First-Ever Sufi Art Museum Opens in Paris Suburb

A new milestone in the art world has been reached with the opening of the first museum dedicated to Sufi art and culture in Chatou, a suburb of Paris. The Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, located in a restored 19th-century mansion along the Seine, showcases hundreds of items from the Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi (MTO) Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Sufism. Funded by American and Canadian Friends of Sufi Arts, the museum aims to sustain itself through a blend of public and private support.