Showing posts with label lost cultures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lost cultures. Show all posts

Saturday, February 1, 2020

a shared ASEAN nationhood

At wonder | wander | world we travel to indulge curiosity in cultures and peoples, diverse and varied. An interactive and applied learning from the wonderful books that ignite and spark us originally.

Vishnu & Garuda sandstone statue

Museums and exhibits are an immersive way of recreate a past lost to us in this vastly changing world of ours. They allow us to time travel and shape shift through the world of our ancestors. 


The Lost Kingdoms exhibition at Muzium Negara in Kuala Lumpur features 103 exhibits (a mixture of real artifacts and replicas) which span over fourteen centuries and the twelve kingdoms of precolonial South East Asia.

Friday, October 9, 2015

buried treasure & lost identities

Whether looted by Ferdinand Magellan or Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines has been pillaged by its conquerors for countless years. Yet it still has the second largest gold deposit in the world. 


Some exquisite works are now on exhibit at Asia Society in New York City - Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms is a bittersweet testament to a rich culture and the greed that hounds it.