Year-ender: 10 fascinating cultural exhibitions in 2021

2. Beyond the Bounds of History: A Collaborative Exhibition Between the Palace Museum and Dunhuang

The exhibition displayed 188 pieces of cultural relics from the Gansu province and the collection of the Palace Museum as well as hand-painted reproductions of Dunhuang murals, high-fidelity digital reproductions of murals, and reproductions of caves 285, 220, and 320, etc.

Among them, there were 47 cultural relics from the Palace Museum, 141 from Dunhuang.

The uniqueness of this exhibition lies in the important exhibits, and in the cooperation between the Palace Museum and Dunhuang to show the development history of Dunhuang on the Silk Road, the construction of grottoes and mural sculpture art, as well as the long road of cultural relics protection and inheritance in Chinese Museum circles.

The exhibition can be viewed on the official website of the Palace Museum.