Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room. Photo via WikiCommons

After closing its Chelsea home last fall , where it had operated for 20 years, the Rubin Museum is relocating one of its most beloved installations to the Brooklyn Museum. Opening on June 11 in a custom-designed space within the museum’s Arts of Asia galleries, the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room features over 100 artworks and ritual objects from the Rubin’s collection, presented as they would be in a private household shrine. The installation will be on view for six years, with rotating objects highlighting different Tibetan traditions.

The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room was one of the most popular exhibits at the museum’s former home on 17th Street; according to the Rubin, more than one million people visited from the yea

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