Skip Navigation

Armoured general, terracotta

Armoured general, terracotta

Explore the British Museum

 

Explore: Highlights

Armoured general, terracotta

Armoured general

Explore: Mystery object

Mystery object 

Why was this object made? What does it tell us?

Explore: Online tours

Chinese jade


Chinese jade: discover 7,000 years of China's most highly-prized material...



Visiting

Admission is free

Open every day 10.00-17.30
Open late Thursdays and Fridays

Zwiedzanie  |  Besucher  | Visites 
Visita al museo  |  Visita
आगमन  |  見学 

British Museum online shop

  British Museum online shop

 

Great Court at night Events

Thursday 8 November
13.15 The First Emperor: curator's introduction arrow

Wednesday 14 November
19.00 The Guardian debate: The New China arrow

 

 

Object image caption: Armoured general and armoured infantryman, terracotta, Qin dynasty (221-206 BC). Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, Lintong, Shaanxi Province, China.
Photo by kind permission Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau © The Trustees of the British Museum

What's on

More information on The First Emperor

13 September 2007
– 6 April 2008

Book tickets

 

More information on The First Emperor
More information on Faith, Narrative and Desire
Faith, Narrative and Desire


Until 11 November

Admission free

Inhuman Traffic

   Inhuman Traffic

   Until 6 April 2008

   Admission free