Museum of Islamic Arts of Malaysia

The Musée of Islamic arts of Malaysia (IAMM) open the December 12th 1998 is the largest museum of Islamic art in Southeast Asia. The museum, located at Jalan Lembah Perdana in the middle of Kuala Lumpur, extends on 4 stages and covers a surface of 30,000 m ². The museum decorated by craftsman with Iran and Ouzbékistan shelters 12 galleries and is decorated by 5 domes representing the 5 pillars with the Islam. It contains 6 000 parts of Islamic arts including 200 Handwritten S and the largest model in the world of the Masjid Al-Haram. The construction of the museum cost 70 million.

The 12 permanent galleries are:

Art of the mosque and architectural art
Gallery of the Koranic manuscripts
Islamic Art gallery of the Chinese world
Islamic Art gallery of the Malayan world
Islamic Art gallery of the Indian world
Gallery of ceramics and the glassmakings
Gallery of the Textile
Gallery of the Ironwork
Gallery of the jewels
Gallery of the Weapon S
Gallery of the Numismatic
Gallery Living room with Wood

Bond extene

Official site of the museum

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