List of museums of Islamic art

This is a list of museums with major collections of Islamic art. This list is based only on quantitative data of museum holdings; this may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of a collection.

Name Location Country Collection size
(number of objects)		 Year established Coordinates Official website
Museum of Islamic Art Cairo Egypt 103,000[1]
Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum Istanbul Turkey 40,000[2]
British Museum London, England United Kingdom 40,000[3]
Tareq Rajab Museum Kuwait City Kuwait 30,000[4]
Khalili Collection 20,000[5]
(largest private collection)
Victoria and Albert Museum London, England United Kingdom 19,000[6] vam.ac.uk
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, New York United States 12,000[7] metmuseum.org
Musée du Louvre Paris France 10,000[8]
Benaki Museum Athens Greece 8,000[9]
Hakim Fazlur Rahman Museum on Arts, Culture and Orientalism
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References

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  6. ^ [6]. Victoria and Albert Museum.
  7. ^ [7]. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  8. ^ 2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, p. 185.
  9. ^ [8].