Last night, the Dutch Drents Museum located in Assen, won a Global Fine Art Award (GFAA) for one of its exhibitions. Unfortunately, this exhibition has long closed. However, all who visited it will agree: a well-deserved award!
The director of the Drents Museum told media, he is greatly honoured his museum won a GFAA. He stated “… I suppose people think: how is it possible that a museum located in a relatively small city, numbering less than 70,000 inhabitants, draws so many exhibition visitors?”
Inside the award-winning exhibition at Drents Museum
Easy: over the past few years, this museum has offered several fascinating exhibitions in a row. The displays are often unique and impressive. In the case of this exhibition on Persia: simply stunning. The objects selected and displayed, as well as topics of this museum’s exhibitions, make travelling a long distance worthwhile!
This was especially the case with the award-winning exhibition: “Iran, Cradle of Civilisation”.
On entering, visitors got the impression of stepping into a bazaar, or scene from a thousand and one nights. I later tweeted the museum, I wouldn’t mind being offered some of the decoration material – if ever it became available. Suspect I was not the only visitor to do so!
Roughly 115,000 people came to the museum during the five months the exhibition ran. We were offered a chance to admire two hundred treasures loaned by generous Iranian museums. These museums, which helped create the stunning display, should receive a huge thank-you as well.
Multi-media, stunning display, interesting and unique objects attracted large crowds
The hundreds of treasures dated from roughly 10,000 BC to 1700 AD. The objects ranged from pottery to jewellery and gold objects, created by the finest craftsmen for rulers of a sprawling empire.
It was a stunning, captivating and fascinating exhibition, but unfortunately for you – if you now consider visiting – closed a while ago. Apart from its permanent collection and other exhibitions, this museum now offers a large exhibition on Nubian Pharaohs.
For people visiting or living in the Netherlands: Assen may seem a long distance, but NS intercity trains stop at its station. The museum itself, lies within walking distance of NS station Assen. The city is also easy to reach by car, as it is well-connected by other parts of the country by motorways.
Drents Museum Assen: Nubia, Land of the Black Pharaohs.
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