A museum of Islamic art and Moro culture in a white building in Marawi, a city on Lake Lanao where the Maranao people are the main inhabitants. It holds the biggest Filipino Muslim collection in the country.
The collection covers the folk art of the Moro and Lumad people of Mindanao, the Sulu archipelago and Palawan: weapons used in the Moro wars against the Spanish and the Americans (the lantaka, the kris and the kampilan), miniature pagoda-type mosques, parts of a torogan, musical instruments and farm implements. More than 300 calligraphic sculptures of the name of Allah, by Abdulmari Imao, are here. Mamitua Saber opened the museum in one room in 1962, and it moved to the present building after Aga Khan IV paid for its construction.
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- Marawi City
Written by an editor · 23 Sep 2026 · source: Wikipedia, Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Arts