Alexander Sedov: “We Tell People about Their Culture”

An interview with Alexander V. Sedov, the Director-General of The State Museum of Oriental Art devoted to the launch of the new master’s program of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN) and the Department of Oriental History of the Institute of Oriental Studies Russian Academy of Sciences “Socio-Cultural Development of East Asian Countries”, which is headed by Alexander Sedov as an academic curator (Dinara V. Dubrovskaya, the head of the Department of Oriental History of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, is the supervisor of the program). The interview focused on the attractiveness of the Eastern art and culture and their broadcasting to a wider audience through the exhibitions of the Oriental museum, reaching the level of discussion of the problems of preserving cultural heritage, questions of the feasibility and relevance of museumification of archaeological sites such as Palmyra in Syria, monuments in Oman and Yemen.