Lu Xun Museum

Beijing Lu Xun Museum

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Lu Xun Museum generally refers to Beijing Lu Xun Museum

Beijing Lu Xun Museum is a combination of the former Beijing Lu Xun Museum and the Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial in July 2014, including the Beijing Lu Xun Museum area and the Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial area

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Beijing Lu Xun Museum is located at No.19, Section 2, gate of palace, fuchengmennei street, Xicheng District, Beijing. The museum area includes Lu Xun's former residence and Lu Xun's life exhibition hall. Lu Xun's former residence is a national key cultural relics protection unit. Beijing Lu Xun Museum is a museum of social science personages established to commemorate and learn from Lu Xun, a giant of Chinese ideology and culture. It is one of the first batch of national first-class museums in China. It was officially opened on October 19, 1956

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Located at No.29, Wusi street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, the New Culture Movement Memorial Museum is a former site museum built on the former red building of Peking University. It is the only comprehensive museum in China that comprehensively displays the history of the May Fourth New Culture Movement. As the base camp of the new culture movement, the birthplace of the May Fourth Movement and the important place of the early activities of the Communist Party of China, it was announced as the No.1 Museum in March 1961 A number of national key cultural relics protection units. It was officially opened to the outside world on April 28, 2002

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Historical evolution

Beijing Lu Xun Museum

On October 30, 1923, Lu Xun bought a small house with six old houses at No. 21, santiao, at the gate of the palace, and negotiated for 800 yuan

 

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In 1924, Lu Xun designed and rebuilt the small house.

In 1946, Zhu an dealt with the "gift contract" through the district court, and transferred Lu Xun's former residence to Zhou Haiying, Lu Xun's son.

In June 1947, when Zhu an died of illness, the underground party organization of the Communist Party of China sealed up the former residence through the Beiping High Court and protected it secretly.

In February 1949, Wang yeqiu, Vice Minister of the Cultural Heritage Department of the cultural takeover Committee of the Beiping municipal military control commission of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, and others sent people to inspect Lu Xun's former residence at No. 21, three lanes west of the gate of Fuchengmen inner palace, and to prepare for the restoration of Lu Xun's former residence.

On September 20, 1949, the people's Government of Beiping arranged personnel to take care of Lu Xun's former residence, and restored the furnishings of his former residence under the guidance of Xu Guangping

 

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On October 19, 1949, the 13th anniversary of Lu Xun's death, Lu Xun's former residence was officially opened to the public.

On October 19, 1956, the Ministry of culture decided to set up the Lu Xun Museum in Beijing and build an additional exhibition room beside the former residence.

On October 19, 1956, the 20th anniversary of Lu Xun's death, Beijing Lu Xun Museum was officially opened

 

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On October 19, 1996, at the 60th anniversary of Lu Xun's death, the exhibition of Lu Xun's life was officially opened to the public

 

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Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial

In 1916, the red building of Peking University (formerly the first college of Peking University) was built as a student dormitory.

In August 1918, after the completion of the red building of Peking University, it was used as the Department, library and liberal arts classroom of Peking University to form the College of Arts of Peking University. The whole building got its name because it was built with red bricks and red tiles.

In 1952, Yanjing University was abolished and Peking University moved to Yanyuan.

On April 28, 2002, the Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall was built on the basis of the red building of Peking University and officially opened to the public

 

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Beijing Lu Xun Museum (Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial)

On July 11, 2014, Beijing Lu Xun Museum and Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall were merged into Beijing Lu Xun Museum (Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall)

 

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Architectural pattern

Beijing Lu Xun Museum

Beijing Lu Xun Museum is a memorial hall for historical figures, including Lu Xun's former residence and Lu Xun's life exhibition hall

 

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Lu Xun's former residence covers an area of about 400 square meters, with three rooms in the north, three rooms in the South and two rooms in the East and two rooms in the West

 

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Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial

The New Culture Movement Memorial Hall is a museum of the former site. The visiting areas include the first floor of the former site of the red building of Peking University and the bungalow exhibition hall.

The red building of Peking University is a five storey brick and wood structure building with I-shaped plane, covering an area of 10000 square meters. Because the main body of the building is made of red brick, it is called "red building".

Collection

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Beijing Lu Xun Museum (Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial) has a collection of more than 70000 cultural relics and books, including 759 national first-class cultural relics. There are mainly Lu Xun's manuscripts, historical materials of his life, collection of books, collection of paintings, collection of rubbings, collection of friends' letters and other cultural relics; there are Xu Guangping, Zhou Zuoren, ZHOU Jianren, Zhang Taiyan, Qian Xuantong, Xu shoushang, Hu Feng, Jiang Shaoyuan, Wei Jiangong, Qu Qiubai, Feng Xuefeng, Xiao Jun, Xiao Hong, Ye Zi, Roushi, Feng Keng and other historical figures during the new culture movement; there are a large number of Lu Xun's remains There are also a number of works by Wu Guanzhong, Li Keran and Jiang Zhaohe

 

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Representative collection

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Cultural Activity

On August 3, 1996, with the support and help of Beijing Lu Xun Museum, the newly established Fukuoka comprehensive library of Japan held the exhibition "Takeuchi library · Lu Xun" as a memorial to the opening of the museum, and invited representatives of Beijing Lu Xun Museum to attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition in Japan. Mayor Jingyi Sanghara of Fukuoka met with representatives of Lu Xun Museum in Beijing and presented paintings of local painters to Lu Xun Museum

 

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On September 25, 1999, the "exhibition of rare books and paintings in Beijing Lu Xun Museum" was displayed in the multi-function hall of Beijing Lu Xun Museum

 

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On April 17, 2004, the exhibition of Mr. Li Helin's life was held in the multi-function hall of Lu Xun Museum in Beijing to cooperate with the Symposium on the 100th anniversary of Mr. Li Helin's birth. In October of the same year, the exhibition was invited to the school of Arts of Nankai University in Tianjin

 

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On February 12, 2006, "the soul of Chinese Zodiac seal -- the stone carving calligraphy and painting exhibition of Chen Guanying and Zhang Weiping" opened in the multi-function hall of Lu Xun Museum in Beijing

 

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In 2010, Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall held the "May 4th New Culture Movement exhibition, the herald of a new era", which successively toured the exhibition in Shandong Liaocheng Funian exhibition hall, Xinjiang Urumqi Museum, capital library and Yanqing Museum

 

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On June 11, 2010, the Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial cooperated with the Chinese Academy of cultural heritage to select 18 pieces from more than 50 pieces of classical models of ancient Chinese architecture collected by the Chinese Academy of cultural heritage, and jointly held the "exhibition of classical models of ancient Chinese architecture"

 

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On April 29, 2015, the Centennial Exhibition of "old nation, new life -- New Culture Movement" was opened in Beijing Lu Xun Museum

 

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On July 3, 2015, "China's battle - woodcut engraving exhibition during the Anti Japanese War" was opened in the Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall

 

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On August 11, 2015, the "wood shadow streamer Fujian Golden lacquer wood carving Exhibition" sponsored by Beijing Lu Xun Museum (Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial) and Fujian folk custom museum opened in the multi-function hall of Beijing Lu Xun Museum

 

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On March 16, 2019, Hungarian ambassador to China Bai Sidi, deputy director of the embassy Zhu Peijie, cultural and educational counselor of the embassy Dr. Sonia and embassy staff went to Lu Xun Museum in Beijing to hold a ceremony to present flowers to the bronze statue of peiduofei and commemorate the 171th anniversary of the Hungarian free revolution in 1848-1849

 

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Honors

In March 1961, Lu Xun's former residence and the red building of Peking University were announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units

 

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On September 29, 2016, the red building of Peking University was awarded the first batch of Chinese 20th century architectural heritage

 

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On October 10, 2018, Beijing Lu Xun Museum was awarded the national research and practice education base for primary and secondary school students

 

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In September 2019, Beijing Lu Xun Museum was named "national patriotic education demonstration base" by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee

 

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Visit information

Opening Hours

9:00-16:00, 15:30 from Tuesday to Sunday, closed all day on Monday

 

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Beijing Lu Xun Museum

Beijing Lu Xun Museum is located in the west of Beijing

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