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Namibian exhibition explores cultural heritage of repatriated art

STORY: Namibian exhibition explores cultural heritage of repatriated art SHOOTING TIME: April 11, 2024 DATELINE: April 13, 2024 LENGTH: 0:02:19 LOCATION: Windhoek CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the art exhibition 2. SOUNDBITE (English): NDEENDA SHIVUTE-NAKAPUNDA, Chief curator at National Art Gallery of Namibia 3. various of the art exhibition STORYLINE: Namibia opened an exhibition in the Namibian capital of Windhoek Thursday evening dedicated to exploring the cultural customs and identity of the country's looted art to retrieve its heritage. The exhibition, themed "Artistic Research Communal Knowledge (ARCK): Reconnecting with Returned Cultural Belongings," features 23 cultural and historical belongings that were returned from the Ethnological Museum, a public institution dedicated to ethnology and culture in Berlin, Germany, to Namibia in May 2022. The artifacts, including milk gourds, calabash, woven baskets, and traditional wooden cups, will be displayed at the National Art Gallery

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Photo shows a 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna on Feb. 11, 2013. At center in the front is a ''noh'' performance stage. The wooden model, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873 and found at the museum's depot in 1995, will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Bettina Zorn, head of the East Asian Collections at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, explains a 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord at the museum on Feb. 11, 2013. The wooden model, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873 and found at the museum's depot in 1995 by Zorn, will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Photo shows the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna on Feb. 11, 2013. A 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873, was found at the museum's depot in 1995. The wooden model will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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Ethnologist Umesao dies at 90

TOKYO, Japan - Ethnologist Tadao Umesao (file photo), founding head of the National Museum of Ethnology who was renowned for a range of unique dissertations and books on civilizations based on field work, died of old age at his home in Osaka Prefecture on July 3, 2010. He was 90.

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3 Japanese begin monitoring work for Peru elections

AREQUIPA, Peru - Yusuke Murakami (2nd from L), an assistant at the Osaka-based National Museum of Ethnology, is in Arequipa on April 6 for the orientation given to the monitors who will work in Peru's April 9 presidential election. Murakami, an expert on Peruvian politics, is one of three election monitors sent by the Japanese government. The other two are stationed in Lima and its suburbs.

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Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Photos taken by the late ethnologist Tadao Umesao are displayed at his house, once called "Umesao Salon," in Kyoto on Aug. 29, 2015. His son turned the two-story wooden house into a gallery. Umesao, who died in 2010 at age 90, purchased the house in 1949 and lived there until he became the first director general of the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka Prefecture in 1974. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Minpaku helps visitors enjoy, understand cultural differences

Photo taken Aug. 31, 2015, shows a pile of cardboard boxes containing fruits and vegetables at the venue for the "Food Culture in Korea and Japan" special exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ethnology museum in Osaka features exhibition on Korean food culture

Toshio Asakura, head of the steering committee for a special exhibition comparing the likes and differences of Japanese and Korean food cultures, explains about the event under way at the National Museum of Ethnology in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 26, 2015. The special exhibition runs through Nov. 10. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ethnology museum in Osaka features exhibition on Korean food culture

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2015, shows "red" (bottom) and "white" (top) Korean cuisine set menus offered at a restaurant inside the National Museum of Ethnology in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan. The museum, which aims to promote understanding for different cultures, is holding a special exhibition comparing the likes and differences of Japanese and Korean food cultures through Nov. 10. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ethnologist Umesao dies at 90

TOKYO, Japan - Ethnologist Tadao Umesao (file photo), founding head of the National Museum of Ethnology who was renowned for a range of unique dissertations and books on civilizations based on field work, died of old age at his home in Osaka Prefecture on July 3, 2010. He was 90. (Kyodo)

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