Tickets for the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibit at the British Museum
 

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get tickets for the exhibit? the museum does not have any available online. any other sources?

thanks!

We were just at the Museum, but were not able to get tickets. I looked online and I think it said the next batch of tickets up for sale was Nov 1.

Here you go
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_o...n_tickets.aspx

They release 500 tickets each morning but you'd better get there early. Book online when you know your dates. You are probably too late for the rest of October and will have to take your chances.

Seems to be popular

Join the British Museum Friends.

£45 a year is a great deal cheaper than trekking all the way to Xian. And there's infinitely better Chinese food near the BM than there is round the Xian site.

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Joining is fine, but does it guarentee tickets? If they are gone........We don't need them until March, but according to the museum website...there are none available.

You must have missed this notice on the site


The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
British Museum
London
United Kingdom
Please note: More tickets will be released for advanced sale on 31 October, so please check back on the British Museum website if you have not been able to buy tickets for your preferred day of visit between December-April today.

The Chinese Terracotta Army has arrived at the British Museum!
WATCH THE EXHIBITION PREVIEW and be in the running to win a trip to China:
www.thefirstemperor.org.uk

This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition will explore one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century and provide an insight into China's First Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, and his legacy.

Adult, Senior 60+: £12; Child 16-18, Student, Disabled, Unemployed: £10; Child under 16, Disabled Carer: £0.00. Per ticket processing fees also apply.

Objects featured in the exhibition will include a number of the world-famous terracotta warriors from Xi'an, China, which were buried alongside the First Emperor in readiness for the afterlife, as well as some of the most striking recent discoveries made on the site.

In introducing the idea of a unified state and effectively creating China in 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin created what is today the oldest surviving political entity in the world. How that state has survived, developed and is viewed today will be explored through events, lectures and debates around the exhibition.

Sponsored by Morgan Stanley.

Small image: Detail from Armoured general, terracotta, Qin dynasty (221-206BC). Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuangdi, Lintong, Shaanxi Province, China. Photo by kind permission Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau © The Trustees of the British Museum.
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PLEASE NOTE: More tickets will be released for advanced sale on 31 October, so please check back on the British Museum website if you have not been able to buy tickets for your preferred day of visit between December-April today.

Yikes! I though I just copied the ssmall notice!!

You can also sign up for an email alert for when tickets are being released.

The warriors are truly an amazing sight. I hope they have a picture of the actual site as a part of the exhibition because that is what makes it so incredible. Every warrior has a different face.

To be honest, the BM is just about the only major London institution one or other of us hasn't joined the Friends of.

But most of the others just let you into the exhibitions by showing your card. Tate Modern requires Friends to book, and I've sometimes had to wait till the following day before there was a space free. But never longer.

Why not email them and ask?

The musueum releases 500 tickets each morning. I went in late September and got my ticket this way.

I arrived around 9:30am and there was already quite a line up, but it moved quickly and I was able to buy a ticket for a timed entrance of 11:10am. Once you are in the exhibit you have as much time as you want - they just time the entrances. I think this is the best way to get a ticket.

We had this exhibit in Lexington a few years ago and it was wonderful.

Thanks everyone. Although I would like tickets before I go, if I can't get them after October 31, I will just have to be in line early!!!