Story By: Georgina Jadikovska, Sub-Editor: Marija Stojkoska, Agency: Newsflash
A German exhibition centre is staging two world famous collections at the same time – ‘Body Worlds’ and the Chinese ‘Terracotta Army’.
Both exhibitions will be held at the Technikum centre in the city of Mulheim an der Ruhr in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Body Worlds is an exhibition consisting of ‘plastinated’ bodies, a technique developed in the late 1970s by Gunther von Hagens, 76, an anatomist from the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
It showcases dissected human bodies, animals, and other anatomical body parts preserved through the process of ‘plastination’.
Currently, around 180 exhibits are being set up in the centre, including numerous full-body pieces as well as partial plastinates, transparent body discs, and individual organs.
Local media said the exhibits were delivered in six 40-tonne trucks.
The exhibition, which has attracted over 50 million visitors worldwide, will be open on 26th March until 22nd August.
Even though thousands of tickets were sold in advance for prices between EUR 9 and 21 (GBP 7.7 and 18), only 50 visitors are allowed in at the same time due to current COVID-19 restrictions.
Additionally, the Terracotta Army, a Chinese archaeological sensation discovered in 1974, will also be exhibited in the same centre from 25th March.
The Terracotta Army is a collection of sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It represents a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC with the purpose of protecting him in the afterlife.
It was discovered on 29th March 1974 by a group of local peasants in drought-parched Shaanxi province in northwest China which triggered archaeologists to investigate further and discover long columns of warriors in over 600 pits across a 22-square-mile area.
Curator Burkard Pfrenzinger, 67, who brought the clay figures to Europe for the first time around 20 years ago, said: “We have set up 150 full-size replicas of warrior figures and horses from the Chinese Empire. They are all oven-fired in old clay ovens and weigh 150 to 460 kilogrammes (330 to 1,014 pounds).”
Visitors can view the exhibition until September 19th for between EUR 10 and 18 (GBP 8.6 and 15.5).
These are the first two exhibitions at the new Technikum centre after it recently changed location.
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