This is a list of museums with major collections of Islamic art.
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| Museum | Location | Country | Collection size (number of objects) |
Date of establishment | Coordinates | Official website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Islamic Art | Doha | Qatar | http://www.mia.org.qa | |||
| Museum of Islamic Art | Cairo | Egypt | 103,000 | |||
| Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum | Istanbul | Turkey | 40,000 | |||
| British Museum | London, England | United Kingdom | 40,000 | |||
| Tareq Rajab Museum | Kuwait City | Kuwait | 30,000 | |||
| Khalili Collection | 20,000 (largest private collection) |
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| Victoria and Albert Museum | London, England | United Kingdom | 19,000 | vam.ac.uk | ||
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City, New York | United States | 12,000 | metmuseum.org | ||
| Musée du Louvre | Paris | France | 10,000 | |||
| Benaki Museum | Athens | Greece | 8,000 | |||
| David Collection | Copenhagen | Denmark | 2,500 | 1945 | davidmus.dk/en | |
| Hakim Fazlur Rahman Museum on Arts, Culture and Orientalism |
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