IncaGold - 3000 years' advanced civilisations - Masterpieces from Larco Museum Peru
Begin:
17.04.2004 10:00 hour
End:
03.04.2005 18:00 hour
Location:
Gebläsehalle (Blower Hall)
Entry:
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193.073 visitors ______________
World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte is exhibiting 120 masterpieces from Larco Museum Peru for the first time ever in Germany. Choice gold exhibits that give an overview of 3,000 years' advanced civilisation in ancient Peru. Additionally there are 50 exhibits from Stuttgart Museum that together comprise the exhibition "IncaGold - 3000 years' advanced civilisations - Masterpieces from Larco Museum Peru".
The fascinating gold treasures of the rich culture of the pre-Inca advanced civilisations - those of the Moche, Chimú and Chavín - give us today at least some idea of the extent to which the Spaniards were overwhelmed by what they experienced 500 years ago and of what has kept the myth of the Inca gold so vivid over all these years. The extraordinary gold exhibits on display, splendid crowns, valuable head decorations, precious diadems and sparkling ear decorations were all expressions of the people's ritual veneration of the gods. They give us an insight into the, by our standards, exotic world and religion of the advanced civilisations of the Andes. The exhibits on display at the IncaGold exhibition are a unique testimony of advanced civilisations whose glorious heritage continues to astound people to this very day.
"IncaGold - 3000 years' advanced civilisations - Masterpieces from Larco Museum Peru", is the first exhibition at World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte to feature world civilisations of the South American Andean state. IncaGold is being presented with the kind support of the Peru National Institute of Culture.
More information. Catalog "IncaGold": 19,90 €
