Today’s vision, tomorrow’s reality

To consolidate silver art through an ongoing process of preserving old silver artefacts, producing new ones, and exhibiting both to the world.

To ensure that this Museum Collection presents an innovative approach, which does not restrict itself to the past alone, but progresses as an organism full of life, spanning the past, growing constantly, and reaching into the future, with an emphasis on integrity, continuity, education and training.

To establish links between silver masters, manufacturers, designers, exhibitors and marketing personnel, and to demonstrate silver’s journey from its extraction at the mines to its housing as an artefact in a museum.

To avoid the loss of more historic, cultural, art and aesthetic material by storing, curating and developing the Islamic silver heritage and strengthening Islamic identity.

To clarify and correct misconstrued views of Islamic culture, its artistic heritage, its historical depth and regional diversity among other societies.

To promote a true and solid ground for intercultural dialogue and to stimulate social participation through arts, understanding, tolerance, cooperation, engagement and friendship between Muslims and others through publications, exhibitions, lectures, workshops and the use of web-based information, and especially the information that the whole Islamic world is represented in this Collection.

All of the above makes clear the increasing significance of this Collection for Islamic heritage on the world stage and its immense importance to the understanding of the Muslim world, to both Muslims and non-Muslims alike.