Dragon Gate, Chinese cultural museum in Älvkarleby Municipality, Sweden.
Dragon Gate is a museum in Älvkarleby Municipality in Sweden that displays around 200 replica terracotta warriors from China. The site also includes a Chinese restaurant and a souvenir shop inside a larger building complex.
The building first opened in 1986 as Hotel Älvkarlen and passed through several owners over the years. Li Jingchun acquired the property in 2004 and converted it into the museum it is today.
The Dragon Museum holds a 150-metre arcade with the world's longest wooden relief, part of a larger photography exhibit. A statue of the Buddhist saint Guanyin was erected on the site in 2005, and a Chinese square was laid out next to the hotel in 2007. The museum also displays about 200 life-size copies of the terracotta soldiers, received through a partner museum in Xi'an.
The site sits just off the E4 motorway, around 25 kilometers south of Gävle, with plenty of parking space in front. Travelers coming from Stockholm drive roughly 150 kilometers north and can reach the building easily from the main road.
The roughly 200 life-size terracotta soldiers came through the museum's partnership with a museum in Xi'an, not from Chinese workshops. The Dragon Museum also holds what it describes as the world's longest wooden relief, set in a 150-metre arcade as part of a larger photography exhibition.
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