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Displaying Islamic Art at the Metropolitan: A Retrospective Look

Rebecca Lindsey, Member of the Visiting Committee, Department of Islamic Art

Posted: Thursday, February 2, 2012

Postcard showing Gallery E-14, the so-called "Persian Room," 1912

A Metropolitan Museum patron interested in Islamic art in the 1880s would have found little of relevance on display. By 1910, however, the situation was very much improved, and in the century since then, the Islamic art displays at the Museum have become the largest in the Western world.

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