List of museums of Islamic art
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. |
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Algeria | Algiers | National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art | [2] | [1] | ||
Australia | Melbourne | Islamic Museum of Australia | [3] | [2] | ||
Austria | Vienna | Austrian National Library | [4] | [3] | ||
Austria | Vienna | Kunsthistorisches Museum | [5] | [4] | ||
Austria | Vienna | Museum of Applied Arts | [6] | [3] | ||
Austria | Vienna | Weltmuseum Wien | [7] | [5] | ||
Brunei | Brunei | Brunei Museum | [3] | |||
Canada | Toronto | Aga Khan Museum | 1,000[6] | 2014 | [8] | [7] |
Canada | Toronto | Royal Ontario Museum | [9] | [3] | ||
Denmark | Copenhagen | The David Collection | 2,500[8] | 1945 | [10] | [3] |
Egypt | Cairo | Museum of Islamic Art | 100,000[9] | [11] | [3] | |
Egypt | Cairo | National Library | [12] | [3] | ||
Egypt | Cairo | Coptic Museum | [13] | [3] | ||
France | Paris | Bibliothèque nationale de France | [14] | [3] | ||
France | Paris | Arab World Institute | [15] | [3] | ||
France | Paris | Musée des Arts Décoratifs | [16] | [3] | ||
France | Lyon | Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs | [17] | [3] | ||
France | Paris | Louvre Museum | 18,000[10] | 2012 | [18] | [3] |
Germany | Bamberg | Universitätsmuseum für Islamische Kunst | 7,000[11] | 2008 | [19] | |
Germany | Berlin | Islamic Art Museum | 16,000[8] | 1904 | [20] | |
Germany | Cologne | Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum | [21] | |||
Germany | Dresden | Dresden Museum of Ethnology | [22] | |||
Germany | Düsseldorf | Hetjens-Museum [de] | [23] | |||
Germany | Hamburg | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe | [24] | |||
Germany | Karlsruhe | Badisches Landesmuseum | [25] | |||
Germany | Leipzig | Leipzig Museum of Ethnography | [26] | |||
Germany | Munich | Museum Five Continents | [27] | |||
Germany | Stuttgart | Linden Museum | [28] | |||
Greece | Athens | Benaki Museum | 8,000[12] | [29] | [3] | |
Iran | Kashmar | Hassan Modarres Museum | 200[13] | 2004 | ||
Iran | Isfahan | Museum of Decorative Arts, Isfahan | 3,000 | 1995 | ||
Iran | Mashhad | Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum | 1937 | [3] | ||
Iran | Mashhad | Great Museum of Khosran | 2015 | |||
Iran | Tehran | Abgineh Museum of Tehran | ||||
Iran | Tehran | Calligraphy Museum of Iran | 200[14] | 2017 | ||
Iran | Tehran | Carpet Museum | 1978 | [3] | ||
Iran | Tehran | Dafineh Museum | 1997 | [30] | ||
Iran | Tehran | Gulistan Museum | [3] | |||
Iran | Tehran | Malek National Museum and Library | 19,000 | 1996 | [31] | |
Iran | Tehran | Museum of Decorative Arts | [3] | |||
Iran | Tehran | Museum of the Islamic Era | 1996 | [3] | ||
Iran | Tehran | Reza Abbasi Museum | 1977 | [3] | ||
Iran | Shiraz | Pars Museum | 1936 | |||
Iran | Qom | Hazrat Ma'soomeh Holy Shrine Museum | 1935 | [32] | ||
Iraq | Baghdad | Iraq Museum | [3] | |||
Ireland | Dublin | Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery | 6,100[15] | [33] | [3] | |
Israel | Jerusalem | The Museum for Islamic Art | 1974 | [34] | [3] | |
Italy | Florence | Bardini Museum | [3] | |||
Italy | Venice | Treasury of St. Mark's | [35] | [3] | ||
Italy | Milan | Biblioteca Ambrosiana | [36] | [3] | ||
Italy | Palermo | Museum of Islamic Art | [37] | |||
Jordan | Al-Mazār al-Janūbī | Al-Mazar Islamic Museum | 1973 | [16] | ||
Kuwait | Kuwait | Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah (The al-Sabah Collection) | 30,000[17][18] | 1980 | [38][39] | |
Kuwait | Kuwait | Kuwait National Museum | [3] | |||
Kuwait | Kuwait | Tareq Rajab Museum | 30,000[19] | [40] | [20] | |
Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Islamic Arts Museum | 10,000[21] | [41] | [3] | |
Morocco | Rabat | Archaeological Museum | [3] | |||
Oman | Muscat | National Museum of Oman | [22] | |||
Pakistan | Lahore | Lahore Museum | [42] | [3] | ||
Palestinian Territories | Jerusalem | Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif | [3][23][24] | |||
Portugal | Lisbon | Calouste Gulbenkian Museum | [43] | [3] | ||
Qatar | Doha | Museum of Islamic Art | [44] | [3] | ||
Romania | Bucharest | National Museum of Art of Romania | [45] | [25] | ||
Russia | Saint Petersburg | State Hermitage Museum | [46] | [3] | ||
Russia | Moscow | Museum of Oriental Art | [47] | [3] | ||
Spain | Madrid | National Archaeological Museum | [48] | [3] | ||
Sweden | Stockholm | Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities | [49] | [26] | ||
Switzerland | Bern | Abegg-Stiftung [fr] | [50] | [3] | ||
Switzerland | Geneva | Musée d'Art et d'Histoire | [51] | [3] | ||
Syria | Damascus | National Museum of Damascus | [52] | [3] | ||
Tunisia | Tunis | Bardo National Museum | [53] | [3] | ||
Turkey | Istanbul | Topkapı Palace | [54] | [3] | ||
Turkey | Istanbul | Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum | 40,000[27] | [55] | [3] | |
Turkey | Istanbul | Vakiflar Museum | [3] | |||
Turkey | Istanbul | Archaeological Museum | [3] | |||
Turkey | Istanbul | Istanbul University Library | [56] | [3] | ||
Ukraine | Kyiv | Museum of Western and Oriental Art | [57] | [28] | ||
United Arab Emirates | Sharjah | Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization | 5,000[29] | [58] | [30] | |
United Kingdom | Oxford | Ashmolean Museum | [59] | [3] | ||
United Kingdom | Oxford | Bodleian Library | [60] | [3] | ||
United Kingdom | London | British Library | [61] | [3] | ||
United Kingdom | London | British Museum | 40,000[31] | [62] | [3] | |
United Kingdom | Edinburgh | Edinburgh University Library | [63] | [3] | ||
United Kingdom | Cambridge | Fitzwilliam Museum | [64] | [3] | ||
United Kingdom | London | Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art | 28,000 (largest private collection)[32][33] | 1970[34] | [65] | [3] |
United Kingdom | London | Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage | 4,500[35] | [66] | ||
United Kingdom | London | Royal Asiatic Society | [67] | [3] | ||
United Kingdom | Edinburgh | National Museum of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Museum) | [68] | [3] | ||
United Kingdom | Manchester | John Rylands University Library | [69] | [3] | ||
United Kingdom | London | Victoria and Albert Museum | 19,000[36] | [70] | [3] | |
USA | Baltimore | Walters Art Museum | [71] | |||
USA | Boston | Museum of Fine Arts | 116[37] | [72] | [3] | |
USA | Cleveland | Cleveland Museum of Art | [73] | [3] | ||
USA | Corning, NY | Corning Museum of Glass | [74] | [3] | ||
USA | Washington, D.C. | Freer Gallery of Art | 2,200[38] | [75] | [3] | |
USA | Dallas | Keir Collection (currently on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art) | 1,642[39] | [76] | [3][40] | |
USA | Los Angeles | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | [77] | [3] | ||
USA | New York | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 15,000[41] | [78] | [3] | |
USA | New York | New York Public Library | [79] | [3] | ||
USA | St. Louis | Saint Louis Art Museum | 250[42] | 1904 | [80] | |
USA | Honolulu | Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design | 2,500[43] | 2002 | [81] | [44] |
USA | Washington, D.C. | George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum | 1925[45] | [82] | [3] | |
Yemen | Sana'a | National Museum of Yemen | 1971[46] | [3] |
See also
References
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Islamic museums
- Egypt (Museum of Islamic Art, Museum of Islamic Ceramics)
- Libya (Islamic Museum of Tripoli, Red Castle Museum)
- Morocco (Dar Batha Museum, Majorelle Garden, Marrakech Museum)
- Tunisia (Bardo National Museum, Mahdia Museum, National Museum of Islamic Art)
- Denmark (David Collection)
- France (Arab World Institute, Louvre)
- Germany (Museum of Islamic Art)
- Greece (Benaki Museum)
- United Kingdom (British Museum, Burrell Collection, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage, Victoria and Albert Museum)
America
- Canada (Aga Khan Museum)
- United States (America's Islamic Heritage Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, Shangri La (Doris Duke))
- Australia (Islamic Museum of Australia)
Part of Islamic arts