A Look at the Asian Art Museum of Corfu: Foundation and Collections.
AFAO/SAMC videoconference by Kassiani Kagouridi, Head of the Collections Department of the Asian Art Museum of Corfu.
The presentation will focus on the foundation and development of the museum's collections: We will discover who is Grégoire Manos (1851-1928), founder of the museum in the aftermath of Parisian Japonism. In a second step, we will talk about the development of the Asian collections of the museum and we will focus on works of art of particular archaeological and aesthetic interest.