Museum of Sichuan University

Sichuan University Museum is the earliest Museum in Southwest China and one of the oldest museums in China, with a history of more than 90 years. In 1914, the Antiquities Museum of West China Union University (the predecessor of the Museum of Sichuan University) began to be built, with Professor d.s.dye, an American scholar, as the curator. By the 1940s, Huada museum had developed into a large-scale and well-known Museum in China, enjoying the reputation of "the most perfect Museum in Southwest China".

The exhibition hall of the museum is divided into four floors, displaying some cultural relics unearthed from ethnic groups, folk customs, calligraphy and painting, stone carvings and Sanxingdui, as well as one of the only two remaining sedan chairs with the most complete preservation in the country. If you are lucky, you can enjoy the shadow play in the folk custom museum. Although the museum is not big, it is worth savoring. The commentators are all local students with a good attitude.

Museum of Sichuan University

Located in Wuhou District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Sichuan University Museum is one of the earliest and oldest museums in China's colleges and universities as well as in Southwest China.

The museum, formerly known as the Antiquities Museum of West China Union University, began to be built in 1914. In 1952, West China University was transformed into Sichuan Medical College, and the Museum of West China University was transferred to Sichuan University and renamed "History Museum of Sichuan University". In 1984, the museum was separated from the Department of history and officially named "Museum of Sichuan University".

According to the information on the official website of the museum in October 2018, the total construction area of the museum is 15000 square meters, with a total of more than 53000 sets / 84000 pieces of cultural relics, including dozens of categories, among which the collection of calligraphy and painting, ceramics, art sculpture, ethnic cultural relics and folk cultural relics is the most distinctive

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Historical evolution

In 1914, the Antiquities Museum of West China Union University began to be built. Professor Dai Qianhe, director of the school of science, began to collect academic antiquities. In 1932, in view of the importance of the museum, Harvard Yanjing Society sent Dr. gawaihan to Chengdu to take over the post of curator. The second floor of West China Union University Library was used as the exhibition room. In 1933, a reporter in Chengdu National Daily wrote an article entitled "visiting the Huada Museum", which praised the museum as "the most perfect Museum in Southwest China with a large collection of precious historical relics."

In 1951, Mr. Wen you, former director of the Chinese department and director of the Institute of Chinese culture, served as the curator. Mr. Wen Yu actively promoted the work of the library, started to count specimens, and at the same time, took advantage of a large number of folk antiquities to appear on the market, bought a large number of precious cultural relics, especially calligraphy and painting works of art. He also made great efforts to plan the publication of "cultural relics in West China" to encourage all colleagues in the library to engage in research.

In 1952, during the adjustment of colleges and departments, West China University was transformed into Sichuan Medical College. All specimens, books, materials, personnel and equipment of West China University Museum were allocated to Sichuan University. The staff, equipment, books, materials and collections of the museum were all moved out of huaxiba and placed in the culture and history building of Sichuan University. It was renamed "History Museum of Sichuan University". In the mid-1960s, the History Museum of Sichuan University was entrusted to the Department of history and renamed "the Museum of History Department of Sichuan University". In 1984, the museum was separated from the Department of history and officially named "Museum of Sichuan University".

In 1992, the museum moved from the culture and history building to the old library building by the lotus pond in the eastern district. In May 2005, the new museum in Wangjiang campus of Sichuan University was completed

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Exhibition hall display

Permanent exhibition

According to the information on the official website of the museum in October 2018, the exhibition hall of the new museum of Sichuan University is divided into four floors, including archaeology exhibition hall, stone carving art exhibition hall, folklore exhibition hall, ethnology exhibition hall, ancient porcelain hall, ancient costume art hall, calligraphy and painting art hall, etc., with a total of 2000 cultural relics on display

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Exhibition hall of stone carving art: mainly the Buddhist stone carvings in Longxing Temple of Tang Dynasty, it shows the stone carving art of Han and Tang Dynasties

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Museum of Archaeology: Bashu civilization, including early jade unearthed from Sanxingdui, Bashu bronzes, etc. Since July 2018, the Archaeological Museum has been closed to the public due to the preparation of new exhibitions

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Folklore Museum: folk cultural relics of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Including marriage, art, book and film

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Ethnology exhibition hall: southwest ethnic customs, especially the cultural relics in Sichuan Tibetan areas

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Art Hall of painting and Calligraphy: painting and calligraphy of Ming and Qing Dynasties

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Ancient costume art hall: Costume from Qing Dynasty to Republic of China

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Ancient porcelain Hall: famous kilns of song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties

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Special exhibition

According to the information on the official website of the museum in 2018, the Museum of Sichuan University has successively set up Taoist cultural relics exhibition rooms and revolutionary cultural relics exhibition rooms, successfully unveiled and mounted the world-famous painting "hundred apes", collected a number of valuable cultural relics scattered among the people, and launched a series of special exhibitions such as the clothing exhibition of the late Qing Dynasty, the calligraphy and painting exhibition of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the porcelain exhibition, and the early Sanxingdui cultural relics exhibition Part of the exhibition.

"Bronze civilization dialogue Exhibition" between Chengdu Plain and two river basins

Sponsored by: Museum of Sichuan University, Babylon special collection of Yale University, Holy Land Museum of Jerusalem

Time: October 21, 2018

 

Tao Ran Shi and Western Sichuan

Exhibition time: 14:00 p.m. on May 12, 2018 to 17:00 p.m. on August 12, 2018.

Introduction: jointly sponsored by the Museum of Sichuan University and the people's Government of Li County, Aba Prefecture. The old photos on display are from the library of Princeton University and the Museum of Sichuan University. They were taken by Tao Ran Shi in the Republic of China. Tao Ran Shi's attention and records on the landform and construction of ancient cities such as Xuecheng, Weizhou, Mianhe, Diexi and Songpan, as well as Dujiangyan water release Festival, Lixian Lama Temple and Chengdu ancient city are precious materials.

The exhibition also specially collected the local costumes of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China collected by the old man Meng Zicheng in Puxi, Lixian County

 

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Dunhuang Mural Art Exhibition

Exhibition time: March 18 to April 18 (normally open on Saturday and Sunday).

66 Dunhuang frescoes copied by digital technology;

Using digital technology 1:1 copy a cave;

To interpret the art of Dunhuang and the plates of Dunhuang murals;

There are 12 copies of documents unearthed from the Sutra cave;

Two copies of painted sculpture;

Special exhibition of murals in Mogao Grottoes (such as flying Apsaras, donors, architecture, folk customs, patterns, landscapes, animals, etc.);

The digital Dunhuang of Mogao Grottoes has launched vr virtual roaming display of 30 caves;

Multimedia video display (documentary, feature film, etc.);

Many lectures on Dunhuang culture.

The first exhibition of calligraphy, painting and photography by provincial senior professors

Exhibition time: December 7-january 7, 2013.

The exhibition is hosted by Sichuan Provincial Association of veteran professors and organized by the Publicity Department of Sichuan University Party committee and Sichuan University Museum.

There are more than 100 works on display, mainly Chinese traditional painting and calligraphy, as well as some oil paintings, watercolor paintings and photographic works. Paintings and photographs cover landscapes, flowers and birds, and figures; calligraphy works include lines, regular script, official script, and grass. Excellent works and exercises are both elegant and popular.

The authors are all members of the association of senior professors. Except for a few professionals, most of them are amateurs

 

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Phoenix Nirvana: Exhibition of restoration achievements of damaged porcelain in Wenchuan earthquake collection

Exhibition time: May 12 - June 12, 2013.

The exhibition focuses on the collection of porcelains damaged by the May 12 Wenchuan earthquake. Most of the exhibits were collected in the 1930s and 1940s, from the Tang Dynasty to the Republic of China. They are produced in many kilns. They are important material materials for studying the history of Chinese ceramic production technology and the history, cultural exchange and business development of Southwest China.

There are many kinds of porcelains on display, most of which are decorated with patterns, and some of them are decorated with carving and plastic stacking. The repair process is complex and the work is very difficult. From December 2009 to April 2012, with the joint efforts of Sichuan Provincial Bureau of cultural relics, Sichuan University and Sichuan University Museum, the cultural heritage protection research center of Institute of archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was responsible for the implementation. It took two and a half years and finally successfully restored these cultural relics

 

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Collection

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In 1931, the museum had more than 6000 specimens, which were stored and displayed in Hepei College of West China Union University.

In 1936, the collection of cultural relics reached 15

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