Islamic·Art - The educational platform of the Museum for Islamic Art

Stories

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Where do the museum objects come from, how does a restoration work and what are the employees’ actual favourite objects? We answer these questions with plenty of background information in our stories. Dive into the historic world of the Museum for Islamic Art and discover connections to other collections.

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SERIES: Music from the world

Habibi Funk

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SERIES: Music from the world

Experience electronic Hafla

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Series: Museum Backstage

Dismantling the Permanent Exhibition

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Series: History of the Collection

Conservation of Carpets

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SERIES: Cultural X Collabs

CxC Anniversary Quiz

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Series: Objects tell Stories

Europeans in a Persian Blue and White Pottery

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Series: Museum Backstage

Dismantling the Carpet Exhibition

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Series: History of the collection

From Samarra to Berlin

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Series: History of the collection

Berlin Carpet Collection

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Series: Objects tell stories

750 Years of Rumi

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The 'CulturalxCollabs' carpet being cut at the launch event.© Museum für Islamische Kunst / Don Panakkal

SERIES: Cultural x Collabs

Fragment Journeys

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Series: Museum Backstage

Our favorite objects

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E-LEARNING

USING DIGITAL TEACHING MODULES

Islamic art comes to the classroom and the mosque! The teaching modules oriented towards the teaching plan offer creative lessons with large practical sections that bring art and culture to life in the school day. We also offer teaching modules that have been developed by and with mosques and are suitable for Islamic youth work.

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Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Art

Grade: 10 onwards

Restoration as challenge

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Art, Ethics/Religion

Grade: 10 onwards

Research at a Museum yourself

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Art, Ethics/Religion

Grade: 10 onwards

Communicate for a Museum yourself

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Art, Ethics/Religion

Grade: 10 onwards

Curate an exhibition yourself

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Politics, History, Ethics/Religion, German and Foreign Languages

Grade: 10 onwards

Genderroles in Historiography

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Politics, Music, Ethics/Religion

Grade: 10 onwards

Music - What does it do to you?

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Politics, Art, History, Ethics/Religion

Grade: 10 onwards

Genderroles- Which do you have?

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Art, Ethics/Religion

Grade: 10 onwards

Clothes - What do they say about us?

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Politics, History, Ethics/Religion

Grade: 10 onwards

Intersectionality – then and now

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Art

Grade: 10 onwards

Calligraffiti- Connection of old and new

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Ethics/Religion

Grade: 10 onwards

Khamsa - amulet as talisman?

Subject: Extracurricular Activities, Politics, Ethics/Religion

Grade: 10 onwards

"male" or "female" - What's the difference?!

360°-TOURS

EXPLORE TOPICS IN DEPTH

Virtual rooms invite you to discover the collection of the Museum for Islamic Art in an entirely new way. Here you’ll find exclusive text contributions, videos, musical compositions and objects that are sensory experiences for the eyes and ears.

Overview of 360°-Tours

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Gurbet Şarkıları – Songs from Foreign Lands

Music and Belonging between Turkey and Germany (1961-2021)

Gurbet Şarkıları – Lieder aus der Fremde

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Museum in Action

A look at the transformation of a permanent exhibition

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Garden Paradise

Experience the magic of our living garden world

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Music in the Museum

A visual journey into the sound world of the museum

MEDIA LIBRARY

WATCH, LISTEN, READ

Discover the histories behind the collection and the projects of the Museum for Islamic Art through its films, interviews, audio and publications.

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CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the Future Film

CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the Future

Sini calligraphy

Colours from fire – technology and history of ceramic mosaics

Islam - a view from within

The sound of reviving - Razan Nassreddine

An exceptional visit - Yasser Almaamoun

Zwischen Hier und Dort | Multaka, Museum für Islamische Kunst

Between Here and There - Kefah Ali Deeb

Polyphonic - Kenan Melhem

People of the Archive - Jean-Claude David

Anke Scharrahs about the Aleppo Room

Memories of al-Zawiya al-Hilaliya

RESEARCH

SEARCH THE COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM FOR ISLAMIC ART

Find all kinds of information on objects and works in the online database of the Museum for Islamic Art. Data on over 12,500 objects from the collection are available online and are constantly expanded and updated by our employees.

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