Location: Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku (Gdańsk National Museum), Poland

Duration: 16.11.2013-16.02.2013
Opening: November 16, 6:00 pm

Curators: Alexandru Sonoc, Adrian Luca, Beata Sztyber

Partner: Ştefan Ionescu, Evanghelical Church CA Sibiu
The exhibiton is part from the multianual cultural cooperation with Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku

Text from the exhibition curator: Brukenthal National Museum has in its collections more than 50 oriental carpets illustrating several ornamental types and categories from Anatolia, Caucasus, Persia and Bosnia. The exhibition from Gdansk which is on display at almost 100 years after the first old Turkish carpets exhibition from Budapest (1914) and after the exhibitions from Montreal (1976), Rome (2005), Berlin (2007), Sibiu and Istanbul (2007), presents for the first time to the Polish public Ottoman art values, kept in the Saxon evangelical churches from Transylvania. The carpets selection composes the most valuable pieces from the collections, dated in XVI-XVII centuries.