Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by IM Pei, the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This austere stack of limestone ...
with unprecedented collaborations set to bring to the city artefacts highlighting Qatar’s Islamic art and the life of Egypt’s King Tutankhamun. The museum, part of the city’s West Kowloon ...
The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) was borne of a somewhat more optimistic era, before the lure of soft power gained through such buildings had escalated into a fully-fledged "cultural arms race", to ...
The four-month-long exhibition, titled And All That Is In Between (until 25 May), brings together some of the world’s greatest Islamic objects in Jeddah in a museum-level presentation.
Qatar Museums (QM) is showcasing eight artifacts from its Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) collection at the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025 in Jeddah, highlighting the influence of mathematics and science ...
Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art. Purchase with funds provided by the Barbara P ... Eloise McFarlane ’24.5 chronicles ancient glass specimens from the Roman Empire as well as others of ...
Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it." While it is well known that Islamic textiles were present in late medieval European churches, surviving fragments are ...
At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...
redefines Islamic art to put Saudi Arabia on global art map Inside the Islamic Arts Biennale: A Rare Look at the Kaaba’s Drapes.(Image by X/WACommunity) Known as the Kiswah, it is made of black ...
Works began in the Pergamon Museum in 2012 and are ... more than just pilgrimage destinations for art lovers. For many people, going to a museum is a leisure activity, something to do on a rainy ...
A unit of Kennesaw State University's School of Art and Design, the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art serves as a vital academic resource and cultural focus for students, faculty and members of the ...
The Pergamon Museum (closed until 2027) has vast treasures from the Ancient NearEast and Islamic art; the Neues Museum holds Egyptian, prehistoric and classical treats, while the Bode Museum has ...