ADDITIONS Acquisitions 1990 – 2008

TRAILING SISI Carriages, Clothes, Curios of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria

CARICATURE AND PROPAGANDA Works by the Kukryniksy Group of Artists from the Mamontov Collection

Ephesos ARCHITECTURE, MONUMENTS & SCULPTURE

SUUM CUIQUE. Magnificent Medals from Brandenburg-Prussia

THIS OBSCURE OBJECT OF ART

RE-OPENING OF THE SOUTH- AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA AND HIMALAYA COLLECTION

STRAPS & BANDS

ARTFUL RESISTANCE

THE MYTH OF ANTIQUITY

Exhibition Calendar

Exhibition Review


 		 
Umamahesvara

Nepal, 12th century

The Hindu deity Shiva in his manifestation as a loving husband.


Ho Chi Minh

Vietnam, 21st century

This plaster cast of Ho Chi Minh documents the change of a historical person from Communist leader to a religiously venerated figure.


Chasuble

Nagaland/north-eastern India,
21st century

Chasuble of a Catholic bishop from Nagaland. Note the mixing of elements of traditional textile art of a formerly head—hunting people with Christian symbols.