Enlightened Encounters: Inaugural Program of the Aga Khan Museum

Keynote Address by Museum Director Henry Kim (AB Harvard '92)

The Aga Council for Central United States and the Aga Khan Museum request the pleasure of your company and of a guest for this launch event.
 
Henry S. Kim is Director of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, a new museum devoted to Islamic art that will open in 2014. A scholar of classical history and an archaeologist by training, Mr. Kim joined the museum from the University of Oxford where he taught, curated collections and managed
capital projects of the Ashmolean Museum from 1994 to 2012. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he served as curator of Greek coins and university lecturer in Greek numismatics at the university. From 2004 to 2011, he was the Project Director for the Ashmolean Redevelopment Project, a 70 million redevelopment
and transformation of the museum. Most recently he was Director of the University Engagement Program, a three-year project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aimed at expanding the use of the museum's collections in teaching across the university. His publications include a number of articles on early money, the development of small change in Greece, classical coins as sources for Renaissance medals, and the development of museums today.
 
Enlightened Encounters will reflect the diversity of the museum's programs. At heart will an exhibit of an illustrated manuscript of Nasir's Ethics, which was copied in the court workshops of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great around 1590. It examines the "practical philosophy of the document, which addresses a broad range of concepts, from justice and love, to ideas about educating children and good government.
 
There will be a performance by internationally renowned choral conductor  Hussein Janmohamed, The museum's Director, Henry Kim, and other members of the curatorial staff will give lectures about the museum and its collection.
 
There's no charge for the program but you do need to RSVP. Networking time and refreshments will be available at the end of the event.  Please contact  shehzad.bhayani@post.harvard.edu  or 214-394-1156 for more information or to RSVP.