Nantong City Museum

Nantong City Museum

On August 2, 2005, Nantong City Museum, the first city museum in Jiangsu Province, was built and partially opened to the public. Nantong is known as "the city of Chinese museums". The completion of Nantong City Museum presents a congratulatory gift to the centennial celebration of the development of national cultural and museum industry held here.

brief introduction

Nantong City Museum is a key project of the municipal government implemented by the municipal planning administration. It is designed by Mr. Wu Liangyong, a famous planning master and Mr. He Yuru, an architect. The exhibition hall is close to Haohe River and is located in the commercial center of South Street, across the river from Nantong Museum, the first public museum in China.

architectural composition

The two halls are East and West. The East museum is renovated from two modern historical buildings, namely, bieye in the south of the city and the Bank of Shanghai. It is mainly divided into Central Art Gallery, sculpture City Gallery and Shuitian lecture hall. The West Museum is a new landmark building, mainly a planning exhibition hall. The total construction area is nearly 10000 square meters.

The three squares are the South Square, the East Square, and the middle square.

In 2013, Spanish designers and Tongji construction team of fengyuzhu were invited to carry out the overall exhibition renovation project, with a total area of 3500 square meters. The whole project takes the domestic first-class planning exhibition hall as the positioning, focuses on and reflects the construction goal and requirements of "one center and three cities" in Nantong, follows the basic principles of "novel form, prominent focus, up-to-date content and taking into account sustainable development", and strives to build the city museum into an important platform to show Nantong's long history and culture, development process, urban future and foreign exchange It is a bridge for citizens to understand the city and participate in planning, a science and education base for popularizing planning knowledge and carrying out academic exchanges.

At the beginning of the new year in 2014, the city Expo opened with a new look. First came the city living room, which is mainly composed of city silhouette, city impression, city overview, city honor, planning publicity, service desk, message room, tourist center, etc.

The urban planning exhibition part mainly takes the dream of river and sea as the theme, which is divided into three theme sections.

The first exhibition area is for dream seeking - relying on the river and sea, it displays the contents of Nantong historical and cultural city. The theme of the exhibition is the surging river and sea tide, far away from Nantong city. From the Bank of Qingdun River to huduozhoutou, from the salt market with crab red and salt white, to the important defense town against Japanese enemies, from mianxiangbudu in Guanjia county to the famous model city, Nantong has experienced the infiltration of thousands of years of river and sea culture, and has inherited its unique urban style and fresh cultural customs in an orderly and lasting way. The first exhibition area is mainly divided into five sections: Qingdun riverside · ancient civilization, big waves washing sand · legendary Hu Dou, Jinjiang River with sea · famous city spring and autumn, one city with three towns · famous county splendor, craftsmen running the country · love Nantong. In addition, it is particularly worth mentioning that the exhibition of "the first city of modern China in Nantong in heyday" vividly reproduces the urban pattern of "one city, three towns" in modern Nantong, and shows the prosperous scene of politics, economy, culture and society in the heyday of modern Nantong. The whole picture is 8 meters long and 2 meters wide, with the title inscribed by Mr. Wu Liangyong. It can be called the "treasure of town museum" of Nantong City Museum.

The second exhibition area is to pursue the dream -- rise of the river and the sea, which is composed of planning leading exhibition area, construction achievement exhibition area, overall planning model demonstration exhibition area and interactive exhibition area. The theme of the exhibition is to chase the river, speak wonderful words and catch up with the sea to sing brilliance. Nantong leads the urban development with scientific planning, Under the guidance of a new round of urban master planning, Nantong has built a big port, gathered big industries, developed big parks, built big channels and built big cities, playing the role of "rising from the sea" in the Chinese dream New movement. The demonstration area of the overall planning model of the second exhibition area adopts the "five in one" acousto-optic demonstration technique to show the overall planning of Nantong, with a shocking and vivid scene, which can be called the biggest highlight of the new opening of Nantong City Museum.

The third exhibition area is the dream come true - leaping River and sea, which is composed of new town development planning, coastal development and river sea linkage, comprehensive transportation planning, ecological livable city theme exhibition hall and arc screen cinema. The theme of the exhibition is the past, the past, the past and the future.

Development history

Nantong, the "first city in modern China", built the first museum in China in 1905, which was the first of its kind in China's cultural industry. In the past century, more than 10 unique museums with their own characteristics have been built around Haohe, including the women's workshop, Textile Museum, water supply Museum, blue calico Art Museum, kite museum and longevity Museum. Therefore, Nantong is known as "the city of Chinese museums".

Nantong City Museum is located in the golden area of Nanhao River, facing the famous Nantong Museum across the river. Mr. Wu Liangyong, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Mr. He Yuru, master architect, presided over the design in person. With a total investment of more than 70 million yuan, the museum is divided into East and West pavilions. The East museum is reconstructed and renovated from two modern historical buildings, and the new West Museum covers a total area of 13500 square meters. Mr. Wu Liangyong came to the scene for guidance seven times. The city museum takes the form of Museum in museum. The West Museum has the exhibition hall of the first city in modern China, the planning hall of Nantong, the boutique residence hall and the architectural achievement hall. The East Hall will open a personal collection hall, a miniature Hall of the heyday of the first city in modern China and a celebrity sculpture hall in Nantong. On the ground floor of the West Pavilion is the exhibition hall of "modern first city". Through the scene restoration, it shows the development history of Nantong City and its achievements in urban construction, industry, culture and education. City Museum highlights participation, interaction and popularity. The interactive hall is set up by means of acousto-optic and multimedia virtual reality. There are eight multimedia interactive projects, such as seeing Nantong from thousands of miles and enjoying Nantong. In each exhibition hall, more than 10 interactive projects such as master planning model interaction and phantom imaging have been set up in combination with the exhibition contents. Visitors can know, understand and experience the leading role of urban planning in urban construction and beautification in the game.

square

The three waterfront squares are endowed with different functions and landscape features. Between the two pavilions is the "gate of the city" memorial square, which embodies the theme of the first city in modern China. On the south side is the sunken waterfront landscape square, which is made according to the water, warm and friendly, and integrates life, leisure and entertainment. On the other hand, the East Square, which has large ecological green space, simple and elegant, and purple bamboo dancing, creates the taste of life and leisure everywhere So that the exhibition hall not only complements the main building, but also becomes an organic part of Haohe scenic belt.

management model

The city museum is government led and market operated. Its diversified development is the first museum operation mode. It is a city window to show Nantong's long history, development status and future planning, an important platform for opening to the outside world and attracting investment, an exchange place for citizens to care about the city and participate in planning, and a science and education base for popularizing planning knowledge and carrying out technical exchanges.

In terms of exhibition form, it also adopts the form of Museum in museum. The West Museum has set up the exhibition hall of the first city in modern China, the planning exhibition hall and the boutique residence hall. The East Museum has set up the Tianbao hall, the Ming and Qing furniture hall, the Yongqi hall, the red sandalwood treasures hall, the city art exhibition hall, the Shuitian lecture hall, the sculpture city and the city memory salon.

Today, Nantong City Museum has become another bright spot in the Haohe Museum group around Tongcheng, which is emitting a dazzling light.

Address: No.1 Huancheng South Road, Chongchuan District, Nantong City

Longitude: 120.868353

Latitude: 32.013778

Tel: 0513-85158188

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