For any regular readers who ever wondered what it is that I expect contemporary architects to do, I answer, something like this museum.But back in 2010 the museum had no online presence, so I couldn't say anything about the contents. Now it has a respectable web site, although it has a long way to go to catch up with the best western musuems.Mosque lamp, Egypt, made for a sultan in the 1300sPage from the Blue Koran, made in Spain or North Africa, 9th centuryFinial, India, c 1900Portrait of Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar. Attributed to Mihr ‘Ali. Iran, 1816
Necklace, Morocco, 1750-1900
Shah Jehan on the Peacock Throne, 1635Bowl, Iraq, 9th centuryAstrolabe, 12th centurySilk cloth that once covered the Ka'ba in Mecca, 1846Jeweled box, India, 16th centuryCurtain from Nasric Spain, 15th centurySteel war mask, western Iran or Turkey, 15th centuryKoran page illuminated by Muhammad ibn Sayf al-Din al-Baghdadi, generally known simply as al-Naqqash, ‘The Painter’. Iraq, 1325
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