Other anticipated shows include one featuring selected artifacts from the collection of the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan, in Almaty, to trace the formation of steppe culture since the Bronze Age and its role in the exchanges between Eastern and Western civilizations.

Another exhibition will show more than 200 works of artists once featured at the Fumetto Comic Festival Lucerne, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Sino-Swiss diplomatic ties.

Artifacts to picture the history of Henan province will gather at an exhibition, as the fourth of a string of shows that the museum has curated for a glimpse of the richness and depth of Chinese civilization.