Two treasures from the Shanghai Museum go on display at the Athens Acropolis Museum

Two treasures from the Shanghai Museum were put on display on Friday at the Athens Acropolis Museum for an exhibition which will last until April 30, 2018.

Greeks and foreign visitors will have the opportunity to admire two outstanding items which traveled to Greece as part of a memorandum of cooperation signed between the two museums and the 2017 Greece-China Year of Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation in Creative Industries.

During an opening event on Friday the two masterpieces were presented by officials from the Acropolis museum and Shanghai Museum.

A hand scroll painting with ink and color on paper created by artist Wu Hong during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) now greets visitors at the entrance of the Acropolis Museum at the foot of the sacred hill of the Athens Acropolis.

Next to the composition, which is entitled Traveling along the Clear Water, is the Zi Zhong Jiang Pan, inside of which there are figures of aquatic birds, frogs, turtles and fish.

Dating back to the 7th century BC, the bronze vessel was made for Princess Zi Zhong Jiang and is considered one of the most important exhibits at the Shanghai Museum.

According to the cooperation between the two museums, two exquisite objects from the Acropolis Museum will be exhibited at the Chinese museum from January 11 to April 8, 2018.

The two antiquities loaned are a marble statue of a Kore (520-510 BC), one of the most beautiful and well preserved sculptures of the Acropolis, which retains traces of its archaic colors, and a red-figure lekanida lid with a Dionysian scene (350325 BC).

The exchange of the exhibits between the two museums is the first of many events outlined in the cultural exchange agreement.