US Smithsonian experts to visit Uzbekistan
23/04/2019 19:30
US Smithsonian experts to visit Uzbekistan
23/04/2019 19:30
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 22 April 2019, the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United States, Javlon Vahabov, met with the newly appointed director of the world-famous Frere and Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Chase Robinson.
The Smithsonian Institution is a research and educational institute in the United States that owns a complex of museums. It was founded in 1846. The institute got its name in honor of the English scientist James Smithson, who bequeathed his entire fortune to "establish an institution in the United States that will serve the development and dissemination of knowledge." The Freer and Sackler Gallery is part of the Smithsonian Institution where works of art from Asia are kept.
The sides discussed practical implementation of the Agreement on cooperation between the Smithsonian Institution and the Art and Culture Development Foundation under the Ministry of Culture of Uzbekistan, signed during the official visit of President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the United States in May 2018, and an exchange of views on promising areas for expanding cooperation was held.
The parties also reviewed the program and the agenda of the visit of the delegation of the Smithsonian Institution to Uzbekistan in the period from 24 April to 2 May.
It is planned that the American scientists will hold talks and a number of meetings with their Uzbek colleagues, study the collections of the State Museum of Art, the State Museum of Applied Art, the State Museum of them. Savitsky in the city of Nukus, the Aibek Memorial House-Museum, as well as conduct training seminars and round tables with the participation of local experts and specialists in the field of museum business and art.
An agreement was reached with Chase Robinson to organize at the Embassy in May a formal launch of a special section on the website of the Smithsonian Institution under the thematic title “The Sogdians”, dedicated to the history and culture, traditions and customs of Sogdiana peoples - the most ancient state that existed in the III-II centuries before AD on the territory of modern Central Asia.
Last year, the Gallery presented a unique collection of Uzbek atlas and addresses of the XIX-XX centuries, as well as costumes from the renowned American designer Oscar Renta, which the head of our state got acquainted with during his stay in the USA, collected by Harvard University scientists Guido Goldman.
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