List of museums of Islamic art

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

Country	City	Institution	Collection size	Founding date	Official web site
Algeria	Algiers	National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art			[2]
Australia	Melbourne	Islamic Museum of Australia			[3]
Austria	Vienna	Austrian National Library			[4]
Austria	Vienna	Kunsthistorisches Museum			[5]
Austria	Vienna	Museum of Applied Arts			[6]
Austria	Vienna	Weltmuseum Wien			[7]
Brunei	Brunei	Brunei Museum
Canada	Toronto	Aga Khan Museum	1,000	2014	[8]
Canada	Toronto	Royal Ontario Museum			[9]
Denmark	Copenhagen	The David Collection	2,500	1945	[10]
Egypt	Cairo	Museum of Islamic Art	100,000		[11]
Egypt	Cairo	National Library			[12]
Egypt	Cairo	Coptic Museum			[13]
France	Paris	Bibliothèque nationale de France			[14]
France	Paris	Arab World Institute			[15]
France	Paris	Musée des Arts Décoratifs			[16]
France	Lyon	Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs			[17]
France	Paris	Louvre Museum	18,000	2012	[18]
Germany	Bamberg	Universitätsmuseum für Islamische Kunst	7,000	2008	[19]
Germany	Berlin	Islamic Art Museum	16,000	1904	[20]
Germany	Cologne	Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum			[21]
Germany	Dresden	Dresden Museum of Ethnology			[22]
Germany	Düsseldorf	Hetjens-Museum [de]			[23]
Germany	Hamburg	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe			[24]
Germany	Karlsruhe	Badisches Landesmuseum			[25]
Germany	Leipzig	Leipzig Museum of Ethnography			[26]
Germany	Munich	Museum Five Continents			[27]
Germany	Stuttgart	Linden Museum			[28]
Greece	Athens	Benaki Museum	8,000		[29]
Iran	Kashmar	Hassan Modarres Museum	200	2004
Iran	Isfahan	Museum of Decorative Arts, Isfahan	3,000	1995
Iran	Mashhad	Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum		1937
Iran	Mashhad	Great Museum of Khosran		2015
Iran	Tehran	Abgineh Museum of Tehran
Iran	Tehran	Calligraphy Museum of Iran	200	2017
Iran	Tehran	Carpet Museum		1978
Iran	Tehran	Dafineh Museum		1997	[30]
Iran	Tehran	Gulistan Museum
Iran	Tehran	Malek National Museum and Library	19,000	1996	[31]
Iran	Tehran	Museum of Decorative Arts
Iran	Tehran	Museum of the Islamic Era		1996
Iran	Tehran	Reza Abbasi Museum		1977
Iran	Shiraz	Pars Museum		1936
Iran	Qom	Hazrat Ma'soomeh Holy Shrine Museum		1935	[32]
Iraq	Baghdad	Iraq Museum
Ireland	Dublin	Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery	6,100		[33]
Israel	Jerusalem	The Museum for Islamic Art		1974	[34]
Italy	Florence	Bardini Museum
Italy	Venice	Treasury of St. Mark's			[35]
Italy	Milan	Biblioteca Ambrosiana			[36]
Italy	Palermo	Museum of Islamic Art			[37]
Jordan	Al-Mazār al-Janūbī	Al-Mazar Islamic Museum		1973
Kuwait	Kuwait	Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah (The al-Sabah Collection)	30,000	1980	[38][39]
Kuwait	Kuwait	Kuwait National Museum
Kuwait	Kuwait	Tareq Rajab Museum	30,000		[40]
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Islamic Arts Museum	10,000		[41]
Morocco	Rabat	Archaeological Museum
Oman	Muscat	National Museum of Oman
Pakistan	Lahore	Lahore Museum			[42]
Palestinian Territories	Jerusalem	Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif
Portugal	Lisbon	Calouste Gulbenkian Museum			[43]
Qatar	Doha	Museum of Islamic Art			[44]
Romania	Bucharest	National Museum of Art of Romania			[45]
Russia	Saint Petersburg	State Hermitage Museum			[46]
Russia	Moscow	Museum of Oriental Art			[47]
Spain	Madrid	National Archaeological Museum			[48]
Sweden	Stockholm	Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities			[49]
Switzerland	Bern	Abegg-Stiftung [fr]			[50]
Switzerland	Geneva	Musée d'Art et d'Histoire			[51]
Syria	Damascus	National Museum of Damascus			[52]
Tunisia	Tunis	Bardo National Museum			[53]
Turkey	Istanbul	Topkapı Palace			[54]
Turkey	Istanbul	Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum	40,000		[55]
Turkey	Istanbul	Vakiflar Museum
Turkey	Istanbul	Archaeological Museum
Turkey	Istanbul	Istanbul University Library			[56]
Ukraine	Kyiv	Museum of Western and Oriental Art			[57]
United Arab Emirates	Sharjah	Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization	5,000		[58]
United Kingdom	Oxford	Ashmolean Museum			[59]
United Kingdom	Oxford	Bodleian Library			[60]
United Kingdom	London	British Library			[61]
United Kingdom	London	British Museum	40,000		[62]
United Kingdom	Edinburgh	Edinburgh University Library			[63]
United Kingdom	Cambridge	Fitzwilliam Museum			[64]
United Kingdom	London	Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art	26,000 (largest private collection)	1970	[65]
United Kingdom	London	Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage	5,000		[66]
United Kingdom	London	Royal Asiatic Society			[67]
United Kingdom	Edinburgh	National Museum of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Museum)			[68]
United Kingdom	Manchester	John Rylands University Library			[69]
United Kingdom	London	Victoria and Albert Museum	19,000		[70]
USA	Baltimore	Walters Art Museum			[71]
USA	Boston	Museum of Fine Arts	116		[72]
USA	Cleveland	Cleveland Museum of Art			[73]
USA	Corning, NY	Corning Museum of Glass			[74]
USA	Washington, D.C.	Freer Gallery of Art	2,200		[75]
USA	Dallas	Keir Collection (currently on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art)	1,642		[76]
USA	Los Angeles	Los Angeles County Museum of Art			[77]
USA	New York	Metropolitan Museum of Art	15,000		[78]
USA	New York	New York Public Library			[79]
USA	St. Louis	Saint Louis Art Museum	250	1904	[80]
USA	Honolulu	Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design	2,500	2002	[81]
USA	Washington, D.C.	George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum		1925	[82]
Yemen	Sana'a	National Museum of Yemen		1971

See also