The Mogao Grottos: Taking the Long View of Cultural Heritage
April 13, 2017 |
The World Heritage site of the Mogao Grottoes is China’s preeminent ancient Buddhist site on the Silk Road, comprising nearly 500 cave temples (4th and the 14th centuries) with wall paintings and sculpture. The Getty Conservation Institute has been working with the Dunhuang Academy since 1989 on strategies to conserve and manage the site, using as guidelines the Principles for the Conservation of Heritage Sites in China developed at the national level. This multifaceted project, now in its twenty-eighth year of partnership exemplifies many of the challenges and opportunities that have animated cultural heritage preservation in China in the last three decades, but need also be seen through the historical perspective of Mogao’s revival and re-emergence as cultural heritage beginning in 1900.
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