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The Metropolitan Museum
The Met is one of the leading museums in the world, as every fool knows, but with their newly refurbished (November 2011) Islamic art galleries, the museum is taking things up a level. Fantastic Mamluke rugs, elegant izniks and the sword of Suleyman the magnificent are now back on display in the carefully curated new galleries. The Damascus Room, a residential winter reception chamber (qa’a) typical of the late Ottoman period in Damascus. is one of the earliest extant, nearly complete interiors of its kind.
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