Entertain your family
Many of the larger museums are running events to distract children over half term with a Chinese theme.
1. The National Portrait Gallery is running mask making and storytelling events on 17th February. For adults, their inventively displayed exhibiton Cherish continues until 11th March.
2. The V&A runs another of its themed weekends, this time around the arts of China. Calligraphy workshops with Chinese artists for adults, as well as a chance for children to make a dragon headdress. Music is provided.
3. There are also children's sessions at the British Museum and Natural History Museum
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China in Your Lunch Hour
4. The British Museum is offering short lunchtime talks for free looking at a Chinese theme with a museum curator. Find out about Chinese religious paintings on 27th February, or Chinese money on 22nd (Money gallery). Both at 2.15
Shoes for transporting drugs, 19th century. Courtesy of the Museum of London. | |  |
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In Search Of Chinese London
6. In 1900, Limehouse was famous in fiction and film as the heart of the London Chinese underworld - a place of opium dens and Oriental villans. At a talk at the Museum in Docklands, Dr John Seed went in search of the less sensational truth. You can read the text of his talk on this site.
Still to come in the Docklands programme is a series of Chinese films throughout February and a Chinese New Year Festival.
7. For those who'd like an in-depth look at Sino-British relations, a Study Day at the National Maritime Museum looks at the British impact in China from the Opium wars to missionaries. It also goes 400 years into the past to find out about the very earliest Chinese people to arrive in London.
