Battling the morning cold and rain, we managed to get through the gates around half seven to eight. We had to queue again once inside the museum compound. With white pieces of non real tickets printed "This is not a guarantee for tickets" and numbers of 512 and 513 indicating the number of people we were in the queue, there was a fair chance that we should be able to get the tickets this time. They have 700 on the day tickets that day.
Once inside the lobby, the queue continued. There were only 3 people working on the ticket counter for the first hour, and thus the queue. Lingering amongst the queue feeling bored, we then spotted a filming crew interviewing people in the queue. Not quite knowing who they were initially, they eventually approached us! They told us they were working on a video for the museum and would like to ask us a few questions. With the camera on us, we just tag along answering his somewhat very general questions like "How long were you in the queue", "What makes you visit the museum" blah blah blah. I wonder if our parts will ever get into the afore-mentioned video :).
Around quarter past nine, we finally bought our tickets! Went for the half 10 slot so that we can get some McDs breakfast before that. There were a lot of people in the circular exhibition hall. Many exhibits were like normal stuff you will see in China thb, pots and pans, music instruments, lifestyle stuff etc. The most interesting exhibit is a model potraying workers in the process of making the terracottas. There is sort of a defined route to follow throughout the exhibition and it eventually led visitors to the terracottas at the end of the route. There were only about 12 to 14 of them, and not all of them are perfectly unruined. I think the chariots are way cooler!
What amazed me most is not of the exhibits themselves, but the anxiety of visitors wanting to get into the exhibition. Ebay tickets can go up to fifty quid per ticket. The normal price is only twelve. And although the normal price is just another twelve quid, I just wonder what actually makes those people queue for hours just to get in??? (Btw, I queued merely because I couldn't get in the first time cos we got there at half 8 and the queue is unbelievably too long) While on the queue, I even saw people with sleeping bags. What on earth were they thinking!?
Photographs are not allowed in the exhibition hall and thus the following :)
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The queue outside, after the gates (left), Big ad banner for the "show"(right) | |
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Me on a cute template from my HTC (left), Terracotta figures made by some school kids displayed in the museum lobby (right) | |
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