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Terracotta Army come to Vancouver Island!
by Rebecca Bliefernich on August 13, 2010 |
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The following message is from the Victoria tourism newsletter I receive - and since it's unlikely that I'll ever make it to China, I think I will do my best to get up to Vancouver Island during this exhibition!
"The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army will be on display at the Royal BC Museum from December 23, 2011 to April 22, 2012. The exhibition will feature over 250 artifacts, dating to the first millennium BC. Among them are 10 full-sized, complete terracotta sculptures depicting a wide range of military and civic personnel include generals, soldiers, an archer, an acrobat, a cavalryman, charioteer and two full scale horses. Notably, the exhibition features two of the nine terracotta generals ever recovered from the terracotta pits.
The presentation includes numerous stellar objects making their North American debut, including a striking wall painting from the Emperor’s Palace; numerous gold objects; a bronze ritual vessel describing the history of a noble family that served the Kings of Zhou in 8th century BC; and a beautifully painted and decorated tomb gate. Other objects from the First Emperor’s tomb include a suit of stone-plaque armour and a life-sized bronze swan. Loaned by 16 of the most important archaeological institutes and museums across Shaanxi Province, nearly thirty per cent of the exhibition’s featured objects have never before traveled outside China.
The discovery of the Terracotta Army in 1974 was only the beginning of great finds at the site – now known to be the largest tomb complex in the world. New discoveries concerning the Emperor’s tomb itself, still to be excavated, will be revealed in the exhibition.
The archaeological site is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, alongside the Pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, and Pompeii. This exhibition presents a rare opportunity to see an international treasure. The Royal BC Museum will host the largest exhibition on the Terracotta Army ever to have left China – greater even than the presentation at the British Museum in 2007 that set records in the United Kingdom. "
My birthday is in April - I think a road trip is in order!!!
Comments:
| by Denise Vogel on August 20, 2010 |
| Great info Rebecca. I will be going up to see them as well in the Spring!!!!! |
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