Aga Khan Development Network: "Masterpieces of the Aga Khan Museum" Opens at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Lisbon, Portugal, 13 March 2008 - "The Path of Princes: Masterpieces of the Aga Khan Museum Collection" exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon was officially opened today by Emílio Rui Vilar, President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Prince Amyn Aga Khan, who was representing his brother, His Highness the Aga Khan. Portugal's Minister of Culture, José António Pinto Ribeiro also attended the event. The exhibition comprises works of Islamic art, spanning over a thousand years of history, from the collection of the future Aga Khan Museum, due to open in 2011 in Toronto, Canada.

	João Castel-Branco of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (left), Prince Amyn Aga Khan and Luis Monreal, General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, at the inauguration of the exhibition in Lisbon. - Photo: AKDN/lucas Moura


	"The Path of Princes: Masterpieces of the Aga Khan Museum Collection" exhibition in Lisbon. - Photo: AKDN/Lucas Moura


	Prince Hussain and Princess Khaliya with curator Maria Fernanda Passos Leite at the inauguration of the exhibition. - Photo: AKDN/Lucas Moura