Kunming City Museum

Kunming museum is located in the Kunming Museum (the former ancient building Park) on the south side of Tuodong road in Kunming city. There is a spacious and bright hall. In the middle of the hall stands the Song Dynasty's Dali classic building, which is known as China's ancient carving art treasures. Because it is located in the former site of dizang temple, it is called "Jingchuang of dizang Temple", commonly known as "guchuang". Later, the dizang Temple collapsed and the ancient building was buried underground for a long time. In 1919, the ancient building was unearthed from the ruins of dizang temple, which shocked China and foreign countries with its peerless beauty. It caused "Chinese and foreign people to run around and rub" and was known as "the rarest art in the East!" Professor Fang Guoyu, a historian, described the ancient building as "the best art in Central Yunnan."

Kunming City Museum

Kunming museum is located in the east section of Tuodong road in the east of Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China, covering an area of 20000 square meters. It is a comprehensive museum of Geography (belonging to the national third level Museum)

）It was completed and opened on September 29, 1997. It is located in the former site of dizang temple, so it is called "Jingchuang of dizang Temple", commonly known as "guchuang".

There are three basic exhibitions in the museum, including Dianchi bronze culture exhibition, dizang Temple classic building exhibition and dinosaur fossil exhibition, Kunming flying tiger team memorial hall, fan art exhibition, porcelain art exhibition and Kunming old photos exhibition. Various exhibitions will be held from time to time.

Since 2002, Kunming Museum has been awarded the honorary titles of provincial popular science education base, science education base, youth education base, patriotism education base, advanced collective of popular science and so on.

In September 2018, Kunming museum was approved as a national second-class Museum by China Museum Association.

Development history

Kunming museum is named "dizangsi Jingchuang", commonly known as "guchuang". Later, the dizang Temple collapsed and the ancient building was buried underground for a long time.

In 1919, the ancient building was unearthed from the ruins of dizang temple.

In September 1997, the first phase of Kunming museum project was completed and opened.

At 2:00 p.m. on December 25, 2008, Kunming Museum phase II project officially started.

In December 2013, phase II project was completed and opened to the outside world.

architectural composition

The first phase of the project is completed and opened, with a construction area of 7400 square meters.

The construction area of phase II project is 12931 square meters, which is divided into three floors above ground and two floors below ground, including 5540 square meters above ground and 7391 square meters below ground. The height of the first floor under the ground is 4.8 meters, that of the second floor under the ground is 4.2 meters, that of the first floor above the ground is 5.4 meters, that of the second floor above the ground is 6.6 meters, and that of the third floor above the ground is 4.5-7.5 meters, with a total height of 20.4 meters. It covers an area of 18000 square meters and a construction area of more than 20000 square meters. After the completion, the total construction area of the museum is 20331 square meters, and the overall architectural style is a combination of ancient Chinese architectural cultural elements, such as the roof, the pillars and the brackets, which is simple, generous, solemn and elegant.

Exhibition Profile

Bronze culture exhibition

The main objects on display in the exhibition are the bronze relics unearthed from No.71 royal tomb in Shizhaishan, Jinning, the tombs of Tianzi temple in Chenggong and the tombs of Shibei village in Chenggong.

Exhibition hall of ancient buildings

The ancient building is carved from five sections of red sandstone, with a height of 6.5 meters. The building is shaped like a pagoda with seven floors and eight sides. There are bounded eaves between the layers.

More than 300 statues of Tantric Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, heavenly kings, strongmen, ghosts and slaves are carved in the whole building. The big image is about 1 meter high, and the small image is less than 3 cm. Its shape is vivid and beautiful, its lines are smooth, and its proportion is harmonious.

In addition, the body of the building is also engraved with Chinese characters and Sanskrit, such as zaochuangji, Prajna paramita Sutra, Da RI Zun's vow, FA Si Hong's vow, and Dharma Sutra.

Dinosaur fossil Exhibition

There are three dinosaur fossils, namely, the Chinese double ridge dinosaur, the giant Yunnan dinosaur and the Lufeng dinosaur, two dinosaur models, namely, the ganshizosaurus and the Tianfu Emei dinosaur, as well as more than 60 pieces of dinosaur skeleton fossils and nearly 30 footprints from the sunset township of Jinning.

Fan boutique Exhibition

Fan art exhibition hall display: "fan charm legacy - Qing Dynasty Yunnan famous fan art exhibition.".

China Exhibition

Blue and white porcelain from Ming Dynasty folk kilns are collected in the exhibition hall. There are not only blue and white porcelain from Yunnan local folk kilns such as Jianshui kiln and Yuxi kiln, but also blue and white porcelain from Jingdezhen folk kilns brought in by juntun people.

Old photo exhibition

More than 100 old photos selected in the exhibition are as follows: more than 100 years ago, groups of French missionaries, businessmen, teachers, engineers and diplomats rode along rugged mountain roads, or took the newly completed Yunnan Vietnam Railway train to Yunnan and Kunming. In the face of the novel world, they use the camera in their hands to leave the eternal picture: tall and towering city buildings, street food stalls, bustling trading markets, a pair of two-sided curious eyes for the lens.

Flying Tigers Memorial

In the exhibition cabinet of the Flying Tigers memorial hall, there are precious cultural relics and materials, such as the iconic leather jacket and fighter model worn by the flying tigers, the kettle, holster, saber, flying glasses used by the Flying Tigers.

Temporary exhibition hall

The temporary exhibition hall has successively held the exhibition of Mao Zedong's relics, the exhibition of Qing Dynasty imperial treasures, Ding Shaoguang's art retrospective exhibition, Xiong Bingming's art works exhibition of "journey and return", Sichuan Liangshan boshwa black rock painting exhibition, French famous artist Claude Willa's "Repetition" painting exhibition, Yunnan Ming and Qing Dynasties celebrity calligraphy and painting Treasures Exhibition, roadside Kunming exhibition Eight artists of the Ming Dynasty exhibition, "the world of cranes" by Wu Shaotong of Taiwan, "Kunming calligraphy exhibition of Sino Japanese Friendship Ou you Calligraphy Association", "Yunnan large scale cultural relics and art exhibition", "Shuangyi Hebi - Master Jia Kemei in the lens of Swiss photographer xianyidaike", "auction preview of art auction for the fifth anniversary of Yunnan art auction" and "the second Yunnan sculpture art exhibition" 》"Japanese ink painting exchange exhibition", "military products exhibition of Kunming land boots exploration Club Collection", "Taiwan Chinese century calligraphy and painting exhibition", "photo documentary of an American military doctor who assisted China in" old Kunming "(1943-1945) during the Anti Japanese War", "Zhang Jianzhong art works exhibition", "Chinese and Korean National Plastic Art Exhibition", "Yunnan farmers' Painting Exhibition", "Yunnan Art Exhibition" The exhibition was held in Yangzhou Museum, including the art, calligraphy and photography exhibition of the arts and Crafts Department of grade 84, the calligraphy and painting exhibition of the National Palace Museum of Taipei, the calligraphy and painting exchange exhibition of Taipei Kunming, the works exhibition of Yu Xiaofu and Deng Jianjin, the art, calligraphy and photography exhibition of the 25th anniversary of the friendship between Kunming and fujizawa, the art works of the great river soul Lanzhou Painting Academy《 Yunnan minority costume exhibition, Yangzhou Eight strange painting and calligraphy exhibition, etc.

Collection

Display of some cultural relics

Important events

From September 25 to September 30, 2008, the "Yuanmingyuan return to national treasure exhibition & Poly national treasure exhibition" jointly sponsored by China Poly Group Corporation and Kunming Municipal People's government was held in Kunming Museum.

On December 24, 2008, Kunming Museum held "the influence of reform · memory of Kunming" - the exhibition of pictures and objects commemorating the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up ".

In May 2012, the science popularization activities carried out by Kunming Museum in 2011 were summarized from three aspects: exhibition content, mobile museum development, going out to participate in advanced science and technology learning, and the report content was submitted to Yunnan Academy of science and technology development.

On February 21, 2014, Dr. Wu Xiujie and other three experts from the Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences inspected the fossils of human skulls in Kunming Museum.

On May 22, 2014, Kunming Museum held the preliminary inspection of the exhibition project of the special exhibition, including the design, production and decoration of the display cabinet of the two special exhibitions of "fan rhyme legacy - fine fan exhibition of Yunnan famous artists in Qing Dynasty" and "Yunzhong Qingyun - collection of Ming Dynasty folk kiln blue and white porcelain".

On May 17, 2016, the science popularization exhibition of "beautiful earth, our home" jointly organized by Kunming Municipal Bureau of culture, broadcasting and sports, Kunming Museum and Geosciences Museum of Kunming University of science and technology was held in the temporary exhibition hall 3 of Kunming Museum.

Honors

In October 2002, Kunming museum was awarded the glorious title of "national advanced collective of cultural relics system" by the Ministry of personnel and the State Administration of cultural relics.

In 2011, the museum was rated as "advanced unit of Kunming safe construction" by Kunming municipal Party committee and government.

In September 2012, Kunming museum was rated as an advanced unit of national cultural system reform by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of culture, the State Administration of radio, film and television, and the General Administration of press and publication.

In June 2013, it was rated as the advanced collective of "welcoming Nanbo and ensuring stability" by Kunming culture, radio, television and Sports Bureau.

Organization setup

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