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Smithsonian Teams Up with Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Project Amid Growing Cultural Ambitions

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May 17, 2025
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Smithsonian Teams Up with Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Project Amid Growing Cultural Ambitions
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The Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of Asian Artwork (NMAA) has signed a partnership settlement with Saudi Arabia’s Royal Fee for AlUla, increasing a quiet however strategic collaboration that’s been underway behind the scenes for 2 years.

In accordance with the Art Newspaper, the deal, signed this week by NMAA director Chase Robinson and RCU chief govt Abeer Al Akel, outlines joint efforts in archaeological analysis, exhibition loans, and curatorial trade.

On the coronary heart of the partnership is Dadan—as soon as the capital of the Lihyanite and Dadanite civilizations, and a important cease on the Incense Highway, an historical commerce community that stretched from India to the Mediterranean. The Saudi authorities has prioritized Dadan’s preservation as a part of its push to rebrand the dominion as a world cultural vacation spot.

“Our curatorial and conservation groups have already been working with AlUla on analysis round lately unearthed statues,” Robinson stated in a press release. “This subsequent stage will enable us to deepen that work and construct long-term skilled networks.”

The settlement spans three classes: joint conservation and analysis in archaeology, artwork, and historical past; exhibition planning and artifact loans; {and professional} improvement in areas like curatorial analysis and museum administration.

The deal is the newest in a string of cultural partnerships Saudi Arabia has fashioned with establishments world wide—together with the Centre Pompidou, the Andy Warhol Museum, Unesco, and the Desert X biennial—as a part of its Imaginative and prescient 2030 financial diversification plan. Whereas these efforts have helped place AlUla as a rising cultural hotspot, they’ve additionally attracted criticism as a type of “artwashing,” as a approach to deflect consideration from the nation’s file on human rights, together with the homicide of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The Smithsonian-AlUla deal comes simply days after the Trump administration announced a commitment from Saudi Arabia to take a position $600 billion in the USA, together with an enormous arms deal: $142 million that can present Saudi Arabia with “state-of-the-art warfighting gear and providers from over a dozen U.S. protection corporations.”



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