Ancient China Exhibition in Szeged Attracts Great Interest

Almost 62,000 people visited the Ancient China exhibition in Szeged (southern Hungary), which closed its doors on Sunday, making it one of the most successful events of the Móra Ferenc Museum.

On May 26, 2023, the Palace of Culture in Szeged opened an exhibition of clay soldiers guarding the tomb of the first Chinese emperor, Qin Si Huang-ti, followed by an exhibition opening on the Night of Museums (June 24), bringing together several Chinese public collections to evoke the Han Dynasty. One of the most interesting objects in the exhibition was a full-body funerary armor made of some two thousand pieces of polished jade. Such armor was only used for the funerals of the highest ranking deceased.

In the days between the two holidays and in the last week, the exhibition attracted huge crowds, making it one of the most visited exhibitions in the Móra Ferenc Museum.

The Chinese curators started working on the artworks from Shanghai the morning after the exhibition closed. One by one, the works were removed from the display cases, carefully packed and placed in special transport crates by the museum staff.

However, the other part of the exhibition, the clay soldiers, have not yet left Szeged. After the artifacts from Shanghai are removed, the museum will take a short break, and then

the clay soldiers will be part of a new exhibition at the Palace of Culture in Szeged from the end of January,

the museum’s press officer said.

Via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/Móra Ferenc Múzeum