# List of museums of Islamic art

Islamic art is collected by museums, galleries and private collectors in many countries around the world.
| Country | City | Institution | Collection size | Founding date |
| Algeria | Algiers | National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art | | |
| Australia | Melbourne | Islamic Museum of Australia | | |
| Austria | Vienna | Austrian National Library | | |
| Austria | Vienna | Kunsthistorisches Museum | | |
| Austria | Vienna | Museum of Applied Arts | | |
| Austria | Vienna | Weltmuseum Wien | | |
| Brunei | Brunei | Brunei Museum | | |
| Canada | Toronto | Aga Khan Museum | 1,000 | 2014 |
| Canada | Toronto | Royal Ontario Museum | | |
| Denmark | Copenhagen | The David Collection | 2,500 | 1945 |
| Egypt | Cairo | Museum of Islamic Art | 100,000 | |
| Egypt | Cairo | National Library | | |
| Egypt | Cairo | Coptic Museum | | |
| France | Paris | Bibliothèque nationale de France | | |
| France | Paris | Arab World Institute | | |
| France | Paris | Musée des Arts Décoratifs | | |
| France | Lyon | Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs | | |
| France | Paris | Louvre Museum | 18,000 | 2012 |
| Germany | Bamberg | Universitätsmuseum für Islamische Kunst | 7,000 | 2008 |
| Germany | Berlin | Islamic Art Museum | 16,000 | 1904 |
| Germany | Cologne | Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum | | |
| Germany | Dresden | Dresden Museum of Ethnology | | |
| Germany | Düsseldorf | Hetjens-Museum [de] | | |
| Germany | Hamburg | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe | | |
| Germany | Karlsruhe | Badisches Landesmuseum | | |
| Germany | Leipzig | Leipzig Museum of Ethnography | | |
| Germany | Munich | Museum Five Continents | | |
| Germany | Stuttgart | Linden Museum | | |
| Greece | Athens | Benaki Museum | 8,000 | |
| Iran | Kashmar | Hassan Modarres Museum | 200 | 2004 |
| Iran | Isfahan | Museum of Decorative Arts, Isfahan | 3,000 | 1995 |
| Iran | Mashhad | Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum | | 1937 |
| Iran | Mashhad | Great Museum of Khosran | | 2015 |
| Iran | Tehran | Abgineh Museum of Tehran | | |
| Iran | Tehran | Calligraphy Museum of Iran | 200 | 2017 |
| Iran | Tehran | Carpet Museum | | 1978 |
| Iran | Tehran | Dafineh Museum | | 1997 |
| Iran | Tehran | Gulistan Museum | | |
| Iran | Tehran | Malek National Museum and Library | 19,000 | 1996 |
| Iran | Tehran | Museum of Decorative Arts | | |
| Iran | Tehran | Museum of the Islamic Era | | 1996 |
| Iran | Tehran | Reza Abbasi Museum | | 1977 |
| Iran | Shiraz | Pars Museum | | 1936 |
| Iran | Qom | Hazrat Ma'soomeh Holy Shrine Museum | | 1935 |
| Iraq | Baghdad | Iraq Museum | | |
| Ireland | Dublin | Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery | 6,100 | |
| Israel | Jerusalem | The Museum for Islamic Art | | 1974 |
| Italy | Florence | Bardini Museum | | |
| Italy | Venice | Treasury of St. Mark's | | |
| Italy | Milan | Biblioteca Ambrosiana | | |
| Italy | Palermo | Museum of Islamic Art | | |
| Jordan | Al-Mazār al-Janūbī | Al-Mazar Islamic Museum | | 1973 |
| Kuwait | Kuwait | Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah (The al-Sabah Collection) | 30,000 | 1980 |
| Kuwait | Kuwait | Kuwait National Museum | | |
| Kuwait | Kuwait | Tareq Rajab Museum | 30,000 | |
| Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Islamic Arts Museum | 10,000 | |
| Morocco | Rabat | Archaeological Museum | | |
| Oman | Muscat | National Museum of Oman | | |
| Pakistan | Lahore | Lahore Museum | | |
| Palestinian Territories | Jerusalem | Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif | | |
| Portugal | Lisbon | Calouste Gulbenkian Museum | | |
| Qatar | Doha | Museum of Islamic Art | | |
| Romania | Bucharest | National Museum of Art of Romania | | |
| Russia | Saint Petersburg | State Hermitage Museum | | |
| Russia | Moscow | Museum of Oriental Art | | |
| Spain | Madrid | National Archaeological Museum | | |
| Sweden | Stockholm | Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities | | |
| Switzerland | Bern | Abegg-Stiftung [fr] | | |
| Switzerland | Geneva | Musée d'Art et d'Histoire | | |
| Syria | Damascus | National Museum of Damascus | | |
| Tunisia | Tunis | Bardo National Museum | | |
| Turkey | Istanbul | Topkapı Palace | | |
| Turkey | Istanbul | Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum | 40,000 | |
| Turkey | Istanbul | Vakiflar Museum | | |
| Turkey | Istanbul | Archaeological Museum | | |
| Turkey | Istanbul | Istanbul University Library | | |
| Ukraine | Kyiv | Museum of Western and Oriental Art | | |
| United Arab Emirates | Sharjah | Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization | 5,000 | |
| United Kingdom | Oxford | Ashmolean Museum | | |
| United Kingdom | Oxford | Bodleian Library | | |
| United Kingdom | London | British Library | | |
| United Kingdom | London | British Museum | 40,000 | |
| United Kingdom | Edinburgh | Edinburgh University Library | | |
| United Kingdom | Cambridge | Fitzwilliam Museum | | |
| United Kingdom | London | Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art | 28,000 (largest private collection) | 1970 |
| United Kingdom | London | Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage | 4,500 | |
| United Kingdom | London | Royal Asiatic Society | | |
| United Kingdom | Edinburgh | National Museum of Scotland (formerly Royal Scottish Museum) | | |
| United Kingdom | Manchester | John Rylands University Library | | |
| United Kingdom | London | Victoria and Albert Museum | 19,000 | |
| USA | Baltimore | Walters Art Museum | | |
| USA | Boston | Museum of Fine Arts | 116 | |
| USA | Cleveland | Cleveland Museum of Art | | |
| USA | Corning, NY | Corning Museum of Glass | | |
| USA | Washington, D.C. | Freer Gallery of Art | 2,200 | |
| USA | Dallas | Keir Collection (currently on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art) | 1,642 | |
| USA | Los Angeles | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | | |
| USA | New York | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 15,000 | |
| USA | New York | New York Public Library | | |
| USA | St. Louis | Saint Louis Art Museum | 250 | 1904 |
| USA | Honolulu | Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design | 2,500 | 2002 |
| USA | Washington, D.C. | George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum | | 1925 |
| Yemen | Sana'a | National Museum of Yemen | | 1971 |