China National Silk Museum Opens the Photography Exhibition “Cycling the Silk Road: From Morocco to China”

HANGZHOU, China, May 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On April 29, 2026, the images exhibition Cycling the Silk Road: From Morocco to China opened on the Fashion Gallery of the China National Silk Museum. The exhibition serves as a prelude to the 2026 Silk Road Week, for which Morocco is the Guest Country of Honor. His Excellency Abdelkader El Ansari, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to China, and photographer Karim Mosta attended the opening ceremony.

Centered on the transcontinental biking journey of Moroccan endurance athlete and traveler Karim Mosta, the exhibition presents 50 documentary pictures capturing his journey from Casablanca to Beijing in 2024. Over the course of seven months, he cycled roughly 15,000 kilometers throughout 15 nations, traversing Africa, Europe, and Asia. Through his lens, huge landscapes, border cities, native communities, and on a regular basis encounters are introduced collectively into a recent “Silk Road” formed by motion, change, and human connection.

The exhibition additionally attracts on a deeper historic resonance. In the 14th century, the famend Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta journeyed throughout Eurasia and reached China, forsaking one in every of historical past’s most celebrated journey accounts. More than seven centuries later, Karim Mosta revisits this route by bicycle, reinterpreting an historic community of change by a recent lens. His journey displays not solely bodily endurance, but in addition curiosity, openness, and a spirit of exploration that continues to attach societies in the present day.

As the Guest Country of Honor of the 2026 Silk Road Week, Morocco will take part in a sequence of collaborative packages collectively organized by the China National Silk Museum and Moroccan cultural establishments. These initiatives will embody conventional costume exhibitions, tutorial exchanges, vogue design collaborations, and runway displays impressed by Silk Road histories and materials cultures. The exhibition serves as an introduction to those packages, contributing to ongoing cultural dialogue between China and Morocco.

Visitors are invited to interact with cultures and landscapes by the pictures, whereas reflecting on the Silk Road’s enduring values of change, mutual understanding, and shared humanity. The exhibition will stay on view by July 31, 2026.

SOURCE China National Silk Museum