FAQ on Musee Guimet Controversy
FAQ on Musee Guimet Controversy What is the 'Sonar Bangla' Exhibition? This exhibition is scheduled to showcase 189 pieces of Bangladeshi ancient art , over four months from October 2007 to March 2008 at the National Museum of Asiatic Art, the Musee Guimet, Paris. It has been planned for several years, and has involved extensive negotiations between the Governments of France and Bangladesh. It is being held at one of the most prestigious venues for Asian Art in the whole of Europe, a major national museum which holds an important permanent collection of South Asian Art. It recently held very well reviewed exhibitions of Afghan gold and Cambodian ancient art. It is the first major international exhibition of Bangladeshi ancient art the first opportunity the world will have to see our national heritage, and to see it in all its diversity and richness. It will show a face of Bangladesh which is little known in the west. It is likely to generate not