G20 'Phygital Museum' Displaying Replicas Of Mona Lisa Likely To Be Unveiled During Summit

India has envisioned a G20 Museum, 'Cultural Corridor', which will likely be unveiled during the Leaders Summit in September, according to media reports. The corridor will have at least one key artefact or its digital replica from all member nations and the nine guest countries.

Digital replicas of Mona Lisa, the 16th-century masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci which is hung at the Louvre Museum in Paris, and also of ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’, the famed oil painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, which is kept at a museum in the Netherlands are likely to be part of the novel ‘phygital’ museum, an idea of having a museum that will have both physical and digital components.

A senior official had recently said that the G20 museum was in a “very early phase of the project, and we are trying to source at least one key artefact from all member nations and the nine guest countries.” “So, we have requested these 28 countries if they can share at least one artefact or antiquity from their side which represents the culture of those countries for the G20. And, if that cannot be shared, then at least a digital replica can be shared, which can be showcased in the ‘digital corridor’ where cultural richness of the world can be portrayed,” the official had said, according to a report by PTI.

The G20 summit, an intergovernmental forum of world leaders, is slated to be held from September 8-10. India is the host country of the summit which comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkiye, the UK, the US, and the European Union (EU).