Tareq Rajab Museum

Tareq Rajab Museum


Established	1 January 1980
Location	Street 5, Building 22, Block 12, Jabriya, Kuwait
Coordinates	29°19′1.2″N 48°2′49.94″E / 29.317000°N 48.0472056°E / 29.317000; 48.0472056
Type	Islamic Art Museum
Collection size	30,000+
Founder	Tareq S. Rajab & Jehan S. Rajab
Website	https://www.trmkt.org

The Tareq Rajab Museum is located in Kuwait and houses an extensive collection of artefacts accumulated over a fifty-year period commencing in the 1950s. The Museum is housed at two separate locations in Jabriya, Kuwait. The Tareq Rajab Museum, which was founded in 1980, and the Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy in 2007. The Tareq Rajab museum includes collections of manuscripts and miniatures, ceramics, metalwork, glass, arms and armour as well as textiles, costumes and jewellery. The museum's ceramics collection is very large and comprehensive, and includes objects from pre-Islamic times up to the early 20th century and from across the breadth of the Islamic world. The museum houses one of the foremost collections of silver jewellery as well as a fine collection of gold jewellery much of which dates from pre-Islamic times. There is a large collection of Qurans and manuscripts from all periods, with the earliest dating to the 7th century AD and from across the whole Islamic world. From important Qurans such as an Uljaytu volume, to rare manuscripts such as the Al-Kindi book on optics, the range of works is comprehensive and representative of many styles and regions.

History

Tareq & Jehan S. Rajab

Iraqi Invasion and Occupation of Kuwait (1990-1991)

Post Invasion & the Tareq Rajab Museum today

Collections

The Tareq Rajab Museum

Manuscripts & Calligraphy

The Gold Room

Ceramics

Arms & Armour

Glass

Metalwork

Silver Jewellery

Orientalist Artwork

Textiles, Embroideries & Costumes

Musical Instruments

The Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy

Holy Coverings

Chinese Islamic Calligraphy

Manuscripts

The Hilya Room

Contemporary Calligraphy

References

External links

Official website

Islamic museums

Africa

Egypt (Museum of Islamic Art, Museum of Islamic Ceramics)
Libya (Islamic Museum of Tripoli, Red Castle Museum)
Morocco (Dar Batha Museum, Majorelle Garden, Marrakech Museum)
Tunisia (Bardo National Museum, Mahdia Museum, National Museum of Islamic Art)

Asia

South	Afghanistan (Museum of Islamic Art) India (Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences) Maldives (National Museum) Pakistan (Multan Museum, National Museum of Pakistan)
South East	Malaysia (Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Islamic Heritage Museum, Kelantan Islamic Museum, Malay and Islamic World Museum, Malacca Al-Quran Museum, Malacca Islamic Museum, Penang Islamic Museum, Sabah Islamic Civilisation Museum, Sabah Museum) Philippines (Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Arts) Singapore (Asian Civilisations Museum)
West	Bahrain (Beit Al Quran) Iran (Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum, Museum of the Islamic Era) Iraq (National Museum of Iraq, Sulaymaniyah Museum) Israel/Palestine (Islamic Museum, Museum for Islamic Art) Jordan (Prophet Mohammad Museum) Kuwait (Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah, Tareq Rajab Museum) Qatar (Museum of Islamic Art, National Museum of Qatar) Syria (National Museum of Damascus, National Museum of Aleppo, Raqqa Museum) Turkey Bursa Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, İstanbul Archaeology Museums, Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam, Museum of Turkish Calligraphy Art, Sadberk Hanım Museum, Topkapi Palace Museum, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum) United Arab Emirates (Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, Zayed National Museum)

Europe

Denmark (David Collection)
France (Arab World Institute, Louvre)
Germany (Museum of Islamic Art)
Greece (Benaki Museum)
United Kingdom (British Museum, Burrell Collection, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage, Victoria and Albert Museum)

North
America

Canada (Aga Khan Museum)
United States (America's Islamic Heritage Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, Shangri La (Doris Duke))

Oceania

Australia (Islamic Museum of Australia)

Virtual

Museum with No Frontiers

Part of Islamic arts

Kuwait City

Districts
and streets

Landmarks

Buildings and cultural centres	Kuwait Towers (Freedom Towers) Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre Al Shaheed Park Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre Al Salam Palace Kuwait National Cultural District Liberation Tower National Assembly of Kuwait Al-Hashemi-II Kuwait Motor Town
Museums	Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre Kuwait National Cultural District Kuwait Scientific Center Bait Al-Othman Museum Al Salam Palace Al Shaheed Park Museums Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah Museum of Modern Arts Tareq Rajab Museum Science and Natural History Museum Bait Dickson Kuwait National Museum Historical, Vintage, and Classical Cars Museum Sadu House Al-Hashemi-II Fateh Al-Khayr
Shopping malls	The Avenues Souq Sharq
Historical souqs	Souq Al Mubarakeya Souk Al-Manakh Ṣafāt Square
Scientific centres	Dasman Diabetes Institute Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences Kuwait Science Club
Libraries and educational institutions	National Library of Kuwait Al-Babtain Library For Arabic Poetry Kuwait University
Historical palaces	Seif Palace Bayān Palace Kuwait Red Fort
Other landmarks	Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital Amiri Hospital Kuwait International Airport

Events

Nuqat
Hala Febrayer
Layali Febrayer
Grane Cultural Festival
Kuwait International Fair
Kuwait International Book Fair

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