Royal Bronzes of Angkor, an Art of the Divine
Exhibition from April 30 to September 8, 2025 at the MNAA-GUIMET, Place d'Iéna. 75116 PARIS.
World-renowned for its stone monuments, Khmer art also produced significant bronze statuary, knowledge of which has been the subject of spectacular advances thanks to recent excavations.
The Guimet Museum is dedicating its exhibition to bronze Royal Bronzes of Angkor, an Art of the DivineThe highlight of this exhibition: the statue of the reclining Vishnu from the Western Mebon – an 11th-century sanctuary west of Angkor – discovered in 1936, which originally measured more than five meters in length. This national treasure of Cambodia will be exhibited for the first time with its long-separated fragments, after benefiting in 2024 from a campaign of scientific analysis and restoration in France, with the sponsorship of ALIPH (International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage). It will be accompanied by more than 200 works, including 126 exceptional loans from the National Museum of Cambodia, whose presence allows for a chronological journey of bronze art in Cambodia, from the 9th century to the present day, through a journey leading the visitor to the major sites of Khmer heritage.
