Paris, 7 August 2012
Olivier de Bernon, president of the Guimet Museum, has just announced the museum’s programme for the next five years.
Firstly, autumn 2012 will be dedicated to the tea roads while spring 2013 will be dedicated to a set of archaic Chinese bronzes from a Swiss private collection, before an important exhibition about Anghor, the region of Cambodia which was the capital of the Khmer Empire. In 2014, it will be Clemenceau and Asia’s turn while during autumn 2014, an exhibition about the Beijing opera will take place.
In 2015, two exhibitions should take place, one about the Mughal world and the other about Korea as part of the crossed-years. Finally, a display of pieces of jade from the National Palace Museum in Taipei City is already scheduled for 2016.
So as to bring back audiences which had deserted the museum during recent years and find additional funds, Olivier de Bernon aims at orientating temporary exhibitions more towards regions of the Far East than towards contemporary art which will fit better in the museum’s permanent collections.