A Visit to Islamic Museum- Lai Wan Cheng (1005433)

Quest: What did you find interesting and what did you learn INSIDE the Islamic Museum? Your sketches and statement should be about the same objects.

What I found interesting in the museum is this woman headdress during the 18th century. It has a nice handmade sewing skills and it is decorated by many small bells that can be found at the back of the headdress. Inside the headdress was made by cotton and embroidered by silver and brass ornamentation. Surprisingly its weight is 5.64kg and I can’t imagine how the women in the in that time wear such a heavy and long headdress for a whole day long. However the silver ornaments, stones and jewelry used to decorate on this headdress are very beautiful to look at. 

Besides that, I also like the pattern of the pillar located in front of the door the museum. It is has a very interesting motifs that are formed by some flower and leaves vectors, vase shape and also the malay style moon.

Qur'an Handwritten Java ,19th century AD

This Handwritten Qur'an really impressed me. The patterns on the piece of paper were drawn by hand stroke by stroke and it was so carefully and neatly done. When you observe this book carefully, you will see how the space of the outlines were filled in by different colours such as dark green , red and some gold foils. It was really a great piece of art since the line quality of the outlines was well-controlled.

Giant ceramic bowl from China.

bronze spoon from Timurid Iran.

Quba mosque with a shiny dome.

I have learned many histories of the structure and architecture of different places’ mosque buildings. I really gained a boat of knowledge and I am quite happy that I have a chance to saw and understood these meaningful and precious antiquities. After this visit to the museum, I learn that knowledge cannot be gained in a short period of time .For example, just like the display ancient objects in the museum, they are found and collected as a collection, but before that, they are engaged by the archaeologists in their studies before the discovered objects are ready to be displayed. These objects need to undergo some process and it takes a period of time. They are then slowly accepted and collected by the museum as it is like us that are now still gaining knowledge from university and other places to enrich our life. We are now absorbing new knowledge and trying to get a better understanding on it.