 Manuscripts in the collection include the earliest known copy of Avicenna's Qanun fi'l-Tibb ("The Canon of Medicine") dated 1052.The museum will become a repository of historical materials related to the Ismaili community and house research programs related to each one of the aspects of its institutional mission.It will also provide a space for permanent exchanges between the Islamic and the Western worlds on educational, cultural and socio-economic issues.