A Stunning Permanent Installation Opens at The Met: The Met & The Middle East
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 10:00AM to
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 8:00PM
On November 1st The Met will see one of its largest ever permanent installations open. New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia. More than one thousand works from the preeminent collection of the Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings of this material in the world—will return to view this fall in a completely renovated, expanded, and reinstalled suite of fifteen galleries.
- The Met & The Middle East Details
The organization of the galleries by geographical area will emphasize the rich diversity of the Islamic world, over a span of thirteen hundred years, by underscoring the many distinct cultures within its fold.
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