First Emperor
Oct. 15th, 2007 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
williamjmYesterday I went round the British Museum's 'First Emperor' exhibition - an exhibition based around some of the Terracotta Warriors that the museum have somehow managed to get China to loan them for the first time. It was an interesting exhibition and the Terracotta Warriors are strangely fascinating - they're very lifelike for statues that having been buried underground for the last 2000+ years. If I ever go to China I'll definitely make sure that I go see the full thousands-strong army of them at Xi'an.
I was slightly amused by one of the video subtitles they had explaining how the King of Qin declared himself Emperor of China [i]and the entire Universe[/i]. Say one thing for the First Emperor, say he wasn't short of ambition.
Before that I went around some of the other parts of the British Museum (I'd never actually been inside before). It was interesting, although looking at the map afterwards I realise that I only saw a tiny fraction of it. I'll have to go back sometime (particularly since it's free apart from special exhibitions like the First Emperor thing).
Annoyingly the trains from Cambridge to London continue to be partially replaced by buses at weekends, so it took about 2 hours to get back from London to Cambridge instead of the standard 45 minutes. Hopefully they're going to stop doing their engineering works sometime.
I was slightly amused by one of the video subtitles they had explaining how the King of Qin declared himself Emperor of China [i]and the entire Universe[/i]. Say one thing for the First Emperor, say he wasn't short of ambition.
Before that I went around some of the other parts of the British Museum (I'd never actually been inside before). It was interesting, although looking at the map afterwards I realise that I only saw a tiny fraction of it. I'll have to go back sometime (particularly since it's free apart from special exhibitions like the First Emperor thing).
Annoyingly the trains from Cambridge to London continue to be partially replaced by buses at weekends, so it took about 2 hours to get back from London to Cambridge instead of the standard 45 minutes. Hopefully they're going to stop doing their engineering works sometime.
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Date: 2007-10-16 03:52 pm (UTC)The BM is awesome in some ways - in others it is extremely irritating, although my issues are more to do with the London National Museums as a whole.