Mawangdui Han Tombs Exhibition Comes to Dalian

Exhibition poster

Hunan Provincial Museum, despite of its reconstruction over the recent years, has strived to deliver HuXiang culture and actively cooperate with other museums. Recently, “Mawangdui Han Tombs” special exhibition jointly launched by Hunan Provincial Museum and Dalian Modern Museum opened in Dalian on September 19, 2014. There are in total 120 pieces (sets) of objects selected for the exhibition, providing Dalian citizens a great opportunity to appreciate the luxurious life of the nobles in ancient Changsha Kingdom (202B.C.—7A.D.) in Han Dynasty.

Staffs at work

The 3 tombs of the Western Han Dynasty unearthed from Mawangdui (in Changsha) during 1972—1974 was considered as one of the most significant archeological discoveries in 20th century. To share the precious heritage with people around the world, Hunan Provincial Museum has organized relevant exhibitions in Europe and America etc as well as travelling exhibitions at some domestic cities such as Tianjin, Taiyuan(in Shanxi province) and Chengdu (in Sichuan province). The special exhibition in Dalian is the first one held in Northeast China.

In consideration of the long distance between Hunan and Dalian, staffs in both museums have made tremendous efforts to do the preliminary work such as packaging and transportation. Besides, to keep the items intact in Dalian whose climate is quite different from Changsha, Hunan Provincial Museum has attached importance to data gathering and monitoring. The museum also sent to Dalian several professional staffs and special facilities used for environmental monitoring. These experts from Hunan will help colleagues in Dalian with the arrangement of the exhibition.

Exhibition gallery

On the first day of the exhibition, according to statistics, Dalian Modern Museum received over 5000 visitors. The special exhibition will be free to public from October 19 until December 7, lasting 80 days.