Discover Islamic Art

Discover Islamic Art further develops the Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF) principle of organising exhibitions without moving the works of art and builds on the results of the project Islamic Art in the Mediterranean realised by the MWNF network within the first phase of the Euromed Heritage programme. Adopting a new exhibition format, whereby works of art remain in situ within their natural environment, has enabled this project to present the Mediterranean as a unique open air museum on Islamic art and to display – within nine thematic exhibitions – more than 1,000 monuments and archaeological sites from the Umayyad period up to the beginning of the Ottoman Empire in Egypt, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey.

By extending the exhibition area to include Algeria and Syria, two further sections of this museum will be realised by the project Discover Islamic Art.

An illustrated book and CD-ROM presenting highlights of the virtual museum will be produced on the occasion of its launch accompanied by PR events in all participating countries.

Targeting the visitors of the participating museums as well as students in European and Mediterranean countries, the virtual museum as well as the illustrated book will be published in several languages including a full version in Arabic.
The virtual museum Discover Islamic Art will be accessible from the MWNF homepage: www.discoverislamicart.org

Mediterranean Countries

• Algeria - Archaeological Museum, Algiers
• Egypt - Islamic Art Museum, Cairo
• Jordan - Museum at the Citadel, Amman
• Morocco - National Archaeological Museum, Rabat
• Palestine - Islamic Museum and Al-Aqsa Library, Al-Harm Al-Sharif
• Syria - National Archaeological Museum, Damascus
• Tunisia - Museum in Raqqada, Kairouan coordinating a network of five Tunisian museums including the Bardo Museum (Tunis), Sidi Kasm El Jelizi (Tunis) as well as the museums of Madia and Monastir
• Turkey - Museum for Turkish Islamic Art, Istanbul

European Countries

• Germany - Islamic Art Museum at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin
• Italy - National Museum of Oriental Art, Rome
• Portugal - Archaeological Area and Museum of Mertola, Mertola (coordinating a network of 13 Portuguese museums hosting Islamic art collections and including the museums of Silves and the Gulbenkian Museum)
• Spain - National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
• Sweden - Museum for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm
• United Kingdom - British Museum, Glasgow Museums, National Museums of Scotland, Victoria & Albert Museum (the UK museum network is coordinated by Visiting Arts, London)

CO-ORDINATOR

Musée Sans Frontières
rue des Boers 59, 1040 Brussels, BELGIUM
Eva Schubert

PARTNER

Directeur du Patrimoine Culturel
Ministère de la Culture
Plateau des Annasseurs, Algers, ALGERIA
Mourad Betrouni

Ministry of Culture - Supreme Council of Antiquities
Zamalek, Cairo, EGYPT
Zahi Hawas
Enaam Selim

Museum for Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum
Bodenstrasse 1-3, D-10178 Berlin, GERMANY
Claus Peter Haase

National Museum for Oriental Art
via Merulana 248, 00185 Rome, ITALY
Paola Torre

Friends of Archaeology
P.O. Box 885, 11953 Amman, JORDAN
Mohamed Najjar

Ministry of Tourism - Department of Antiquities
P.O. Box 88, Amman, JORDAN
Fawwaz Al-Kreisha

Directeur du Patrimoine Culturel
Ministère de la Culture
rue Michlifeni 17, Rabat Agdal, MOROCCO
Abdeljalil Elhajraoui

Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities - Department of Development and Planning
Al-Beireh, P.O. Box 3548, Ramallah, THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
Walif Sherif

CAM - Archaeological Site of Mertola
Apartado 8, 7750 909, Mertola, PORTUGAL
Claudio Torres

MAN - National Archaeological Museum
C/ Serrano, 13, 28001 Madrid, SPAIN
Rubí Sanz Gamo

Museum of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities
Fredsgatan 2, Box 16008, 10321 Stockholm, SWEDEN
Sanne Houby Nielsen

Ministry of Culture
Abu Rumaneh, Rawda st., Damascus, SYRIA
Abdal-Razzaq Moaz

Ministère de la Culture - INP - Institut National du Partrimoine
4, Pl. du Château, 1004 Tunis, TUNISIA
Beji Bendami

EGE Universitesi Rektölügü 
Bornova 35040, Izmir, TURKEY
Fikret Ikiz

Visiting Arts
74-77 Great Russell st., WC1B 3DA London, UK
Terry Sandell