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List of museums of Islamic art

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Islamic art is collected by museums, galleries and private collectors in many countries around the world.

Country City Institution Collection size Founding date Official web site Ref.
Image Algeria Algiers National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art [1]
Image Australia Melbourne Islamic Museum of Australia [2]
Image Austria Vienna Austrian National Library [3]
Image Austria Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum [4]
Image Austria Vienna Museum of Applied Arts [3]
Image Austria Vienna Weltmuseum Wien [5]
Image Brunei Brunei Brunei Museum [3]
Image Canada Toronto Aga Khan Museum 1,000[6] 2014 [7]
Image Canada Toronto Royal Ontario Museum [3]
Image Denmark Copenhagen The David Collection 2,500[8] 1945 [3]
Image Egypt Cairo Museum of Islamic Art 100,000[9] [3]
Image Egypt Cairo National Library [3]
Image Egypt Cairo Coptic Museum [3]
Image France Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France [3]
Image France Paris Arab World Institute [3]
Image France Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs [3]
Image France Lyon Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs [3]
Image France Paris Louvre Museum 18,000[10] 2012 [3]
Image Germany Bamberg Universitätsmuseum für Islamische Kunst 7,000[11] 2008
Image Germany Berlin Islamic Art Museum 16,000[8] 1904
Image Germany Cologne Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Image Germany Dresden Dresden Museum of Ethnology
Image Germany Düsseldorf Hetjens-Museum [de]
Image Germany Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Image Germany Karlsruhe Badisches Landesmuseum
Image Germany Leipzig Leipzig Museum of Ethnography
Image Germany Munich Museum Five Continents
Image Germany Stuttgart Linden Museum
Image Greece Athens Benaki Museum 8,000[12] [3]
Image Iran Kashmar Hassan Modarres Museum 200[13] 2004
Image Iran Isfahan Museum of Decorative Arts, Isfahan 3,000 1995
Image Iran Mashhad Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum 1937 [3]
Image Iran Mashhad Great Museum of Khosran 2015
Image Iran Tehran Abgineh Museum of Tehran
Image Iran Tehran Calligraphy Museum of Iran 200[14] 2017
Image Iran Tehran Carpet Museum 1978 [3]
Image Iran Tehran Dafineh Museum 1997
Image Iran Tehran Gulistan Museum [3]
Image Iran Tehran Malek National Museum and Library 19,000 1996
Image Iran Tehran Museum of Decorative Arts [3]
Image Iran Tehran Museum of the Islamic Era 1996 [3]
Image Iran Tehran Reza Abbasi Museum 1977 [3]
Image Iran Shiraz Pars Museum 1936
Image Iran Qom Hazrat Ma'soomeh Holy Shrine Museum 1935
Image Iraq Baghdad Iraq Museum [3]
Image Ireland Dublin Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery 6,100[15] [3]
Image Israel Jerusalem The Museum for Islamic Art 1974 [3]
Image Italy Florence Bardini Museum [3]
Image Italy Venice Treasury of St. Mark's [3]
Image Italy Milan Biblioteca Ambrosiana [3]
Image Italy Palermo Museum of Islamic Art
Image Jordan Al-Mazār al-Janūbī Al-Mazar Islamic Museum 1973 [16]
Image Kuwait Kuwait City Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah (The al-Sabah Collection) 30,000[17][18] 1980
Image Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwait National Museum [3]
Image Kuwait Kuwait City Tareq Rajab Museum 30,000[19] [20]
Image Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum 10,000[21] [3]
Image Morocco Rabat Archaeological Museum [3]
Image Oman Muscat National Museum of Oman [22]
Image Pakistan Lahore Lahore Museum [3]
Image Palestine Jerusalem Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif [3][23][24]
Image Portugal Lisbon Calouste Gulbenkian Museum [3]
Image Qatar Doha Museum of Islamic Art [3]
Image Romania Bucharest National Museum of Art of Romania [25]
Image Russia Saint Petersburg State Hermitage Museum [3]
Image Russia Moscow Museum of Oriental Art [3]
Image Spain Madrid National Archaeological Museum [3]
Image Sweden Stockholm Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities [26]
Image  Switzerland Bern Abegg-Stiftung [fr] [3]
Image  Switzerland Geneva Musée d'Art et d'Histoire [3]
Image Syria Damascus National Museum of Damascus [3]
Image Tunisia Tunis Bardo National Museum [3]
Image Turkey Istanbul Topkapı Palace [3]
Image Turkey Istanbul Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum 40,000[27] [3]
Image Turkey Istanbul Vakiflar Museum [3]
Image Turkey Istanbul Archaeological Museum [3]
Image Turkey Istanbul Istanbul University Library [3]
Image Ukraine Kyiv Museum of Western and Oriental Art [28]
Image United Arab Emirates Sharjah Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization 5,000[29] [30]
Image United Kingdom Oxford Ashmolean Museum [3]
Image United Kingdom Oxford Bodleian Library [3]
Image United Kingdom London British Library [3]
Image United Kingdom London British Museum 40,000[31] [3]
Image United Kingdom Edinburgh Edinburgh University Library [3]
Image United Kingdom Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum [3]
Image United Kingdom London Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art 26,000 (largest private collection)[32][33] 1970[34] [3]
Image United Kingdom London Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage 5,000[35]
Image United Kingdom London Royal Asiatic Society [3]
Image United Kingdom Edinburgh National Museum of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Museum) [3]
Image United Kingdom Manchester John Rylands University Library [3]
Image United Kingdom London Victoria and Albert Museum 19,000[36] [3]
Image United States Baltimore Walters Art Museum
Image United States Boston Museum of Fine Arts 116[37] [3]
Image United States Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art [3]
Image United States Corning Corning Museum of Glass [3]
Image United States Washington, D.C. Freer Gallery of Art 2,200[38] [3]
Image United States Dallas Keir Collection (currently on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art) 1,642[39] [3][40]
Image United States Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art [3]
Image United States New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 15,000[41] [3]
Image United States New York New York Public Library [3]
Image United States St. Louis Saint Louis Art Museum 250[42] 1904
Image United States Honolulu Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design 2,500[43] 2002 [44]
Image United States Washington, D.C. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum 1925[45] [3]
Image Yemen Sanaa National Museum of Yemen 1971[46] [3]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  2. ↑ "First Islamic museum in Australia launches in Melbourne with major UAE influence". The National. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Khalili, Nasser D. (2005). The timeline history of Islamic art and architecture. London: Worth. p. 182. ISBN 1903025176. OCLC 61177501.
  4. ↑ "Kunsthistorisches Museum". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  5. ↑ "Weltmuseum Wien". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  6. ↑ "Mission". Aga Khan Museum. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  7. ↑ Siddiqui, Haroon (10 September 2014). "Aga Khan Museum will prove to be of historic significance: Siddiqui | The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  8. 1 2 Bloom, Jonathan; Blair, Sheila (2009). "A Global Guide to Islamic Art". SaudiAramcoWorld.com.
  9. ↑ "Collection". www.miaegypt.org. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  10. ↑ Les arts de l'Islam au musée du Louvre, septembre 2012- Un écrin pour les arts de l'Islam, p. 2.
  11. ↑ "Universitätsmuseum für Islamische Kunst - Islamische Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie: Orientalistik".
  12. ↑ Archived June 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ "۲۰۰ اثر در موزه شهید مدرس نگهداری میشود". www.irna.ir (in Persian). Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  14. ↑ "Calligraphy Museum of Iran". Tehran Beautification Organization (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  15. ↑ "The Chester Beatty Library". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  16. ↑ Al-Mazār al-Janūbī Islamic Museum, Jordan's Ministry of Culture (Arabic)
  17. ↑ "Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  18. ↑ "ABOUT US - The Al-Sabah Collection". thealsabahcollection.com. 2021-11-17. Retrieved 2024-07-07. Today, the al-Sabah Collection includes more than 30,000 objects of art created in countries from Spain to China, from the 4th millennium BCE-19th century CE.
  19. ↑ Nadr Rajab. "Tareq Rajab Museum". Trmkt.com. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  20. ↑ Exell, Karen (2016). Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula. Taylor & Francis. p. 176. ISBN 9781317279006.
  21. ↑ "About Us | IAMM". Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  22. ↑ "The National Museum Oman". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
  23. ↑ "Safeguarding, Refurbishment and Revitalization of the Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif and its Collections". United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
  24. ↑ "Islamic Museum at Al-Aqsa Mosque". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
  25. ↑ "The National Museum of Art of Romania". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
  26. ↑ "Museum for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
  27. ↑ "Belge göster". Kultur.gov.tr. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  28. ↑ "The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  29. ↑ "Sharjah Museum, impressive showcase of Islamic art | N.P. Krishna Kumar". The Arab Weekly. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  30. ↑ "Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation". Discover Islamic Art. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  31. ↑ "Discover Islamic Art – Virtual Museum". Discoverislamicart.org. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  32. ↑ "Islamic Art". Khalili Collections. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  33. ↑ "BBC World Service - Arts & Culture - Khalili Collection: Picture gallery". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  34. ↑ "The Khalili Family Trust (Biographical details)". British Museum. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  35. ↑ "Hajj and The Arts of Pilgrimage". Khalili Collections. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
  36. ↑ "About the Asian Collections - Victoria and Albert Museum". Vam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-03-21. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  37. ↑ "Results | Advanced Search Objects | The MFAH Collections". emuseum.mfah.org. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  38. ↑ "Collections: Arts of the Islamic World". Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  39. ↑ "Dallas Museum of Art". dma.org. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  40. ↑ Simek, Peter (2014-05-22). "Why the de Unger Family Decided to Move The Keir Collection From Berlin to Dallas". D Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  41. ↑ "Islamic Art | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Met. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  42. ↑ "Objects". Saint Louis Art Museum. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
  43. ↑ "Islamic Art Collection". www.shangrilahawaii.org. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  44. ↑ Richardson, Jim (2017-12-10). "In Conversation with Konrad Ng from Shangri La Museum". MuseumNext. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  45. ↑ "Mission and History". The Textile Museum. Archived from the original on April 28, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
  46. ↑ "Dr. Tom's Traveling News and Trivia - National Museum in Sana'a, Yemen, reopens". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
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