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Benaki Museum
The Benaki Museum's collection of Islamic art, which includes examples of all its local variations from as far afield as India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Arabia, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Spain, ranks among the most important in the world.

The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art is the first museum in North America devoted to ceramics and ceramic research.

Leighton House Museum
Leighton House Museum is the former studio-house of the great Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896).

L'Institute du Monde Arabe
L'IMA à été conçu pour faire connaitre la culture arabe. Il est devenu aujpour'hui in veritable "point culturel" entre la France et le Monde Arabe.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Islamic Art collection
The Metropolitan Museum's collection of Islamic art, which ranges in date from the seventh to the nineteenth century, reflects the great diversity and range of Islamic culture and offers perhaps the most comprehensive permanent installation of Islamic art on view anywhere.

Musée des Tissus et Musée des Arts décoratifs de Lyon
The Decorative Arts Museum is complementary to the Textile Museum. It conveys a typical eighteenth century atmosphere, it also highlights fine collections of fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Italian Majolica, Middle Ages and Renaissance tapestries and a collection of clocks. The museum also welcomes contemporary creations and displays silverwares, from the sixties to the present day.

The Museum of Islamic Ceramics
A collection of Islamic ceramics based at the palace of Prince Amru Ibrahim in Cairo, Egypt. The museum features a large collection of masterpieces from across the centuries.

Saudi National Museum
The King Abdul-Aziz Historical Centre in Riyadh sheds light on the creation of the Kingdom. 22nd January 1999 marked the one hundred year anniversary of the recapturing of Riyadh.

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
The museum building, with 5000 sq/m gross area, was designed by the architect Kamran Diba, and was inaugurated in 1977. At the centre, a rectangular pool is placed which is inspired by the concept of "hoze" (small pool) in Iranian architecture. It has filled the heart of the museum with a mysterious haze of artistic sense and charm.

Topkapi Palace Museum
Topkapi Palace is constructed on Seraglio Point overlooking both Marmara and Bosphorus. Previously it was an ancient olive grove.

The Hermitage Rooms
The Hermitage Rooms offer an introduction to Russia's leading museum, the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Here at Somerset House, the Hermitage Rooms recreate in miniature the splendour of some of those imperial interiors in St Petersburg.