47,000 visits to “La Cité Interdite à Monaco” - the next exhibition will be about the “Gold of the Pharaohs”

This year the Grimaldi Forum de Monaco commits to offer a digital interactive animation with its huge Summer exhibitions in order to usually resurrect the atmosphere of an ancient civilisation and give its visitors an unprecedented experience.

This year the event created an innovative lido-pedagogical animation around the imperial porcelain collection for the exhibition La Cité Interdite à Monaco, Vie de cour des empéreurs et des impératrices de Chine which ended on 10th September. 

It has attracted over 47,000 visitors who have admired the “forbidden city” celebrated with various art masterpieces which have marked the Chinese imperial history with not only paintings and musica but also porcelain. One the rooms of the exhibition is in fact dedicated to the Chinese porcelain and particularly that of the Song (960-1279) and   Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties, of which 18 objects were presented to the public.

The struggle of the Ancient Chinese to build this Forbidden City reflects the will of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty of preserving and promote the country’s cultural heritage by conserving the craftsmanship of the past.

In this narrative context which unites past and present, the visitors were welcomed by Tang Ying, the superintendent of the Emperor Qianlong, who will help them create their own porcelain crafts before labelling them on a big parchment.

Vases, bowls and jugs in different shapes, colours and patterns were proposed to the visitors to help them create their own porcelain crafts guided by the Emperor’s superintendent. 

At the end of the exhibition the next theme for the 2018 Summer: L’Or des Pharaons, the “Gold of the Pharaohs” in collaboration with the Museum of Cairo.