Promotional short created to advertise the groundbreaking exhibition ‘Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art
The exhibition featured an immersive, mixed-reality HoloLens tour, digital galleries depicting life-size 3D models of the eight gods of Phnom Da, alongside multiple stone sculptures, some displayed for the first time since their restoration.
Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain presents the story, context, and new restoration of a masterwork in the museum’s collection, Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan. The 1,500-year-old stone sculpture from Cambodia, larger than life size, depicts the young Hindu god in the superhuman act of shielding his people from destruction.
In partnership with the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh and the Angkor Borei Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art is displaying the newly restored work alongside other large-scale early sculptures from Phnom Da, generously lent from the National Museum and the Musée national des arts asiatiques–Guimet in Paris.