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Since
its official inauguration in 1961, the Sursock Museum has
organized and presented eighty-four exhibitions. These
occasional events represent the main activity of the museum.
Their list (published in chronological
order-in the Retrospective section) demonstrates the
vitality of a varied program whose guidelines, firmly set in
the first days, are still followed. |
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Thus, the traditional Fall Exhibition, launched in 1961 and
dedicated to Lebanese painters and sculptors, is still held
each year. Twenty-two Exhibitions have followed one another
since 1961, confirming and revealing talents in various
fields of expression. |
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By
giving the artists the possibility of presenting their
latest creations in a stimulating confrontation, the
Exhibition offers the public the opportunity to follow and
appreciate the evolution of the fine arts in Lebanon.
A selection jury (open to Lebanese artists and foreign
artists established in Lebanon) reinforced by traditional
masters, young contemporaries, different prizes and
acquisitions, has established this Exhibition as one of
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major
events of the country's artistic life, in spite of stormy
behind the scene talks, controversies and inevitable
protests.
Nonetheless, its most important victory
resides in the numerous visits of young people, school and
university students led by their teachers, who swarm over
the museum day after day during six weeks. It is worth
mentioning in this respect that the Sursock Museum has
organized educational exhibitions intended for young people
ever since the beginning.
The collections were made by the Unesco and consisted of 750
reproductions of world-famous master-pieces. They allowed
the setting-up of the first imaginary museum in Beirut in
1957. |
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