List of museums of Islamic art

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Islamic art is collected by museums, galleries and private collectors in many countries around the world.

CountryCityInstitutionCollection sizeFounding dateOfficial web siteRef.
Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria Algiers National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art [1]
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Melbourne Islamic Museum of Australia [2]
Flag of Austria.svg Austria Vienna Austrian National Library [3]
Flag of Austria.svg Austria Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum [4]
Flag of Austria.svg Austria Vienna Museum of Applied Arts [3]
Flag of Austria.svg Austria Vienna Weltmuseum Wien [5]
Flag of Brunei.svg Brunei Brunei Brunei Museum [3]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Toronto Aga Khan Museum 1,000 [6] 2014 [7]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Toronto Royal Ontario Museum [3]
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Copenhagen The David Collection 2,500 [8] 1945 [3]
Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Cairo Museum of Islamic Art 100,000 [9] [3]
Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Cairo National Library [3]
Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Cairo Coptic Museum [3]
Flag of France.svg France Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France [3]
Flag of France.svg France Paris Arab World Institute [3]
Flag of France.svg France Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs [3]
Flag of France.svg France Lyon Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs [3]
Flag of France.svg France Paris Louvre Museum 18,000 [10] 2012 [3]
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Bamberg Universitätsmuseum für Islamische Kunst 7,000 [11] 2008
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Berlin Islamic Art Museum 16,000 [8] 1904
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Cologne Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Dresden Dresden Museum of Ethnology
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Düsseldorf Hetjens-Museum  [ de ]
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Karlsruhe Badisches Landesmuseum
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Leipzig Leipzig Museum of Ethnography
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Munich Museum Five Continents
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Stuttgart Linden Museum
Flag of Greece.svg Greece Athens Benaki Museum 8,000 [12] [3]
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Kashmar Hassan Modarres Museum 200 [13] 2004
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Isfahan Museum of Decorative Arts, Isfahan 3,0001995
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Mashhad Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum 1937 [3]
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Mashhad Great Museum of Khosran2015
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Tehran Abgineh Museum of Tehran
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Tehran Calligraphy Museum of Iran 200 [14] 2017
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Tehran Carpet Museum 1978 [3]
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Tehran Dafineh Museum 1997
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Tehran Gulistan Museum [3]
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Tehran Malek National Museum and Library 19,0001996
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Tehran Museum of Decorative Arts [3]
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Tehran Museum of the Islamic Era 1996 [3]
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Tehran Reza Abbasi Museum 1977 [3]
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Shiraz Pars Museum 1936
Flag of Iran.svg Iran Qom Hazrat Ma'soomeh Holy Shrine Museum1935
Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq Baghdad Iraq Museum [3]
Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland Dublin Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery 6,100 [15] [3]
Flag of Israel.svg Israel Jerusalem The Museum for Islamic Art 1974 [3]
Flag of Italy.svg Italy Florence Bardini Museum [3]
Flag of Italy.svg Italy Venice Treasury of St. Mark's [3]
Flag of Italy.svg Italy Milan Biblioteca Ambrosiana [3]
Flag of Italy.svg Italy Palermo Museum of Islamic Art
Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan Al-Mazār al-Janūbī Al-Mazar Islamic Museum 1973 [16]
Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait Kuwait Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah 20,000 [17]
Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait National Museum [3]
Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait Kuwait Tareq Rajab Museum 30,000 [18] [19]
Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum 10,000 [20] [3]
Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco Rabat Archaeological Museum [3]
Flag of Oman.svg Oman Muscat National Museum of Oman [21]
Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Lahore Lahore Museum [3]
Flag of Palestine.svg Palestinian Territories Jerusalem Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif [3] [22] [23]
Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal Lisbon Calouste Gulbenkian Museum [3]
Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar Doha Museum of Islamic Art [3]
Flag of Romania.svg Romania Bucharest National Museum of Art of Romania [24]
Flag of Russia.svg Russia Saint Petersburg State Hermitage Museum [3]
Flag of Russia.svg Russia Moscow Museum of Oriental Art [3]
Flag of Spain.svg Spain Madrid National Archaeological Museum [3]
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Stockholm Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities [25]
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland Bern Abegg-Stiftung  [ fr ] [3]
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland Geneva Musée d'Art et d'Histoire [3]
Flag of Syria.svg Syria Damascus National Museum of Damascus [3]
Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Tunis Bardo National Museum [3]
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Istanbul Topkapı Palace [3]
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Istanbul Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum 40,000 [26] [3]
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Istanbul Vakiflar Museum [3]
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Istanbul Archaeological Museum [3]
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Istanbul Istanbul University Library [3]
Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Kyiv Museum of Western and Oriental Art [27]
Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates Sharjah Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization 5,000 [28] [29]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Oxford Ashmolean Museum [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Oxford Bodleian Library [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom London British Library [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom London British Museum 40,000 [30] [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Edinburgh Edinburgh University Library [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom London Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art 28,000 (largest private collection) [31] [32] 1970 [33] [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom London Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage 4,500 [34]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom London Royal Asiatic Society [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Edinburgh National Museum of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Museum) [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Manchester John Rylands University Library [3]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom London Victoria and Albert Museum 19,000 [35] [3]
Flag of the United States.svg USA Baltimore Walters Art Museum
Flag of the United States.svg USA Boston Museum of Fine Arts [3]
Flag of the United States.svg USA Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art [3]
Flag of the United States.svg USA Corning, NY Corning Museum of Glass [3]
Flag of the United States.svg USA Washington, D.C. Freer Gallery of Art 2,200 [36] [3]
Flag of the United States.svg USA Dallas Keir Collection (currently on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art) [3] [37]
Flag of the United States.svg USA Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art [3]
Flag of the United States.svg USA New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 15,000 [38] [3]
Flag of the United States.svg USA New York New York Public Library [3]
Flag of the United States.svg USA St. Louis Saint Louis Art Museum 250 [39] 1904
Flag of the United States.svg USA Honolulu Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design 2,500 [40] 2002 [41]
Flag of the United States.svg USA Washington, D.C. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum 1925 [42] [3]
Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen Sana'a National Museum of Yemen 1971 [43] [3]

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