Uzbek Ambassador to the US, Brazil, and Canada Javlon Vakhabov on January 31 visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to meet with its Deputy Director for Exhibitions Quincy Houghton.

Reportedly, Quincy Houghton expressed the museum’s interest in cooperating with Uzbek galleries to deepen the knowledge of the intangible cultural heritage of the Central Asian republic as well as the readiness to study the concept of two Uzbek art exhibitions in Paris’s Louvre museum and Arab World Institute.

As part of his visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ambassador Javlon Vakhabov was also given a tour of the Islamic Art Gallery:

The Metropolitan's Islamic Art collection ranges from the seventh to the twenty-first century. Its more than 15,000 objects reflect the great diversity and range of the cultural traditions of Islam, with works from as far westward as Spain and Morocco and eastward as Central Asia and Indonesia.