The pious Lord Ganesha, the God of wisdom and remover of obstacles, will be making a blessed visit to the United Kingdom. The British Museum (BM), is organising a touring exhibition touted as, “Celebrating Ganesha”.
The Lord Ganesha exhibit will be touring 5 British museums; Bradford Cartwright Hall, County Durham Bowes Museum, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Horniman in London, and London Brent Museum. The exhibition which commenced on 16th January 2016, will go on until August 2017.
A 13th century 119cm tall schist sculpture of Lord Ganesha carved in Odisha is one of the main highlights of this exhibition.
Raj Zed, President of Universal Society of Hinduism, has urged major global art museums, such as Musee du Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as the Tate Modern of London, to frequently hold Hindu art exhibitions to familiarise and share the rich Hindu art heritage with the rest of the world.
