Shanxi Museum

Located on the West Bank of Fenhe River in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Museum is one of the large-scale modern and comprehensive museums. It is a national key construction project in the Ninth Five Year Plan period. It is also the largest cultural infrastructure investment in Shanxi Province since the founding of the people's Republic of China.

The predecessor of Shanxi Museum is Shanxi Education Book Museum, which was founded in 1919. It has been called Shanxi provincial museum since 1953. The new museum was founded on August 10, 2001 and completed in 2004. It was named Shanxi Museum.

As the largest cultural relics collection, protection, research and Exhibition Center in Shanxi Province, Shanxi Museum covers an area of 168 mu, with a construction area of 51000 square meters, a total investment of nearly 400 million yuan, and about 400000 precious collections.

The basic exhibition of Shanxi Museum, with the theme of "Jin soul", is composed of seven historical and cultural topics, including the cradle of civilization, the traces of Xia and Shang Dynasties, the hegemony of Jin State, the melting pot of nationalities, the charm of Buddhist style, the hometown of traditional opera, and Jin merchants of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and five artistic topics, including civil works, mountains and rivers, calligraphy, Danqing, Fangyuan world, and porcelain garden.

Shanxi Museum

Shanxi Provincial Museum is a local comprehensive museum in China, located in the Confucian temple in the southeast corner of Taiyuan city. It was built in 1918 and officially opened in 1919. It was originally named Shanxi provincial education library museum. In 1933, it was renamed Shanxi Provincial Public Education Museum. In 1949, it was renamed Shanxi provincial library museum. In 1953, it was merged with Taiyuan cultural relic Museum and officially named Shanxi Provincial Museum.

The museum has a collection of more than 100000 historical relics, revolutionary relics and natural specimens. Among them, there are 443 first-class products, and the famous one is Houma's covenant of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The Houma alliance book mainly records that Zhao Meng, the aristocrat of Jin State, used the alliance oath to restrain the defeated party members in order to consolidate his ruling position after he defeated the political enemies. It is of great value to study the political struggle and the clan alliance system in the late spring and Autumn period.

Basic introduction

In the first year of Xinmang Tianfeng (AD 14), Pinghu was the only mang quantity standard except Jialiang. It contained 19300 ml of water, 797.5 ml less than Jialiang. Other important collections include Bronze Dragon Goblet of Shang Dynasty, cuojindou of Warring States period, hufuwen wine bottle of Han Dynasty, kaibaocang of Northern Song Dynasty and Gushan Dazangjing of Fuzhou, anti gold literature of Song Dynasty, Wang Yuantao bamboo Caragana of Yuan Dynasty and water and land paintings of Ming Dynasty.

The basic exhibition is located in the East-West exhibition hall and Dacheng Hall of the Confucian temple. The exhibition covers an area of about 2000 square meters with 1000 cultural relics. The display of ancient history is divided into three parts: primitive society, slave society and feudal society, which systematically reflects the general situation of the political, economic and cultural development of Shanxi in the past dynasties. Among them are the Paleolithic culture of Dingcun village in Xiangfen, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty manuscripts, pottery models, bronzes and coins of the three Jin Dynasties unearthed from Houma, the wood lacquer paintings and pottery figurines of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the warriors figurines of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the blue glazed pots.

The display of modern history mainly reflects the revolutionary struggle of Shanxi people against imperialism and feudalism. Among the exhibits are the northern expedition of the Taiping army through Shanxi and the activities of the boxers in Shanxi, the people's struggle for mines in Shanxi, the jiaowen massacre and the Shanxi uprising of 1911.

The display of Shanxi's revolutionary history can be divided into three periods: the first and second domestic revolutionary wars, the war of resistance against Japan and the war of liberation. The main contents include: Gao Junyu, a famous politician in the early stage of the Communist Party of China, was appointed by Li Dazhao to establish party and League organizations in Shanxi and promote the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of Shanxi; the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation of the Party Central Committee founded three revolutionary bases in Shanxi, namely, Shanxi chaji, Shanxi Hebei, Shandong Henan and Shanxi Suiyuan, and won the first battle of Pingxingguan, smashing the nine route siege, hundred regiment war and Qinyuan siege In Shanxi Province, the Communist Party of China established the alliance and the death squads, the Anti Japanese groups and the armed forces, and the Shanxi people completely destroyed Yan Xishan's reactionary rule under the leadership of the party. Among the precious cultural relics on display are the manifestos and leaflets of Shanxi people's support for the May 4th and May 30th movements, the organ of Baishi primary school in Hongdong given away by the Red Army during the eastern expedition, elm guns, stretchers and ladders made by the militia, and the deeds of revolutionary struggle and cultural relics left by Liu Hulan and Yin Lingzhi, who won the honor of the banner and revolutionary martyrs in the Taiyuan campaign.

There is also a special exhibition of historical relics in Chunyang palace in the northwest corner of Wuyi Square. Chunyang palace, commonly known as luzu temple, is a place dedicated to Lu Dongbin, a Taoist of Tang Dynasty. Its founding date is unknown. It was rebuilt in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty (1573-1620). There are 10 special topics, including ceramics, bronzes, currency, glass, sculpture, calligraphy and painting, embroidery, enamel, stele and lacquerware, with 21 exhibition rooms and more than 800 exhibits. The museum also regularly holds exhibitions on history, archaeology, cultural relics and natural specimens.

The museum publishes a large-scale Atlas of cultural relics of zhangsu's tomb in the Northern Qi Dynasty in kuangpo, Taiyuan, Shanxi stone carving art, Fushan calligraphy, Youyu water and land paintings, and unearthed cultural relics in Shanxi.

Now in Taiyuan city and opened a new Shanxi's largest museum - Shanxi Museum, in Taiyuan Binhe West Road. On the West Bank of Fenhe River, the reflection of the main Museum of Shanxi Museum is opposite to Fenshui. The main hall of the museum is shaped like a tripod with four wings stretched out, "dou" symbolizes the joy of harvest, "Ding" symbolizes stability and auspiciousness. Looking up from the spacious hall, it seems to be in a grand tower, which is modeled on the wooden tower of guobaoying county. With a construction area of 5.1 square meters and a total of 14 exhibition halls, it is the largest cultural project since the founding of the people's Republic of China in Shanxi Province and the largest cultural relics collection, protection, research and Exhibition Center in Shanxi Province. At present, about 200 thousand pieces of valuable cultural relics are collected in the hospital, which collects the essence of the whole province's cultural relics, and is rich in cultural relics and treasures, ranking among the provincial level museums in China.

The whole exhibition is composed of seven historical and cultural topics, including "cradle of civilization", "traces of Xia and Shang Dynasties", "hegemony of Jin State", "national melting pot", "charm of Buddha style", "hometown of traditional opera" and "Jin merchants of Ming and Qing Dynasties", as well as "tuhuazhang" (ancient architecture), "Shanchuan elite" (jade), "Hanmo Danqing" (calligraphy and painting), "Fangyuan world" (coins), "porcelain garden art flower" ”(porcelain) and other five art topics, to capture the highlight of Shanxi's splendid civilization history, through a large number of precious cultural relics, to show Shanxi's unique position in the process of Chinese civilization.

Related activities

Before the National Day holiday in 2018, Baidu and 10 well-known museums across the country jointly opened the "Museum adventure season". In addition to launching rich landing activities in these museums to attract tourists, Baidu's "Ai museum plan" will also be officially launched in these museums one after another, providing users with services to enhance the tourist experience, such as photo recognition of cultural relics and voice intelligent navigation. Shanxi Museum participates in this activity. If you encounter something you can't understand when visiting the museum, you can directly take out your mobile phone, open Baidu app and take photos to identify "Baidu once".

Address: No.13, north section of Binhe West Road, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Longitude: 112.531188

Latitude: 37.865716

Tel: 0351-8789555

Official website: http://www.shanximuseum.com

Tour time: 2-3 hours

Ticket information: free, but three days in advance.

Opening hours: 09:00 ~ 17:00, 16:00, closed every Monday, December 30, new year's day.

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