Xi’an · In-depth place guide
秦始皇帝陵博物院
An army — and an empire — in clay
Look beyond the rows of warriors to the craft, organisation and wider burial landscape of China’s first emperor.
Start with the scale. Stay for the people, materials and questions within it.
The Terracotta Army is part of the Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum in Lintong, outside central Xi’an. The museum has two visiting areas: the army pits and the mausoleum archaeological park, usually called Lishan Garden in its English visitor material. The broader story includes chariots, civil officials and performers as well as soldiers.[3][19]
A useful visit changes scale deliberately: first the army in formation, then one archer or officer, then the wider imperial burial complex. This guide explains those choices without treating every pit or display as a compulsory stop.
Plan your visit
Before you book.
- Time to allow
- Our suggestion: make it the main out-of-town day. A focused army-area visit and a two-area visit are different commitments; include travel, entry and pauses.
- 16 March–15 November
- Ticket checking 08:30–17:00; museum closing 18:30. Entry stops earlier than closing. Specific holiday or temporary notices can override the normal pattern.[3]
- 16 November–15 March
- 08:30–16:30 final ticket inspection; closing 18:00. The specific winter row takes priority over a general entry-time footnote.[3][2]
- Bring
- The original valid passport or accepted identity document associated with your reservation, plus the booking confirmation and correct session.[2]
- Two areas
- The two visiting areas are separate. Confirm the official inter-area shuttle’s current boarding point and last service.[3]
Pit 2 reopened after the 2026 display renewal
The museum announced trial reopening of the renewed Pit 2 display from 1 October 2026. Earlier construction warnings are not treated as a current blanket closure; check subsequent daily notices.[7]
Choose the ticket for your visit
One museum admission covers both visiting areas; guided or off-site experiences are separate purchases.[8]
Published full-price admission · CNY; no separate peak-season adult rate[1]
16 March–15 November
- Standard adult ticket
- 120
- Coverage
- Army museum + Lishan Garden
16 November–15 March
- Standard adult ticket
- 120
- Coverage
- Army museum + Lishan Garden
| Season | Standard adult ticket | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March–15 November | 120 | Army museum + Lishan Garden |
| 16 November–15 March | 120 | Army museum + Lishan Garden |
Concessions are nationality- and document-dependent. The bilingual page gives a height-based criterion for non-mainland children alongside different mainland age-based rules. Confirm the applicable passport category with the official ticket service; do not assume every foreign child or senior qualifies under a Chinese-ID rule.[1]
The included inter-area shuttle is not a general entitlement to any vehicle sold nearby.[8]
Buying with a foreign passport
The operator directs all visitors, including foreigners and concession holders, to online booking with accepted ID or passport details. Its WeChat accounts are 秦始皇帝陵博物院 and 兵马俑票务在线.[2]
The ticket page specifies entry through the North Gate and the original identity document matching the reservation. Its refund instructions allow cancellation before ticket inspection and no refund after use.[1]
Ticket enquiries: +8629 81399127.[2]
The guide’s ticketing 110 link returned 404 in our check. Use the active official guide or museum home instead. This records our access test, not a new operator policy.
We have not completed registration or payment using an overseas phone and passport. Advance release window, current session availability, foreign-child eligibility and the actual on-site passport-check process remain points to confirm before travelling.
Find your bearings
Two places. One imperial story.
The numbered army pits form one area. Lishan Garden is the archaeological-park area, with the bronze-vehicle museum and other pit displays. Compare the operator’s separate orientation entries.[20][21]
The bronze-chariot display moved to Lishan Garden in 2021. An older army-area display photograph is not a current location instruction.[8]
Published visit allowances are a broad starting point. Our outlines leave looking, queues, pauses and the inter-area transfer explicit; they are not measured routes.
Army-area choices
Making and preserving
Lishan Garden choices
Open the museum’s own orientation entry ↗
The burial complex belongs to the first Qin emperor and the creation of a unified empire. The figures are funerary works, not an army frozen in a battle.[19]
The army was discovered in 1974; the museum opened in 1979. Discovery, excavation and public presentation are different stages.[18]
A closer reading
What to look for.
Choose the scale, an individual figure and one question you want to understand. Museum labels and open paths take priority over this editorial reading order.
The largest army hall
一号坑
Pit 1: see the army before the individual
Pit 1 gives the best first sense of the army’s scale. The museum estimates roughly 6,000 terracotta warriors and horses originally buried in this pit, based on excavation density. That is not a count of intact figures standing in front of you today.[4]
Read the long earthen divisions as part of a buried structure, not simply aisles installed for modern visitors. Then look across more than one row: uniform organisation and variation in individual figures are visible at the same time.
Our looking suggestionTake in the whole arrangement, then choose one smaller group to study. The famous overview is the start of the visit, not its conclusion.
Reading Pit1 more slowly
军阵与过洞
Formation, corridors and the scale of the task
The original pit was a built underground setting for the figures. The long divisions and surviving ground help explain why this is an archaeological site rather than an ordinary sculpture gallery. The operator’s interpretation separates the buried army’s estimated scale from what excavation has exposed.[4]
Allow the gaps and fragments to remain part of the story. A restored standing figure and an unexcavated or incomplete area reveal different stages in the museum’s work; a photograph cannot tell you which work zone is open today.
Our looking suggestionCompare a restored figure’s silhouette with the structure around it. Look for the difference between the archaeological remains and the modern hall protecting them.
Different formations, renewed interpretation
二号坑
Pit 2: a more varied military system
Pit 2 has an L-shaped plan and a more varied combination of military units than a single row of infantry suggests. The museum identifies archers, cavalry and chariots among the categories represented. Its estimated buried quantities are reconstructions from excavation, not a claim that every figure is on display.[5]
The 2026 renewal adds structured interpretation of excavation, pit construction and military formations. Use the renewed labels; our older photographs predate this display upgrade.[7]
Our looking suggestionLook for the relationship between surviving structure, the reconstructed formation plan and individually displayed figures.
Body, balance and equipment
跪射俑与立射俑
Kneeling and standing archers
The museum associates both archer forms with Pit 2. Compare the lowered, armoured kneeling figure with the standing figure’s turned posture. They show different ways a body is organised around a task, rather than two decorative variations of one pose.[5]
Display cases and named exhibition rooms can change. The photograph date and the place of excavation do not establish the figure’s present room; follow the current object label rather than a borrowed gallery location.
Our looking suggestionNotice the relationship between the feet, knees, torso and hands. A lost weapon can be as important to interpreting a pose as the surviving clay.
Look beyond a memorable face
将军俑与军吏俑
Officers, faces and clothing
The variation is not only facial. Clothing, armour, headgear and posture help distinguish roles. The museum’s renewed Pit 2 interpretation groups representative terracotta figures alongside the military formations they help explain.[7]
The museum’s technical account describes moulding combined with hand modelling and detailed finishing. Different faces are not evidence that every warrior is a verified portrait cast from a named soldier.[13]
Our looking suggestionChoose two figures and compare one feature at a time: headgear first, then the armour or sleeves, then the position of the hands.
The smaller army pit
三号坑
Pit 3: an interpretation, not a battle scene
Pit 3 is much smaller than the first two. The museum describes a recessed plan with wings and a chariot area; some scholars interpret it as a command post for the larger formations. That is an archaeological interpretation, not a recovered written name for the room.[6]
The current pit record counts terracotta figures and horses together, while the bilingual visitor description separately discusses the human figures. Those totals should not be casually compared as if they describe the same object category.
Our looking suggestionCompare the enclosed layout with Pit 1’s long formations. Ask what changes when the army’s organisation is shown on a smaller scale.
Craft, assembly and later conservation
模塑结合与修复
How a life-sized figure was made
The museum’s technical explanation describes heads, hands and bodies made separately, then assembled, dried, fired and painted. Moulding and hand modelling worked together, with final detailing of features, hair, clothing and hands. The clay surface records a production process as well as an image of a person.[13]
Excavation and conservation add another layer. A museum 2026 professional examination included cleaning, joining, filling, colour matching and documentation on a replica pottery vessel. It shows conservation as a trained, recorded practice; it was not a public “repair an original warrior” activity.[16]
Our looking suggestionLook for construction and repair joins from the permitted viewing position. Do not assume every line is a crack made in antiquity.
A fragile surface
彩绘与文物保护
The army once had colour
The museum’s conservation account explains a lacquer layer beneath painted pigments. Changes after excavation can lift or curl that sensitive layer and detach the paint. Today’s clay-coloured appearance is therefore not the full story of how the figures were intended to look.[14]
The same account describes conservation research and methods developed over years of work; its 2020 web publication is not the date on which every technique was first invented. The museum’s 2026 interpretation still includes paint reattachment and protective technologies.[14][15]
A separate popular story also needs care: the 2019 UCL/museum study found no evidence that chromium on some bronze weapons was an ancient anti-rust treatment. Lacquer contamination and the burial environment offer a different explanation. This is research about preservation, not a claim that Qin metalwork lacked skill.[17]
Our looking suggestionAsk how the object was made, what happened underground and what conservators have done since. These are three different histories.
A separate-area decision
铜车马博物馆
The Bronze Chariot Museum is in Lishan Garden
The new museum opened in Lishan Garden inMay 2021, replacing the army-area display. Give this separate-area choice enough transfer and viewing time.[8]
The 2021 shuttle instructions identify the army museum’s North Gate west side and Lishan Garden’s East Gate. Confirm today’s signs, boarding and final return.[8]
Our looking suggestionUse the change of area as a change of question: how does an imperial burial complex express more than military power?
Engineering and imperial travel
一、二号铜车马
Two bronze vehicles, at half scale
The museum describes two bronze vehicles discovered west of the burial mound in 1980. Each has a single shaft, two wheels and four horses; they were made at roughly half the scale of the imperial vehicles they represent. They are not life-sized clay chariots from the army pits.[9]
The differing vehicle forms, metal fittings and carefully coordinated horses reward a close look. They were recovered broken, with their original relative position preserved; their present appearance also tells a story of reconstruction and conservation.[9]
Use the present label for an individual display or interpretive element. The dated photographs show what was photographed in a gallery, without certifying every visible component as an original ancient part.
Our looking suggestionCompare the open and enclosed forms, then follow one set of harness fittings. Let an engineering detail be as memorable as the full vehicle.
Beyond a military-only story
百戏俑坑 K9901
K 9901: performers in an imperial afterlife
The K 9901 figures differ strikingly from the armoured warriors: bare upper bodies, short garments and varied poses. The museum relates this pit to the wider cultural and entertainment life represented in the burial complex. It was discovered in 1999.[10]
The pit, recovered objects and any reconstructed or interpretive display are not interchangeable. Read the label for what is original and what illustrates an interpretation; a photograph of the excavation is not a guarantee that a particular restored figure is currently in the same room.
Our looking suggestionLook at weight, balance and the treatment of a body in motion, then compare it with the controlled stance of an archer.
Administration alongside the army
文官俑坑 K0006
K 0006: the civil officials
The museum’s K 0006 record identifies long-crowned figures with hands held within their sleeves alongside charioteer forms and horse remains. The pit was discovered in 2000. Its surviving evidence broadens the burial complex beyond soldiers ready for combat.[11]
The clothing and reserved posture make a useful comparison with the military figures. Do not treat the modern name “civil officials” as a record of a known individual’s identity or the precise daily business of a particular room.
Our looking suggestionCompare the sleeve-covered hands and long clothing with the displayed officers and archers. What does the body seem prepared to do?
The wider burial complex
秦始皇陵封土与丽山园
The mausoleum landscape — not an underground tomb tour
The mausoleum park protects a larger landscape of the burial mound, archaeological remains and subsidiary pits. The central burial chamber is not presented here as an excavated interior visitors can enter. A museum account of the unresolved chamber and its more recent digital-reconstruction projects are different kinds of evidence.[12][22][25]
A reconstruction or immersive film is not documentary footage from inside an opened tomb. Treat claims of an “underground palace visit” carefully and check exactly what the operator is selling.
Our looking suggestionLet the landscape explain the scale of the burial project, without expecting the emperor’s chamber to be an accessible room.
Choose what matters
Make the visit yours.
Visitors making this the main day’s outing
Army and a wider imperial world
- Keep
- The army pits, a transfer and one focused Lishan Garden choice, such as the bronze chariots.
- The trade-off
- Not every secondary pit, special exhibition and display can receive the same attention.
Reserve the correct session
Include the journey out of central Xi’an and the operator’s entry requirements.
Give the army a clear focus
See the scale, then compare a few figures with the formation story.
Transfer with a return plan
Confirm the free inter-area shuttle’s present boarding point and final service before going to Lishan Garden.
Choose the second-area priority
Use the Bronze Chariot Museum or the other pit displays for a different part of the imperial story, then leave time to return.
Both areas must fit the actual admission day and operating cutoffs. A valid ticket does not guarantee unlimited shuttle departures or an open room.
All outlines are editorial estimates, not field-tested routes. Follow current admission rules and venue directions.
Arrival, energy and interpretation
Get the details right.
Arrive at the right gate
The army museum is in Lintong District, outside central Xi’an. Save its exact Chinese destination: 秦始皇帝陵博物院（兵马俑参观区北门）. Lishan Garden is another area; do not navigate to the burial mound expecting the famous army hall.[3][1]
The museum publishes a public-transport example using Metro Line 1 to Fangzhicheng (纺织城), then Line 9 to Huaqingchi (华清池), followed by a road connection on Lintong Tourist 613 or 602. Metro Line 9 does not deliver you directly to the army hall. Check the current boarding stop, museum-bound service and return before travel; the page’s exact airport-terminal chains, exit and minute-by-minute timings are not reproduced as live directions.[27]
The museum supplies separate orientation entries for the army area and Lishan Garden. For the inter-area shuttle, use the current signed official boarding points and ask about last departure/return; a street seller’s vehicle is not established as the included shuttle.[20][21][8]
Interpretation in English
The museum lists explanation enquiries at +8629 81399047 and +8629 81399048. A 2026 professional training article includes Chinese and English demonstration guiding, but this is not a guaranteed walk-up staffing schedule or published visitor price. Ask the official service point about the actual English option and charge.[2][26]
The best guide for your visit should explain objects and uncertainty, not only manage a photo stop. Confirm language, duration, areas covered and whether transport or tickets are included before paying.
Surfaces, crowds and a workable pace
Historic ground, viewing platforms, thresholds and the second-area transfer create different mobility demands. The operator lists wheelchair-related services, but a complete tested step-free route and current equipment availability are not verified here. Contact the museum for the exact access feature you need.[2]
Choose a shorter version before the day becomes too demanding. An indoor hall can still involve long standing, and a full ticket does not require you to use every area.
Photography and the protected site
Follow the museum’s current signs, case rules and staff directions. Do not touch objects, cross barriers or obstruct a shared viewing edge for a photograph. A licensed archival photograph is not permission to reproduce the photographer’s access conditions today.
The selected photographs carry their dates. In particular, older Pit 2 and display-case images do not establish the appearance of the renewed 2026 exhibition.[7]
Bags, food and the journey back
Confirm current luggage storage with the museum before arriving with suitcases. Keep water, food pauses and your return journey in the plan; this guide does not establish the day’s outlet opening or a storage guarantee.
Ticket enquiries: +8629 81399127. Complaints, assistance and other enquiries: +8629 81399174, as listed by the operator.[2]
UNESCO / TBS · heritage film
See the wider burial landscape.
UNESCO / TBS · © TBS · Archive film
An army made for an emperor
An archival film about the mausoleum and Terracotta Army. It is heritage background, not a view of today’s queues or museum access.
Watch on UNESCO / film sourceThe external player loads only when you choose it. If unavailable in your region, use the official source link. Cover photograph credited in Sources; not a film still.
- An archival heritage film introduces the mausoleum and army as a cultural landscape. It is not a record of today’s queues, renewed Pit 2 labels or ticket arrangements.
- The original UNESCO source is linked. Regional playback and an entire English-subtitled viewing were not confirmed during this article’s review.
Official digital resources
Look into Pit 1 before the visit.
The museum’s own navigation links a recorded high-resolution panorama of the army. We opened its actual Pit 1 scene and dragged the view in a desktop browser. This is a recorded archaeological setting, not a live camera.[24][3]
Officially linked Terracotta Army panorama
Choose START on the entry screen, then drag to look around the hall. The interface is Chinese. One desktop Pit 1 scene and drag were verified; later loading was inconsistent, and the narrow entry screen was visibly cropped. For now, a wider screen is the more useful starting point. All hotspots, narration and phone interaction remain unconfirmed.[24]
Open the museum’s linked Pit 1 panoramaThe current modern digital portal could not be verified because certificate validation failed during our check; no bypass was attempted. It is not described as a working resource here.[25]
An immersive reconstruction of the burial chamber is not footage of an excavated chamber, nor a promise of physical entry into it.[25]
Before you ask.
Are all the museum’s places beside the army pits?
No. The army museum and Lishan Garden are separate; the bronze-chariot display moved to the garden in 2021.[8]
Is Pit 2 still closed for the 2026 renovation?
The museum announced trial reopening from 1 October 2026. Check later daily notices rather than relying on an earlier construction warning.[7]
Does the ticket include a car, guide or off-site experience?
Confirm the particular product. A museum ticket is distinct from a guided service, optional paid ride or off-site attraction.
Are all 6,000 figures visible in Pit 1?
No. The museum’s roughly 6,000 estimate concerns the original buried warriors and horses inferred from excavation density, not a present count of intact standing figures.[4]
Were the figures always plain terracotta?
They had painted surfaces over a lacquer layer. Conservation of that sensitive surface is a major part of the story; its loss is not the original intended appearance.[14]
Can I enter the emperor’s burial chamber?
This guide does not present an accessible excavated burial-chamber interior. The archaeological park, subsidiary pits and digital reconstructions are different experiences.[12][22][25]
Is every face a portrait of a known real soldier?
The museum describes moulding and hand modelling with detailed finishing. A varied face is not, by itself, evidence for an identified individual portrait.[13]
Do foreign children follow the same age rule as mainland Chinese children?
Do not assume so. The bilingual policy distinguishes passport/nationality categories, including a height-based foreign/non-mainland-child criterion. Confirm the current concession product with the official ticket service.[1]
Dates, sources and photographs
Follow the evidence.
Desk research using the museum’s own visitor guidance, individual pit and object records, dated renewal/relocation notices, conservation explanations, UNESCO and the primary UCL/museum research account. Current published access is distinguished from a completed passport transaction. Photographs are genuine licensed reference images checked for their actual subject; catalogue category alone does not establish an object or room identity. Visit choices and times are editorial, not field-tested routes.
Reviewed 2026-10-29. This date records our source review, not a live availability check.
Open 27 source references
- Museum · bilingual tickets and passport admission
Original English-site ticket page; nationality-specific concessions and dated/translated wording distinguished · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · current visitor services and seasonal entry
Rendered operator guide compared with seasonal table; broken ticketing110 link not used as a working service · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · current home, seasonal entry and two visiting areas
Museum original visitor information or interpretation · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · Pit 1 and its estimated buried army
Museum original visitor information or interpretation · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · Pit 2 and its military formations
Museum original visitor information or interpretation · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · Pit 3 and the command-post interpretation
Museum original visitor information or interpretation · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · Pit 2 display renewal and trial reopening
Specific dated notice superseding earlier works notices · Published 2026-10-02 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · bronze-chariot relocation and two-area visit
Dated2021 move into Lishan Garden; not an old-gallery location · Published 2021-05-18 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · half-scale bronze chariots and their construction
Museum original visitor information or interpretation · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · K 9901 acrobat pit
Museum original visitor information or interpretation · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · K 0006 civil-official pit
Museum original visitor information or interpretation · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · mausoleum landscape and burial complex
Museum original visitor information or interpretation · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · how the clay figures were made
Historical technical interpretation; original2014 date retained · Published 2014-02-17 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · lacquer, pigments and paint conservation
Published2020 account of earlier research; not a new2020 discovery date · Published 2020-04-23 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum ·2026 interpretation of paint and seismic protection
Current conservation-communication context · Published 2026-09-24 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum ·2026 conservation training
Professional training on a replica, not a visitor restoration activity · Published 2026-10-13 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- UCL / museum researchers · re-examining the chromium story
Research institution’s primary explanation of2019 joint study · Published 2019-04-04 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · discovery and museum timeline
Pit2 opening-year discrepancy compared with newer specific notice · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- UNESCO · Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Museum original visitor information or interpretation · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · Army-area visitor orientation
Official plan entry; not a measured walking or accessibility survey · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · Lishan Garden visitor orientation
Separate area of the same museum · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · archaeological context and the unexcavated burial chamber
Older director interview; not proof of a visitor route into the tomb · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum ·2023 May Day notice
Expired holiday release times, extended hours and roadworks not reused · Published 2023-04-20 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · recorded panoramas and digital exhibitions
Original2020 digital-resource account, not live scenes · Published 2020-02-07 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum ·2025 digital-heritage projects
A digital reconstruction is not a filmed or excavated burial chamber · Published 2025-09-18 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · Chinese and English interpretation demonstration
2026 professional training, not guaranteed walk-up English staffing or a published visitor tariff · Published 2026-07-10 · Reviewed 2026-10-29
- Museum · published transport examples via Huaqingchi
Operator route examples; airport-terminal chains, exact walks and timings not assumed current · Reviewed 2026-10-29
Photograph authors, dates and licences (18 photographs)
Renek78 · 2026-08-31 16:48:23 · CC0
Resized and converted to WebP. Image-file proportions retained; hero and preview layouts may crop the display. Original licence retained.
Zossolino · 2015-09-22 08:14:15 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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源義信 · 2023-10-08 10:11:43 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Windmemories · 2023-09-24 14:45:50 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Resized and converted to WebP. Image-file proportions retained; hero and preview layouts may crop the display. Original licence retained.
Windmemories · 2023-09-24 14:48:59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Windmemories · 2023-09-24 14:46:53 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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源義信 · 2023-10-08 10:58:35 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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H2v5o68z · 2025-11-17 11:24:09 · CC0
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沈澄心 · 2024-08-06 10:43:48 · CC0
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Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China · 2011-10-03 10:29 · CC0
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源義信 · 2023-10-08 09:13:45 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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H2v5o68z · 2025-11-17 10:50:33 · CC0
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源義信 · 2023-10-08 10:36:00 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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沈澄心 · 2024-08-06 11:01:09 · CC0
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H2v5o68z · 2025-11-17 11:14:58 · CC0
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sylvannus · Taken on 15 July 2011 · CC BY-SA 3.0
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H2v5o68z · 2025-11-17 09:29:55 · CC0
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H2v5o68z · 2025-11-17 09:28:46 · CC0
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How conflicting descriptions were handled
The operator’s seasonal rows distinguish 17:00 and 16:30 final entry, with later closing times. A generic footnote saying both areas stop entry at 17:00 is not applied to winter against the specific seasonal table.[3][2]
The ticketing 110 link returned 404. The active bilingual ticket instructions are used with the current guide. TheMay 2023 release hours and roadworks are expired holiday-specific guidance.[23]
The older museum timeline places Pit 2 opening in 1999, while the specific 2026 renewal notice states 14 October 1994. This guide avoids an unsupported precise opening-year claim and gives the current dated trial reopening separately.[18][7]
The 2021 relocation, rather than an older army-area display image, supplies the bronze-chariot location.[8]
A 2020 conservation web article describes research developed earlier; its publication date is not treated as the discovery date of every technique. The 2019 UCL/museum study also supersedes the popular chromium-as-anti-rust explanation.[14][17]
Nationally qualified mainland concession categories and the bilingual foreign-child criterion are not flattened into universal age-based free admission. Successful foreign-account booking and current concession handling remain untested.[1]
The operator’s transport example supplies the useful Line 1/Line 9/Huaqingchi connection and onward 613/602 distinction. We do not reuse its old airport-terminal names, exact exit walks or travel-time estimates as current route guarantees.[27]
What still needs direct confirmation
- Successful overseas-phone registration, passport booking/payment, release window, current date/session inventory and foreign concession handling.
- Current shuttle last departures, exact pickup points, guide staffing/fees and internal optional transport charges.
- A measured step-free route, wheelchair availability, current storage and outlet opening.
- Every gallery’s present object placement and present room-by-room access.
- All panorama hotspots, narration, phone gesture behaviour and full film playback or English subtitles.
Film verification: UNESCO heritage source and existing published film reference retained. The external player loads only on request; no video is rehosted and no new complete-playback claim is made.
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