Museum expects 400,000 visitors

When some of the Terracotta Warriors were put on display at the British Museum in 2007, it was the biggest exhibition of its kind that Britain had ever seen, and the most important since artifacts from Tutankhamun's tomb were shown in 1972.

The Terracotta Warriors exhibition of 2007 drew 850,000 visitors to the museum, making it the second-most-visited exhibition in the museum's history.

Some of the Terracotta Warriors were displayed in the UK in 1985, at a much smaller exhibition at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh.