Year of the Snake Lantern Festival at Durham’s Oriental Museum
In honour of the Year of the Snake, Durham University’s  Oriental Museum is thrilled to announce an engaging lineup of activities this year.
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Durham's Chinese New Year timings for lion dance, free crafts, music and food
Free children's activities, a Chinese tea ceremony and a centrepiece lion dance will be among the attractions at this year's ...
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Come along to the Oriental Museum Lantern Festival.
The Oriental Museum, will be hosting its spectacular Lunar New Year Lantern Festival celebration on Wednesday 12 February from 6pm -8pm. Lunar New Year is celebrated across Asia and culminates in a ...
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Welcoming the Year of the Snake
The Year of the Snake will be celebrated across Asia, over a two-week period of festivities, when people spend time with family, feast and invite good fortune and happiness into their homes for the ...
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Carved relief from Nineveh
This section, now in the Oriental Museum in Durham, depicts the results of civil war between Assyria and Bablyon in which Ashurbanipal was victorious over this brother Shamash-shum-ukin of Babylon.