BUDDHA

From 24 June 2016 to 19 February 2017.

Völklingen steel plant. Rathausstraße 75-79, 66333 Völklingen, Germany.

Collectors open their treasuries -
232 masterpieces retrace 2.000 years of Buddhist art.

The exhibition is under the patronage of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama.
The "Buddha" exhibition of the Völklinger Hütte World Cultural Heritage brings together works from India, Thailand, The "Buddha" exhibition of the Völklinger Hütte World Cultural Heritage brings together works from India, Thailand, Cambodia , Burma, Indonesia, China, Japan and the “Roof of the World”, Himalayan countries, Nepal and Tibet.

The 232 masterpieces provide an in-depth overview of this grandiose religious art from the Buddhist universe. They are the testimony of cosmopolitan and very advanced Asian empires, and show the emergence and deepening of artistic and cultural relations between different countries thanks to Buddhism.