The earliest artifacts from the collection of Islamic art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art are dated to the VII century AD. In total, there are more than 15 thousand artifacts in the collection, which reveal the diversity of the cultural traditions of Islam. They belong to completely different regions from the west (Spain, Morocco) to the east (Central Asia, Indonesia). The collection was replenished with gifts, wills, and purchases. Some of the items came here thanks to the museum-sponsored excavations. In 1963, the number of exhibits became so large that the Department of Islamic Art was organized.
In 2011, the department was reconstructed, as a result of which new galleries were opened. The collection includes textiles, vases, sculptures, amulets, as well as an extensive collection of written sources: secular texts, calligraphic compositions with ornaments, sacred works.
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