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Looking back on my China vacation, Shaanxi museum comes back to me as one of the best experiences.

There was this section of the museum dedicated to Chinese brush/ink paintings and more. I spent half my time there just looking at everything and you could buy most of it, but it was very expensive, £350 for a small painting and going way up from there. A staff member stopped me from taking photos LOL but by then I had already taken a whole bunch. There was some spectacular stuff in this place, I'll try and run you through some of it.  Try clicking on the Forum then Blogs link and view the photos in large rather than simply viewing them in shrunk down format here

Exterior

Largest ancient Lion statue in China, used to ward off evil spirits.

Terracotta army, full size warriors

Here begins the paintings.

Gold coins, though they looked plastic to me.

Zodiac animal gods

From an emporer with a mini-terracotta warrior set.

Shame about this pic as this was the most impressive thing there, it was like an Indiana Jones set, inside an ornate cave. Amazing to look at.

Monkey and Peach, famous painting repo.

This is the famous Suzhou painting I was talking about earlier, reflective of this area I went to:

This photo didn't  come out well but it was brilliant, the painting had the lanterns actually glowing with no kind of backlight or bulb. Amazing talent.

Loved this one too, it came on a wooden block

This dude was in the gift shop