His Highness Prince Karim Al Husseini Aga Khan IV set to inaugurate the new museum in Toronto

His Highness Prince Karim Al Husseini Aga Khan IV set to inaugurate his new museum in Don Mills on Sept. 12

By Murray Whyte for The Star

The leaf blowers and sod-edgers roared and sliced in earnest Wednesday morning outside the Aga Khan Museum, the shimmering new hub of Muslim culture perched on a berm of neatly manicured grass alongside the Don Valley Parkway.

Both outside and in, where museum staff busily primped the museum’s galleries, still not quite fully installed, amid clusters of international press being given a first glimpse, a certain urgency reigned. The museum won’t open to the public until Sept. 18, but staff and, indeed, the entire Ismaili Muslim community, had a far more pressing date on their agenda: this Friday, when the museum’s founder and namesake, Prince Karim Al Husseini Aga Khan IV, will arrive to personally and ceremonially declare the museum open.

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