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Celebrating the Arts of the Islamic world

Bucks County Museum is proud to announce the Art of Islam Festival at a town near you from 26 March until 24 September!

The County Museum has brought talent and funding together from many sources to mount this superb programme of over 100 events taking place across Bucks. The centre piece exhibition at the County Museum in Aylesbury is the biggest exhibition of Islamic works of art ever held in the County. Treasures on display include carpets, paintings, furniture, metalwork, jewellery and splendid calligraphy from across the Near East, Pakistan and Muslim India.

Exhibits have been borrowed from the British Museum, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery and the Horniman Museum. The Bodleian Library, Oxford, is lending iconic 15th century paintings collected in the 1700s at the Mughal Royal Courts by a Bucks resident.

A key attraction is the private collection of Razwan and Sarya Baig who have assembled the core of the exhibition from a lifetime of collecting from their home in High Wycombe.

The Art of Islam Festival will be held on Friday 29 April from 1.30pm to 3.15pm

To be opened by His Excellency Mr Khaled Al-Duwaison, Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to the Court of St. James’s and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps

RSVP: Buckinghamshire County Museum
Church Street, Aylesbury HP20 2QP
Email: [email protected]
Telephone 01296 331441

Art of Islam exhibition runs until 24 September 2016

Find the brochure for the events programme here.

For more information, please visit: https://www.buckscountymuseum.org/museum/whats-on/events/art-of-islam-festival-programme/

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