Beijing National Museum, April 29-June 27

The exhibition, hosted at the Beijing National Museum from the end of April to the end of June, aims at illustrating thousands of years of Sicilian history and artistic production, ranging from the Paleolithic period to the Byzantine Era, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The exhibition is a well thought-out display of over 100 pieces of high symbolic, archeological, historical and artistic value, by means of a didactic and documentary system which is particularly effective in scientific, museological and scenographic terms. The pieces have been grouped by cultural and chronological criteria, based on materials and works that are representative of different functions and production techniques. A section of the exhibition is dedicated to decorative and applied arts, to which Sicily has given a significant contribution over the centuries, namely valuable marble and coral processing, majolica production, as well as gold and coral-embroidered silk textiles.