Sarvavid in the Rubin Museum of Art
The MAS preserves a unique series of paintings depicting meditation, step by step, on the Sarvavid Vairocana mandala (AE.1977.0026). Sarvavid is the most important of the five 'Dhyani Buddhas' or meditative Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism. Nine paintings from the Sarvavid series - which has 54 miniatures - were on display at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York from 17 March 2023 to 14 January 2024.
Egyptian antiquities to Waterloo
A small selection of cultural artefacts from Egyptian antiquity found its temporary home at the Wellington Museum in Waterloo. A temporary exhibition showed what influence the land of the pharaohs had for centuries on the European public and on Napoleon Bonaparte. The MAS lent ten objects for this expo. They were on display there from June 2023 to January 2024.
Sacred monsters to Treignes
The MAS lent nine objects from its 'Egyptian antiquities' collection for the temporary exhibition 'Monstres sacrés. Les hybrides de la Préhistoire à l'Antiquité' at the Musée du Malgré-Tout. This expo presented hybrid cultural objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Near East, Egypt, Rome, Greece and the Celtic world. The objects were exhibited there from 21 May to 13 November 2022.
African masterpieces to America
MAS loaned eight extraordinary African cultural objects for 'The Language of Beauty in African Art', an exhibition to be visited first in Texas (03.04 - 31.07.2022) and then in Chicago (20.11.2022 - 27.02.2023). The exhibition presented more than two hundred African masks, sculptures and prestige objects. The loans came from European and US public and private collections.
Pre-Columbian art to Mons
A major exhibition dedicated to Colombian artist Fernando Botero opened at the Beaux-Arts Museum in Mons on 9 October 2021. Pre-Columbian art is a major influence in his early work, especially pre-Hispanic pottery and sculpture from Colombia. For this expo, we lent 3 objects.
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer to the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen
The prestigious exhibition 'Dürer was here. A journey becomes legend' followed the route Dürer took on his journey to the Netherlands. The expo showed works he himself made along the way, works by followers and works made later about the journey. We lent a sandstone bust for the exhibition, which ran until 24 October 2021.
Scaldis and Antverpia to Paderborn
From 24 July to 25 October 2020, the Diözesanmuseum Paderborn exhibited the 2 busts of the river god Scaldis and city virgin Antverpia from the MAS collection for the exhibition 'Peter Paul Rubens und der Barock im Norden'. The 2 busts are personifications representing the inseparable connection between the city of Antwerp and the river Scheldt.
