The Guimet museum takes us to the China of the Tang empire, to discover its rich capital, Chang’an. A trip not to be missed from November 20, 2024 to March 3, 2025.
The Guimet museum continues to help us discover the treasures and history of China: for its new exposition, the museum offers us a journey into the Tang empire, between the years 618 and 907. Come visit Tang China, a cosmopolitan dynastyfrom November 20, 2024 to March 3, 2025.
Merchants, poets, musicians, politicians, aristocrats, artists and travelers meet in this great city, the beating heart of the rich Tang empire. Amid temples, markets, monasteries, shops, more than a million and a half people live in this imperial city. It was the most populated city in the world at that time!
Chang’an (“Long Peace”) is a symbol of the evolution of Asia at that time. A multicultural city, where foreign beliefs and religions are tolerated. A rich city, prosperous, center of arts and the culture.
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More than 200 sculpturesworks of art, ceramics, paintings, calligraphies, but also recent archaeological finds tell us the history of this city, and the life that inhabited it. Certain works, shown for the first time in the West, testify to the importance of the Tang dynasty and this period of opulence.
Chang’an was home to the Tang Imperial Palace, a palace three times larger than the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty enjoyed a lot of wealth, which contributed to its power. Chang’an was at the crossroads of silk roadsand welcomed merchants from all over the world… With their wares. Precious stones, pottery, spices… Markets encouraged the exchange of cultures and collaboration between neighboring civilizations.
L’Guimet museum exhibition brings this prosperous period back to life, through the arts and testimonies of the past, which depict to us all the wonders of this vanished capital.
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