Your Photos on Flickr

In the coming weeks, please pay special attention to our new Flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1264669@N21/.

Our photographers and bloggers from the Sneak Preview Day will be contributing there and if you have relevant TCW images, please contribute as well. You will not be allowed to photograph in the museum but we would still love to see your photos with Chi Chang or in the masks. Help us capture your memories, tell us your story and share the excitement of the exhibit with others! If you would like to write a story and contribute it to the blog, please email: terracottawarriorexhibit @ gmail (dot) com

 

Announcing the Selected Photographs, part II

For seven months prior to the opening of Terra Cotta Warriors, the National Geographic Museum held an online photo challenge using the photo-sharing site Flickr. Over 300 images were submitted by people describing their photos from their interactions with the warriors, here.

Our second contributor, Steve Cherrier, has contributed this photograph which will be on display during the second half of Terra Cotta Warriors.

 

Announcing the Selected Photographs

For seven months prior to the opening of Terra Cotta Warriors, the National Geographic Museum held an online photo challenge using the photo-sharing site Flickr. Over 300 images were submitted by people describing their photos from their interactions with the warriors, here.

We have chosen two of those photos to be on display during the exhibit. The first comes courtesy of Jordi Cordina.

In his words:
“During my travels to China, I visited Xi’an with the terracotta warriors in mind. Until I saw it, I couldn’t imagine the magnitude of the monument. There were hundreds of those statues, each one different from the others. The vastness and uniqueness of the work impressed me, so I felt that I had to bring at home a more detailed view of one of those warriors. I was lucky to visit an exhibit near the archaeological deposit, and took a portrait of one warrior. The dimmed light and the vision of the warrior seemed to capture the ancient times when this monument was constructed.”

Sneak Preview—-

We have been able to take a few photos of the warriors as they are being unloaded from the crates. If you follow us on facebook, you may have seen them. If not, enjoy now:

You wear the mask!

Download this mask:
http://theterracottawarriors.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/terra-cotta-mask/masks_web1/ (click on the small link on this page).

Take a photo of yourself in the mask and we will post it on the blog.

Thanks to our fan, Jeff Norman, for sending in his photo!

Our FREE exhibition e-guide

Have you had a chance to check out the free e-guide that we created to help you prepare for the exhibit? You can download it free, Terra Cotta Warriors E-book .

We encourage you to share this with others, post it on your blog and bring it into your classroom. Become an expert on terra cotta warriors and then tell us how you shared your knowledge with others. If you have posted the e-guide on your blog, link back here. If you brought it into your classroom, share where.

We’d love to hear your story.

Fans Try Out the Mask!

Thank you Carolyn for sharing your photo! We love to see other people aren’t afriad to put on the mask at work.

Viking River Cruise Giveaway

Viking River Cruises, one of our sponsors for the upcoming exhibit has graciously donated a free cruise! We are just as excited as you are, even though museum staff aren’t allowed to enter.

Check out the contest here: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/terracottawarriors/specialevents.html (scroll to the middle/bottom of the page).

Flickr Contest

In conjunction with its upcoming exhibition Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor, National Geographic Museum is running a photo challenge to find your very best terra cotta warrior photographs. Have you visited the First Emperor’s tomb in Xi’an, China? Do you have fantastic photographs of the warriors, horses, chariots, or any of the remarkable archaeological finds? Submit your photos here.

Please upload photos that match our theme and continue to check back. We will periodically review the images and select photos to feature on our blog and the best photo will featured at the museum during the exhibition!

Terra Cotta Warriors will be on view in Washington, DC from November 19, 2009 – March 31, 2010.

And just in case you missed it, the e-book. TerraCottaWarriorsE-book

Terra Cotta Mask

Frankly, you could have your family pictures taken in a terra cotta mask. Or you could have a whole classroom do it. Or you could have a whole school do it. Or…… really the possibilities are endless.

The best part is, if you send me your pictures in the mask, I’ll post them. Yes, instant internet fame.

Terra Cotta Warrior Mask

And the e-guide, just in case you weren’t paying attention:
TerraCottaWarriorsE-book