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International Day of Islamic Art
November 18th, 2025

The diversity of Islamic art reflects its variety throughout time and space, and its encounters with different cultures, traditions and techniques both throughout history and still today. It is constantly being revisited and reinvented across the fine and performing arts.

Museums of Islamic Art
  • Humayun World Heritage Site Museum in Delhi, India
    An innovative, sunken museum through which visitors come to better understand the context and significance of this complex, a World Heritage Site.
  • National Museum of Damascus, Syria
    Designed by Michel Écochard and established in 1963, this daring museum had no windows and featured a system of indirect light distribution.
  • Gidan Makama Museum in Kano City, Nigeria
    An example traditional architecture of the region with superb historical and ethnographic collections of the Kanawa civilization and general Hausaland.
  • Musée Mohammed VI d'Art Moderne et Contemporain
    Rabat, Morocco
  • Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia
    A museum of Tunisian history in an repurposed Beylic era palace outside the city walls, it was renovated and expanded in 2011
  • Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Caada
    The first institution of its kind in the Americas
  • Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar
    Designed by I.M. Pei, the architecture is a contemporary interpretation of the principles of Islamic art
  • Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, Palestine
    Recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2019, the museum was built to celebrate Palestinian heritage and with a stated aim to ‘foster a culture of dialogue and tolerance’
  • Al-Aqsa Library and Islamic Museum in Jerusalem
    A Crusader era building converted into a library and museum in the 1990s
  • Argo Contemporary Art Museum and Cultural Centre in Tehran, Iran
    A brewery converted into Iran's first independent art museum
  • Beit al-Quran Museum in Manamah, Bahrain
    A multi-purpose complex dedicated to the Islamic arts
  • Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    The largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, housing a collection spanning the chronological and temporal history of Islam
  • Islamic Museum of Australia
    Conceived as a catalyst for expression of a Muslim presence and heritage in Australia with an architectural form representing that
  • Topkapı Sarayı in Istanbul, Türkiye
    A large Ottoman complex with a long history, now a museum

International Day of Islamic Art
November 18th, 2025

The diversity of Islamic art reflects its variety throughout time and space, and its encounters with different cultures, traditions and techniques both throughout history and still today. It is constantly being revisited and reinvented across the fine and performing arts.

Museums of Islamic Art
  • Humayun World Heritage Site Museum in Delhi, India
    An innovative, sunken museum through which visitors come to better understand the context and significance of this complex, a World Heritage Site.
  • National Museum of Damascus, Syria
    Designed by Michel Écochard and established in 1963, this daring museum had no windows and featured a system of indirect light distribution.
  • Gidan Makama Museum in Kano City, Nigeria
    An example traditional architecture of the region with superb historical and ethnographic collections of the Kanawa civilization and general Hausaland.
  • Musée Mohammed VI d'Art Moderne et Contemporain
    Rabat, Morocco
  • Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia
    A museum of Tunisian history in an repurposed Beylic era palace outside the city walls, it was renovated and expanded in 2011
  • Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Caada
    The first institution of its kind in the Americas
  • Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar
    Designed by I.M. Pei, the architecture is a contemporary interpretation of the principles of Islamic art
  • Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, Palestine
    Recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2019, the museum was built to celebrate Palestinian heritage and with a stated aim to ‘foster a culture of dialogue and tolerance’
  • Al-Aqsa Library and Islamic Museum in Jerusalem
    A Crusader era building converted into a library and museum in the 1990s
  • Argo Contemporary Art Museum and Cultural Centre in Tehran, Iran
    A brewery converted into Iran's first independent art museum
  • Beit al-Quran Museum in Manamah, Bahrain
    A multi-purpose complex dedicated to the Islamic arts
  • Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    The largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, housing a collection spanning the chronological and temporal history of Islam
  • Islamic Museum of Australia
    Conceived as a catalyst for expression of a Muslim presence and heritage in Australia with an architectural form representing that
  • Topkapı Sarayı in Istanbul, Türkiye
    A large Ottoman complex with a long history, now a museum