🌷🌹🌺This the Oriental Museum is located in a beautiful area especially during the summer and spring time. We hope you visit this lovely place and enjoy the cache we have placed. The cache contains 10 SWAG Chinese Feng Shui Good Luck Fortune Coins, a log sheet and a very interesting trackable tag. Puzzle is at the end. 🎋🎍🌸
Oriental languages have been taught at Durham since the University was founded in 1832. After the Second World War, Durham was selected as one of five British universities to be developed as centres for the teaching of Oriental languages. As a result, the University established a School of Oriental Studies in 1951.
The first Director of the School, Prof William Thacker, believed that students needed to understand not just the language and literature but also the material culture of the countries they were studying. He accordingly set about creating a teaching and research collection for the School.
In order to support the School’s teaching, Thacker was able to acquire severalsignificant collections, including:
- The Northumberland Collection of antiquities from Egypt
- The Near East, a collection of Chinese ceramics from Rt Hon Malcolm MacDonald
- A significant collection of jades and hardstones from Sir Charles Hardinge
As the collections continued to grow, it soon became apparent that a dedicated museum was needed to house and display them. In May 1960, the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, as it was then known, opened its doors toan audience made up largely of Durham University students and academics.
Over the last 60 years, the aims of the Museum have changed. The Museum is still actively involved in supporting teaching and research, working with departments ranging from Archaeology and Classics to Modern Languages. It is also however open to the public seven days a week, attracting almost 33,000 visitors each year including more than 6,000 local school children.
Since 2000, all the galleries have been updated to meet the needs of our visitors and students. The next gallery to be redeveloped will be our Silk Roads gallery,opening in 2021.
The Oriental Museum is home to a huge range of artworks and archaeological artefacts from the great cultures of northern Africa and Asia. More than 36,000 objects, ranging in date from prehistory to the present day are housed in the museum’s galleries and stores.
There are 8 Collections in total from: China, Japan, Egypt, Korea, Himalayas and Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, West Asia.
The coordinates will take you to the Lafcadio Hearn stone stand.🌞
Have a look at the small plaque infront of it and extract the following information for the final cache coordinates that is only a short walk away at:
N 54 45.ABC W 001 34.DEF
A = The number of letters in the second word + Number of letters in the sixth word written on the plaque
B = The last digit of the year when Lafcadio Hearn was educated in Durham
C = The number of letters of the country Lafcadio Hearn emigrated to at the age of 19
D = The number of letters of Lafcadio Hearn’s book published in 1895 - The last digit of the publication year of his book called “Kwaidan”
E = The last digit of the year Lafcadio Hearn was married to Keizumi Sousa
F = The number of letter of the single word book that is published in 1904
Check sum A+B+C+D+E+F = 34
