The British Museum is running a series of events for half-term based around the blockbusting First Emperor exhibition. Our two Young Graduates for Museums and Galleries interns, Helen Etheridge and Dominic Coyne, have come back to help out and are presently engaged in:
- leading people to story telling,
- helping children build an Imperial City
- build their own clay warriors (see the flickr photo stream of Mark Frith for examples.)
These workshops were lead by Mark Frith and Sue Pritchard and were constantly packed whenever we went across to the Great Court.
The Museum’s website describes the events as:
Explore the life and afterlife of China’s First Emperor. Help build an imperial city and join the workforce making a miniature terracotta army.
These and other exciting activities are free and run as drop-in sessions in the Great Court, the Clore Education Centre and the Chinese galleries. Full details of the daily activity programme will be available from the Paul Hamlyn Library each morning.
If you are planning to come and visit the exhibition, as well as join in with these activities, it is imperative to book tickets in advance. Unless you get to the Museum early, you are unlikely to get a ticket….it is worth it!
OpenCalais helped to tag this with: British Museum • china • Clore Education Centre • Dominic Coyne • Great Court • Helen Etheridge • Mark Frith • Paul Hamlyn Library • Sue Pritchard • Terracotta Army
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What a great idea for the children.
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Cameron — February 13, 2008 @ 3:19 pm