The Aga Khan Museum is a museum of Islamic art located in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is dedicated to Islamic art and objects, and it houses approximately 1,200 rar
Exterior view of the Aga Khan Museum
The Aga Khan Foundation purchased the Bata Shoes Head Office, in preparation for the museum's construction in 2002.
The museum's lobby in 2022
Prince Shah Karim al-Hussaini, known simply as Aga Khan IV, was the 49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ili Shia Islam from 1957 until his death in 2025. He inherited the Nizari imamate and the title of Aga Khan
Aga Khan Museum
…district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is dedicated to Islamic art and objects, and it houses approximately 1,200 rare objects assembled by Shah Karim al-Husayni and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. As an initiative of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network, the museum is dedicated…
Karim al-Husseini in 2014
Al-Husseini skiing for Iran at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Karim al-Husseini receiving a gift of trinitite, residue from the first nuclear bomb detonation, while visiting the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1959.
Karim al-Husseini's aircraft sitting at Entebbe International Airport, Uganda, in 2006