Shaoxing Museum

Shaoxing Museum

Shaoxing museum is a regional comprehensive museum directly under Shaoxing administration of cultural relics. Provincial and municipal patriotism base and municipal popular science education base.

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

Development history

Shaoxing Museum covers an area of 13133 square meters and a building area of 5946 square meters. Taking the Garden Museum as the design concept, the layout of the front hall and the back yard, the central axis of the building is the square and the main hall, the east side is the auxiliary hall and the multi-function hall, and the west side is the office building and the cultural relics company, which are two-story modern buildings with steel-concrete connection. The main hall has two staggered squares, four slope roofs, skylights in the middle, rice yellow brick walls and malachite green glass In the garden, there are pavilions, bridges, rockeries, lotus ponds, beautiful trees and flowers. The environment is quiet and elegant for leisure.

In April 1990, members of the Shaoxing Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference in Hong Kong jointly proposed the construction of the Shaoxing Museum, which was highly valued by the Shaoxing Municipal government and the Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. All sectors of the society responded positively, and the cultural relics management department made rapid planning. In April 1991, the municipal government made a decision to build the museum. Soon after, the Preparatory Committee of Shaoxing museum was established, with Wang Zunxian as the director, Xu Wencheng and Ni Tiecheng as the deputy directors, and Wang Benqing as the member and office director. In July, overseas Chinese from Hong Kong and Singapore, Che Yueqiao, Zhang Chuanxin, Xu Renchang, Gao Mingyue, Ni Tiecheng, Chen YuanJu and Xu Chunrong, donated 3.5 million yuan, making it the first time to build the museum In August, with the approval of the provincial planning and Economic Commission, the Shaoxing museum was officially located and established; the building was designed by the Design Institute of Zhejiang Construction Engineering Corporation and compiled by the exhibition group of Shaoxing first construction and Installation Engineering Corporation. In March 1992, the municipal Editorial Board Office issued a document to approve the establishment of Shaoxing Museum, which is a public institution with a fixed number of 15 people; in April, the Museum held a foundation laying ceremony; the Preparatory Committee organized provincial and municipal experts to demonstrate the scheme of Shaoxing historical relics display, and then entrusted Lin Jianhua and Xu Peijin to undertake the formal design of Shaoxing historical relics display; in August, the Preparatory Committee held a meeting on the design scheme of Shaoxing historical relics display In early December, Shaoxing modern design and decoration company began the construction of display and decoration. In February 1993, Gao Jun was appointed as the first curator of the museum by the Municipal Bureau of culture. In March, the first phase of the museum project (main exhibition hall, office building and joint cultural relics company) and basic exhibition were completed at the same time. Zhao Puchu, vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, inscribed the name of the museum. On April 6, Shaoxing Museum opened ceremoniously. From June 1996 to August 1997, the second phase of the museum project (auxiliary exhibition hall, multi-function hall, joint construction of the cultural relics company warehouse) was completed. With the help of Zhejiang Provincial Museum of nature, the auxiliary exhibition hall was arranged as a natural science exhibition and opened to the public on September 28. In October 1996, the Municipal Bureau of culture appointed Wang Junying as the curator.

In October 1996, Shaoxing cultural tourism investment and Development Co., Ltd. (renamed as Shaoxing Cultural Tourism Group Co., Ltd. in 2002) was established. Shaoxing museum was under the charge of the company, and integrated with the administration of Shenyuan cultural security office to implement enterprise management. In August, through the city's open competition, Shaoxing cultural tourism company appointed Tao Hong as the museum director. From March 2000 to April 2001, the third phase expansion project of Shenyuan garden and the integration project of the back garden of the museum were completed. The museum has truly realized the overall planning of "garden in the museum and Museum in the garden". In May 2001, Liu Kan was appointed as the curator of the museum by the Municipal Culture and tourism company. From November of the same year to February 2002, Che Yueqiao, honorary president of Shaoxing tourist port Association, funded the project. The basic exhibition facilities and some contents of the museum were improved and adjusted to make the exhibition content and form more harmonious and closer to the audience. In March 2006, the municipal heritage house decided to separate Shaoxing Museum and Shenyuan scenic area into two separate units, and the museum restored the management mode of public institutions.

Details

Shaoxing museum is located in the Yuewang city historical and cultural protection zone on the west side of Shaoxing ancient city. The base area is 34200 square meters, covering an area of 15400 square meters, with a construction area of 9533 square meters, of which the practical area of the exhibition hall is 3720 square meters. The main exhibition hall has two floors above ground and underground. Designed by master Tang yu'en, the architectural scheme adopts the courtyard layout of Shaoxing traditional architecture. The four functional areas of exhibition hall area, cultural relics warehouse area, office area, cinema and lecture hall are separated from each other. The main exhibition hall is a bronze four slope roof, which takes the shape of Jile copper house from the unearthed cultural relics in Shaoxing. The others are flat topped with green vegetation, and the outer wall is decorated with Shaoxing East Lake bluestone. The overall building not only relies on the historical and cultural background of Yuewang City, showing simple and pragmatic local cultural elements, but also integrates the beautiful ecological and natural environment of Fushan mountain, reflecting the international concept of advocating nature and protecting ecology. In the middle of the square stands an abstract sculpture of a bronze sword with a height of 12.8 meters and a weight of 8 tons. The front of the sword body is inlaid with 280 characters of Shaoxing City records. Underneath the sculpture is a bronze "salary road" with a length of 40 meters, and 25 historical records of Shaoxing are engraved, from "Gou Jian ordered Fan Li to build the city in the 30th year of King Zhou Jing (490 bc)" to "the State Council approved Shaoxing to withdraw its land and build the city on July 27, 1983.", The whole group of sculptures symbolizes courage, sword, lying salary and striving for strength. On July 15, 2010, the city solemnly held the 2500 year anniversary of Shaoxing's founding in yuewangcheng square.

Shaoxing is a cultural ancient city with beautiful scenery and rich essence. In the summer of 1972, the Hemudu site was discovered in Luojiang Township, Yuyao County, which belongs to the old Shaoxing Prefecture. It is more than 7000 years ago. Its discovery shows that the Yangtze River Basin, like the Yellow River Basin, is the birthplace of the Chinese nation. In recent years, the archaeological excavations of qiaoxianrenshan and fenghuangdun ancient cultural sites in Ma'an City, Shaoxing County have confirmed that our ancestors worked and lived on this land at least 5000 years ago. Shaoxing, in the course of Chinese history, has been brilliant for several times, creating a distinctive ancient Yue culture. At present, the collection of unearthed and handed down cultural relics is very rich, and has formed its own characteristics and series.

In order to fully display the connotation of a famous historical and cultural city, carry forward the splendid culture of Vietnam and China, and encourage future generations to make progress and create brilliance again, a museum with an area of 14000 square meters, a phase I project investment of 7.5 million yuan and a construction area of 2700 square meters was built on April 6, 1992 and opened as scheduled on April 6, 1993.

The main exhibition hall of Shaoxing museum is 1800 square meters, which consists of two floors, including basic exhibition and temporary exhibition. Walking into the exhibition hall of the museum, you will see three large antique bronze mirrors. They are not only the dazzling symbol of the ancient Yue culture, but also the realistic reflection of history. According to the changes of Shaoxing's historical buildings, the basic exhibition is divided into six parts: Ancient Shaoxing, Yue State, Kuaiji County, Yue State, Shaoxing Prefecture and modern Shaoxing. More than 300 precious cultural relics selected from more than 100000 cultural relics in the library, together with the display of charts, models, photos and sculptures, systematically introduce the historical deduction of Shaoxing from the Neolithic Age to the 1911 Revolution, vividly reproduce the 5000 year long history and splendid culture of Shaoxing. The design of the exhibition hall is simple and elegant with twists and turns, and the window decoration of the exhibition cabinet is full of local characteristics. During the period of the audience's wandering, there is a great change of scenery.

The mobile exhibition hall is spacious and bright, with granite floor, aluminum alloy glass cabinet and ordered three-dimensional lighting, making the exhibition hall full of modern flavor. Since its opening, the exhibition hall has successfully held more than 100 influential exhibitions, attracting tens of thousands of visitors. At the same time, it has become an important place for Shaoxing's foreign cultural exchanges.

Visit information

Detailed address

75 pianmenzhi street, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province

Postal Code: 312000

Opening Hours

Opening hours: 9:00 a.m. - 16:30 p.m., free of charge throughout the year. The team makes an appointment 2 days in advance.

traffic

Urban or suburban public transport:

To Museum (or nearby) 28, 31, 52, 603, 6, 18, 23, 309, 311

No. 316 can be reached from the market building station or dajiaochang station.

Suburban long distance passenger transport: Shaoxing east bus station to Shangyu City, Shengzhou City, Xinchang County. Shaoxing West bus station to Zhuji City, Yiwu City. Shaoxing highway passenger transport center to Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou, etc.

It is about 40 kilometers from Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport to Shaoxing City.

Address: 75 pianmenzhi street, Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City

Longitude: 120.572217

Latitude: 29.997736

Tel: 0575-85096366

Ticket information: free.

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