Notice of Temporary Gallery Closure
The Museum’s Temporary Gallery, featuring As the Sun Appears from Beyond: Twenty Years of the Al Burda Award, will be closed on Tuesday, June 24 from 1– 5 pm.
To account for this closure, general admission will be reduced for all visitors during this period.

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The Public Curates: My Favourite Object with Jane Liu

Both whimsical and awe-inspiring, the “Court of the Kayumars” folio from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp is one of the best known and most beloved manuscript paintings in the Museum’s Collection. In this video for the #MuseumWithoutWalls, longtime Museum Volunteer Jane Liu reflects on the beauty of the work’s colourful clouds and mists and how they remind her of a motif in Chinese art.