The Xi'an warriors are a little closer to the MARQ and a ambitious international project. The alicante delegation visiting China These days, he has taken the first steps to bring the famous terracotta army to the Alicante in 2019.
The delegation from the Alicante museum, headed by the deputy for Culture, César Augusto AsencioThis week, he met with representatives of the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center and of the Shaanxi National Museum of HistoryThe Chinese institution has expressed its enthusiasm for exchanging cultural projects with the MARQ. In fact, as Asencio explained, "this is the first time that the Chinese institution has established cultural exchange relations with Spanish museums, and for the Diputación de Alicante it is an important reward for the constant effort and support that we have dedicated to making the archaeological and monumental heritage of humanity available to the people of Alicante. Now we have taken a very important step, although there are many more to come, and we are ready to move forward until we achieve the dream of exhibiting the warriors in the MARQ".
The MARQ's cultural delegation, also made up of its technical director, Manuel Olcinathe managing director, José Alberto Cortésand the Director of Exhibitions, Jorge Solerhas visited the monumental mausoleum of Qin ShihuangChina's first emperor, which houses the Imperial Terracotta Army. recognised in 1987 as World Heritage. So far in Xi'an, more than 8,000 soldiers slightly larger than life-size, dressed in uniforms in accordance with their rank, wearing armour, painted in bright colours - though little remains of these pigments - and each with a different face.
The Shaanxi National Museum of History, open to the public in 1991The history of the imperial past and was designed in the style of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) of ancient China. One of the eight most important state museums, it has a collection of more than 1.7 million objects on display and receives more than three million visitors a year.
