New Middle East Galleries
Penn Museum
Slipper coffin, Nippur, Iraq.

New Middle East Galleries

  • Penn Museum, Philadelphia
The 4,500-year-old crown jewels of a queen. One of the world's...
Tomb of Menna in the Theban Necropolis

Tomb of Menna in the Theban Necropolis

  • American Research Center in Egypt, al-Qarna, Egypt, online
Some 3,000 years ago, on the west bank of the Nile in al-Qarna, Egypt...
Virtual Tours: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 3-D Models and Museum Tour
3-D view of the coffin of Ankh-Khonsu, Thebes, Egypt, Dynasty 22 (945–712 BCE); painted wood. 

Virtual Tours: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 3-D Models and Museum Tour

  • Online, by the Harvard Museum of Ancient Near East
Collections at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (formerly the...
Virtual Tour: Zawiya-Sabil Faraj ibn Barquq, Cairo
3-D doll-house view of Zawiya-Sabil Faraj ibn Barquq.

Virtual Tour: Zawiya-Sabil Faraj ibn Barquq, Cairo

  • Online, by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
Constructed between the years 1408 and 1409 CE, the Zawiya and Sabil...
Hijrah: In the footsteps of the prophet

Hijrah: In the footsteps of the prophet

  • through December 30, 2023
  • The National Museum of Saudi Arabia
The exhibit, Hijrah: In the Footsteps of the Prophet, sheds light on the...

An Anniversary: Women Driving, Through the Eyes of Six Saudi Female Artists

  • Ithra, online
Celebrating the second anniversary of the historical royal decree that lifted the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, this online exhibition allows viewers a chance to see how Saudi female...
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Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display

  • Penn Museum, Philadelphia
This exhibition provides visitors the opportunity to walk in the shoes of an archeologist through a behind-the-scenes view of the journey artifacts take on their way from excavation to...
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Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display

  • Penn Museum, Philadelphia.
This exhibit provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to walk in the shoes of an archeologist. It peels back the curtain and gives a behind-the-scenes view of the journey artifacts take on...
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Art Dubai 2020

  • Dubai, online
Art Dubai is one of the world’s leading international art fairs, reflecting the unique qualities of the city in which it takes place: future-facing, ambitiously international and culturally...
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Beni Hasan Cemetery Museum Tomb Tour in 360

  • Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California
Modeled after several rock-cut tombs found at the Beni Hasan cemetery site in Middle Egypt, this tomb was constructed to show a style found during the Middle Kingdom (2066–1650 BCE). Beni...
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Dream and Trauma: Reopening of the Carpet Halls at the Museum für Islamische Kunst

  • Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
Carpets of Islamic cultures are also integral to European cultural history. As a testimony to the ongoing exchange between Europe and the Middle East, they also form a focal point in the...
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History of Printing: Bulaq Press

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina
History of Printing: Bulaq Press contains early machines of the first Egyptian press, along with several old printing presses and their accessories. The Bulaq Press formed under the rule of Mohamed...
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Manuscripts of the Muslim World

  • University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Primary Digital Resources
"Manuscripts of the Muslim World" includes digital editions of more than 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings from the Islamicate world broadly construed. Together these holdings represent...
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Memory Sews Together Events That Hadn’t Previously

  • Sharjah Art Museum
Memory Sews Together Events That Hadn’t Previously draws from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation. Artworks in the exhibition reflect the manifold ways in which artists in the Arab...
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