On Sunday 21 August, the Gardens, Animal Walk, Butterfly House and UrbanCrazy Golf will be closed for The Original Jerk Cookout. Visitors to the Museum will need to use the London Road gates.
Toffee brown papercut depicting magpie perched on branch of plum blossom within a lobed rectangular panel, done by knife-cutting technique, pasted on cream paper. Magpie (xi que) is symbol of happiness from the word 'xi', when depicted perching on a branch of plum blossom forms the rebus 'xi shang mei shao' meaning "happiness is in front of your face".
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
If you have any further information about objects in our collections or can suggest corrections to our information, please contact us: enquiry@horniman.ac.uk
