With the Museum of Islamic Art, H.H Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa is making Qatar a regional and international centre for culture and education, a project being taken under the leadership of H.E Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani. This museum is important in showing Muslims worldwide the historic global connections of the Islamic lands and their intellectual and economic life. The museum of Islamic art is housed in a landmark building by the Chinese-American architect I.M Pei. The collections of the museum are extraordinary and impressive as they have been gathered together in a very short time. They range over thousands of kilometers, from Spain to central Asia and India from the seventh to the nineteenth century.[Read More]