Tang Xishi Museum

Datang Xishi museum is the first private museum of ruins built on the site of Changan Xishi in Tang Dynasty. There are more than 20000 cultural relics in the collection, mainly the cultural relics unearthed from the Xishi site and the fine cultural relics collected by the founder of the museum in the past 20 years.

Tang Xishi Museum

Located at 118 Laodong South Road, Lianhu District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Datang Xishi museum is a private Heritage Museum with the theme of reflecting the Silk Road culture and commercial culture.

The Tangxi Museum covers an area of 20 mu, with a construction area of 35000 square meters and an exhibition area of 11000 square meters, including a site protection area of 25000 square meters. There are more than 20000 cultural relics in the collection, mainly those unearthed from the Xishi site and those collected by the founder of the museum for more than 20 years, from Shang and Zhou Dynasties to Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Datang Xishi Museum has been rated as a national 4A tourist attraction, a cultural industry demonstration base, and a cultural industry demonstration base

National first-class Museum.

Development and construction

Since the late 1950s, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of social sciences has carried out three archaeological explorations on the Xishi site and made important discoveries;

In 2006, when the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences excavated the Xishi site, a well preserved "Shizijie site" was cleared in the northeast, including streets, roads, ruts, bridges and culverts, ditches and other relics;

In 2007, Shaanxi Jiaxin Group invested 450 million yuan to build Xi'an Datang West City Museum;

On April 7, 2010, Datang Xishi Museum officially opened;

In 2011, Datang West City Museum won the national 4A tourist attraction;

In 2017, Datang West City Museum was selected as "national first-class Museum".

architectural composition

On the basis of protecting the roads, stone bridges, ditches and buildings in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the architectural design of the museum protects and displays the site of Shizijie in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the original road pattern, scale, scale and atmosphere of Shizijie through reasonable layout. By using the exhibition unit with the size of 12m × 12M, the layout of Chang'an City Square in Sui and Tang Dynasties and the characteristics of chessboard road network are implemented throughout the museum space design. At the same time, a series of new explorations on the volume, scale, material, texture and color of the building are carried out, creating a high and low, rich and orderly spatial level and effect, restoring the real scale and spatial feeling of Tangxi historical street. Combined with the specially designed exterior wall materials, it shows the deep structure of the city and architectural culture of Chang'an in Sui and Tang Dynasties from the aspects of texture, texture and bearing, as well as the grand momentum and prosperous scene of the western city in Tang Dynasty.

Exhibition Profile

The exhibition of Tang Xishi museum is divided into five parts: basic exhibition, special exhibition, temporary exhibition, special exhibition and art space. The basic Exhibition "the soul of the prosperous business at the beginning of the Silk Road" shows the ruins of "Shizijie" in the northeast of Xishi in Tang Dynasty, rutting relics and some unearthed cultural relics. It introduces the important position, trading categories, commercial culture and prosperity of Xishi as the starting point of the Silk Road in history The special exhibition "experience of 100 workers on the Silk Road" interprets the production process of several traditional crafts on the ancient Silk Road; the temporary exhibition is a place for cultural exchange and exhibition, displaying the Silk Road culture and ancient commercial culture; the special exhibition "selected works" and "Zhenshi Qianqiu - epitaph exhibition of the Western City Museum of the Tang Dynasty".

Collection quality

Road and rutting ruins

The upper, middle and lower layers of pavement were found in the south of the east end of Xishi South Street. The third layer is 1.8 to 2.7 meters away from the surface, which belongs to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The roadbed filled with stones is very hard after tamping. The width of the road is 16 to 18 meters, and the width of the carriageway is 14 meters. There is a 30 cm wide open ditch on both sides of the road, and a 1 m wide sidewalk on the outside. A number of rutting remains with a width of about 1.3 meters were found on the road surface.

Gujing site

During the archaeological excavation in 2006, it was found that the Yong'an canal of Tang Dynasty flowed northward through the east of Xishi, and a branch canal about 140 meters long, 3.4 meters wide and 6 meters deep extended westward along the north side of Xishi South Street, which should be the main source of water in Xishi. In most of the sites, well remains were found, which were divided into draught and seepage. The well is 4-6m deep and 1m in diameter with brick wall. In addition, wedge-shaped stone components were found, which should be stone components of well platform.

Drainage ditch site

In the archaeological excavation of Xishi City, two kinds of drainage channels, i.e. earthen and brick, were found. The wall of earthen ditch is pasted with wooden board, and the column is erected outside the board to prevent the wall from collapsing. In the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an city was surrounded by eight rivers, and water was diverted into the western city, which not only provided water transportation, but also solved the problem of water supply, which was one of the basic conditions for the prosperity of the western city.

Ruins of Shiban bridge on the north side of "Shizi Street" in Northeast China

In 2006, a stone slab bridge for pedestrians was excavated on the north side of "cross street" in the northeast of Xishi. The bridge is 5.5 meters long in the East and West, and 1.75 meters wide in the South and North. It is also a water culvert here. The stone slabs of the stone slab bridge are fixed with swallow tail shaped iron clips, and the lower part is supported by stone bars or stone slabs.

The site of Shizijie in the northeast of Xishi

The Xishi site is a rectangle, 1031 meters long from north to South and 927 meters wide from east to west. It is buried 1.8 to 2.5 meters below the surface of the earth. There are two parallel streets in the north-south direction and two in the east-west direction in the city. The four streets are crossed into a "well shaped" shape. The whole city is divided into nine rectangular sections. Each section faces the street on four sides. There are thousands of shops on the street.

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Activity construction

As of 2015, Datang Xishi Museum has launched more than 50 theme exhibitions around the Silk Road culture, held nearly 100 educational activities to promote and inherit the spirit of the Silk Road, and received nearly 4 million visitors from home and abroad.

Since 2014, Datang Xishi Museum has actively contacted and communicated with national museums along the Silk Road and embassies in China, successively with Samarkand National Heritage Museum of Uzbekistan, National History Museum of Kyrgyzstan, National Ethnic Museum of Tajikistan, National History Museum of Kazakhstan, National Museum of Mauritania and Matthias of Algeria More than ten national museums along the Silk Road, including the museum, the Palestinian Museum and the Yemeni National Museum, have signed the agreement on building friendship museums.

In February 2014, Datang Xishi Museum initiated the establishment of "national private museum collaboration".

Venue features

Datang Xishi museum is the first private museum of ruins in China, which is the characteristic of the museum.

The Baigong experience Exhibition on the third floor of Datang West City Museum combines exhibition, performance and sales, and is divided into ten categories: tea art workshop, music shop, craft workshop, Persian shop, textile, pottery workshop, divination shop and jewelry shop.

The site hall on the first floor holds performances for the audience from time to time. The performances are featured by "the Silk Road" and "the western city of the Tang Dynasty", and are compatible with other forms of artistic performances and operas.

Honors

In June 2013, Datang Xishi museum was awarded "Shaanxi science popularization education base" by Shaanxi Association for science and technology;

In 2011, Datang West City Museum won the national 4A tourist attraction;

In 2017, Datang West City Museum was selected as "national first-class Museum".

Organization setup

The system of curator responsibility under the council system is implemented in Datang Xishi Museum. There are six departments in one room: office, cultural and scientific research department, exhibition and education department, business development department, security department, finance department, logistics department and cultural relics restoration center.

Visit information

address

118 Laodong South Road, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province

Visiting time

Open all year round (except closed on Monday and new year's Eve)

Winter (November 1 to March 31): 9:00-17:00 (stop selling tickets at 16:00)

Summer (April 1 to October 31): 9:00-17:30 (stop selling tickets at 16:30)

Ticket Price

From May 18, 2014, visitors can visit the permanent exhibition free of charge and get tickets with valid ID cards.

Traffic information

City Bus: No. 24, 43, 106, 107, 201, 502, 503, 916 get off at Datang Xishi station; No. 15, 251, 262, 322, 518, 521, 720, 800 get off at Caoyang village station, get off at the South 500 Road West; you can also take the education special line to get off at Laodong South Road, get off at the North 500 meters west.

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Awards

Datang Xishi museum is one of the award-winning projects of China Construction Engineering Luban Award (national quality project) from 2012 to 2013. The project is undertaken by the seventh Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. of Shaanxi Construction Engineering Group.

Address: Xishi North Road, Lianhu District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, China

Longitude: 108.9081789828

Latitude: 34.246742606964

Tel: 029-84351808

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