The Chester Beatty Library is intended to store and display collections compiled by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. The Western Collection includes many illuminated manuscripts, rare books and prints. Its collection of papyri is one of the largest in the world. The East Asian collection has one of the richest collections of carved snuff bottles. The collection of the Muslim Collection includes 6,000 documents in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, including the Blue Koran.
Alfred Chester Beatty founded an institution to store his collections in 1950, and four years later he made it available to the public. Soon he handed over the entire collection to the state. In 2000, on his 125th birthday, the museum was moved to Dublin Castle. Two years later, it won the prestigious European Museum of the Year Award.
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