www.chnpress.comLess than one year from hosting Sassanid exhibition, Cernuschi Museum which is the second biggest museum in France has express its willingness to hold an exhibition from Lorestan’s historical relics which are being kept in different museums of the world.
Announcing this news, Mohammad Reza Kargar, director of Iran’s National Museum told CHN: “Considering the successful experience of Cernuschi Museum from holding Sassanian exhibition last year, in less than one year, the museum has once again expressed its willingness for holding an exhibition by gathering Lorestan historical relics. In a letter submitted to Iran’s National Museum, Cernuschi Museum has requested to borrow some pieces of Lorestan historical relics which are kept in Iran’s National Museum. Since some of the relics which have been proposed by the museum for displaying, are not transferable, authorities of Iran National Museum are studying the case to replace them with some other historical relics.”
According to Kargar, although this collection will be gathered from different European museums, since the majority of articles which are going to be displayed in this exhibition will be provided by Iran’s National Museum, the time for holding the exhibition will be clarified by this museum.
Cernuschi Museum, is the second biggest museum in France which contains some 12400 pieces (900 of which are on permanent display) and houses of Europe’s fifth largest collection of Asian art especially Chinese art. It was left to the city of Paris one hundred years ago, by the wealthy Milanese financier and philanthropist Henri Cernuschi.
Last year the museum held an exhibition belonging to Sassanid dynasty (224-651 AD) during which more than 200 pieces of Persian artifacts including silver, metal, and plaster relics were displayed. The successful experience of the museum in holding this exhibition has encouraged it to host Persian civilization for the second time. This time Cernuschi Museum is determined to hold an exhibition of Lorestan bronze relics.
A large number of Lorestan bronze relics were unearthed during 1928-1930 and found their way in antique markets of European countries, which attracted the attention of archeologists to remarkable development in human civilization during the Bronze Age, which emerged from the early third millennium BC in Iran, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Asia Minor.
Iran’s National Museum is home to an invaluable collection of bronze ware unearthed during archeological excavations in central Zagross, Lorestan, Elam, and Kermanshah provinces, which ranging in date from the first millennium BC to the Median dynastic era (728-550 BC). Such artifacts are unique in design and application. Relics unearthed from individual or mass graves are related to rituals and funeral ceremonies. Further studies revealed that warrior migrant tribes that bred horses and herds crafted the relics. The antique objects shaped by molding, casting and hammering are typical of Lorestan art, with the pieces bearing exquisite animal patterns. Lorestan has the potential to furnish as many as 10 museums with its abundant relics.
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