China’s Terracotta Army at the British Museum
Advance tickets are now on sale for the next big exhibition opening at the British Museum in September, The First Emperor:China’s Terracotta Army, looking at the life and legacy of Qin Shihuangdi China’s first Emperor.
A king by the time he was 13, Qin Shihuangdi brought together warring states in China and created a uniform system of law, money, weights and measures and the construction of the Great Wall began in his reign. He ruled a unified China as emperor from 221BC to 210BC and when he died he was buried with an army of over 8,000 life-size figures to protect him in the afterlife.
The burial took place in Xian in eastern China and remained undiscovered until 1974 when local peasants stumbled across it. 12 of the excavated figures along with 120 other items have been flown from China as part of the British Museum’s exhibition. Also over the next few months inconjunction with The First Emperor the museum is also holding a number of events, lectures and debates on how the China Qin created has survived and developed.
The First Emperor:China’s Terracotta Army runs from 13 September 2007 - 6 April 2008 and entry is by a timed ticket available either online at the British Museum website or by phone on +44 (0)20 7323 8181. Tickets cost £12.
The British Museum is on Great Russell Street, with the nearest Tubes Holborn and Tottenham Court Road.
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The First emperor exhibition was disappointing,
especially in view of the advertising hype.
The setting and display did nothing to enhance interest. The bland use of colour schemes, and lighting made everything so mediocre, creams and browns and white. Then the circular room needed a congestion charge at each display, saved only by those who folked out an additional charge for earphones on top of the £12. It would have been better if the overhead was covered by a display of stars, instead of the domed roof of the british library, famous round room, it detracted from the ground. With so few statues on display, standing on cream floor tiles, the lack of contrast did nothing for the statues. There should have been some chinese music in the background, a running display of chinese lanterns,
and symbolic flags, perhaps even the floor could have had projections of a river. It looks as those the budget was eaten by the transport costs,
because the tacky white projector sheets that ran around the walls, gave it a sense of a building site. It could have been more interesting to reproduce a pit with the soldiers and with holograms to make up the army. I would not recommend it, better to save up and go to China,
at least the ticket will be justifies