How Türkiye's chess museum builds a world in miniature
STORY: How Türkiye's chess museum builds a world in miniature
DATELINE: Dec. 3, 2022
LENGTH: 00:05:27
LOCATION: Ankara
CATEGORY: CULTURE
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Gokyay Chess Museum
2. SOUNDBITE (Turkish): AKIN GOKYAY, Curator and founder of Gokyay Chess Museum
STORYLINE:
In the old town of Türkiye's capital city, a one-of-a-kind chess museum offers visitors a journey through time and space with a wide variety of sets representing diverse cultures and traditions from across the world.
The war between Napoleon Bonaparte and the British, renowned battles in the Ottoman period, blockbusters like the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, and even the iconic cartoon series Smurfs and Asterix -- to name a few of the sets on display in the Gokyay Foundation Chess Museum, which houses 727 chess sets collected from 110 countries and regions.
Some sets from China are particularly interesting, such as the chessmen replica of Terracotta Warriors, the life-size statues that guarded the tomb of China's first emperor
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- ILEA001070889
- Registered date
- 2022/12/03 00:00:00
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- Xinhua / Kyodo News Images
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