Public Exhibits of the Museum of Oriental Art at VDNH to Premiere Online

22 december 2020

Online tours of the Museum of Oriental Art exposition at VDNH's Pavilion No. 13 Healthcare will premiere at 4:00 p.m. on 25 December. The first tour will offer the internet audience an insightful view of the unique museum collection on display at VDNH. The tour will stream via the Exhibitions community on Odnoklassniki, and on the Museum of Oriental Art's YouTube page.

The exposition of the Museum of Oriental Art at VDNH is a one-of-a-kind museum space where all exhibits are open to the public. Few major museums offer regular visitors full access to all artefacts in their custody. Since there were no online tours of these exhibits before, internet users get a rare opportunity to see works of art that were never previously available for online viewing.

The premiere online tour starts streaming at 4:00 p.m. on 25 December via VDNH's Odnoklassniki profile and the Museum of Oriental Art's YouTube page. Darya Smirnova, senior conservator of the Museum of Oriental Art, will explain to viewers what part of the museum collection is on display at the VDNH exposition, and which regions of Asia are represented. Polina Korotchikova, research associate at the Department of the Art of the Near and Middle East, South and Central Asia and Africa, will introduce the audience to exhibits representing the regions she curates. Anna Yegorova, senior research associate at the Department of the Art of the Far East, Southeast Asia and Pacific, will cover these regions with an emphasis on the Japanese masterpieces from the Museum of Oriental Art.

The exhibits to be showcased during the online tour are 17th-century Japanese lanterns, the Khiva Column from Uzbekistan, a 15th-century architectural ceramic panel from Iran, Iranian metal statuettes, Mauritanian lustreware, Mongolian musical instruments, a Nepalese carved window, Mongolian and Buryat storage chests, legendary Japanese ceramics, fine china artefacts and the Ship of Happiness sculptural composition.

Overall, the Museum of Oriental Art has upwards of 1,500 items on display at the VDNH Pavilion No. 13, most of them never previously exhibited. The exposition includes applied art from Middle Asia, the Caucasus and Northern Asia, applied and folk artworks from India, Nepal, Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and Africa, Southeast Asian art from Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, and some rare artefacts from Japan, China and Korea in the Far East.

VDNH's Pavilion No 13 Healthcare (formerly Pavilion of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic) also houses the permanent exhibition entitled Preserving Culture. The Roerich Museum at VDNH, opened by the State Museum of Oriental Art in 2019.

An online tour of the scientific conservation department at the Museum of Oriental Art's VDNH space was streamed on 26 November. Conservation artists guided the online audience around the conservation studios for Central Asian monumental painting, archaeological artefacts, easel paintings, objects crafted from wood, porcelain, metals, fabrics, bone, Asian varnishes and papier-mâché. Online viewers learned about the conservation nuances to remember when treating art objects from different Asian regions, observed conservation work in progress and completely restored artworks awaiting transfer to the permanent exposition or one of the museum's exhibitions. The conservation tour is available for viewing on the VDNH Facebook profile.

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