Shaolin Kung Fu Museum

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Shaolin Kung Fu Museum celebrates groundbreaking ceremony (http://www.mcot.net/cfcustom/cache_page/347834.html)
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ZHENGZHOU, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The foundation of Shaolin Kung Fu Museum was laid Thursday in Shaolin Tagou Kung Fu School, three kilometers northeast away from Shaolin Temple in central China's Henan province.

With a total investment of 230 million yuan (36.5 million US dollars), the privately-funded museum covers 135,540 square meters. It will be first of its kind in the world.

Upon completion in 2014, the museum will feature Kung Fu demonstration and research, talent cultivation, information management and health-keeping practice.

The museum will demonstrate the development and evolvement of Chinese Kung Fu with texts, pictures, films and other exhibits. It also plans to hold international Kung Fu competitions and stage live performances.

The museum will be built in a style resembling the architectures back in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Hence, it will supplement Shaolin Temple in both style and function.

"When the museum is completed, it will not only attract foreign friends to practice Kung Fu, but it also promotes exchanges and expands the development of Kung Fu," said Cui Pei, an official from China's Kung Fu Management Center. (Xinhua)
'evolvement' - great word. :rolleyes:

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Terra cotta warriors, mummified dinosaur among new Children's Museum exhibits (http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140522/ENT/140529923/-1/LIVING)

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What: The exhibits “Terra Cotta Warriors: The Emperor's Painted Army,” “Take Me There: China” and “Leonardo” recently opened at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
When: “Terra Cotta Warriors” continues through Nov. 2. The two other exhibits will stay open for a few years or more. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.
Where: 3000 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. From Fort Wayne, take Interstate 69 south past Interstate 465 until it becomes Binford Boulevard. Continue south on Binford until it becomes Fall Creek Parkway near the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Take Fall Creek Parkway south to 30th Street and go west to the museum at Meridian Street.
Cost: General admission: $19.50, ages 18-59; $18.50, ages 60 and older; $14.50, ages 2-17; and free, ages 1 and younger. “Terra Cotta Warriors” requires an additional fee that must be paid when buying regular tickets. The additional fees for nonmembers are $10, adults; $7.50, ages 60 and older; and $5, ages 2-17.
To buy tickets, go to www.childrensmuseum.org or 1-800-820-6214.

News-Sentinel staff reports
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 12:01 am

The Indianapolis 500 isn't the only exciting thing to see now in Indianapolis.

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis recently opened three unique exhibits:

Ancient warriors

“Terra Cotta Warriors: The Emperor's Painted Army,” now through Nov. 2, features eight of these lifelike clay soldiers believed created more than 2,000 years ago to guard the tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, who became China's first emperor at age 13.

This is the only place in America they will be on exhibit this year, and this is the first time they have been displayed in a children's museum, said Leslie Olsen, the museum's public relations manager.

Children's Museum staff has worked with Chinese officials for five years to arrange for the exhibit, Olsen said.

Children's Museum press materials provide this additional information:

Farmers discovered the warriors accidentally in 1974 while digging a water well in Shaanxi Province in central China. Scientists have excavated about 2,000 warriors over the past 40 years.

Experts estimate the emperor's tomb complex covers 20 square miles and may contain more than 8,000 terra cotta warriors, 130 chariots and clay 670 horses. Nearly all of the warriors found so far were found in pieces and had to be reassembled like puzzles.

The exhibit also focuses on the science of the archaeology investigation, including examining why the paint that originally covered the warriors flaked off almost immediately when excavated warriors were exposed to air.

Along with the clay warriors, visitors can see more than 100 other artifacts from the tomb site, including a head from one warrior that still contains original but now-faded paint. Interactive activities include mapping paint patterns, molding and sculpting warriors, and virtually painting a warrior general.

Take Me There: China

This exhibit, which should be open for about four years, gives visitors the feel of arriving on a plane that just landed at Beijing Airport in China's capital city.

One highlight is a depiction of the homes of four generations of a real Chinese family, with Jackie, an 11-year-old boy, sharing information about his family. Re-creations of portions of Jackie's great-grandmother's rural home, his grandparents' suburban home and his parents' modern city apartment show has Chinese society has changed during their lifetimes.

Other sections of the exhibit depict the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, a marketplace, calligraphy shop, tea house, opera house, Shaolin temple, pretend restaurant and more. A rotating series of experts will teach visitors about tea pouring, martial arts and other skills.

Mummified dinosaur

Known as “Leonardo,” researchers consider this duckbill's fossilized, mummified remains one of the most important dinosaur discoveries ever, the museum says on its website, www.childrensmuseum.org. It is on display in the museum's Dinosphere while on 10-year loan from The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and Field Station in Malta, Mont.

Leonardo, which is believed to have lived about 77 million years ago, was found in 2002 in the Montana Badlands. The fossil gives scientists their first real look at dinosaur skin, foot pads, muscles, tendons and even stomach contents.

Scientists believe Leonardo was about 4 years old, weighed about 4,000 pounds and stretched 23 feet long when he died and fell into water, where his body was preserved.