The Director of the China National Silk Museum, Dr ZHAO Feng signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Mr. Samariddin Mustafokulov, Director of Samarkand State Museum-Reserve of Uzbekistan on May 12, 2022.
The MOU, a first between the two museums, will last for five years. It stipulates the long-term exchanges of exhibitions of silk, textile, costume, and silk road related themes between two museums, and the first joint exhibition "Silk and Silk Road: From Hangzhou to Samarkand" will be held in June in Samarkand.
The two museums also reach an agreement of bilateral cooperation regarding the joint projects; academic and educational events, exchanges of staff and knowledge; participation of State Museum in the Silk Road Online Museum initiated by NSM.
