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Museums with major collections of Islamic Art |
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- Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, Egypt
- 103,000 objects [1]
- Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
- 40,000 objects [2]
- British Museum, London, UK
- 40,000 objects [3]
- Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait City, Kuwait
- 30,000 objects [4]
- Khalili Collection¹
- 20,000 objects [5]
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- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
- 19,000 objects [6]
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
- 12,000 objects [7]
- Musée du Louvre², Paris, France
- 10,000 objects [1]
- Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
- 8,000 objects [8]
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Please Note: ¹ Khalili Collection; Largest Private Collection - ² Musée du Louvre; 2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, pg 185. n.b. it should be noted that this list is controversial, in so far as it contains only qualitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.
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