Discover Islamic Art website

‘Discover Islamic Art’ is a virtual museum consisting of 18 ‘exhibitions’ and a permanent collection of the art and architecture of the great Islamic dynasties of the Mediterranean from the seventh to the twentieth century.

Initially funded by the European Union, ‘Discover Islamic Art’ highlights 204 monuments and sites as well as 603 artefacts from 14 countries in Europe and the southern and eastern Mediterranean, including the United Kingdom. It includes fifty masterpieces of Islamic art from the British Museum collection.

In the process of developing the website, British Museum curators worked with specialist partners from Syria on virtual exhibitions of ‘The Atabegs and Ayyubids’ and ‘Water’. These and many other themed exhibitions place museum objects in their geographical and historical contexts and reveal the many points of contact across the Mediterranean.

The website is available at www.discoverislamicart.org