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Light: Visionary Perspectives
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Kour Pour: Cosmic Diagrams
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Celebrating the Past, Reimagining the Future
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Moon
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#hopeandhealingcanada
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Muqarnas: Form and Light
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WeeFestival: Quest for the Moon
Created and Directed by Olivia Wheeler
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Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan and Shakir Khan
with Yashwant Vaishnav
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The Naghash Ensemble of Armenia
Songs of Exile, Songs of Wisdom
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Hekayti: A Concert of Stories
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ESTUARY: Constantinople with Ablaye Cissoko
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March Break at the Aga Khan Museum
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WeeFestival: Quest for the Moon
Created and Directed by Olivia Wheeler
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Nowruz at the Aga Khan Museum
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Celebrate Spring at the Museum
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March Break at the Aga Khan Museum
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Tazhib: The Art of Islamic Illumination
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Crafting Light Workshop
Turkish Mosaic Candle Holder and Tealight Candle Making
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Celebrate Spring at the Museum
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Painting with Light: Introduction to Cyanotype
Spring Long Weekend Workshop
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Paint by Numbers
Spring Long Weekend Workshop
Collections Highlights
Pharmacy Jars (Albarelli)
Accession Number: AKM567 and AKM568
Place: Syria
Dimensions: AKM567: diameter 49.4 cm, height 32 cm, AKM568: diameter 49.4 cm, height 30.7 cm
Date: 15th century
Materials and Technique: fritware, underglaze-painted
Bowl With A Fantastical Elephant-Headed Creature
Place: Iran
Dimensions: 15.2 cm
Date: early 13th century
Materials and Technique: fritware, lustre-painted
Ivory Horn (Oliphant)
Place: Probably Southern Italy; silver mounts made in England
Dimensions: 64 x 34 cm
Date: 11th to late12th Century; c. 1620
Materials and Technique: carved ivory with silver mount
Kashkul (Begging Bowl)
Place: Iran
Dimensions: 61 cm
Date: late 16th century
Materials and Technique: brass
Planispheric Astrolabe
Place: Spain, Toledo (probably)
Dimensions: 13.5 cm
Date: 14th century
Materials and Technique: bronze, engraved and inlaid with silver
Dish
Place: Iznik, Turkey
Dimensions:Diameter 34.3 cm, height 7.4 cm
Date:1570–80
Materials and Technique: fritware, underglaze-painted
Isfandiyar Kills The Simurgh
Creator: attributed to Siyavusah
Place: Iran, Qazvin
Dimensions: 40.4 x 29.8 cm
Date: 1576–77
Materials and Technique: opaque watercolour, gold, silver and ink on paper
Shell With Inscriptions
Place: India
Dimensions: 14.5 cm
Date: 18th century
Materials and Technique: incised mother-of-pearl