Museums are known for showcasing any type of history whether its art, state history, or even dark historical museums are helpful in relearning or even revisiting history. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis recently received a new exhibit called the, Terra Cotta Warriors, which exhibits actual terra cotta warriors found that were sealed in order to protect China’s first emperor in his afterlife. The emperor had thousands upon thousands built in order to ensure he would be safe after his passing. It’s even believed that there are more than 8,000 warriors. The Terra Cotta exhibit made its first appearance in the States at the Children’s Museum. The exhibit itself is astounding. The techniques that the curators designed the exhibit were functional
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The speaker in both the videos was a woman and she was very relaxed while speaking and gave a calm feeling to the whole exhibit. The author for the exhibit was unnamed as well. The exhibit itself was very engaging and conversational. There were multiple ways for you to look and engage yourself with the warriors and to get a sense of how they were created. It was conversational in the sense that all the information that was given created a topic of interest. I went with another anthropology major and the whole time we talked about the techniques that were used in order to facilitate the actual exhibit and how much we actually learned from being in the exhibit for about thirty minutes to an hour. It created discussion after exiting the museum as well because we talked about why the ceremonial mound had not been dug up yet and if it is a good decision to let all that history still lay there untouched. I feel like the main message to take away from the exhibit was to learn about the creation of the Terra Cotta Warriors and to showcase their findings. It gives people who come to the exhibit knew knowledge of a time that is barely known about. It also gives a discussion topic as to why the ceremonial mound had not been excavated on yet. The exhibit itself was more of an explanatory exhibit and gave details of how the warriors were created and why they were
The speaker in both the videos was a woman and she was very relaxed while speaking and gave a calm feeling to the whole exhibit. The author for the exhibit was unnamed as well. The exhibit itself was very engaging and conversational. There were multiple ways for you to look and engage yourself with the warriors and to get a sense of how they were created. It was conversational in the sense that all the information that was given created a topic of interest. I went with another anthropology major and the whole time we talked about the techniques that were used in order to facilitate the actual exhibit and how much we actually learned from being in the exhibit for about thirty minutes to an hour. It created discussion after exiting the museum as well because we talked about why the ceremonial mound had not been dug up yet and if it is a good decision to let all that history still lay there untouched. I feel like the main message to take away from the exhibit was to learn about the creation of the Terra Cotta Warriors and to showcase their findings. It gives people who come to the exhibit knew knowledge of a time that is barely known about. It also gives a discussion topic as to why the ceremonial mound had not been excavated on yet. The exhibit itself was more of an explanatory exhibit and gave details of how the warriors were created and why they were