perugia","address":"Via Martiri dei Lager, 65  \n06128 Perugia  \nItaly","website":"www.sa-umbria.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 075 5055715; 075 5052198","fax":"+39 075 5055715; 075 5052198","email":"sa-umb@beniculturali.it"},"e637a315-429f-522d-9983-e51d695c47bb":{"name":"German Historical Museum","description":"The German Historical Museum is Germany’s national historical museum. Located in Berlin’s historic district of Mitte, it sees itself as a place of active communication and discussion of history. The Permanent Exhibition in the Zeughaus, “German History in Images and Artefacts”, with more than 7,000 objects, provides a unique overview of German history within its international context. The museum’s temporary Special Exhibitions can be seen in the Exhibition Hall. They are devoted to formative historical events, epochs and social developments. The collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum now comprises some 900,000 objects. Scholars and history aficionados can attend events such as lectures, panel discussions and conferences at the museum.","city":"Berlin","address":"Unter den Linden, 2  \n10117 Berlin  \nGermany","website":"www.dhm.de","phone":"+49 30 203040","fax":"+49 30 30304 456","email":"info@dhm.de"},"e739fb88-b66e-5e6e-91b9-d916f7571fc9":{"name":"Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism (MIBACT)","description":"The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, also known by the acronym MIBACT (Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo), is the department of the Italian government in charge of the protection of the Italian culture and performing arts, of the conservation of the artistic and cultural heritage and landscapes and related tourism policies.  \n  \nWithin *Sharing History* the MIBACT is represented by Borghese Gallery and by the Directorate General of Archives, both acting as heads of a network covering institutions from all over the country. Institutions that are under the umbrella of the MIBACT are marked by ‘MIBACT’ preceeding the name of the institution.","city":"Rome","address":"Via del Collegio Romano, 27  \n00186 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/index.html#&panel1-1","phone":"+39 06 67231;06 6723 2980,2990","fax":"+39 06 6798441","email":"urp@beniculturali.it"},"e8b57a0a-b7bf-5928-ad5a-f258a088b575":{"name":"MIBACT | Collection of former Museum of Industrial Art (M.A.I.)","description":"MAI was founded in Rome in 1874 on the initiative of Baldassarre Odescalchi, Augusto Castellani and Raffaele Erculei to collect handmade artefacts – glass, ceramics, sculptures, painted fabrics and plaster casts – from ancient times to the 17th century, and to be a training school for craftworkers on the model of other European institutions, such as South Kensington Museum, London. Combining theory and experimentation in cooperation with the schools, it never became a national museum. Located for a year in the former convent of San Lorenzo in Lucina, it was moved to the Collegio Romano and then to other locations, until its closure during World War II, when the collections were moved to the storerooms of various Roman museums: Palazzo Venezia, Palazzo Barberini, Castel Sant'Angelo, Palazzo Braschi, the Museum of Roman Civilisation and the State Institute of Art Galileo Galilei.  \n  \nThe National Gallery Palazzo Barberini houses the core of c. 2,000 objects, in particular ceramics, glass, porcelain and wooden sculptures.","city":"Rome","address":"Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13  \n00184 Roma  \nItaly","website":"http://galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 4814591","email":"sspsae-rm.gnaa@beniculturali.it"},"e916188b-3d88-5514-afb4-d5123a65224f":{"name":"National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art","description":"The National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa. The collection was set up in 1835, five years after the French occupation, by the then Governor General Marshal Clauzel who appointed Adrien Berbrugger as its first curator. From 1838 onward, the early museum hosted pieces, of Algerian provenance, from Antiquity up until the Ottoman periods. Between 1838 and 1896, this early museum occupied different places of the lower Casbah, before settling in a beautiful park located on the heights of Mustapha Pasha - now known as the Park of Liberty - where it was officially inaugurated in 1897.  \n  \nSince then these two divisions of the museum’s collection, Antiquity and Islamic, have continued to grow. This collection makes it possible to exhibit the history of Algeria from its Libyan-Punic era through to the 20th century. The objects are displayed in two separate buildings: one houses the pre-Islamic collection whilst the other houses the collection of Islamic art, which was inaugurated in May 2003.  \n  \nThe ancient collection is very rich and includes collections of mosaics, sculptures, Libyan and Latin inscriptions, coins and medals, bronze, ivory, bone, ceramics and wooden objects.  \n  \nThe Islamic section was formed from the first collection of 1854, which included Algerian and Oriental objects. It has gradually been enriched by pieces uncovered through archaeological excavations carried throughout the country. This wide-ranging collection includes sculpted plasterboard from 10th century Sedrata, marble or plaster sculptures of the 11th century Qal'a of Beni Hammad as well as the chairs of the 11th century Almoravid mosques in Algiers and the 12th century mosque of Nedroma.  \n  \nThe furniture arts of North Africa is also widely represented in this museum. Shop windows contain Ottoman-era embroidery, clothing, ceramics, weapons, jewellery, chiselled brass and worked repoussé that comes from the urban centres as well as rural areas. Manuscripts and miniatures complete the collection.  \n  \nThe museum’s numismatic collection is exhibited in a reading room that was inaugurated in May 2006.","city":"Algiers","address":"177, bd Krim-Belkacem, Parc de la Liberté  \nAlgiers, Algeria","website":"https://m-culture.gov.dz/index.php/fr/mus%C3%A9es","phone":"+213 0 21 68 11 29","fax":"+213 0 21 68 12 56","email":"museemna@musee-antiquites.art.dz"},"ec988066-7b5c-53d3-929b-d979b812f14f":{"name":"MIBACT | State Library of Modern and Contemporary History","description":"The State Library of Modern and Contemporary History was established in 1937 as a resource for documents on political and social Italian and European history in 19th and 20th centuries. The library has approximately 12,000 manuscripts (mainly letters of the major figures of the Italian unification and independence process, such as Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Ugo Foscolo, as well as of political figures of the liberal and fascist periods and of World War I); 600,000 books and pamphlets; and 3,000 editions of the 18th century. It holds important collections of books and pamphlets on the working class and anarchist movements; Fascism and the two World Wars.  \n  \nThe library updates its collections on the basis of historiographical production: particular attention is given to specialised scholarly journals and databases.","city":"Rome","address":"Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32  \n00186 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.bsmc.it","phone":"+39 06 6828171","fax":"+39 06 68807662","email":"b-stmo@beniculturali.it"},"ede901a2-76ea-58be-9bd2-2facec09cc51":{"name":"Aşiyan Museum","description":"The Aşiyan Museum is situated in the house of the Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915), who lived there between 1906 and 1915. On the initiative of Lütfi Kırdar, the mayor and governer of Istanbul during that period, it was purchased by the city in 1940 from Fikret’s wife, Nazime Hanim, beginning its services as a museum under the name Edebiyat-ı Cedide Museum (New Literary Movement Museum) in 1945.  \n  \nThe museum displays rooms dedicated to the poet Nigar Hanim, the Edebiyat-ı Cedide authors and the poet Abdülhak Hamit, with their personal belongings and documents, and as well as displaying Tevfik Fikret’s bedroom, his personal belongings, his study and paintings. In 1961, the museum was renamed Aşiyan Museum. It is one of the museums operated by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and an important place for lovers of literature.","city":"Istanbul","address":"Aşiyan Yokuşu, 15  \n34342 Bebek-Beşiktaş, Istanbul  \nTurkey","phone":"+90 212 263 69 86","fax":"+90 212 263 69 86","email":"asiyanmuzesi@ibb.gov.tr"},"f5c11bd8-33ca-5552-a5d9-8437afd6ee27":{"name":"The Lebanese University","description":"The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. The university has 17 faculties across Lebanon and serves various cultural, religious and social groups of students and teachers.  \n  \nThe independent university enjoys administrative, academic and financial freedom. Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and essential education to allow students to enter various professions.  \n  \nIn spite of the crisis in the region that has existed since 1975, leaving wounds and tragedies, the Lebanese University has remained the national home of science. Rivalling the most prestigious universities in Lebanon and abroad, and leading the process of human development that spread all over the country, its graduates became ambassadors of Lebanon in all the corners of the earth.  \n  \nOur university respects the national demand for academic freedom, which has become a right of scholars and specialists, based on laws and international conventions and regional organisations and sometimes more, applying the important rules of human rights: the right of learning and seeking knowledge with higher education and participation in international projects to develop academic programmes and exchange of research.The university has maintained the quality of higher education, although we seek more contact with the spirit of this modern age and its promising accomplishments by increasing relations and agreements with other universities and institutions all over the world. In spite of the political pressures on the people of the university and attempts to split them into factions, the majority of them have remained faithful to the spirit of the national organisation and the struggles of the early pioneers who insisted on building the edifice of national higher education, in the framework of the values of freedom and justice.","city":"Beirut","address":"Central Administration, Museum, Beirut  \n  \nPostal address: P.O. Box 6573/14 Badaro, Museum  \nBeirut  \nLebanon","website":"http://www.ul.edu.lb/","phone":"+961 1 612830; 1 612831","email":"ibady@ul.edu.lb"},"f7e39862-fd17-55f3-bcf9-cb93787c8817":{"name":"MIBACT | National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”","description":"The National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography was founded in 1875 by Luigi Pigorini. The museum is the main Italian centre for the preservation and display of pre-historic and non-European collections. Its main tasks are: archaeological and anthropological research; study, documentation and conservation of the museum’s collections; management of permanent and temporary exhibitions; educational programmes; and training in conservation, museological, archaeological and anthropological fields.  \n  \nToday, testifying to the new Italian multicultural reality, the Pigorini Museum offers itself as a cultural point of reference and a privileged interlocutor for immigrants and for the ethnic minorities already settled in the country.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14  \n00144 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.pigorini.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 549521","fax":"+39 06 54952310","email":"s-mnpe@beniculturali.it"},"f937f9c2-61b9-5201-b1ec-08251315e395":{"name":"National Museum of Decorative Arts","description":"The National Museum of Decorative Arts (MNAD) devotes its permanent collection to historical and current domestic spaces and allows visitors to experience the daily life of various cultures. Temporary exhibitions focus primarily on the contemporary designers and artists – both established and emerging – that create our environment. Through these visiting exhibits, the museum is able to display parts of the permanent collection kept in storage and generally not visible to the public.  \n  \nThe museum houses a permanent collection of over 70,000 objects from several geographic origins; mainly Spain, but also other European countries and the Far East. The collection covers a long chronological period. The oldest pieces date from the 4th century BC, but the chronological sequence goes from the 14th century until the first half of the 21st century, including the collection of avant-garde design as well as recent acquisitions of contemporary design.  \n  \nThis broad collection includes a full range of materials, techniques and typologies, including textiles, metalwork, furniture, ceramics, glass, costumes, silver, ironwork, ivory, photographs, prints and documents.  \n  \nIn 1934 the museum moved to its present location, a mansion built in 1878 by the architect José María González for Doña María del Carmen Espinosa, the Duchess of Santoña. Part of the original red-brick and stone facade, the imperial staircase of white Italian marble decorated with medallions and the Italian mosaic floors by Pellerin and Domenico still remain from the original concept of the building, a residence in the Romantic style. In the 1940s the architect Luis Moya added two floors above the original ones, structured in enfilade around a central court. Since then, the museum has undergone various improvements.","city":"Madrid","address":"C/ Montalbán, 12  \n28014 Madrid  \nSpain","website":"http://mnartesdecorativas.mcu.es/","phone":"+34 91 532 64 99","fax":"+34 91 523 20 86","email":"mnad@mecd.es"},"fd9463f8-e9ef-5011-8ad7-7bcf2e1863bc":{"name":"MIBACT | Central Institute for Ethno-Anthropology, National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions","description":"The institute promotes ethno-anthropological Italian heritage through the documentation, study and divulgation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.  \n  \nThe National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions exhibition section of the institute was created after the Italian exhibition on ethnography held in Rome in 1911 to celebrate the 50th anniversary Italian. The founder, ethnologist Lamberto Loria, realised after several expeditions in non-European countries that ethnographic research was required to document the culture of a country that at the time was undergoing changes due to industrialisation and emigration from rural areas. The Loria programme gave a central role to the museum, underlining the importance of the study of national ethnography as a means to understand the cultural history of a nation.","city":"Rome","address":"Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 8/10  \n00144 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.idea.mat.beniculturali.it/","phone":"+39 06 5926148; 06 5910709","fax":"+39 06 5911848","email":"ic-d@beniculturali.it"},"fdce3078-0f3e-504f-8c9d-b8c96d6ff7fb":{"name":"The National Museum","description":"The Saudi National Museum is part of the King Abdul Aziz Historical Centre administered by the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities. It was established in Riyadh on 6.10.1419 AH / 23.1.1999 AD in celebration of 100 years of unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  \n  \nThe National Museum is the main building in the King Abdul Aziz Historical Centre, covering an area of 28,000 square meters, including exhibition halls. It is a cultural landmark displaying the antiquities and heritage of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and presenting past cultures, civilisations and historic events that occurred in the Arabian Peninsula in general and in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in particular through exhibitions using the most modern resources and technology.  \n  \nThe Museum consists of eight galleries; each represents a particular cultural and historical period in chronological order from prehistoric times until the modern period. The principal objective of the National Museum is to highlight the national cultural identity and its depth and dimensions through the antiquities and heritage of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.","city":"Riyadh","address":"King Abdul Aziz Historical Center, Al-Muraba  \nP.O. Box: 3734  \n11481 Riyadh  \nSaudi Arabia","website":"www.nationalmuseum.org.sa","phone":"+966 1 1 4029500","fax":"+966 1 1 4030306","email":"TNM@scta.gov.sa"},"ff287b46-8f3d-5d2f-80c3-15f8013c3d54":{"name":"MIBACT | State Archives of Genoa","description":"In Italy, there are 101 State Archives (Archivi di Stato), one in the capital of each province. In addition to state documents from the early medieval period to the present, the State Archives also hold notarial archives older than 100 years and the archives of suppressed ecclesiastical bodies or religious corporations whose property was confiscated by the state. State Archives may also accept the custody of private archives (belonging to individuals, families, firms, associations etc.) and the records of public bodies.  \n  \nThe archival heritage is constantly growing and the material hold in the Italian State Archives as a whole occupies over 1,500 km (about 1,000 miles) in linear measurement, including 1.5 million parchments.  \n  \nThe State Archives are branches of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.","city":"Genoa","address":"Piazza S. Maria in Via Lata, 7  \n16128 Genova  \nItaly","website":"www.asgenova.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 010 537561","fax":"+39 010 5375636","email":"as-ge@beniculturali.it"},"ff8390b0-0228-5e07-8b42-389afca07810":{"name":"MIBACT | National Central Library of Rome","description":"The National Central Library of Rome houses and preserves all Italian publications. Opening in 1876 inside the Collegio Romano, a century later it moved to Castro Pretorio to meet the requirements of a modern library. Designed by architects Castellazzi, Dell'Anese and Vitellozzi, it had increased book depositories and reading rooms as well as a cafe and a bookshop. Known as “Vittorio Emanuele II”, it includes 7 million printed books and 8,000 manuscripts.  \n  \nThrough a continuous programme, the library seeks to confirm its role in the cultural circuit involving authors and artists, associations and exchanges of literature, cinema and music. The purpose is to communicate contemporary issues, always bearing in mind the educational and popular aspects, in the belief that it is essential to spread awareness first of all to young people in schools and universities.","city":"Rome","address":"Viale Castro Pretorio, 105  \n00185 Roma  \nItaly","website":"www.bncrm.librari.beniculturali.it","phone":"+39 06 49891","fax":"+39 06 4457635","email":"bnc-rm@beniculturali.it"}}