Museum of Islamic Art is young, he founded in 1974. Located in Jerusalem's Katamon, it has a rich collection of Islamic ceramics, textiles, jewelry, objects of worship.

Founded Vera Bryce Salomons Museum, the daughter of a British scientist and lawyer Sir David Lionel Salomons. Heiress has taken this step in the memory of his friend and teacher, an outstanding expert on Islamic art, the Hebrew University Professor Leo Arie Mayer. The museum was named after the scientist.

At the heart of the meeting are the private collection of Vera Salomons and Professor Mayer. In the sixties and seventies of last century scholars and experts in Islamic Art Museum purposefully replenished. Now The local meeting is divided into nine galleries chronologically displaying cultural development of Islamic civilization from the early Arab conquests of VII century under the green banner of the Prophet.

Geographically the collection covers many countries, from Spain in the west to India in the east. Here you can see a great weapon (daggers, swords, helmets), manufacture the finest textiles, exquisite objects made of glass, ceramic, metal, fine jewelry and mosaics, calligraphy, paintings. The museum also has a large collection of carpets. The exhibits tell about the outstanding contribution of Islamic civilization to science: medicine, astronomy, mathematics.

One of the galleries is entirely devoted hours - Sir David Lionel Salomons was their passionate collector. He especially loved the opening hours of the famous Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. Sir Salomons wrote: "Wearing Breguet watches - does it feel that you have in your pocket the brains of a genius." Before his death in 1925, Sir Salomons bequeathed 57 works best timepieces Breguet Jerusalem Institute for Islamic Art. From there they were transferred to the museum. The pinnacle of the collection (and the world of watchmaking art) is a gold wrist instrument "Marie Antoinette", which is called the "Mona Lisa" hours. Its creation took a watchmaker and his successor, his son, forty-five years. Built at the turn of XVIII-XIX centuries, these watches have become an outstanding example of "high tech" at the time. They not only measured the time, but were provided with a perpetual calendar, minute repeater, thermometer, anti-shock device and many other functions.

In 1983 the museum was robbed of his paintings have been stolen, and dozens of unique timepieces, including the pearl of the collection - "Marie Antoinette", whose price at the time was $ 30 million. Stolen found after more than twenty years in bank vaults of Paris.

The museum plays an important role in building bridges between Arab and Jewish cultures. In 2008 there was an exhibition of contemporary Arab art, which was attended by thirteen Arab artists.