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{{Short description|Indian museum professional}}
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'''Mahrukh Tarapor''' is an Indian museum professional and art consultant,<ref name="Rolex Awards">{{cite web | url=http://www.rolexawards.com/profiles/jury/mahrukh_tarapor | title=Rolex Awards | publisher=Rolex Awards | date=2012 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref> known for her scholarship in museum art, especially [[Islamic art]].<ref name="Chron">{{cite web | url=http://www.chron.com/life/article/MFAH-hires-Mahrukh-Tarapor-3495623.php | title=Chron | publisher=Chron | date=19 April 2012 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref> She was honoured by the [[Government of India]], in 2013, by bestowing on her the [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award, for her contributions to the field of art.<ref name="Padma 2013">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/list-of-padma-awardees/article4345496.ece | title=Padma 2013 | newspaper=The Hindu | date=26 January 2013 | access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>

==Biography==
{{quotebox|align = right|width=21em|''Mahrukh Tarapor is one of the most widely respected museum professionals in the world,'' says [[Philippe de Montebello]], former Metropolitan Museum of Art director, and talks about her ''diplomatic skills, knowledge and energy.''<ref name="Rolex Awards" />}}
[[File:Katharinenkloster Sinai BW 2.jpg|thumb|St. Catherine's Monastery]]
[[File:Museo del Prado (Madrid) 04.jpg|thumb|Museo del Prado, Madrid]]
[[File:MFA houston.jpg|thumb|Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Watkin building]]

Mahrukh Tarapor was born in Mumbai to a [[Parsi]] family, in 1946.<ref name="Rolex Awards" /> She secured a doctorate from [[Harvard University]] and started her career by joining [[Metropolitan Museum, New York]], in 1983. She, over the course of a decade, rose through ranks to reach the level of the Associate Director for Exhibitions.<ref name="Art Daily">{{cite web | url=http://artdaily.com/news/54943/Museum-of-Fine-Arts--Houston--appoints-Mahrukh-Tarapor-Senior-Advisor-for-International-Initiatives-#.VD88rMtxnwo | title=Art Daily | publisher=Art Daily | date=12 April 2012 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref> During her stint at the Met Museum, she negotiated with the governments of Spain, Morocco and Egypt which led to the exhibition of ''Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain'', staged in [[Alhambra]] in Granada, the conservation of the [[Minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque|Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque]]<ref name="Minbar">{{cite web | url=http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/The_Minbar_from_the_Kutubiyya_Mosque | title=Minbar | publisher=Met Museum | date=2014 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref> at the [[El Badi Palace|Badi Palace]], [[Marrakesh]]<ref name="Art Daily" /> and the setting up of exhibition galleries at the [[Saint Catherine's Monastery]], [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]].<ref name="Art Daily" /><ref name="Met Museum">{{cite web | url=http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/news/2006/metropolitan-museum-establishes-international-office-in-geneva | title=Met Museum | publisher=Met Museum | date=22 March 2006 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref> She is also credited with efforts to raise loans for many intercultural exhibitions such as the ''Glory of [[Byzantium]]'' (1997), ''Byzantium: Faith and Power''(2004), ''Art of the First Cities'' (2003) and ''Beyond [[Babylonia|Babylon]]'' (2009).<ref name="Rolex Awards" /><ref name="Met Museum" />

Tarapor was promoted as the Director, International Affairs, at the Met's international affairs office at Geneva, in 2006, and worked in that capacity till 2009, when she retired after 25 years of service to continue her career as a consultant.<ref name="Bloomberg">{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-11/met-museum-paid-new-director-campbell-930-000-for-first-year.html | title=Bloomberg | publisher=Bloomberg | date=11 May 2011 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref> During this period, she was in regular touch with the governments of many European countries, the Middle East, Australia and Asia, for the exchange and dissemination of information.<ref name="Rolex Awards" /> Mahrukh Tarapor has also contributed to the organization of several international art exhibitions such as:
* Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids<ref name="Art Daily" /><ref name="Met Museum" />
* Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus<ref name="First Cities">{{cite web | url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/05/05/first-cities | title=First Cities | publisher=The New Yorker | date=5 May 2003 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref>
* China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 A.D.<ref name="Art Daily" /><ref name="Met Museum" />
* The Crown of Bohemia 1347–1437, Prague<ref name="Art Daily" /><ref name="Met Museum" />
* Trade and Diplomacy of the Second Millennium BC (2008)<ref name="Art Daily" /><ref name="Met Museum" />
* Art of Medieval Spain<ref name="The Art of Medieval Spain">{{cite book | title=The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500–1200 | publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art | author=Metropolitan Museum of Art | year=1993 | location=New York | pages=358 | isbn=9780810964334}}</ref>

After retiring from Met Museum, she was offered the post as the Head of the [[National Museum of India]], an offer she, reportedly, declined, opting for a career as a consultant.<ref name="National Museum of India">{{cite web | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/no-one-wants-to-head-india-s--best-museum/677441/ | title=National Museum of India | publisher=Indian Express | date=5 September 2010 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref> In 2012, the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]], hired the consultative services of Dr. Tarapor, in the areas of exchange of art, staff and scholarly study.<ref name="Chron" /> She is also attending to the expansion of Islamic Arts programmes of MFAH as also in procuring loans for various MFAH exhibitions, utilizing her connections.<ref name="Chron" /><ref name="Tinterow">{{cite web | url=http://glasstire.com/2012/04/20/tinterow-names-mahrukh-tarapor-mfah-advisor-for-international-initiatives-former-met-staffer-to-push-houston-museums-islamic-world-program/ | title=Tinterow | publisher=Tinterow | date=20 April 2012 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref>

Tarapor lives in Mumbai and Geneva, attending to her duties as a consultant for the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]], [[Museo del Prado]] and her assignments as a consultant to the Government of India.<ref name="Rolex Awards" />

==Positions==
Mahrukh Tarapor has served in many positions of importance. Apart from her career postings as the associate Director of Exhibitions and the Director of International Affairs with the Metropolitan Museum, New York, she has also held the posts of:
* Member – International advisory board of the Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul.<ref name="Art Daily" />
* Member – Board of directors of the American Associates of the Saint Catherine Foundation.<ref name="Art Daily" />
* Former member (1992–2009) – Bizot Group, a congregation of the directors of some of the leading museums in the world.<ref name="Art Daily" />
* Jury Member – Rolex Awards for Enterprise – 2012<ref name="Rolex Awards" />
* Senior Advisor for International Initiatives – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston{{cn|date=February 2020}}
* Board Member – The Silk Road Project Inc<ref name="Silk Road Project">{{cite web | url=http://www.silkroadproject.org/ | title=Silk Road Project | publisher=Silk Road Project | date=2014 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref>
* Board Member – Saint Catherine Foundation<ref name="St Catherine Foundation">{{cite web | url=http://www.saintcatherinefoundation.org/en/about/about/trustees/association-suisse/ | title=St Catherine Foundation | publisher=St Catherine Foundation | date=2014 | access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref>
* Member – Museum Reforms Committee – Government of India<ref name="Museum Reforms Committee">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/donning-a-new-role/article1153217.ece | title=Museum Reforms Committee | newspaper=The Hindu | date=3 February 2011 | access-date=16 October 2014 | author=Shailaja Tripathi}}</ref>

==Awards and recognitions==
Mahrukh Tarapor has been honoured by many governments such as [[Cabinet of France|France]], [[Government of Morocco|Morocco]] and [[Government of Spain|Spain]].<ref name="Art Daily" /> In 2013, the Government of India honoured her with the fourth highest civilian award, [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma 2013" />

==Publications==
Tarapor has published two works on Islamic and Indian arts.<ref name="Islamic calligraphy">{{cite book | url=http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?owi=6602824 | title=Islamic calligraphy | publisher=Asia Society | author=Tarapor, Mahrukh | OCLC=6602824}}</ref><ref name="Art and empire the discovery of India in art and literature, 1851–1947">{{cite book | url=http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?owi=14920523 | title=Art and empire the discovery of India in art and literature, 1851–1947 | publisher=Keki | author=Tarapor, Mahrukh | OCLC=14920523}}</ref>
* {{cite book | url=http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?owi=6602824 | title=Islamic calligraphy | publisher=Asia Society | author=Tarapor, Mahrukh | OCLC=6602824}}
* {{cite book | url=http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?owi=14920523 | title=Art and empire the discovery of India in art and literature, 1851–1947 | publisher=Keki | author=Tarapor, Mahrukh | OCLC=14920523}}

==See also==
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* [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
* [[Saint Catherine's Monastery]]
* [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | title=The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500–1200 | publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art | author=Metropolitan Museum of Art | year=1993 | location=New York | pages=358 | isbn=9780810964334}}
* {{cite book | url=http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9321169113&searchurl=an%3Dtarapor+mahrukh+et+al | title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Fall 1997 Recent Acquisitions 1996–1997. | publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art | author=Tarapor, Mahrukh| year=1997|display-authors=etal}}
* {{cite book | url=http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9321169115&searchurl=an%3Dtarapor+mahrukh+et+al | title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Fall 1998 Recent Acquicitions 1997–1998. | publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art | author=Tarapor, Mahrukh| year=1997|display-authors=etal}}

==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.theindianpanorama.com/2013/04/08/president-confers-padma-awards/ | title=Padma Awards List | publisher=Indian Panorama | date=2014 | access-date=12 October 2014}}

* {{cite web | url=http://leadferret.com/directory/person/mahrukh-tarapor/6215992 | title=Profile on Lead Ferret | publisher=Lead Ferret | date=2014 | access-date=16 October 2014}}

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