Calling all UK- and Ireland-based professionals who care for
collections of Islamic Art and material culture.

Dear Colleagues,

The newly-established Subject Specialist Network (SSN) for Islamic Art
and Material Culture would like to invite you to participate in the
Islamic Mapping Project. This important and wide-ranging survey aims
to gather, for the first time, comprehensive data on the contents and
locations of public collections of Islamic art and material culture
around the UK, however large or small.

Through this survey we also hope to identify the types of support that
may be needed among all collections, but especially those with limited
resources, staff, or specialist curatorship. This will help the SSN
identify areas of need, allowing us to develop targeted workshops and
seminars which will support museum professionals working with
collections that include Islamic art and material culture.

Results of the survey will be published on the SSN’s new website (to
be launched in 2014), where a dedicated series of pages will present
the information gathered about collections around the country.

So, if fully assessing your institution's collection of Islamic art
and material culture has long been on the 'To Do' list, now is the
moment to engage with the community of Islamic art specialists
nationwide by completing this questionnaire.

To find out more and to participate in this unique effort to map all
public Islamic collections in the UK, please email
islamicmappingprojectgmail.com to be sent a unique link to the survey
questionnaire. Support with filling in the questionnaire and
assistance with identifying any Islamic material in the collections
you work with is readily available by contacting the same address.

Best wishes,
The SSN Committee