The world of the museum connects ancient and modern times at home and abroad. Colorful activities cultivate cultural confidence.
On a sunny day, the warm wind makes the wheat smell, and the green shade and quiet grass are better than the flowers. In early summer when everything is in full bloom, International Museum Day arrives as scheduled.
The theme of this year’s International Museum Day is “Museums dedicated to education and research”. Cultural and museum institutions across the country have successively launched exciting exhibitions and rich activities around this theme, focusing on displaying the latest achievements in the development of my country's museums, building a bridge of communication between museums and the public, and providing important spiritual strength to strengthen cultural confidence.
On the occasion of International Museum Day, visitors visited the Capital Museum. Photo by People's Daily reporter Wei Yanxing
As the host venue for this year’s International Museum Day in China, the Shaanxi History Museum Qin and Han Hall officially opened on May 18. The Qin and Han Museum aims to focus on displaying the origin, development and contribution of the Qin and Han civilizations. Based on the collection of the Shaanxi History Museum and archaeological data as evidence, it focuses on displaying the important role of the Qin and Han civilizations in the development of Chinese civilization.
The "Qin and Han Civilization" series of blockbuster exhibitions were also unveiled at the same time. The series of exhibitions include the basic display "The World is Unified - Qin and Han Civilization Theme Exhibition" and two thematic displays "City and Mausoleum" and "Technology and Beauty". It systematically tells the historical process of the Qin and Han Dynasties from political unification to the gradual realization of national, ideological and cultural identity. , as well as the social style, life philosophy and spiritual pursuit under the unified pattern.
Exhibitions are the most important public cultural products of museums. During International Museum Day, cultural museums across the country continue to innovate exhibition displays and launch high-quality exhibitions with different themes in an effort to meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people.
The Nanjing Museum launched the "Su Shi's Artistic Spirit of Calligraphy and Painting" exhibition, which reveals the life and spiritual world of literati in the Song Dynasty through Su Shi's works and life; the special exhibition "Hangzhou's Museum Treasures" met with the audience at the Hangzhou Museum, bringing the city of Hangzhou to the forefront. Many museums' "good treasures" are all available in one "exhibition"; the "Inner Mongolia Yellow River Basin Ancient Civilization Exhibition" opened at the Qingdao Municipal Museum, bringing together more than 200 sets of fine cultural relics from various historical periods in the Inner Mongolia Yellow River Basin, interpreting the diverse and integrated ancient civilization of the Chinese nation. Historical truth.
Museums are important halls for the protection and inheritance of human civilization and play a special role in promoting exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations. Recently, many cultural and museum venues across the country have actively carried out external exchanges and held many popular exhibitions.
The Palace Museum's "Forbidden City and Versailles Palace - Sino-French Exchanges in the 17th and 18th Centuries" exhibition has continued to gain popularity since its opening. About 200 exquisite cultural relics tell the historical traces of Sino-French exchanges and interactions. Exhibitions such as the Suzhou Museum's "Exhibition of Assyrian Cultural Relics from the British Museum" and the Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archeology's "Asian Civilizations on the Silk Road" themed special exhibition are equally exciting, depicting diverse and interactive pictures of cultural exchanges.
A gold-plated copper equatorial dial with a ring on display in the Palace Museum. Photo by People's Daily reporter Wei Yanxing
Cross-border integration “refreshes” the way museums open
According to reports, in order to comprehensively and comprehensively present the big concept of Qin and Han civilization, each unit of "The World is Unified - Qin and Han Civilization Theme Exhibition" has designed multimedia interactive devices, using digital images to promote the interpretation of the theme content in each exhibition section.
"The exhibition design of the Qin and Han Pavilion is an important breakthrough from content to form. It has changed the previous historical narrative structure based on time. On the whole, it uses a big history to connect small topics, and analyzes the Qin and Han civilization from multiple angles. Interpretation." said Hou Ningbin, director of the Shaanxi History Museum.
In recent years, technology and cultural heritage have been closely linked, giving ancient cultural relics a more vivid and vivid appearance. The use of scientific and technological means in the museum brings people an extraordinary visiting experience.
In the Taiyuan Northern Qi Mural Museum, I stood next to the tomb mound, put on 4K resolution VR glasses, and controlled the handle to move forward. I saw majestic ceremonial guards on both sides, musicians played exciting Hu music, and Xu Xianxiu and his wife dressed in Chinese costumes held a ceremony. A cup of banquet and a warm atmosphere. Being there, life in Northern Qi seems to be tangible and tangible.
Wang Jiang, director of the Taiyuan Beiqi Mural Museum, said that due to the need for constant temperature and humidity closed protection, the audience cannot set foot inside the tomb to view the murals up close. However, through technological means, more people can be exposed to, understand, and interested, and Draw nourishment from it.
It is worth mentioning that as the "night economy" gradually heats up, museums in many places have also extended their opening hours during International Museum Day and "lit up" the audience's nights through innovative cultural and museum activities.
On the evening of May 18, Xi'an Daqin Civilization Park will hold a museum night event with the theme of "Thousands of Qin and Han Museums, Ancient and Modern", focusing on displaying the profound connotations of Qin and Han culture and Chinese civilization; Anyang City has also recently launched the "Dayi Business· The second season night tour of "Ye Anyang" allows tourists to further experience the splendid business civilization and appreciate the cultural charm of Dayi merchants for three thousand years; the Shenzhen Museum launches the themed night event of "Shenzhen Expo Night·Elegance-Easy in Every Square" to bring everyone Feel the ancients’ ultimate pursuit of life aesthetics.
During International Museum Day, many museums dig deep into their own characteristics and explore more forms of cooperation with other units, striving to display the historical connotations of cultural relics in a more three-dimensional, multi-dimensional and vivid way, so that more people can understand colorful culture and experience a better life.
——Beijing launched the "Museum Month" activity on May 18, setting up four themed activity weeks: "Exhibition Week", "Cultural and Creative Week", "Film Week" and "Reading Week". Among them, "Film Week" selects nearly 30 museums and more than 10 high-quality films. Audiences can get a relaxed and unique movie-watching experience in the open-air environment of museums or public spaces.
——The second season of Shanxi Museum's "Jin·Meeting China" series of short videos has been launched recently. The series of short videos uses high-definition photography, 3D scanning, animation special effects and other technologies to explain the historical background, cultural connotation and artistic value of cultural relics in a simple and easy-to-understand way through scene reproduction, and vividly present the details of the cultural relics and the stories behind them to the audience. .
——The Quanzhou Overseas Chinese History Museum launched a "special market" from May 17th to 18th, setting up check-in points for Nanyang-style architectural landscaping, arranging Nyonya clothing, Nyonya food, coffee, Nanyang handicrafts and overseas Chinese financial stalls, and Arrange non-heritage experience activities such as Nyonya rice dumpling making and Nyonya bead embroidery to let the audience feel the Nanyang style.
——In the convenience service box of Qingdao No. 31 and No. 464 buses, passengers can access the "Qingdao Museum Travel Guide" at any time. This guide uses pictures and texts to summarize and introduce the bus routes near ten unique museums in Qingdao city. Passengers can find the best route that suits them based on the content in the guide.
Today, museums have become an important place for people to understand the comprehensive and true ancient China and modern China, and to improve their ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality. As the "Cultural Museum Fever" continues to heat up, various cultural museum sites must strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural relics, so that the broad masses of the people can feel the endless inheritance of string songs and touch the extensive and profound civilization, thereby strengthening their cultural confidence and contributing to the construction of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. strength.
