One of the most interesting exhibitions of the year 2025 will be The Guardians of Eternity - The First Chinese Emperor's Material Soldiers, on display from 27 November at the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts. László Baán, director general of the Museum of Fine Arts and its member institutions, told Hungarian News Agency that the Hungarian National Museum had already exhibited some sculptures and tools from the sensational 1974 find in 1988. Still, the current exhibition will be on a much larger scale.
One of the world's most famous archaeological finds will feature life-size terracotta cratons guarding the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Si Huang-ti. The exhibition will trace the rise of the Quin Empire between the 8th and 3rd centuries BC. László Baán stressed that there would also be Chinese sculptural replicas on which the original colors would be applied. The accompanying exhibition of the terracotta army at the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asian Art will depict the Asian Huns or Hsiung-nu - against whom the Great Wall was erected.
The Director-General also said that the world's biggest museums are now where they were before COVID-19 in 2019, with most places once again breaking records. The National Gallery of Fine Arts is steadily in the top 100, with 800,000 visitors last year, including our member institutions, almost half a million of them at the National Gallery of Fine Arts.
