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# Uzbekistan visits Paris ... again
- URL: https://www.turathdispatch.org/uzbekistan-visits-paris-again/
- Published: 2026-10-06T08:59:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T08:59:46.000Z
- Author: The Dispatch Team

**CIVILISATION EXPLAINED**

*Two major exhibitions of Uzbek heritage have already toured Paris. The Center's conference at UNESCO headquarters this week is less a debut than a third chapter.*

It is tempting, watching a delegation prepare for this week's conference at UNESCO headquarters, to describe it as Uzbekistan's heritage arriving in Paris. It isn't. Paris has already hosted two substantial exhibitions of Uzbek heritage in the past few years, at two of the city's most prestigious cultural institutions, and for several months in 2022 and 2023 they were running at the same time.

**The Louvre, 2022 to 2023**

“Treasures of the Oases of Uzbekistan” opened at the Louvre in November 2022 and ran through March 2023\. A slot at the Louvre is not something offered lightly, and its use for Central Asian material, rather than the more familiar territory of Egypt, Mesopotamia or classical antiquity - was itself a statement about where Uzbekistan's heritage now sits in the international museum world.

**The Arab World Institute, overlapping**

A second exhibition, “Road to Samarkand: Miracles of Silk and Gold,” opened the same month at the Institut du Monde Arabe and ran until June 2023, outlasting the Louvre show by three months. For roughly four months, both exhibitions were open in Paris at once: a visitor could see Uzbek material at two flagship institutions on the same afternoon.

**What that does to the framing now**

None of this is a reason to undersell the new conference - it is a different kind of event, aimed at a different audience, built around the Center's own institutional work rather than a loan exhibition. But it does mean the accurate way to describe it is as a continuation, not an introduction. Paris has had four years to develop an interest in Uzbekistan's heritage before anyone from the Center walks into a UNESCO conference room this month, and that interest was earned the ordinary way: two major shows, at two major institutions, that ran long enough for Paris audiences to actually see them.