Today's post will be more of a photo essay. I would like to apologize in advance for my terrible photography skills. I took a very enjoyable, if tiring, trip to the National Museum of China, the world's largest museum at two-million-square-feet. Most of the pictures you're going to see are from a permanent exhibition on ancient China. It spanned thousands of years, and included everything from fossils to cannons. It definitely toed the party line, not alluding to the thousands of years of conflict between the China's government and its minorities (
this article offers a better summation than I can provide). Enjoy!
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| The entry way, 850ft long, 100ft high |
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| A very cool model of an irrigation device |
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| A lamb |
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| A little man |
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| Not sure what this is, but its beautiful |
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| Probably my favorite thing, this is a scroll that features the names and likenesses of foreign envoys, along with a small blurb about their countries relationship with China |
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| This is a great example of glossing over history, in this case, the relationship between China and its minorities. |
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| Books! |
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| The headdress of an empress |
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| This is actually a thermometer |
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| This is just weird |
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| The man himself (Mao) |
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| I take that back, THIS is weird |
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| My favorite picture, its the profile of boat |
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| Me and the fellas |
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| Tienanmen Square |
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| The Tienanmen side of the museum |
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| Me. I had to prove I had been there. |
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