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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.

Every Wednesday, we will feature one Flickr competitor on our blog: theterracottawarriors.wordpress.com/. Stay tuned to see if you are on there!

PS: Yes, this is Chi Chang!

Can you guess what this is???

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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.

Every Wednesday, we will feature one Flickr competitor on our blog: theterracottawarriors.wordpress.com/. Stay tuned to see if you are on there!

Legend has it that Lady Xi Ling Shi, the 14-year-old bride of the Emperor Huang Ti, the so-called ‘Yellow Emperor’ first discovered silk in 2640 BC.

According to Confucius, as she sat drinking tea under a mulberry tree, a silk cocoon fell from above. She noticed the delicate fibres start to unravel in the tea and so has been credited as the first person to ‘reel’ or unravel a silk cocoon and use the filament to create a yarn for weaving.

The mulberry silk moth is indigenous to China and the Chinese, realizing the value of the beautiful material they were able to produce by weaving silk thread, kept its secret safe from the rest of the world for more than 30 centuries.

If you are able to find any, allow your children to keep some silkworms and observe the life cycle of the silkworm moth.

Use this free printable notebooking page for your children to record their silkworm lesson. Let them dictate and draw the life cycle of the silkworm on the printable worksheet.

Come on let’s play a game.  Can you guess what this is going to be? First person to answer correctly,  gets signed up for a chance to attend our sneak preview day!

Pick a color, any color! Can you guess what we will be using for what?

This photo shows paint samples. As we make our final choices from the selected palette, we always do a test with the real paint to make sure it looks as we expect it to during the design phase.

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.

We are getting really excited here as exhibit build-out begins. In case you didn’t know, every time we open a new exhibition  everything in the museum  changes. We don’t just put art on walls or objects in cases; we design and build the entire space. These photos show the exhibit walls starting to go up.

We know some of you are coming to the exhibit from out of town, so we wanted to take the chance to offer you a really great hotel deal. We’ve partnered with the Madison Hotel to give you the following deal!

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National Geographic Museum Terra Cotta Warriors Package

Stay at the official hotel partner for the National Geographic Museum with rates starting at $149 per night, including two premium “anytime” exhibition tickets to Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor.

Don’t miss your chance to see the famed terra cotta warriors. Buried thousands of years ago to protect China’s First Emperor in the afterlife, these extraordinary archaeological treasures will be at National Geographic Museum from November 19, 2009 through March 31, 2010. For more information, visit www.warriorsdc.org.

Package includes:

* One Night Deluxe Accommodation
* Two premium “any-day, any-time” tickets to Terra Cotta Warriors
* 20% discount coupon for purchases in the National Geographic Store