The Aga Khan Museum is proud to offer a family-friendly season of free, open-air, international music and dance performances, as well as interactive dance workshops, all featuring local artists expressing their global heritage, and all on the Museum grounds.
The Aga Khan Museum will open its exhibition Syria: A Living History on October 15, 2016. The exhibition brings together over 5,000 years of art highlighting the contributions that the diverse cultures within Syria — Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Persian, Ottoman, and Arab — have made to world heritage. The exhibition, which represents collaboration between eight international museums and private collections, will run through February 27, 2017.
The storied city of Istanbul comes alive in a stunning exhibition of historic and contemporary images on display at the Aga Khan Museum from February 6 to June 26, 2016.
Toronto, June 21, 2016 — The work of Álvaro Siza, one of today’s greatest living architects, will be showcased at the Aga Khan Museum in an exhibition that explores the creative process — and genius — behind one of Siza’s latest projects: the Alhambra’s new Visitor Centre in Granada, Spain, entitled “Puerta Nueva” (New Gateway).
The Aga Khan Museum spans the spectrum of cultural expression with the opening of a new exhibition, Syrian Symphony: New Compositions in Sight and Sound. This immersive and interactive response from artists to the current situation in Syria, presented in association with Silkroad, the arts organization established by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, opens May 20, 2017, and runs until August 13, 2017.