The Alhambra has embarked on the European Network of Museums of Islamic Art project, in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum

The Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife (PAG) has embarked on the European Network of Museums of Islamic Art project (REMAI: Red Europea de Museos de Arte Islámico), in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. The aim of the REMAI project is to set up a European Network of Museums and Collections specialised in preserving Islamic cultural heritage.
The REMAI project was officially launched in the Palace of Carlos V this morning by María del Mar Villafranca, general director of the PAG, along with curator Mariam Rosser-Owen and senior conservator Víctor Hugo López Borges from the V&A, Claire Déléry, scientific collaborator of Islamic art at the Louvre, and Ricard Moya, coordinator of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) project.
All agreed that the project will rely heavily on the collections held by the Alhambra, the Louvre and the V&A, and on the architectural elements preserved in situ at the Alhambra site.
REMAI, supported by the EACEA 2007-2013 programme will, in addition to setting up a multi-lingual web portal (in Spanish, French, English) as a tool to disseminate the results of the project, also host a virtual exhibition of Islamic art featuring selected items from the three collections, and an international congress with some of the world’s leading experts on Nasrid and Mudejar ceramics, Hispano-Islamic plasterwork, historic photography and Alhambraism.
The REMAI Network will analyse material, technical, artistic, historical and social and cultural knowledge of Islamic Heritage, and will promote research on Islamic art in the European Union as a means of advancing intercultural understanding and integration.