3D Tours

Night in the Garden of Love  (2023/24)  multisensory exhibition by British artist Shezad Dawood, inspired by African-American Muslim musician, composer, and polymath (Allāmah) Dr. Yusef Lateef (1920 – 2013). In this multilayered exhibition, the garden serves as the starting point for a creative futuristic and intercultural conversation in which art and music can help transform the individual and the environment.

Journey through the life and timeless legacy of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi (d. 1273), known as Rumi, in an inspiring exhibition celebrating one of history’s most famous poets, on the 750th anniversary of his passing. Join us as we explore the exhibition Rumi: A visual journey through the life and legacy of a Sufi mystic  (2023),and his enduring impact through an examination of artifacts, manuscripts, and contemporary art.

Featuring the work of art collective ArtLords and Afghan-Canadian artist Shaheer Zazai, Afghanistan My Love is a contemporary exhibition that demonstrates how art can be used as a powerful medium for connection during times of adversity.

Blending video, sound, text, and artifacts, The Golden Cage (2022) explores the impact of human intervention on the life of one of the most endangered bird species across the highly nationalized terrain of the Turkish-Syrian border.

Take flight on a journey through the ages as you encounter fascinating sights and stories within the Aga Khan Museum’s gallery rotation: Birds.

Within the larger Birds themed installation you’ll find featured installations by British painter Elizabeth Gwillim, which examines the transformation of natural history studies in India between the 1600s and 1800s, by pairing five life-size watercolour paintings with four paintings from the Museum’s Permanent Collection.

IMAGE? The Power of the Visual  (2022) explores image-making over the centuries through the lens of historic and contemporary artworks from diverse Muslim cultures. The exhibition reflects on humanity’s timeless preoccupation with images and their capacity to project power, reflect inner spiritual or poetic visions, give expression to ideals held dear, or express key aspects of identity.

Visually, 30 stained-glass mosaics overlooking the Museum have little in common with 24 tons of blue rubber mulch — the same kind used in playgrounds to guard children against serious injury — piled into the reflecting pools in the Aga Khan Park.

Delve deeper into *Terms and Conditions Apply  (2021/22) though, and you will discover that both installations are clever, eye-catching commentaries on invisible power structures that shape how we navigate the world.

Rust Garden, a contemporary art installation by Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel, was featured int he Museum Collections gallery in 2021/22. It consists of more than 700,000 decaying low-carbon steel letters in a 5-by-7-metre sandbox. The assortment of letters isn’t random. Rather, they are a jumble of every letter that appears in Canadian writer Hugh Maclennan’s classic 1945 novel Two Solitudes.

Explore the Silk Roads through the lens of one of humanity’s most cherished communication tools in our 2021 marquee exhibition, Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads.

As you explore, you will encounter books, scrolls, manuscript paintings, and textiles that shaped — not just documented — life along one of history’s most important trade networks and beyond.

What do a ball, stick, rope, and hoop represent to you? And what do they say about the role of play in how humans learn how to interact with each other and the world?

The 2021 exhibition State of Play shows the transformative nature of the games people play.

Remastered, the Museum’s 2021 exhibition, digitally activated celebration of timeless Iranian, Ottoman, and Mughal Indian manuscript paintings in our Collection. On this 3D virtual tour of the exhibition, bask in the resplendent beauty of these masterpieces. As you explore, click on the featured works to uncover digital interactives developed in partnership with Ryerson University Library.

In Sanctuary, featured in 2020, 36 contemporary leading artists meditate on the theme of sanctuary through the medium of traditionally woven rugs. These artworks challenge viewers to think about sanctuary in the context of conflict, mass migration, and the personal quest to arrive and belong.

On this 3D virtual tour of Sanctuary, contemplate the exhibition’s contemporary artworks as well as an innovative gallery design created in collaboration with MIT-based artist, scholar, and activist Dr. Azra Akšamija.

Originally organized by the FOR-SITE Foundation, Sanctuary is supported by Partners in Art, Mohammad and Najla Al Zaibak (Bay Tree Foundation), and the Global Patrons of the Aga Khan Museum.

Spanning pre-Islamic times to the present day, and delving into the arts, literature, and music, The Moon: A Voyage Through Time  (2019), brought together important miniature paintings, scientific instruments, Islamic manuscripts, and contemporary works of art to illustrate the wonder at the moon that is shared among cultures.

At any given time, about 200 objects from the more than 1,200 in the Museum’s Collection are on display. The artifacts offer a window into the towering artistic, intellectual, and scientific contributions of Muslim civilizations to world history and heritage.

In mid-2018, the Aga Khan Museum’s second-floor gallery was adorned with opulent gems in preparation for the opening of Emperors and Jewels. Running from August 2018 to January 2019, the exhibition boasted eye-popping jewellery from the Mughal Indian courts. As great patrons of the jewelled arts, which blended Central Asian, Persian, and Indian traditions, the Mughals contributed to a flowering of creativity and craftsmanship in India from the 16th to 19th centuries.

Discover the deep roots of contemporary fashion’s love affair with men’s jewellery on this 3D virtual tour of Emperors and Jewels: Treasures from the Indian Court, from the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait.

The Museum’s 2018 exhibition The World of the Fatimids bore witness to a remarkable dynasty that built one of the world’s oldest universities, compiled one of its greatest libraries, and fostered a flowering of the arts and sciences. At its height in the 10th and 11th centuries, the Fatimids established one of the greatest civilizations in the world, influencing knowledge and culture throughout the Mediterranean, Europe, and the Near East.

The concept of light was the inspiration for Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki’s design for the Aga Khan Museum.

Experience the first major exhibition to reveal the shared history of western Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe from the 8th to 16th centuries, Caravans of Gold (2020). Immerse yourself in art and artifacts from the western Sahara’s unsung golden age, where African kingdoms possessed riches the Earth had never seen.

Peer into the future Toronto youth plan to build for themselves on a virtual tour of an exhibition of student photography at the Aga Khan Museum.

In the late summer of 2019, the Museum displayed snapshots by 20 newcomer youth in the city. The high schoolers had participated in a Fredric Roberts Photography Workshop, an eight-day course designed to empower students with a new skill — the art of telling visual stories. They then pointed their lenses at their own communities, focusing in on their current reality and visualizing the progress they hoped to see down the road.

The students’ stories found a home in Our Sustainable Future, a Museum exhibition documenting their vision for the world of tomorrow. Click here to commence your tour 3-D of the show, and go to the Fred Roberts website to read blog entries written by the student photographers who contributed to the collection.

The Bellerive Room is the Museum’s version of a classy but comfortable living space. It holds a selection of ceramics from the collection of the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan and Princess Catherine Aga Khan. The 60 pieces on display date from the early Islamic periods right up to the 17th century and showcase the craftsmanship of Muslim potters from China to Europe. You can read about these objects from the labels that have been added to this virtual tour.

The room’s design is a loving recreation of a salon in the couple’s Château de Bellerive in Switzerland, where part of the collection was originally on view.