NYC's Metropolitan Museum’s New Galleries for Islamic Art Department Draw One Million Visitors

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Incense Burner. Iran. dated A.H. 577/ A.D. 1181–82. 

NEW YORK---Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s acclaimed New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia topped the one-million mark on January 18, 2013. In the 14 months since their grand reopening on November 1, 2011, the galleries have attracted an average of 2,550 people per day. This number represents approximately 14% of the total attendance in the Metropolitan’s main building during the same time period. [link]