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.
Algeria Algiers National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art [1]
Australia Melbourne Islamic Museum of Australia [2]
Austria Vienna Museum of Applied Arts [3]
Austria Vienna Austrian National Library [3]
Brunei Brunei Brunei Museum [3]
Canada Toronto Aga Khan Museum 1,000[4] 2014 [5]
Canada Toronto Royal Ontario Museum [3]
Denmark Copenhagen The David Collection 2,500[6] 1945 [3]
Egypt Cairo Museum of Islamic Art 100,000[7] [3]
Egypt Cairo National Library [3]
Egypt Cairo Coptic Museum [3]
France Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France [3]
France Paris Arab World Institute [3]
France Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs [3]
France Lyon Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs [3]
France Paris Louvre Museum 18,000[8] 2012 [3]
Germany Bamberg Universitätsmuseum für Islamische Kunst 7,000[9] 2008
Germany Berlin Islamic Art Museum 16,000[6] 1904
Germany Cologne Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Germany Dresden Dresden Museum of Ethnology
Germany Düsseldorf Hetjens-Museum
Germany Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Germany Karlsruhe Badisches Landesmuseum
Germany Leipzig Leipzig Museum of Ethnography
Germany Munich Museum Five Continents
Germany Stuttgart Linden Museum
Greece Athens Benaki Museum 8,000[10] [3]
Iran Tehran Carpet Museum [3]
Iran Tehran Gulistan Museum [3]
Iran Mashad Imam Reza Museum [3]
Iran Tehran Museum of Decorative Arts [3]
Iran Tehran Museum of Ancient Iran [3]
Iran Tehran Reza Abbasi Museum [3]
Iraq Baghdad National Museum of Iraq [3]
Ireland Dublin Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery [3]
Israel Jerusalem The Museum for Islamic Art 1974 [3]
Italy Florence Bardini Museum [3]
Italy Venice Treasury of St. Mark's [3]
Italy Milan Biblioteca Ambrosiana [3]
Jordan Al-Mazār al-Janūbī Al-Mazar Islamic Museum 1973 [11]
Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait National Museum [3]
Kuwait Kuwait Tareq Rajab Museum 30,000[12] [13]
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum [3]
Morocco Rabat Archaeological Museum [3]
Oman Muscat National Museum of Oman [14]
Pakistan Lahore Lahore Museum [3]
Palestinian Territories Jerusalem Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif [3][15][16]
Portugal Lisbon Calouste Gulbenkian Museum [3]
Qatar Doha Museum of Islamic Art [3]
Romania Bucharest National Museum of Art of Romania [17]
Russia Saint Petersburg State Hermitage Museum [3]
Russia Moscow Museum of Oriental Art [3]
Spain Madrid National Archaeological Museum [3]
Sweden Stockholm Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities [18]
Switzerland Bern Abegg-Stiftung [3]
Switzerland Geneva Musée d'Art et d'Histoire [3]
Syria Damascus National Museum of Damascus [3]
Tunisia Tunis Bardo National Museum [3]
Turkey Istanbul Topkapı Palace [3]
Turkey Istanbul Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts 40,000[19] [3]
Turkey Istanbul Vakiflar Museum [3]
Turkey Istanbul Archaeological Museum [3]
Turkey Istanbul Istanbul University Library [3]
Ukraine Kiev Museum of Western and Oriental Art [20]
United Arab Emirates Sharjah Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization 5,000[21] [22]
United Kingdom Oxford Ashmolean Museum [3]
United Kingdom Oxford Bodleian Library [3]
United Kingdom London British Library [3]
United Kingdom London British Museum 40,000[23] [3]
United Kingdom Edinburgh Edinburgh University Library [3]
United Kingdom Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum [3]
United Kingdom London Nasser D. Khalili Collection 28,000 (largest private collection)[24][25] 1970[26] [3]
United Kingdom London Royal Asiatic Society [3]
United Kingdom Edinburgh National Museum of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Museum) [3]
United Kingdom Manchester John Rylands University Library [3]
United Kingdom London Victoria and Albert Museum 19,000[27] [3]
USA Boston Museum of Fine Arts [3]
USA Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art [3]
USA Corning, NY Corning Museum of Glass [3]
USA Washington, D.C. Freer Gallery of Art [3]
USA Dallas Keir Collection (currently on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art) [3][28]
USA Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art [3]
USA New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 12,000[29] [3]
USA New York New York Public Library [3]
USA Honolulu Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design 2,500[30] 2002 [31]
USA Washington, D.C. Textile Museum [3]
Yemen Sana'a National Museum of Yemen [3]

See also

References
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