On December 8, 2022, the National Museum of Oriental Art reopens in a new venue, the Borges Cultural Center, and opens with two exhibitions that seek to disseminate Eastern cultures and contribute to diversity and intercultural dialogues.
With a journey through which it was closed for 18 years and reopened its doors in 2019 until 2020 that closed due to the pandemic, the Museum now announces a new venue: the second floor of the Borges, a completely renovated space where the main exhibition Oriente todo and the temporary show Calcar destellos de un Oriente are presented. The exhibition Oriente todo explores the ideas that the West has constructed of the East in the cultural imaginary and presents the very constitution of the museum as a way, among other possible ways, of encountering the Orient. The other exhibition is by artists Chen and Wilhelm, who work with pieces made of paper, a paradigmatic material of the imaginaries of oriental arts, proposing a counterpoint with the museum's permanent collection.
In the words of Rocio Boffo, director of the museum, "the move to a new, larger and more adequate venue for the proper exhibition of the heritage and for the development of public programs for the communities is a fact of profound relevance". According to the Ministry of Culture, the new design respects international museology standards. For the coming year the museum proposes a program that will include public and community programs such as lectures by specialists, guided tours, workshops, screenings and concerts.
Source:Télam