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CHA to support Korean collections in US and France
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International Cooperation Division
Date
2014-09-22
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The Cultural Heritage Administration supports two US and French museums that house Korean cultural property. For the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sacker Gallery in Washington D.C., a three-year project supported by CHA for Buddhist paintings from Goryeo (918-1392) particularly for their research and presentation was launched last year and continues. The annual program for the gallery is 1) Research on 16 Goryeo Buddhist paintings located in the US and setting up database with detailed photo images (2013-14), 2) Opening a website on Goryeo Buddhist paintings in English and Korean (2014), and 3) Holding an international symposium on conservation of Goryeo Buddhist paintings (2015). The Freer and Sacker Galleries is one of Smithsonian museums, specialized in Asian art. It has a Korean exhibition hall and stores about 500 properties from the country. CHA also provides financial support for the Sevres, Cite de la Ceramique in France for the museum’s special exhibition on Korean ceramics due next year in celebration of 130th anniversary of diplomatic relationship between Korea and France, particularly for the publication of the exhibition catalogue. The Sevres is the biggest ceramics museum in France, which houses as many as 50,000 works of European and Asian collections. Among them about 160 pieces are from Korea, which includes celadon and white porcelain vases.
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