Carpet museums

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Jozan Magazine includes a lot of articles and images from carpet museums around the world. In this list we have selected what we think is the most important carpet museums when you travel around the world.

Museum of Islamic Art – Berlin

Mamluk carpet fragment, Cairo. Late 15th century or early 16th century. Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin (Jozan archive)

The Museum of Islamic Art (Museum für Islamische Kunst) presents its collection of Islamic art at the Pergamonmuseum on the Museum Island. The museum has an impressing collection of ancient Anatolian, Persian, Mughal and Cairene carpets.

Ottoman carpets – exhibition in Berlin

Transylvanian rug

The exhibition “Ottoman Carpets from Saxon Parishes in Transylvania” at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin will go on until 7 January 2007. Along with carpets from Transylvanian Saxon churches the exhibition includes rugs from Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Romania. The exhibition includes 24 Anatolian carpets from the … -> Ottoman carpets – exhibition in Berlin