A view at Shangri La (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yesterday, my wife and I took a tour of Shangri La.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m not making that up.<\/p>\n
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Shangri\u00a0La: Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design\u00a0<\/em>is the former ocean-side Honolulu winter home of the late tobacco and power-company heiress Doris Duke (d. 1993), who was fascinated with the art of the Islamic world.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I had never been to it before.<\/p>\n
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It actually has, we were told, a larger collection of Islamic materials\u00a0than any other museum in the United States excepting New York\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art \u2014 larger than the Freer Gallery in Washington DC and larger than LACMA (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art).<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s really quite remarkable. \u00a0A little known gem in a quite unexpected place. \u00a0I recommend it for those with any interest in the subject, and for those who like beautiful homes set on the sea.<\/p>\n
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You catch the tour, which has very limited space, from the Honolulu Museum of Art, where we also spent some time looking at the Asian collections.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Honolulu, Hawaii<\/p>\n
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