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Macau\u2019s image is often defined by its huge casino developments<\/span>, but with Baroque churches and Buddhist temples with Chinese-style tiled roofs standing side-by-side in its narrow backstreets, the former Portuguese colony also has a long history of serving as a crossroads where Chinese and Western cultures meet.<\/div>\n

As one of Macau\u2019s landmark cultural destinations \u2013 and the only museum in the region built entirely around the Silk Road \u2013 Poly MGM Museum\u2019s \u201cSilk Roads Beyond Borders\u201d enters a fresh phase with three major additions. New Italian and Persian treasures make their Asia debut, illuminating centuries of exchange. Macau\u2019s history as a major node of the Maritime Silk Road gives that mission a natural foundation. \u201cThat gives our work a level of authenticity that cannot be manufactured,\u201d says Cristina Kuok, senior vice-president of arts and cultural development at MGM.<\/p>\n

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The preface hall inside Poly MGM Museum\u2019s \u201cSilk Roads Beyond Borders\u201d exhibition. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Building on Macau\u2019s legacy as a historic port of trade, the Poly MGM Museum hosted its Silk Roads Cultural Exchange Programme 2026 on April 11, including the signing of memorandums of understanding with five institutions from Beijing, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi and Guangdong. \u201cOur aim is to keep the Silk Road alive as a story of exchange, imagination and shared humanity,\u201d says Kuok.<\/p>\n

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Cristina Kuok, senior vice-president of arts and cultural development at MGM. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In addition, the museum announced an upcoming exhibition set to debut in the fourth quarter of the year, \u201cConfluence in Glass: East-West Artistry Across Time\u201d, presented in collaboration with the National Museum of China and Shandong\u2019s Zibo Ceramic and Glass Museum. It will feature more than 180 works tracing three millennia of Chinese Zibo glassmaking craftsmanship.<\/p>\n

\u201cVisitors will encounter carefully considered juxtapositions where Eastern and Western glass pieces are placed side-by-side, revealing both contrasts in aesthetic language and shared mastery of technique,\u201d Kuok explains.<\/p>\n

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The facade of Poly MGM Museum in Macau. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Poly MGM\u2019s ongoing \u201cSilk Roads Beyond Borders\u201d exhibition, which opened in October 2025, will also expand with the addition of a Persian Farahan carpet from the Museu Medeiros e Almeida in Lisbon, as well as 18th century works by Venetian School masters Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, and Michele Marieschi, both on loan from The Paolo and Carolina Zani Foundation of Art and Culture in Brescia, Italy, with support from the Consulate General of Italy.<\/p>\n

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Persian Ferahan carpet from the Museu Medeiros e Almeida in Lisbon on display beside MGM\u2019s Dragon Patterned Throne Carpet. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

They capture Venice \u2013 a key European gateway for Silk Road goods \u2013 at the height of its mercantile power. Displayed alongside Chinese silk and porcelain, these works show how aesthetics travelled. \u201cThese works remind us that cultural exchange was never abstract,\u201d Kuok says. \u201cIt was lived and felt across cities like Venice and the other Silk Road regions represented in our exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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