Begin your journey not in a hushed gallery of tiny paintings, but under the vast turquoise dome of Tashkent’s Islamic Civilization Center, where the grand narrative of miniature art unfolds on an epic scale. This monumental complex, the world’s largest museum of Islamic civilization, showcases the very world that gave birth to the miniature – an art form that flourished along the ancient Silk Road, binding together cultures from Persia to India, from Central Asia to the Ottoman Empire.