Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is proud to announce a grant to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in support of three upcoming projects related to Persian arts and culture: a digital publication cataloguing the Museum’s collection of 600 coins excavated at the Iranian city of Nishapur between 1935 and 1948; and two events planned in conjunction of the exhibition The Great Age of the Seljuqs (April 26 -July 24, 2016). On display at this special MET exhibition will be luster-painted ceramics, silk textiles, manuscripts, and ornate metalwork created during the reign of the Seljuqs, a Turkish dynasty that ruled Iran and Anatolia from 1038 to 1307.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s leading art museums, with a collection spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present. Its collection of Islamic art is the most comprehensive in the world. It includes more than 12,000 of the finest objects, dating from the seventh to the 20th century. Outstanding holdings include the collections of more than 450 Islamic carpets; pages from a sumptuous copy of the Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, created for Shah Tahmasp (1514-76); and a 14th-century glazed ceramic mihrab, or prayer niche, from a theological school in Isfahan.