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Explore the Visual history of yoga at Smithsonian

Washington: Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex here, is launching a major crowdfunding campaign May 29 to support what it calls the world's first exhibition on the visual history of yoga."Yoga: The Art

IANS Published : May 17, 2013 11:12 IST, Updated : May 17, 2013 12:41 IST


Exhibition highlights include an installation that reunites for the first time three monumental stone yogini goddesses from a 10th century south Indian temple, 10 folios from the first illustrated compilation of asanas (yogic postures) made for a Mughal emperor in 1602 and ever before exhibited in the US and a Thomas Edison film, Hindoo Fakir (1906), the first movie produced about India.

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