The Worlds of Islam – Collection of the Aga Khan Museum

Libro de los Reyes del Shah TahmaspExcerpt translated via Google from Spanish to English. The source also lists scheduled programs.

Aga Khan’s collection has valuable and significant pieces of almost all of the historical dynasties of the Muslim world, of which the exhibition is a collection of some 180 objects spanning 1400 years of history and summary, in wood, stone, gold, bronze, ivory, glass, ceramics, fabrics, parchment and paper, the best artistic achievements of the Islamic world in a vast geographical area that stretches from the Iberian Peninsula, the ancient al-Andalus, to China.

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