Singapore's ACM Partners With Louvre To Showcase Islamic Art Masterpieces From June 19

SINGAPORE, June 16 (Bernama) -- The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) in Singapore will host the “Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Art” exhibition in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, Paris, from June 19, 2026 to Jan 24, 2027.

In a statement, ACM said the exhibition features 100 masterpieces from the Louvre's Islamic art collection alongside 30 works from ACM.

It traces how trade, diplomacy, migration, and artistic exchange shaped a cosmopolitan world stretching from Istanbul and Isfahan to Delhi and Southeast Asia.

ACM and Peranakan Museum director Clement Onn said the partnership with the Louvre brings some of the world’s finest works of Islamic art to Singapore, with many on view in Southeast Asia for the first time.

"By placing these works in conversation with objects from ACM’s own collection, the exhibition highlights the artistic and cultural connections that have linked Southeast Asia with the wider Islamic world over many centuries.

"It also brings Southeast Asia more clearly into view within this larger story, showing the region’s important place in the trade, diplomatic, and cultural networks that connected Asia across vast distances," he said on Tuesday.

The exhibition will open at the same time as the signing of the Singapore-France Roadmap on Cultural Cooperation, Onn added.

According to ACM, the exhibition presents art collections between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries by the Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman empires, which emerged as major artistic and cultural centres.

Artists across these empires blended influences from China to Europe, creating distinctive visual languages that produced some of the finest works of Islamic art.

"Among these masterpieces is an Ottoman jade cup from the royal collection of Louis XIV, which was displayed at the Palace of Versailles before entering the Louvre in 1796," it said.

-- BERNAMA