What links Plato the philosopher, Tusi the scholar and Akbar the emperor?
Look to Enlightened Encounters to connect the dots. This new initiative of the forthcoming Aga Khan Museum, had its debut in the Chicago area earlier this month.
To be situated in Toronto and scheduled to open in the summer of 2014, the Aga Khan Museum has embarked on a tour to introduce itself in major American centres. Unusual as it may be for a new museum to reach out to an audience so far away from where it is situated, reaching farther afield is part of the Museum’s mandate.
“Enlightened Encounters is the inaugural event for the Aga Khan Museum in the United States,” says the Museum’s Director, Henry Kim. “One of our challenges is that we have been tasked with the prerogative to make this museum more than a museum of the city of Toronto, but to make it a museum of Canada, of North America, and perhaps even broadly of the world.”
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