Museum of Art: Dunhuang Exhibition

13.3.2008 von Ines.

The exhibition of the Art of Dunhuang has been running for some weeks only. Whenever I passed the Meishuguan (the National Museum of Art) there was a queue. I have never seen that before for any other exhibition.

They had actually even covered the outside of the museum with huge canvas (or banners) with real size pictures of the outside desert of the famous Mogao Caves of Dunhuang. They only left the middle part uncovered so it even resembled the pagoda of the Mogao Caves behind which the huge Buddha is standing in Dunhuang.

The exhibition itself mainly contained copies of the original cave wall paintings. It was nice to see, even though I had been to Dunhuang already.

Inside the exhibition was really crowded. You had to watch out not to get pushed away from a painting by elderly people. It was crazy inside, so full. The reason was: Anybody over 60 years old has free entry to the museum. It seems this kind of exhibition attracts more people than if they do one of the typical “French Paintings” exhibition.

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