Buddha 10: Fragments of Buddhism

The Buddha 10 project starts with a few large Buddhist statues from several collections and opens up to the contemporary world and science. The exhibition aims to give visitors a better understanding of the museum’s heritage and of the importance of managing, preserving and enhancing a legacy of Asian art in Italy.

In the rooms dedicated to temporary exhibitions, in an essential and evocative space, more than twenty large Buddhist statues in wood or stone from different periods (from the 5th to the 19th century) from the MAO’s collections are juxtaposed with some sculptures – including two extraordinary stone sculptural heads from the Tang period (618-907 A.D.) – from the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome. The works, some of which never exhibited before, are placed in dialogue or contrast with each other.