Museum strikes ancient notes with replicas

It's a quarter to 11 in the morning on a regular Tuesday as crowds pack into the Henan Museum in Zhengzhou, the capital city of Central China's Henan province. The museum, founded in 1927, is home to about 170,000 artifacts and sets and is particularly famous for its prehistoric pieces, bronzes from Shang and Zhou (c. 16th century-256 BC) dynasties, ceramics and jadeware.

A corner on the first floor of the museum houses a concert hall, which has diverse audiences ranging from parents with young children to the elderly queuing outside.

"What are we going to see? A pianist? Or dancing?" a boy asked his mother. "No, it will be very different," the young mother replies.

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