Aga Khan Muslim Museum visit in Toronto Canada

White and large like a giant sugar cube the museum has simple looking exterior. Designed by FumihikoMaki.
 Near the corner of Eglinton and Don Mills in East Toronto.This is the first and only NORTH AMERICAN museum that shows the Muslim civilizations spanning fromthe 8 th tothe 21 st century
Parking is only $10.

 The Bellerive room is a free exhibit area near the ticket desk. It is a replica of the Shah's display in Geneva Switzerland. This exhibit has wall units with a variety of "vessels" called "Ewer" and ceramic plates with detailed natural looking patterns.
This is the Ewer from Iznik Turkey 1560-1570 . I like the blue fish scales

The second floor had an exhibit of life size photos of  50 weathered locked doors. No photos were allowed in this area.
 I found this display somewhat underwhelming.  I guess you could of added a small sign on every door
 " the door bell is broken and please knock ."

Main room exhibition space has  a large wall Map showing the origin and historical dates of the many items on display. Such as historical relics including carpets paints carvings vessels and hand crafted pages of the  Qur'an.
These beautiful objects cover the area from the Iberian Penninsula to China
 This bone carved horn had  many detailed images of animals.

Brass vessel is like a bowl with unique tiny details

Dragon attack scene!

Horse back fight scene.

Smoking on an old style oil painting . The angry face expressions all look very similar.

The turban wearing group of men also look very similar.

Antique helmet was really interesting to look at. Also an old shield was on display.

This giant wall hanging is estimated to contain over a million gold coloured pins and weign over 400 pounds.

Exit Door has a gift shop near by. Colourful ceramic plates and an assortment of fabric scarves and bottled fragrances and over priced jewelry. Also a wide variety of Knick Knacks

After seeing this exhibit I have a little more insight into why Muslim people are very interesting with great art and history.

The second floor featured an exhibit of 

Doors without keys  photographed by Abbas Kiarostami from twenty years of traveling Iran, Italy, France and Morocco. Features 50  life size door photos on canvas.