Suzhou Museum

Suzhou Museum is located in Northeast street, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. The site of the museum is the site of Li Xiucheng's palace, the loyal king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It is the most complete preserved building of the palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The designer of Suzhou Museum is the famous architect I.M. Pei. The whole Suzhou Museum is full of Chinese color. The most unique is the north courtyard on the central axis, which not only enables visitors to see the features of Jiangnan waterscape through the glass in the lobby, but also directly connects the supplement garden of Humble Administrator's garden across the north wall, integrating the old and new landscape. The collection in the museum is mainly composed of ancient paintings, calligraphy, porcelain, crafts and unearthed cultural relics. There are four permanent exhibitions, namely "treasures of Wu land", "national treasures of Wu tower", "elegant style of Wuzhong" and "calligraphy and painting of Wumen".

Suzhou Museum

Founded in 1960, Suzhou Museum is located in Zhongwang mansion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It is one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. It is a group of well preserved historical buildings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in China.

In 1999, the Suzhou municipal Party committee and government invited the world Chinese architect I.M. Pei to design the new Suzhou Museum. On October 6, 2006, the new Suzhou Museum was completed and officially opened to the public. The new Museum covers an area of about 10700 square meters, with a construction area of more than 19000 square meters. Together with the repaired Zhongwang mansion of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the total construction area is 26500 square meters, with an investment of 339 million yuan. It is a comprehensive museum integrating modern buildings, ancient buildings and innovative landscape architecture.

In November 2017, it was awarded the fifth national civilized unit.

Architectural features

The characteristics of the new Suzhou Museum are as follows: the natural integration of architectural modeling and environment, the unique space treatment, the exquisite building materials and internal design, and the maximum introduction of natural light into the interior.

In terms of architectural structure, glass and steel structures allow modern people to borrow large areas of daylight indoors, and open steel structures replace the wood materials of traditional buildings. The design of roof form breaks through the constraints of daylighting of traditional Chinese architecture "big roof". First of all, the glass skylight with three-dimensional geometry on the roof is unique. This paper uses the tiger skylight in traditional Chinese architecture for reference and improves it. The skylight is opened in the middle of the roof. In this way, the three-dimensional geometric skylight of the roof and the sloping roof under it form a corner, showing a three-dimensional modeling effect. It not only solves the practical problem of traditional architecture in daylighting, but also enriches and develops the roof modeling style of Chinese architecture.

The use of the roof and the surrounding stones of the white wall under it makes the overall style of the building unified. As far as the roof is concerned, if the traditional small green tiles are used, they are fragile and easy to leak, and need frequent maintenance. Their firmness, craftsmanship and flatness are difficult to meet the requirements of the new building. In order to coordinate the material and form, dark gray granite is used to replace the traditional gray tile. This kind of granite, called "China black", is black with gray in the black. It is black after rain, and the color turns light to dark gray when the sun shines. The stone flakes are processed into rhombus and laid on the roof smoothly in turn, with a strong three-dimensional sense.

Exhibition hall distribution

The museum is formally divided into three parts. The central part is the entrance, hall and museum garden; the western part is the exhibition area; the eastern part is the modern art gallery, educational facilities, tea service and administrative functions, etc. this part will also become the actual channel connecting with the Zhongwang mansion. Prince Zhong's mansion will be restored to its original appearance. As it is difficult for Zhongwang mansion to provide suitable exhibition space under the existing structure, it will be used as a window to display its rich architectural heritage and works of art, such as furniture and sculpture, which usually do not need high-end exhibition space. The hall is the core of the museum, located between the entrance vestibule and the museum garden. The eight corner hall is designed through geometric transformation and reinterpretation of traditional Suzhou architecture and Chinese architectural elements. It serves as a guide for all visitors and provides access to all exhibition areas of the museum.

Permanent exhibition hall

The exhibition hall of Neolithic and Wu cultural relics, the film and television hall and the multi-function hall are all arranged in the basement.

The basic exhibition hall of Suzhou Museum has only one floor. There are four permanent exhibition halls in the exhibition area of Suzhou Museum, namely "Wu land heritage", "Wu tower national treasure", "Wu Zhong elegant style" and "Wu men calligraphy and painting". Among them, "Wu land heritage" series includes four theme exhibition rooms, namely, morning light, spring and autumn, splendid Jiangnan and metropolis charm; "Wu tower national treasure" series includes Ruiguang Temple Pagoda Buddhist relics and Huqiu There are two theme exhibition rooms for Buddhist cultural relics of Yunyan Temple Pagoda; "Wuzhong Fengya" series includes long objects of study, treasures of edification, skillful techniques of attacking jade, magical skills of carving, elegant affairs of study, occasional gifts of leisure, Mo drama thatched cottage (i.e. painting studio of Song Dynasty, outdoor) and Jinxiu Floating Life Exhibition Hall; "Wumen calligraphy and painting" is mainly composed of Wu school and its original scholars, four kings Wu Yun and his original scholars, Yangzhou painting school and so on .

Special exhibition hall, modern art exhibition hall

The modern art exhibition hall is located on the first floor of East Road, and the special exhibition hall is located on the first floor. The special exhibition hall and the modern art exhibition hall hold exhibitions of modern art at home and abroad from time to time to enrich the cultural life of the citizens.

In addition to calligraphy and painting, gems of twin towers, porcelain of Ming and Qing Dynasties and Suzhou arts and crafts exhibition area, special furniture exhibition area will also be arranged to emphasize Suzhou's rich artistic and cultural traditions. At the end of the stream of people route, that is, at its garden, a copy of the Song Dynasty study is arranged, which mainly displays the handicrafts and furniture of that year. The calligraphy and painting exhibition area is located on the second floor of the octagonal hall with natural lighting. The high wall provides a convenient background for displaying calligraphy and painting scrolls. Modern art works are located in a special exhibition area in the east of the museum garden, which is composed of 1.35 meters of modules.

Collection

Suzhou Museum has a collection of more than 40000 cultural relics, including 865 first-class cultural relics, 1188 second-class cultural relics and 32295 third-class cultural relics. It is especially good at archaeological relics over the years, calligraphy and painting of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and handicrafts. In addition, Suzhou Museum has 725 kinds of rare books, 3128 volumes, 28501 kinds of common books and 91754 volumes, which is the key unit of ancient books protection in China.

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Institutional culture

Suzhou Museum has published 23 kinds of materials, such as collection of paintings in Suzhou Museum, collection of industrial and commercial inscriptions in Ming and Qing Dynasties, selected materials of Suzhou cultural relics, selected materials of Wu culture, notes of danwu, etc.

The supporting books of Suzhou Museum collection include: Seal of Suzhou Museum collection, 72 champion fans of Qing Dynasty in Suzhou Museum collection, calligraphy and painting of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Suzhou Museum collection, rare ancient books in Suzhou Museum collection, colored paintings of Prince Zhong's mansion of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, unearthed cultural relics in Suzhou Museum collection, porcelain in Suzhou Museum collection, arts and crafts in Suzhou Museum collection《 Suzhou Museum has collected relics of Ruiguang pagoda of Yunyan temple in Huqiu, epitaphs of past dynasties in Suzhou Museum, etc.; the supporting books of all previous special exhibitions include: four heroes of Wumen, Shitian Dazao: Shen Zhou of Wumen painting school, selected works of ink and bamboo paintings of past dynasties, elegant play of study, etc.

value

artistic value

Suzhou Museum is a group of historical buildings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom which are well preserved in China. It has preserved more than 400 "Su style painting" and other important remains and art treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period. Zhongwangfu painting is the representative of "Su style painting" in Qing Dynasty. It is rare in the south of the Yangtze River. It is an extremely precious cultural heritage in the treasure house of Chinese culture. The buildings, paintings and murals are of historical and artistic value.

Cultural value

Suzhou Museum has a collection of more than 40000 pieces, featuring unearthed cultural relics, paintings and calligraphy of Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as ancient crafts. It has a large number of "treasures left by Wu". It is the most representative collection of Wu culture.

Important events

In December 1962, 164 guildhalls and offices in Suzhou and its suburbs were investigated, and relevant industrial and commercial materials and inscriptions were collected.

From March to December 1975, a group of relics of Tang and Song dynasties were cleared at the construction site of dashishing, which is the Fangshi site of Song Dynasty.

From December 26 to December 28, 1989, the "30th anniversary of the founding of Suzhou Museum and the Third Symposium" was held. More than 200 people attended and 64 papers were received.

In April 1994, the collection of three cultural relics participated in the International Silk Road Exhibition held in Italy.

From September 20 to October 17, 1996, the collection of 11 cultural relics participated in the Suzhou products and culture exhibition held by Suzhou Municipal People's Government in Kanazawa, Japan, in memory of its friendship with Kanazawa, Japan.

On December 31, 1997, the donation ceremony of Li eying's embroidery works was held.

In June 2001, at the invitation of I.M. Pei, the head of the culture and Planning Department of Suzhou went to Beijing to attend the completion ceremony of the head office building of the Bank of China. Entrusted by the municipal government, I.M. Pei was invited to lead the design of the new Suzhou Museum.

On April 30, 2002, I.M. Pei led Pei Li Zhong Yi, chairman of Pei's architectural firm

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