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Beautiful museum, the exterior of the museum is clean and white stone, built with an "architectural" look. The grounds are beautifully manicured and designed with a geometric, straight clean lines look. I liked the use of the pebbles on the ground, the dark black pools, the lines of trees, the lavender beds behind all of it. The use of white stone, and clean cut green lawn was also so nice.
The inside of the museum is beautiful as well, the permanent exhibition is exquisite - there are many objects from the Islamic word with such beauty, detail, intricacy, and design displayed. I loved seeing all the columns, manuscript pages decorated with watercolors, gold, and ink, album pages, braziers, candleholders, bowls, pen cases, intricate rugs etc. Everything was so lovely!
The temporary exhibit was small but beautiful too. The display of Western art using Islamic rugs and then displays of a few intricate rugs themselves, it all had so much detail.
The atrium, the walls surrounding the atrium were so pleasing to look at.
This museum is beautiful, and though small, it was well worth the trip for me to go see it!
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