Yichang Museum

Yichang Museum

Yichang museum is located in qiusuo Road, Wujiagang New District, Yichang City, covering an area of 33000 square meters, with main building area of 43080 square meters, aboveground building area of 33280 square meters, underground building area of 9800 square meters, including exhibition area of 14240 square meters. There are 289 parking spaces (including basement) on the ground floor and four floors above the ground. The main building is abstractly generated from traditional Chinese dragon shaped decoration. Among them, the copper "window of history" is inlaid. The most representative "taiyangren stone carving" in Yichang is engraved on the sun roof. The large base at the four corners of the building means the stars.

Yichang Museum, a collection of 35342 cultural relics in Yichang area of the Three Gorges, including pottery, porcelain, bronze, jade, gold and silver, lacquer and wood, calligraphy and painting, etc. The collection has been exhibited in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Paris and Guangdong Province.

Basic display: Ancient Xiling, Bachu Yiling, Qianzai xiazhou, modern Yichang

Special exhibition: Three Gorges, ancient city memory, calligraphy and ink

Special exhibition: Digital Museum, Hongmeng, natural selection (Bailin Hall)

Yichang museum is built according to the national first-class Museum standards, integrating education, collection, research, protection, exhibition and tourism.

Development history

New Yichang Museum

The new Yichang museum is located on the Bank of Bailin River and beside qiuyutai Park in Yichang East Railway Station area. After the completion of the new museum, it will become a cultural landmark of Yichang city. In addition to its majestic appearance, the new museum will also embody the elements of fashion and the cultural characteristics of Yichang flavor, and its internal facilities will keep pace with the most advanced museums in China. With the concept of "window of history", the main building of Yichang Museum integrates the historical and cultural elements of Bachu, forming a landmark building with rich connotation and cultural characteristics. The design of the main building takes the connotation of Bachu culture as the element, showing the crystallization of Yichang's history and culture. The exterior wall is made of strip stones with varying depth, and the surface is decorated with the pattern of "Ba Hu, Chu Feng", which shows the design effect of "Ba people adore tigers, Chu people adore Phoenix, tiger and Phoenix sing together"; the hall dome borrows the "sun" from the "sun man" stone carving as the design element, and the copper construction around the dome skillfully uses the design of hollowed out seal cutting, which reflects the ancestors of Yichang area First, the worship of the sun and Yichang's worship of Qu Zi's philosophy.

In addition, the landscape around the museum presents a dynamic effect of gathering around the center in terms of layout, pavement and planting, from loose to tight, from sparse to dense, from convergence to central gathering, and finally forms the whole museum building.

Yichang Museum, a collection of 35342 cultural relics in Yichang area of the Three Gorges, including pottery, porcelain, bronze, jade, gold and silver, lacquer and wood, calligraphy and painting, etc. The collection has been exhibited in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Paris and Guangdong Province. The theme of the exhibition is "the gorge opens to the sky", which is divided into 10 sections and 36 units.

Basic display: Ancient Xiling, Bachu Yiling, Qianzai xiazhou and modern Yichang

Special exhibition: Three Gorges, memory of ancient city, calligraphy and ink

Special exhibition: Digital Museum, pioneer Hongmeng, natural selection (Bailin Hall)

Yichang museum is built according to the national first-class Museum standards, integrating education, collection, research, protection, exhibition and tourism. It strives to build a regional cultural relics protection and Exhibition Research Center, an important window for citizens and tourists to learn about Yichang, a must visit place to fall in love with Yichang, a new cultural tourism attraction and a patriotism education base in the city.

Old Yichang Museum

The former Yichang Museum (now Yichang Art Museum) is located at NO.115 Yiling Avenue, Yichang City, Hubei Province. Its predecessor was the Yichang regional museum established in April 1980. In April 1992, Yichang City merged and renamed Yichang Museum. The new building was completed and opened to the public in August 1993. According to relevant data, the Museum covers an area of 9700 square meters, the building covers an area of 3825 square meters, and the building area of 8000 square meters. The exhibition building is a three story antique building. The museum has 65 staff members, including offices, Archaeology Department, exhibition department, mass work department, storage department, ancient folk custom research room, library and reference room, security department, personnel and finance department, etc.

The predecessor of Yichang museum was Yichang regional museum established in April 1980. In April 1992, Yichang City merged and renamed Yichang Museum. The museum was completed and opened to the public in August 1993.

Exhibition

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The new Yichang museum was officially approved in 2013, and the main building was basically completed by the end of 2016. On May 18, 2018, interior decoration, exhibition hall decoration and other exhibition work officially entered the construction site. The total investment of the new museum project is 727 million yuan, and the main building area is 43080 square meters.

The main building of the museum is square in shape and stable in atmosphere. It is abstractly generated by traditional Chinese dragon shaped decoration. The copper "window of history" is inlaid with it, and the sun roof is engraved on it. The four large bases are located at the four corners of the building, implying four stars, forming a beautiful picture of "harmony between man and nature". The exterior wall is made of strip stones with different depths, showing the pattern of "Ba Hu Chu Feng" and the design effect of "Ba people adore tiger, Chu people adore Phoenix, and tiger and Phoenix sing together".

The location is the hall on the first floor, and the exhibition theme of the new hall is "the gorge opens to the sky". The famous poet Guo Mo ruo's praise of the magnificent scenery of Xiling Gorge when he came out of the Three Gorges is an accurate description of the geographical location of Yichang City, which coincides with the evolution of Yichang from small to large, from weak to strong, and several leaps and bounds. Kui Gorge (another name for Qutang gorge) and Wu Gorge are linked by arms, Qingjiang River of the Yangtze River is tied by waist, Wutou and Shuwei are connected by body, and plain and hills are encircled. Chu people made a fortune in this area, and finally won the title. Tujia originated here and developed the territory by cutting through the thorns and thorns. Yichang relies on the Yangtze River to recuperate, with beautiful scenery and outstanding people. Yichang is a beautiful city with many rivers and mountains, and the gorge is open to the sky, attracting countless heroes to bow down. The main vein of the hall is the Yangtze River, and the mountain elements are used to echo the regional characteristics of Yichang, highlight the important position of Yichang as a city of hydropower, and highlight the exhibition theme of "the gorge is as open as the sky".

The new Yichang Museum covers three main exhibition lines, including 10 exhibition sections and 33 units. The first is the basic exhibition, including ancient Xiling, Bachu Yiling, Qianzai xiazhou and modern Yichang, which tells the development of Yichang's historical civilization; the second is the special exhibition, including three gorges, memory of the ancient city and the charm of calligraphy and ink, which depicts the colorful culture of Yichang; the third is the special exhibition, including digital exhibition hall and Kaifa exhibition hall Hongmeng and natural selection (Bailin Hall) lead us to find the inheritance of Yichang's humanity and nature.

More than 5000 pieces of cultural relics (including folk exhibits, etc.) are displayed in the museum, which fully shows the rich historical and cultural heritage of Yichang, highlights the local characteristics of Ba culture and Chu culture, shows the city spirit of Yichang people who are brave in seeking after difficulties and dangers, reproduces the life picture of the old Yichang people, presents the cultural characteristics of Yichang such as hydropower, geology and landform, and comprehensively and deeply shows the role of the museum as Yichang The social function of city culture card.

survival of the fittest in natural selection

The natural selection exhibition hall is not only a special commemorative exhibition hall for the donation of Wildlife Specimens by Kenneth Bailin, chairman of the global health and education foundation, but also one of the special exhibition halls of Yichang Museum. The exhibition hall is composed of five units: going into Africa, calling for the wild, iron horn and copper hoof, the way to survive and Yangtze River protection. It displays 208 rare animal specimens from South Africa and North America, as well as living Yangtze River sturgeon specimens in Yichang.

Mr. Bailin is a famous philanthropist in the United States. He founded the global health and education foundation in the United States. Since 2004, Bailin has started donating animal specimens to Chinese museums and helping venues organize exhibitions of rare animal specimens. So far, he has donated more than hundreds of millions of dollars worth of animal specimens to 27 museums in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai to promote the development of ecological science education.

Open up Hongmeng

This exhibition hall is located on the right side of the first floor. Relying on more than 1000 pieces / set of paleontological fossil specimens and rock, mineral and mineral specimens handed over to the museum by Yichang Bureau of land and resources, we can understand the brief process of nature, exploration of the universe and the origin of life, and know about the rock and mineral resources of the unique strata in Yichang area. The exhibition hall is divided into five units: time and space tunnel, light of life, approaching the earth, rocks and minerals and Yichang geology.

Ancient Xiling

The exhibition hall of ancient Xiling shows the evolution process of people and apes bowing to each other in the old and new stone age of Yichang. The Paleolithic shows the primitive living conditions and ecological environment represented by "Changyang people"; the birth of Chengbeixi culture in the Neolithic era opened the beginning of human civilization in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and Xiajiang Area. Next, this paper expounds the evolution process of Daxi Culture, Qujialing culture and Shijiahe culture in agriculture, breeding, textile, pottery making, house building, primitive memory and consciousness worship .

Yi Mausoleum of Bachu

The Yi mausoleum Hall of Bachu is a display of the mutual influence, infiltration and exclusion of Ba and Chu cultures in Yichang during the two Zhou dynasties. BA

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