Turkmen artifacts in Germany became the opening for visitors
In Berlin, in the Neues Museum, the exhibition “Margiana. The Kingdom of the Bronze Age in Turkmenistan” continues its work for the fourth month. The fact that this exposition presents for the first time to the European public the unique artifacts discovered by archeologists during excavations in the old delta of the Murghab River, where the country Margush, the legendary Margiana, flourished several millennia ago, already set up the organizers for the success of the event. And exhibition surpassed all expectations.
“The exhibition is wonderful. We see a great interest from specialists and from tourists and visitors of our city in ancient and modern Turkmenistan both,” shared with ORIENT Anton Gass from the Museum of Prehistory and Early History that is a part of the Neues Museum, who participated in the trip of German experts to Turkmenistan at the preparatory stage of the exhibition.
He said that special, customized and thematic excursions for groups arriving in Berlin from different parts of Germany and from abroad are also organized for the exhibition of Margiana treasures. Students, for whom familiarization with the exhibits of this exhibition takes place within the framework of training sessions, often visit the exposition.
Visitors are fascinated by the refined art of Margiana masters – potters, jewelers, sculptors: graceful terracotta and alabaster vessels carrying mystical prints aura, amazing figures, especially female gods, as well as gold ornaments, design of which is still trendy now days.
“Visitors’ feedbacks are enthusiastic, many express the desire to see even more antiquities from Turkmenistan and want to visit this country to see with their own eyes its amazing monuments and how it lives now,” Anton Gass added.
The exhibition “Margiana. The Kingdom of the Bronze Age in Turkmenistan” will last until middle of October, and after Berlin will go on display for a few more months at the Archäologisches Museum in Hamburg and the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim.
