The Czech exhibition is among
The eastern Chinese town of Huzhou wants to buy the Czech pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, Pavel Stehlik, general commissioner of the Czech participation, told CTK Wednesday.
Representatives of the town, inhabited by some 2.8 million people, would like to situate the pavilion in a newly built city zone near a lake, Stehlik said.
Huzhou is ready to cover all the costs of the removal, subsequent construction, maintenance and further operation of the pavilion, Stehlik, adding that the exact sum to be received by the Czech state was still being discussed.
The complex and the Czech exhibition entitled “Fruits of Civilisation” is to keep publicising the Czech Republic even after the end of the world exhibition.
“A place in the zoning plan has been found for it. For us, it is a partner who has taken a number of trustworthy steps,” Stehlik said.
The town hall of Huzhou, located in eastern China 160 kilometres from Shanghai, will construct a new part of the town near a lake. The big zonechina Tours is to attract tourists while the pavilion is to stand in its centre, Stehlik said.
The Czech exhibition is among those enjoying the visitors’ high interest. It has been seen by 3.7 million people.
The Czech pavilion houses over 20 exhibits as well as the exhibition on the Chinese legend on Monkey King with artist Zdenek Sklenar’s illustrations.
The white facade of the Czech pavilion is covered with 63,000 hockey pucks printed with the Expo logo. They form the plan of Prague’s Old Town.
Every day, on average about 13 percent of all visitors go to see the Czech pavilion.
The government earmarked about half a billion crowns on the exhibition.
There is a giant teardrop of gold (80 cm high, 50 cm wide). It interconnects human tears with gold, which symbolise emotions, power as well as wars and sorrow, and smell as one of the oldest senses.
The tear is placed in a glass cube that only one of 500 visitors can enter. He/she sit down in a special sensor armchair that will register his/her reactions and feelings when looking at a giant drop of pure gold. After their analysis, an automatic device will mix a specific personal perfume of various essences.
Two bronze plaques from the statue of St John Nepomuk (Nepomucen), which people touch to wish happiness, from the 14th-century Charles Bridge, the oldest bridge in Prague are displayed at Expo. One of them depicts a confession of Queen Sophia and the other John Nepomuk’s martyr death in 1383 when his body was thrown into the Vltava (Moldau) River.
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