The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will be creating new galleries for Islamic Art that will open in early 2023. The New Art of the Islamic Worlds galleries will measure nearly 6,000 square feet. A garden inspired by Islamic design will be part of the site.The expansion is more than double the museum’s current space and will feature a selection of Persian artworks from the Hossein Afshar Collection, one of the world’s leading private collections of Iranian art, and a total of 300 works from al-Sabah Collection from Kuwait, the result of an agreement established by the museum in 2012.The Hossein Afshar and al-Sabah Collections are recognised for their significant inventory of objects and art.