List of museums of Islamic art explained

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
Algeria	Algiers	National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art			http://www.musee-antiquites.art.dz/	^[1]
Australia	Melbourne	Islamic Museum of Australia			https://islamicmuseum.org.au/	^[2]
Austria	Vienna	Austrian National Library			https://www.onb.ac.at/en/
Austria	Vienna	Kunsthistorisches Museum			https://www.khm.at/	^[3]
Austria	Vienna	Museum of Applied Arts			http://www.mak.at
Austria	Vienna	Weltmuseum Wien			https://www.weltmuseumwien.at/en/	^[4]
Brunei	Brunei	Brunei Museum
Canada	Toronto	Aga Khan Museum	1,000^[5]	2014	http://www.agakhanmuseum.org/	^[6]
Canada	Toronto	Royal Ontario Museum			http://www.rom.on.ca/en
Denmark	Copenhagen	The David Collection	2,500	1945	http://www.davidmus.dk/en
Egypt	Cairo	Museum of Islamic Art	100,000^[7]		http://www.miaegypt.org
Egypt	Cairo	National Library			https://web.archive.org/web/20090420114552/http://www.darelkotob.gov.eg/
Egypt	Cairo	Coptic Museum			http://www.coptic-cairo.com/
France	Paris	Bibliothèque nationale de France			http://www.bnf.fr/
France	Paris	Arab World Institute			https://www.imarabe.org/en
France	Paris	Musée des Arts Décoratifs			https://madparis.fr/en/
France	Lyon	Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs			http://www.mtmad.fr/
France	Paris	Louvre Museum	18,000^[8]	2012	https://www.louvre.fr/en/departments/islamic-art
Germany	Bamberg	Universitätsmuseum für Islamische Kunst	7,000^[9]	2008	https://the-bumiller-collection.com/sammlung-online/
Germany	Berlin	Islamic Art Museum	16,000^[10]	1904	https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/collection-research/research-cooperation.html
Germany	Cologne	Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum			http://www.museenkoeln.de/rautenstrauch-joest-museum/
Germany	Dresden	Dresden Museum of Ethnology			https://voelkerkunde-dresden.skd.museum/ausstellungen/damaskuszimmer/
Germany	Düsseldorf				https://www.duesseldorf.de/hetjens.html
Germany	Hamburg	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe			https://www.mkg-hamburg.de/de/sammlung/sammlungen/islamische-kunst.html
Germany	Karlsruhe	Badisches Landesmuseum			https://www.landesmuseum.de/museum-im-schloss/sammlungsausstellungen/weltkultur-/-globalculture
Germany	Leipzig	Leipzig Museum of Ethnography			https://grassi-voelkerkunde.skd.museum/ueber-uns/sammlungen-im-haus/sammlung-orient/
Germany	Munich	Museum Five Continents			https://www.museum-fuenf-kontinente.de/ausstellungen/der-orient.-zum-staunen-so-nah/
Germany	Stuttgart	Linden Museum			https://www.lindenmuseum.de/sehen/ausstellungen/orient/
Greece	Athens	Benaki Museum	8,000^[11]		https://www.benaki.org/index.php?lang=en
Iran	Kashmar	Hassan Modarres Museum	200^[12]	2004
Iran	Isfahan	Museum of Decorative Arts, Isfahan	3,000	1995
Iran	Mashhad	Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum		1937
Iran	Mashhad	Great Museum of Khosran		2015
Iran	Tehran	Abgineh Museum of Tehran
Iran	Tehran	Calligraphy Museum of Iran	200^[13]	2017
Iran	Tehran	Carpet Museum		1978
Iran	Tehran	Dafineh Museum		1997	https://cio-museums.org/en/museum/sardar-asemani/
Iran	Tehran	Gulistan Museum
Iran	Tehran	Malek National Museum and Library	19,000	1996	http://malekmuseum.org/
Iran	Tehran	Museum of Decorative Arts
Iran	Tehran	Museum of the Islamic Era		1996
Iran	Tehran	Reza Abbasi Museum		1977
Iran	Shiraz	Pars Museum		1936
Iran	Qom	Hazrat Ma'soomeh Holy Shrine Museum		1935	https://museum.amfm.ir
Iraq	Baghdad	Iraq Museum
Ireland	Dublin	Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery	6,100^[14]		https://chesterbeatty.ie/
Israel	Jerusalem	The Museum for Islamic Art		1974	http://www.islamicart.co.il/english/
Italy	Florence	Bardini Museum
Italy	Venice	Treasury of St. Mark's			http://www.museosanmarco.it/index_eng.bsm/
Italy	Milan	Biblioteca Ambrosiana			https://www.ambrosiana.it/
Italy	Palermo	Museum of Islamic Art			https://turismo.comune.palermo.it/palermo-welcome-luogo-dettaglio.php?tp=68&det=21&id=180
Jordan	Al-Mazār al-Janūbī	Al-Mazar Islamic Museum		1973		^[15]
Kuwait	Kuwait	Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah (The al-Sabah Collection)	30,000^[16] ^[17]	1980	http://darmuseum.org.kw/https://thealsabahcollection.com/
Kuwait	Kuwait	Kuwait National Museum
Kuwait	Kuwait	Tareq Rajab Museum	30,000^[18]		http://www.trmkt.com/startmain.htm	^[19]
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Islamic Arts Museum	10,000^[20]		https://www.iamm.org.my/
Morocco	Rabat	Archaeological Museum
Oman	Muscat	National Museum of Oman				^[21]
Pakistan	Lahore	Lahore Museum			https://web.archive.org/web/20190505045926/https://lahoremuseum.punjab.gov.pk/
Palestinian Territories	Jerusalem	Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif				^[22] ^[23]
Portugal	Lisbon	Calouste Gulbenkian Museum			https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/welcome/
Qatar	Doha	Museum of Islamic Art			http://www.mia.org.qa/en
Romania	Bucharest	National Museum of Art of Romania			http://www.mnar.arts.ro/	^[24]
Russia	Saint Petersburg	State Hermitage Museum			https://hermitagemuseum.org
Russia	Moscow	Museum of Oriental Art			https://new.orientmuseum.ru/?lang=en
Spain	Madrid	National Archaeological Museum			http://www.man.es/man/home.html
Sweden	Stockholm	Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities			http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/medelhavsmuseet/	^[25]
Switzerland	Bern				https://abegg-stiftung.ch/
Switzerland	Geneva	Musée d'Art et d'Histoire			http://institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fr/mah/
Syria	Damascus	National Museum of Damascus			http://www.dgam.gov.sy/index.php?d=251&id=661/
Tunisia	Tunis	Bardo National Museum			http://www.bardomuseum.tn/
Turkey	Istanbul	Topkapı Palace			https://topkapisarayi.gov.tr/tr
Turkey	Istanbul	Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum	40,000^[26]		https://muze.gov.tr/muze-detay?SectionId=BTI01&DistId=MRK
Turkey	Istanbul	Vakiflar Museum
Turkey	Istanbul	Archaeological Museum
Turkey	Istanbul	Istanbul University Library			https://kutuphane.istanbul.edu.tr/en/_
Ukraine	Kyiv	Museum of Western and Oriental Art			http://khanenkomuseum.kiev.ua/	^[27]
United Arab Emirates	Sharjah	Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization	5,000^[28]		http://sharjahmuseums.ae/en-US/Museums/Sharjah-Museum-of-Islamic-Civilization	^[29]
United Kingdom	Oxford	Ashmolean Museum			https://www.ashmolean.org/	^[30]
United Kingdom	Oxford	Bodleian Library			https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley
United Kingdom	London	British Library			https://www.bl.uk/
United Kingdom	London	British Museum	40,000^[31]		https://britishmuseum.org/
United Kingdom	Edinburgh	Edinburgh University Library			https://collections.ed.ac.uk/
United Kingdom	Cambridge	Fitzwilliam Museum			https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/
United Kingdom	London	Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art	28,000 (largest private collection)^[32] ^[33]	1970^[34]	https://www.khalilicollections.org/islamic-arts/
United Kingdom	London	Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage	4,500^[35]		https://www.khalilicollections.org/all-collections/hajj-and-the-arts-of-pilgrimage/
United Kingdom	London	Royal Asiatic Society			https://royalasiaticsociety.org/
United Kingdom	Edinburgh	National Museum of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Museum)			https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland
United Kingdom	Manchester	John Rylands University Library			https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/
United Kingdom	London	Victoria and Albert Museum	19,000^[36]		https://www.vam.ac.uk/
USA	Baltimore	Walters Art Museum			https://art.thewalters.org/browse/category/islamic-world/
USA	Boston	Museum of Fine Arts	116^[37]		https://www.mfa.org/
USA	Cleveland	Cleveland Museum of Art			http://www.clevelandart.org/
USA	Corning, NY	Corning Museum of Glass			https://www.cmog.org/
USA	Washington, D.C.	Freer Gallery of Art	2,200^[38]		https://asia.si.edu/
USA	Dallas	Keir Collection (currently on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art)	1,642^[39]		https://dma.org/KeirCollection	^[40]
USA	Los Angeles	Los Angeles County Museum of Art			https://www.lacma.org/
USA	New York	Metropolitan Museum of Art	15,000^[41]		https://www.metmuseum.org/
USA	New York	New York Public Library			https://www.nypl.org/
USA	St. Louis	Saint Louis Art Museum	250^[42]	1904	https://www.slam.org/
USA	Honolulu	Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design	2,500^[43]	2002	https://www.shangrilahawaii.org/	^[44]
USA	Washington, D.C.	George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum		1925^[45]	https://museum.gwu.edu/
Yemen	Sana'a	National Museum of Yemen		1971^[46]

See also

• Lists of museums

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art. Museum With No Frontiers. 2019-09-15.
2. News: First Islamic museum in Australia launches in Melbourne with major UAE influence. 2 March 2014. The National. 28 February 2014.
3. Web site: Kunsthistorisches Museum . 2024-02-06 . Museum With No Frontiers.
4. Web site: Weltmuseum Wien . 2024-02-06 . Museum With No Frontiers.
5. Web site: Mission. Aga Khan Museum. en. 2020-02-16.
6. Web site: Aga Khan Museum will prove to be of historic significance: Siddiqui The Star. thestar.com. en. 2019-04-08. 10 September 2014 . Siddiqui . Haroon.
7. Web site: Collection. www.miaegypt.org. 2020-02-16.
8. Les arts de l'Islam au musée du Louvre, septembre 2012- Un écrin pour les arts de l'Islam, p. 2.
9. Web site: Universitätsmuseum für Islamische Kunst - Islamische Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie: Orientalistik.
10. Web site: A Global Guide to Islamic Art . Jonathan . Bloom . Sheila . Blair . SaudiAramcoWorld.com . 2009 .
11. http://www.benaki.gr/collections/islamic/en/
12. Web site: ۲۰۰ اثر در موزه شهید مدرس نگهداری می‌شود . 2024-02-02 . www.irna.ir . fa.
13. Web site: Calligraphy Museum of Iran . 2023-03-30 . Tehran Beautification Organization . fa.
14. Web site: The Chester Beatty Library . 2024-02-06 . Museum With No Frontiers.
15. https://culture.gov.jo/node/24748 Al-Mazār al-Janūbī Islamic Museum, Jordan's Ministry of Culture
16. Web site: Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah . 2024-02-06 . Museum With No Frontiers.
17. Web site: 2021-11-17 . ABOUT US - The Al-Sabah Collection . 2024-07-07 . thealsabahcollection.com . en-US . 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- l9th century CE..
18. Web site: Nadr Rajab . Tareq Rajab Museum . Trmkt.com . 2015-12-27.
19. Book: Exell, Karen. Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula. Taylor & Francis. 2016 . 176. 9781317279006.
20. Web site: About Us IAMM . 2022-09-14 . en-US.
21. Web site: The National Museum Oman. Museum With No Frontiers. 2019-09-16.
22. Web site: Safeguarding, Refurbishment and Revitalization of the Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif and its Collections. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 2019-09-16.
23. Web site: Islamic Museum at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Museum With No Frontiers. 2019-09-16.
24. Web site: The National Museum of Art of Romania. Museum With No Frontiers. 2019-09-16.
25. Web site: Museum for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities. Museum With No Frontiers. 2019-09-16.
26. Web site: Belge göster . Kultur.gov.tr . 2015-12-27.
27. Web site: The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts. Museum With No Frontiers. 2019-09-15.
28. Web site: Sharjah Museum, impressive showcase of Islamic art N.P. Krishna Kumar. 2021-01-07. The Arab Weekly. en.
29. Web site: Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation. 2021-01-07. Discover Islamic Art.
30. Book: Khalili, Nasser D.. The timeline history of Islamic art and architecture. Nasser Khalili. 2005. Worth. 1903025176. London. 182. 61177501.
31. Web site: Discover Islamic Art – Virtual Museum . Discoverislamicart.org . 2015-12-27.
32. Web site: The Eight Collections. Nasser David Khalili. 2020-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20221028125759/https://www.nasserdkhalili.com/the-eight-collections-2/ . 2022-10-28. dead.
33. Web site: BBC World Service - Arts & Culture - Khalili Collection: Picture gallery. www.bbc.co.uk. en-GB. 2020-02-16.
34. Web site: The Khalili Family Trust (Biographical details). British Museum. en-GB. 10 September 2019.
35. Web site: Hajj and The Arts of Pilgrimage. 2021-01-14. Khalili Collections. en-US.
36. Web site: About the Asian Collections - Victoria and Albert Museum . Vam.ac.uk . 2015-12-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090321074530/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/asia/about/index.html . 2009-03-21 .
37. Web site: Results Advanced Search Objects The MFAH Collections . 2024-07-07 . emuseum.mfah.org.
38. Web site: Collections: Arts of the Islamic World . 2022-09-14 . Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art . en-US.
39. Web site: Dallas Museum of Art . 2024-07-07 . dma.org.
40. Web site: Why the de Unger Family Decided to Move The Keir Collection From Berlin to Dallas. Simek. Peter. 2014-05-22. D Magazine. en. 2019-10-09.
41. Web site: Islamic Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 2022-09-14 . The Met.
42. Web site: Objects . 2024-05-06 . Saint Louis Art Museum . en-US.
43. Web site: Islamic Art Collection. www.shangrilahawaii.org. 2020-02-16.
44. Web site: In Conversation with Konrad Ng from Shangri La Museum. Richardson. Jim. 2017-12-10. MuseumNext. en. 2019-09-26.
45. Web site: Mission and History . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120428185646/http://www.textilemuseum.org/about/history.htm . April 28, 2012 . April 17, 2012 . The Textile Museum.
46. Web site: Dr. Tom's Traveling News and Trivia - National Museum in Sana'a, Yemen, reopens. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081204102531/http://www.ubiquityinternational.com/drtom/2006/02/national-museum-in-sanaa-yemen-reopens.htm . 2008-12-04 . 2010-02-10.