2025 Silk Road Week to open July 11, showcasing grassland heritage
A poster for the 2025 Silk Road Week. [Photo/hangzhou.com.cn]
The 2025 Silk Road Week will open on July 11 at the China National Silk Museum in Hangzhou, local media outlets reported.
Under the theme "Silk Ties the Ages, Roads Network the World", the event will feature Brazil as the guest country and Inner Mongolia autonomous region as the guest province, highlighting cultural exchange across continents.
A major highlight is the special exhibition Boundless Green: The Grassland Silk Road (10th–12th Century), showcasing over 200 artifacts — more than 60 of which are national first-grade relics — unearthed from Liao Dynasty (916-1125) sites. The exhibition explores the integration of nomadic and agrarian civilizations along the grassland route.
Ji Xiaofen, curator of the museum, introduces this year's Silk Road Week at the briefing. [Photo/hangzhou.com.cn]
As part of the Silk Road Week's global outreach, the China National Silk Museum will co-host a cultural exhibition with Brazil's Immigration Museum in Sao Paulo this November. Titled Silk Connects Mountains and Seas: From the Land of Sericulture to the Country of Samba, the exhibition is among China's top international cultural promotion projects for 2025. A parallel silk art exhibition will also be held in Iguacu, Brazil, continuing the museum's global Silk Road Showcase series.