These exhibits are interesting, the World Skills Museum launches ceramic skills exhibition
The World Skills Museum, which has been open for more than half a year, welcomes its first temporary exhibition. The reporter learned from the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau that recently, the World Skills Museum launched "Turning Soil into Gold - World Ceramic Skills Exhibition". This exhibition collaborates with more than 10 cultural and museum institutions, including the Palace Museum, to select more than 100 exhibits, including ancient cultural relics reflecting the history of ancient ceramics in the world, as well as award-winning works from the Meinong International Ceramics Festival, the largest ceramic triennial in the world. .
The exhibition is divided into three exhibition areas: "Beauty of Ceramics", "Technology of Ceramics" and "New Ceramics". The exhibits include ceramic works from different historical periods in China, such as the Neolithic red pottery small three-legged bowl and the black pottery three-legged double-tie jar, Tang Sancai three-legged plate, unique ceramic works from the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, as well as multi-colored and doucai , enamel and pastel porcelain products.
The reporter saw at the scene that the "Ceramic Skills" exhibition area occupies one-half of the entire exhibition area and is the key visiting area of this exhibition. An art installation based on the "Mother", a large glazed vase that represents the pinnacle of ancient Chinese porcelain making technology, stands in the center of the exhibition area. By following the exhibition tour, visitors can gain an in-depth understanding of the key processes of ceramic production. At the same time, the exhibition site also displays ceramic production raw materials, tools, and semi-finished products of the production process, and designed interactive exhibition items such as "Ceramic DIY" to lead the audience to quickly experience ceramic art.
"Compared to other museums, we pay more attention to showing the skills involved in the exhibits and telling the stories behind each skill, especially the story of the entire process and skilled personnel." Qu Jianan, the person in charge of the exhibition, said that starting from May 12, the temporary exhibition will Supporting public education activities are launched, and the audience can learn more about ceramic skills through creative ceramic production skills experience, skills masters' stunt prizes, lectures by famous research librarians from the Palace Museum, etc.
In fact, the application of ceramics is not limited to ornamental displays and daily life. With the advancement of science and technology and the promotion of innovation, a piece of porcelain clay can be fissioned into thousands of advanced ceramic products, which are widely used in fields such as medicine, environmental protection, aerospace, and new energy.
The exhibition also displayed exhibits from the Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which "goes to the sky and enters the sea" empowered by science and technology. For example, the comprehensive material experimental devices of Tiangong-2 and Shenzhou-11 are used by astronauts to conduct research experiments during on-orbit operations. Another group of exhibits includes a full-ocean-depth transparent ceramic camera, a fully-ocean-depth transparent ceramic LED light, and a large-diameter transparent ceramic protective cover, which is the "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" adventure of ceramics. The full-ocean-depth transparent ceramic camera equipped with the "Wanquan-2" lander has carried out multiple undersea imaging tests exceeding 10,000 meters; the full-ocean-depth high-power LED light is equipped with the "Canghai" lander on the 10,000-meter seabed in the Mariana Trench. Long-distance lighting was provided for filming the Struggle's 10,000-meter deep dive.
"Turning Soil into Gold - World Ceramic Skills Exhibition" was opened to the public free of charge on May 7, and the exhibition will last for three months. During the exhibition period, the museum will launch supporting public education activities such as skills experience workshops, "Ask the Masters" stunt awards, and celebrity lectures. In addition, the World Skills Museum will hold "Skills Shine the East, Light Up the Future - May 18th International Museum Day Theme Event" on May 18, leading the audience to explore the mysteries of skills and appreciate the charm of skills culture.
