Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum

Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum

Quanzhou Overseas traffic history museum is located in the east of Kaiyuan Temple, Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. Founded on July 15, 1959, the new museum was completed in February 1991, with Kaiyuan Temple and Donghu New Museum.

Quanzhou Overseas traffic history museum is a museum specially reflecting ancient maritime traffic history. It takes the history of Erythrina port, Quanzhou port in the middle ages as the axis, and its unique Maritime Cultural Relics reproduce the ancient Chinese marine culture. Important cultural relics include ancient religious stone carvings, Quanzhou Bay Sea boats of Song Dynasty, etc. Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum has seven branches, including "Quanzhou religious stone carving exhibition hall", "China boat world exhibition hall", "Arab Persian exhibition hall in Quanzhou", "Quanzhou Bay ancient boat exhibition hall".

Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum is the exhibition center and research base of China's maritime transportation history. In May 2008, Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum was recognized as "national first-class Museum" by the State Administration of cultural relics

. Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum was named as "one hundred patriotic education demonstration bases" by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee in June 1997

In 2002, it was named "National Youth Science and technology education base"

In 2008, it was named "patriotic education base"

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Development history

On July 15, 1959, Quanzhou Haijiao museum was established.

In 1962, Guo Moruo, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, inspected Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum and inscribed its name.

In May 1976, Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum was officially upgraded to a provincial cultural unit in Fujian Province.

In December 1978, the internal academic journal of Quanzhou Overseas communication history museum, research on the history of maritime communication, was founded.

In October 1979, Quanzhou Bay ancient ship exhibition hall was completed and officially opened to the public.

From January 1990 to February 1991, the first phase of xinhaijiaoguan project was completed.

In February 1991, Quanzhou Haijiao museum was completed.

In February 2004, donated by the king of Oman, the king of Saudi Arabia and the government of Morocco, the main building of "Islamic culture exhibition hall" was completed, which was jointly invested by the governments of Fujian Province and Quanzhou City.

In May 2008, Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum was recognized as "national first-class Museum" by the State Administration of cultural relics.

Venue composition

overview

The former site and new area of Quanzhou Overseas Communication History Museum covers an area of 35000 square meters, with a building area of 17300 square meters and a display area of 11000 square meters.

The new museum is a modern building with abstract shape of a twin masted ship.

At present, Quanzhou Museum of overseas traffic history has seven fixed exhibitions. Besides the national treasure level relics of the Song Dynasty shipwreck and a large number of accompanying unearthed objects, there are dozens of ancient anchors such as wood, iron and stone, hundreds of stone carvings of the song and Yuan Dynasties, export-oriented ceramics of various periods, more than 200 representative ship models of various water areas in China, and artifacts reflecting overseas traffic folk customs.

Main exhibition hall

Temporary Exhibition

Collection quality

Venue features

Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum has been the only Maritime Museum in China for nearly half a century since its establishment in 1959. As a collection of cultural relics, it shows the navigation and transportation history of the Chinese nation and the historical scene of the integration of different civilizations in the world, and enjoys international reputation. In China's application for the "maritime Silk Road" world cultural heritage project, as a designated Exhibition Center, Haijiao Pavilion also plays an important role. In June 1980, the UNESCO publication museum introduced the museum in English, French, Japanese and Spanish. In September 1983, sun Yiqing, director of the State Administration of cultural relics, listed Haijiao Museum as one of the seven most distinctive museums in China.

The museum has also successfully created a museum mode of "one museum, one meeting, one journal", that is, the museum, together with the China Overseas Transportation History Research Association (the Secretariat of which is located in the Museum), CO sponsored the national periodical of "Research on the history of maritime transportation" and released it to the public at home and abroad. It has gathered the strength of experts and scholars at home and abroad, making the museum an important base for the study of the history of China's maritime relations.

Activity construction

Special activities

Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum is "Fujian Youth Science and technology education base", "National Youth Science and technology education base" and the first batch of "national patriotism education demonstration base". For a long time, it has focused on carrying out effective propaganda and education activities, among which the "Friends of Overseas Transportation Museum" activity for primary and secondary school students has become a cultural brand of Quanzhou. "Friends of Haijiao Museum" was founded in 1997, with primary and secondary school students as the object. It aims to cultivate young people's quality of loving their hometown and learning traditional culture, strengthen the communication between museum and school, and let students learn to use museum resources. In addition to the activities held irregularly at ordinary times, there is a concentrated activity with a clear theme every holiday. The students who participate in the activity have a comprehensive study of Quanzhou history and Chinese Haisi culture by learning theoretical knowledge, studying traditional crafts and visiting places of interest.

Outreach review

Since 1992, Quanzhou Museum of overseas traffic history has actively carried out overseas exhibitions, and has successively held special exhibitions in Italy, Singapore, Portugal, Kuwait, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, all of which have achieved success and made contributions to the dissemination of excellent marine culture of the Chinese people.

academic achievements

Up to 2012, researchers of Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum have made certain achievements in the field of social science and natural science research, won provincial and ministerial awards for many times, published more than 20 kinds of special research, and published hundreds of papers in domestic and foreign academic journals. Published papers and monographs include:

Wu Wenliang: Quanzhou religious stone carvings (Archaeology special issue, No.7), science published

Press, 1957.

Quanzhou Museum of overseas traffic history, Fujian Province, et al. Collected papers on Quanzhou Islamic Studies, Fujian people's publishing house, 1983.

Quanzhou Museum of overseas traffic history, Fujian Province, edited by: excavation and research of Song Dynasty seagoing ships in Quanzhou Bay, Ocean Press, 1987.

Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum, Fujian Province, edited by: Quanzhou Islamic stone carvings (written by Chen Dasheng), Ningxia people's publishing house, Fujian people's publishing house, 1984.

China and the maritime Silk Road (Proceedings of Quanzhou International Symposium on the comprehensive investigation of the maritime Silk Road of UNESCO, Volume I and II), Fujian people's publishing house, 1991 and 1994.

Wang Lianmao, et al. A collection of genealogical data on the relationship between Fujian and Taiwan, Xiamen University Press, 1987.

Wang Lianmao, et al. Quanzhou, a famous port on the maritime Silk Road, Ocean Press, 1988.

Li Yukun, a brief history of Quanzhou's overseas transportation, Xiamen University Press, 1995.

Compiled by Wang Lianmao and ye endian: collection of Zhang Shixiang's family documents, Fujian people's publishing house, 1999.

Wang Lianmao and Chen Lihua, the epitome of Chinese marine culture: Quanzhou Museum of overseas traffic history, Encyclopedia of China Press, 1999.

Wang Lianmao and Ding Yuling: return to the city of light, Fujian people's publishing house, 2000.

Chen Lihua et al. Records of Quanzhou customs (ancient Shi Bo Si Pian), Xiamen University Press, 2005.

Li Yukun and Li Xiumei: history of Quanzhou's ancient overseas traffic, 2007, China Radio and television press.

Visit information

Address: 425 Donghu street, Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

Traffic routes:

Main museum area: No.7, No.19, No.22, No.25, No.27, No.41, No.202, No.203, no.k502 buses (all the above routes get off at Qiaoxiang Stadium Station)

Ancient Ship Museum: No.2, no.6, No.26, No.40, etc

Admission information: the museum is open for free all the year round (closed on Monday, except holidays)

Opening hours: 8:30 a.m. - 17:00 p.m

Address: 425 Donghu street, Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

Longitude: 118.61085232229

Latitude: 24.910405528388

Tel: 0595-22102655

Ticket information: 10 yuan

Opening hours: 8:00-17:00

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