Ceisin Popat for TheIsmaili.org
Despite its exquisite collection of Islamic art, objects are not the sole focus of the Aga Khan Museum. When it opens its doors on 18 September, the museum will showcase the diversity of performance and visual arts that are celebrated in the cultures of Muslim civilisations.
In which city today might one find a thousand-year-old textbook of medicine that for centuries served as the go-to reference in European medical schools; a porcelain basin from the 16th century Ming dynasty that was made for a member of the emperor’s circle; and a set of wooden corbels dating to the 1200s–1300s, carved in a style inspired by the Muslim, Christian and Jewish artistic traditions of the Iberian peninsula?
If Toronto seems an unlikely answer, think again.
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