The online workshop “Chinese Imperial Carpets in Northern Italy: The Schneiberg Museum”, organised by Asia Collections Network Europe (ACN – Europe), was held on 22 January 2025.
Marco Guglielminotti Trivel (curator and specialist in East Asian art and archaeology with a focus on China) presented an overview of a private collection of a particular type of Chinese carpets.
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The exhibition “Created with Sound” follows from years of musicology research carried out by the Asia and Pacific Museum. Its first result was the Sound Zone – the permanent display opened in 2016. Devised by the same curator, Dr Maria Szymańska-Ilnata, this temporary show comments on and complements its predecessor. [Maria Szymanska, Created With Sound. Music and Dance in Visual Arts of Asia and Oceania (2023), https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22360207.v1.]
Read MoreOn 18 April 2023, ACN – Europe held the online workshop “East Asian ‘Orphaned’ Objects in Slovenia: How to Determine Provenance”. The speakers, who are conducting research within the national project “Orphaned Objects: Examining East Asian Objects outside Organised Collecting Practices in Slovenia” (2021-2024), explained how and why a number of East Asian objects in Slovenian collections are accompanied by scanty records about their origins and acquisition history. Consequently, they illustrated what can be done to research their provenance when only sparse documents are preserved.
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