The Gulf State of Qatar unveiled the world’s largest collection of Islamic art on Saturday, in the new $300million Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.
The musuem will be working in partnership with the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Louvre, the Royal Collection of Morocco, Egypt’s Museum of Islamic Art, and the Cartier Collection of France to exhibit rare works of art spanning a 1000-year period.
See Al Jazeera’s interview with Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, one of the founders of the museum
