North America’s first museum dedicated to Islamic art and culture, The Aga Khan Museum offers many visitors a window into worlds unknown or unfamiliar: the artistic, intellectual, and scientific contributions of Muslim civilizations to world heritage across the centuries. The Museum’s state-of-the-art Auditorium also hosts live performances, from music to dance to spoken word, theatre, and multidisciplinary arts, featuring local, national, and international artists. Throughout the 2024 concert season, Rāag-Mala Toronto is presenting five carefully selected vocalists and instrumentalists who are masters of their craft, and serve as the lifeblood of Indian classical music that have no traditional Western equivalent.
Prior to the Classical Indian Music concert featuring Ustad Waseem Ahmed Khan, we dined at Diwan, the museum's elegant and refined restaurant, handsomely decorated with original panels from an 18th-century Damascus Mosque bought at auction in London by the Aga Khan, the restaurant is a culinary destination in its own right, showcasing Chef McEwan and executive chef Shen Ousmand’s innovative approaches to the great cuisines of Turkey, Iran, North Africa, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
The beautiful interior of Diwan
Diwan's Summer Menu
Lamb Samosas with cilantro and mint chutney
Tandoori Chicken Masala and Persian Rice
Ustad Waseem Ahmed Khan, regarded as one of the finest
Indian classical musicians of our time, played at the Aga Khan Museum
