The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm): History, Collections and Contemporary Crisis

June 24, 2026June 24, 2026 by Admin

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Presentation and roundtable discussion

12^th June 2026, 12:30-2:00pm CET

This online session, organised by the Asia Collections Network – Europe in cooperation with Asia Week Paris, featured presentations from three experts: Anke Hein, professor of Chinese archaeology at the University of Oxford, who discussed the historical formation of the museum’s ancient Chinese collections and their significance in establishing Chinese archaeology as a discipline in China; Cecilia Nordström, head of the Department of Asian Ceramics and Works of Art at Bukowskis, who presented the history of the museum’s collections including private donations and the King’s gifts; and Ola Wong, journalist and sinologist, who explained the Swedish model of cultural institution management and the current threats facing the museum.

ACN – Europe Workshop 6: ARt-Z: Unlock the Unseen – Chinese Art through Augmented Reality

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026 by Admin

The ACN – Europe online workshop held on 28 November 2025 and chaired by Dr Rosalien van der Poel, specialist in Chinese export art and a member of ACN – Europe’s scientific committee, focused on a presentation by Zeyu Zhao, PhD student in the Department of Information Studies at UCL, about an augmented reality (AR) exhibition featuring Chinese export watercolours, which stemmed from her ongoing doctoral research.

ACN – Europe Workshop 4: Asian Ethnographic Materials in Scandinavian Museums

January 14, 2026January 14, 2026 by Admin

The ACN – Europe workshop “Asian Ethnographic Materials in Scandinavian Museums” took place online on 16 June 2023, in partnership with Printemps Asiatique in Paris (Asian Week in Paris). It presented two case studies: a collaboration between the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm and Taiwanese source communities; a collaboration between the National Museum of Denmark and a group of Korean creators.