Shanghai History Museum

Shanghai History Museum

The Museum of history of Shanghai is a museum that fully reflects the historical development of Shanghai. Since its preparation in 1954, it has collected a large number of cultural relics and documents representing the historical process of Shanghai. The essence of the museum is exhibited in Shanghai agricultural exhibition hall and Hongqiao road. It can see more than 4 hundred relics of Shanghai history museum. Majiabang culture, Songze culture and Liangzhu culture have rich remains in Shanghai, witnessing the civilization created by Shangyu in 6000 years. Shanghai History Museum was founded in 1983, formerly known as Shanghai Museum of historical relics. In 1991, Shanghai History Museum was changed to its current name.

Development history

Shanghai Museum of history is a comprehensive reflection of the local history of Shanghai. The preparatory work for the construction of Shanghai geographic museum began in the 1950s with the Shanghai Museum of history and construction.

In 1953, the social and cultural administration office of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of culture began to prepare the Shanghai history and construction Museum. The Department of Literature Museum compiled the outline of local chronicles, and conducted the collection of cultural relics. In November 1954, Shanghai officially established the Preparatory Office of Shanghai Museum of history and construction. In 1956, the preparatory office borrowed part of the former Asian Cultural Association on Huqiu road to prepare for the construction of the museum. According to the overall design, the museum was divided into the historical period before the Opium War, the old democratic revolution period, the new democratic revolution period, and the socialist construction period. It compiled the collection outline and display plan, and carried out the interview and collection activities. In 1957, it was rebuilt into a 3700 square meter exhibition room by borrowing the base site under the terrace of the cultural square. In May 1959, the preparatory work was suspended for some reason, and the cultural relics and documents collected were transferred to the Shanghai Municipal Commission for the preservation of cultural relics and Shanghai Museum.

In 1961, the Shanghai Municipal Committee for the preservation of cultural relics set up a Shanghai History Research Department, which consists of a research group and a cleaning and excavation group. It continued to plan the basic exhibition plan for the local chronicle Museum, preparing or exhibiting in Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Library in the form of special exhibitions. The exhibitions mainly include: Shanghai social life comparison Literature Exhibition (1962), "Yangtze River Hydrology and Archaeology Exhibition (Shanghai part)" (1977), "Shanghai local historical relics Literature Exhibition" (1977), "revolution of 1911 in Shanghai" (1981), etc. At the same time, through identification, collation, publication or printing of Shanghai local information collection, there are 20 kinds of Shanghai historical materials series? Local chronicles, three kinds of historical materials of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Susong area, Shanghai Agricultural proverbs, Xu Guangqi's handwriting, Ming Shanghai Luxiang garden Gu embroidery boutique, etc.

In September 1983, preparations for the exhibition of Shanghai's historical relics were resumed. The fifth Hall of Shanghai Agricultural Exhibition Hall was taken as the temporary building and officially opened to the public on May 27, 1984. It was named "Shanghai historical relics exhibition hall". Covering an area of about 900 square meters, the exhibition is divided into five parts: "preface hall", "Shanghai's primitive culture", "ancient Shanghai", "modern Shanghai" and "the founding of the Communist Party of China and modern Shanghai". Through more than 1300 cultural relics, documents, pictures and other materials, it shows the historical scroll of Shanghai from ancient times to 1949.

In 1983, Shanghai historical relics exhibition hall temporarily borrowed the fifth Hall of Shanghai Agricultural Exhibition Hall in the western suburbs as the temporary site, and officially opened to the public on May 27, 1984. Through more than 1300 cultural relics, documents, pictures and other materials, the exhibition hall comprehensively shows the long historical picture of Shanghai from ancient times to the liberation of Shanghai in 1949.

It was renamed in July 1991.

In October 1991, Shanghai History Museum opened a new museum at 1286 Hongqiao Road. The basic exhibition is "exhibition of the history of modern Shanghai urban development". More than 1500 cultural relics are displayed in six parts. It comprehensively shows the century old Shanghai style from 1843 to 1949. It contains the opening up and extinction of modern Shanghai concession, the gradual improvement of municipal appearance and the rapid rise of economy Since then, the culture has become increasingly prosperous, the unique folk customs of immigrant society and the political situation in the past century. The exhibition was rated as one of the first "top ten exhibitions" by the State Administration of cultural relics. It was closed in March 1999 due to the expiration of the lease.

In May 2001, the "Shanghai city historical development exhibition hall", which was prepared by the Shanghai History Museum, opened to the public in the podium of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. The exhibition hall is divided into five parts: "tracing the origin of Huating", "city style", "a glimpse of the opening of the port", "shiliyangchang" and "old traces on the sea". It mainly reflects the process of Shanghai's development from a coastal fishing village to the largest industrial and commercial city in China since ancient times by means of the artistic techniques of scenes and models, supplemented by audio, multimedia information inquiry device and multimedia film and television model synthesis device, and taking the development of urban architecture as the main clue. It also highlights the political, economic, cultural, social and living conditions of modern Shanghai All aspects of the historical evolution.

In January 2003, Shanghai History Museum was named "Shanghai patriotism education base" by Shanghai Municipal People's government. In recent years, Shanghai History Museum has held a large number of temporary exhibitions and mobile exhibitions, such as "Sun Yat Sen and Shanghai - cultural relics and archives Exhibition", "modern metropolis - Shanghai and Hong Kong's social features" and "east wind spreading to the West - European porcelain exhibition", which have achieved very good social repercussions and benefits. While promoting all kinds of exhibitions to the society, Shanghai History Museum has also held a series of public welfare lectures on "famous artists talking about Shanghai" for many times, which publicized the knowledge of Shanghai local history and cultural relics museum and achieved good social effects.

The total collection of Shanghai History Museum is about 110000 pieces, which are divided into 15 categories: calligraphy and painting, metals, ceramics, crafts, badges, documents, printing, textiles, stone carvings, coins, photos, paper cutting, stamps, records and other miscellaneous items. Among them, Han Ximeng's embroidery of flowers, insects and fishes in Ming Dynasty, Houdong's running script, the gold script in Qibao temple, the bronze cannon of Zhenyuan general, a relic of anti British war, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's big money, the bronze pair of lions in front of the former Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and the boundary steles of British and American public concession and French concession in 1893 are important cultural relics in the collection.

Shanghai History Museum has long been carrying out academic investigation and Research on the history of Shanghai local cultural relics, customs, human environment, urban change, Museology and so on, and has published a large number of works. Since 2002, the Journal of Shanghai History Museum has been published. In 2007, Shanghai History Museum became the director of the city museum committee of the Chinese Museum Society. As a main member of icom-camoc, Shanghai History Museum actively cooperates with city museums at home and abroad to promote the development of city museums.

As a major cultural project in the 12th Five Year Plan period, the new project of Shanghai History Museum has been included in the 12th Five Year Plan of Shanghai. In the future, the new history museum will be a local chronicle museum that fully reflects the historical development of Shanghai and is positioned to fully display the ancient and modern history of Shanghai. A new museum that fully displays the ancient and modern history of Shanghai is expected to appear in Shencheng.

In recent years, Shanghai History Museum has promoted all kinds of exhibitions to the society. At the same time, it has held a series of public welfare lectures on "famous artists talking about Shanghai" for many times, which publicized the knowledge of Shanghai local history and cultural relics museum and achieved good social effects.

In 2007, he initiated and held an international seminar of the city museum committee of the Chinese Museum Society, and was elected as the first member of the Committee. In addition, as a major member of icom-camoc, Shanghai Museum of history actively cooperates with city museums at home and abroad to promote the development of city museums.

Shanghai History Museum is an institution fully funded by the government with a staff of 74. The new museum plans to set up Shanghai historical and cultural relics research center (exhibition and Research Department), historical and cultural relics protection and Appraisal Center (preservation department, cultural relics collection department), cultural exchange center (Social Education Department), Shanghai Historical Documents Information Center (Library and Publishing Department), office, security department (fire security department), administrative department (cleaning, property and Engineering Department) and comprehensive service department The door.

Collection

Shanghai History Museum is a museum of Chinese geography. It collects local cultural relics of Shanghai, studies and displays local natural environment, resources, social and historical development and construction achievements. The temporary museum is located in Hongqiao Road, Shanghai. It opened in May 1984.

The museum's collection includes about 18000 items in the former Shanghai Museum of history and construction. Among the important collections are the Five Dynasties gold script collected in Qibao temple, the manuscripts of agricultural books by Xu Guangqi of Ming Dynasty, and the demarcation tablet of British and American public concession in 1893. At present, there are more than 1300 unearthed cultural relics, handed down cultural relics, modern revolutionary cultural relics, documents and colonial relics of the concession, showing the history of Shanghai from ancient times to the founding of new China. This paper introduces the process of Shanghai's gradual extension to the sea along with the mainland on the alluvial plain of the South Bank of the Yangtze River Estuary, the rise of ancient fishing, salt making, weaving, sand boat shipping, as well as literature, art and science The development of science and technology.

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