Baotou Museum

Baotou Museum

Baotou museum is located in Inner Mongolia Baotou City Center beautiful alding street, next to Friendship Square. With a total area of 16000 square meters, including 7600 square meters of exhibition hall, the museum is a comprehensive large-scale museum based in Baotou and covering the western region of Inner Mongolia. It promotes the construction of socialist spiritual civilization by collecting, keeping, researching and displaying the achievements of civilization, natural resources and socialist construction in different historical periods in Baotou and its surrounding areas, disseminating historical, scientific and cultural knowledge, and educating the people in patriotism and historical materialism.

Development history

Baotou Museum of Inner Mongolia was founded in December 1998. It is a comprehensive museum based in Baotou, with cultural relics covering the western region of Inner Mongolia. As soon as Baotou museum was established, it aimed at creating fine exhibitions. With careful planning, exquisite design and fine production, its exhibitions and exhibitions have won the unanimous appreciation of the audience and the wide praise of museum experts.

Since its opening in 1999, Baotou Museum has received more than one million visitors. Among them, there are thousands of international friends including foreign heads of state, and more than 6000 party and state leaders, as well as leaders of ministries, commissions, provinces and cities, such as Liu Yunshan, Wei Jianxing, Qian Qichen and Huang Ju. They all spoke highly of the exhibition and reception service of Baotou Museum. The museum has become an important patriotic education base and quality education base for primary and secondary school students in Baotou city.

In 2000, the basic display of Baotou museum was rated as "the top ten exhibition products of the region in 50 years" by the Department of culture of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, "Inner Mongolia ancient rock art exhibition" was rated as "the top ten exhibition products of the country in 1999" by the State Administration of cultural relics, and "rare earth Museum" was rated as the top ten events of the rare earth industry in 1999 by China rare earth Association.

In 2002, the Baotou municipal government decided to spend a lot of money to build a new Baotou Museum. In October of the same year, the foundation of the new museum was laid and started. After five years of construction, it was fully completed and opened on July 27, 2007. Baotou museum is a first-class Museum in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It presents itself to the audience and presents a great gift to the 60th anniversary of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

architectural composition

The new Baotou Museum in Inner Mongolia is located in the southeast of Friendship Square, alding street, Baotou City, covering an area of 3.5 hectares, with a construction area of 24000 square meters and an exhibition area of 15000 square meters. Integrated with Baotou Art Museum, the exhibition area is a three-story building, the first floor is an art museum, and the second and third floors are museums. The theme of the whole building is "boulders on the grassland, culture on the boulders", with magnificent shape and profound connotation. From a distance, the whole building looks like a cliff with steep rocks, towering walls and full of interest. It matches the lawn, flowers, green trees and fountains on Friendship Square, forming a magnificent landscape with profound cultural heritage and modern rhythm, symbolizing the integration and long history of grassland civilization and Huanghe civilization. The rugged sloping roof is more like a unfolding picture of history. There are 8 exhibition halls in the new museum, of which 6 are permanent exhibition halls, displaying the basic and special exhibition of the museum; the other 2 are mobile exhibition halls, for holding temporary exhibitions.

Function value

Baotou is an important city in Northern Xinjiang of China, with grassland in the north and Yellow River in the south. It has a long history and splendid culture. It is a glorious and arduous task to build Baotou Museum in Inner Mongolia, to publicize and display the long-standing and extensive history and culture of Baotou and its surrounding areas, and to show its magnificent treasures. Inner Mongolia Baotou museum is striving to build the cultural brand of Inner Mongolia Baotou museum with the spirit of unity, pragmatism, reform and innovation, and strive to make the new museum of Inner Mongolia Baotou become a boutique Museum in the cultural and Expo circles. At the same time, we should actively cooperate with brother libraries to build, share resources, promote exchanges and cooperation, expand influence, give full play to resource advantages, maximize social and economic benefits, and make due contributions to the development of cultural and Museum undertakings and the construction of a harmonious society.

Collection display

The museum is divided into local history and cultural relics exhibition, Inner Mongolia Aohan Liao tomb mural cultural relics exhibition, Inner Mongolia ancient rock art exhibition, rare earth Museum and Baotou 50 years achievement exhibition. It shows people Baotou's long-standing and extensive history and culture, splendid treasures, and Baotou's unique mountains and rivers and rich natural resources. The ancient rock paintings and rare earth exhibitions in Inner Mongolia are unique in China.

Baotou local history and cultural relics display

The exhibition of Baotou local history and cultural relics shows the history of Baotou area from Neolithic period to Qing Dynasty for more than 6000 years, and brings together the archaeological achievements and research achievements of Baotou for more than 20 years. With the theme of national unity, the reunification of the motherland and the progress of civilization as well as a large number of precious historical relics as the main line, the exhibition traces the history and learns from the past.

Display of ancient rock paintings in Inner Mongolia

The exhibition of ancient rock paintings in Inner Mongolia is the most special exhibition of Baotou Museum. It systematically shows the exquisite rock paintings from the Neolithic period to the Yuan Dynasty in the central and western regions of Inner Mongolia. With rich and detailed cultural connotations and simple and innocent artistic techniques, the rock paintings depict the difficult course and continuous chapters of the development of the northern grassland ethnic groups, and are described as "the language of image and the epic of art" by the historians. In terms of display form, it boldly breaks through the traditional design concept, uses the characteristics of the original exhibition hall space and sloping roof, and designs the exhibition hall effect of "sky like dome, covering four fields" through unique artistic creativity. The four walls are equipped with giant color spray painting light box, transplanting the vast grassland, towering green mountains, vast desert and other beautiful scenery to the exhibition hall, reappearing the rock paintings The creation of the environment, creating a "sky, wild" grassland cultural atmosphere, highlighting the "return to nature", "heaven and man in one" design ideas. Deeply moved the audience's nostalgia, shocking, people linger. Only half a year after the exhibition, it won the awards of "1999 national top ten cultural relics exhibition" and "Inner Mongolia 50 years Museum top ten Exhibition" and ranked among the top in Inner Mongolia Cultural and Expo circles.

Tibetan Buddhism: Thangka Art Exhibition

Tibetan Buddhism Thangka art exhibition is another special exhibition launched by Baotou Museum. Tangka is a Tibetan language, which means scroll painting and cloth painting in Chinese. It is a unique religious painting of Tibetan Buddhism. The thangkas on display are all works from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. The theme of thangka is mainly to depict the doctrines, characters and religious activities of Tibetan Buddhism. It shows the images of Buddha, Bodhisattva, Dharma protector, Buddhist stories and so on. It is a valuable material for the study of Tibetan and Mongolian human history, national religion, social customs and painting art. After the Thangka exhibition, it has aroused widespread praise from all walks of life.

Hometown of rare earth

"The land of rare earth" is the only exhibition hall in China that specially reflects the resource status, industrial achievements and application prospects of rare earth. Rare earth is a high-tech material in the 21st century, which has broad application value and development prospect. Baotou has a huge rare earth resource advantage and research and development strength. Based on the guiding ideology of Baotou, showing the whole country and facing the world, the exhibition of "hometown of rare earth" focuses on the theme of "China has rare earth and rare earth in Baotou", selects a large number of physical exhibits and exquisite pictures, and comprehensively, systematically and detailedly displays the rare earth mineral resources and research and application achievements . The exhibition has distinct theme, rich content, rich pictures and texts, and different forms. It has won the applause of many experts and the audience for its wonderful idea, simple design and elegant display.

In addition to the basic display, Baotou Museum has also introduced a number of temporary exhibitions, such as "fine cultural relics unearthed in Inner Mongolia", "cultural relics unearthed from Princess Chen's tomb" and "murals from Liao's tomb in Aohan banner, Inner Mongolia". After watching, people will be satisfied with their eyes and praise.

Geography

Baotou Museum covers an area of 52.21 mu, with a construction area of 23000 square meters and a project investment of more than 60 million yuan. The architectural design of the museum is undertaken by Xing Tonghe creation and Research Office of Shanghai modern design group. On the basis of fully investigating the human geography and historical development of Baotou City, Mr. Xing Tonghe, with the theme of "boulders on the grassland and culture on the boulders", profoundly reflects the rich cultural heritage and ancient civilization of Baotou for thousands of years. Its design is novel, unique and creative. The interior function of the building is reasonable, and the structure configuration is strict. It is a perfect social public welfare cultural facility that integrates historical culture and modern civilization, the flavor of the times and plastic arts.

Collection

At present, there are 2657 historical relics in Baotou Museum, including 25 first-class relics, 140 second-class and third-class relics, more than 100000 ancient coins and 448 scientific and technological relics, among which there are many excellent and valuable documents and specimens.

Baotou museum now has: Baotou local history and cultural relics exhibition; Tibetan Buddhism Tangka art exhibition; Inner Mongolia ancient rock art exhibition; rare earth Museum and "Baotou 50 years" achievement exhibition. Among them, the display of ancient rock paintings in Inner Mongolia won the award of "top ten exhibitions" of the national cultural relics system in 1999, and the opening of rare earth museum was listed as one of the "top ten events of rare earth in China" in 1999. The basic exhibition of the museum has been selected as one of the "top ten exhibitions" of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the past 50 years.

Since its opening, Baotou Museum has received 120000 visitors. Among them are the foreign heads of state

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