Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Opened 2019

The MFA’s Arts of Islamic Cultures Gallery is designed to expand how visitors see and understand the diverse arts of Islamic cultures. Its thematic installation—developed through an intensive eight-year process of engagement with Islamic, artistic, and scholarly communities—is divided into distinct spaces that reflect the richness of these artistic traditions. Some sections explore art forms that are integral to all Islamic cultures, like Arabic calligraphy, while others focus on unique visual traditions such as that of Ottoman Turkey or Mughal India. Still other sections delve deeply into the history of singular objects in the collection, for example a remarkable door assembled from fragments of medieval Egyptian woodwork for the first American World’s Fair.

Curator: Laura Weinstein

Graphic Designer: Nick Pioggia