The Aga Khan Museum will open on 18 September 2014 in Toronto, Canada. The Museum collection contains over one thousand artefacts and artworks and spans over one thousand years of history. The objects - in ceramic, metalwork, ivory, stone and wood, textile and carpet, glass and rock crystal objects, parchment and illustrated paintings on paper - present an overview of the artistic accomplishments of Muslim civilisations from the Iberian Peninsula to China.