Destinations / The Pyramids of Giza
متحف الفنون الأسلامية
Museum in The Pyramids of Giza · founded 1903

The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA; Egyptian Arabic: متحف الفن الاسلامى) is a museum in Cairo, Egypt. The museum has a collection of rare woodwork and plaster artefacts, as well as metal, ceramic, glass, crystal, and textile objects of all periods, from all over the Islamic world. In recent years, the museum has displayed about 4,500 artefacts in 25 halls, but it houses more than 100,000 objects, with the remainder in storage. The collection includes rare manuscripts of the Qur'an, with some calligraphy written in silver ink, on pages with elaborate borders.
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