Panyu Museum

Panyu Museum

Panyu Museum, located at the east foot of Guigang, Yinping Road, Panyu District, was opened in November 1997. It is a large comprehensive museum with advanced facilities and one of the eight new tourist attractions in Panyu. Covering an area of 160000 square meters, the museum is divided into three parts: multi-functional exhibition building, ancient tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty scenic area and Panyu Cultural Expo Park. Among them, the main building has become the landmark of Panyu today. Its construction area is 15500 square meters, exhibition hall is more than 8000 square meters, and there are 9 basic exhibitions and special exhibitions.

brief introduction

It is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province with a mild climate. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was the most important port city in South China. Sima Qian called it one of the nine major cities in China in historical records. Until the early years of the Republic of China, Panyu was the political and economic center of Guangdong

Economic and cultural center.

Located at the east foot of Guigang, Yinping Road, Panyu city, Panyu museum is a large-scale museum with modern facilities in China and one of the eight scenic spots of Panyu. The museum area of 160000 square meters is divided into three parts: multi-functional exhibition building, ancient tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty scenic area and Panyu Cultural Expo Park. Based on the ancient architectural form of Dougong, the main building presents the grand outline of a ship, and shows the historical style of Panyu, the starting point of the ancient maritime Silk Road. It has become a landmark building in Panyu today. Its construction area is 15500 square meters and exhibition hall is more than 8000 square meters.

architectural composition

Multi function Exhibition Building

With an area of about 8000 square meters, there are 10 basic displays and 10 special displays

. Rich in content and various in forms, it shows distinctive local characteristics. There are Xian Xinghai Memorial Hall on the first floor, multi-functional temporary exhibition hall and three exhibition halls of "ancient Panyu" on the second floor. There are eight exhibition halls on the third floor, including "cultural relics", "famous calligraphy and painting", "Yin Jichang's sculpture art" and "Panyu's folk customs". The exhibition hall is unique, integrating ideology, knowledge and artistry, fully demonstrating Panyu's splendid ancient civilization and today's brilliant achievements.

Among them, Xian Xinghai Memorial Hall opened on June 13, 2005, which is the largest Xian Xinghai Memorial Hall in China. Covering an area of more than 3000 square meters, the exhibition focuses on Xian Xinghai's life track and his immortal music, representing Xian Xinghai's great life. The exhibition is divided into eight exhibition areas with six contents, namely "sea in starry night", "hard struggle for music", "roaring for the nation", "flag of new music", "soul of the motherland" and "music giant of the times". The exhibition area covers more than 200 popular songs, 4 chorus, 2 operas, 2 symphonies, 4 symphonic suites, 1 symphonic poem, 1 orchestral rhapsody, etc. created by Xian Xinghai in different periods of his life. The memorial hall adopts advanced focusing sound technology, as well as a large number of high-tech equipment such as multi-media touch screen and language guide machine, which is convenient for tourists to consult Xian Xinghai's life, chronology, works and other information.

In addition, the ancient exhibition hall of Panyu vividly narrates the historical changes of Panyu and shows the outstanding contributions made by Panyu people in various historical periods. There are many kinds of cultural relics in the exhibition hall. The exquisite cultural relics are one of the basic exhibitions of the museum, reflecting the splendid civilization created by Panyu and even the land of China in ancient times.

In addition, Yin Jichang sculpture exhibition hall is located on the third floor of the exhibition building. Among them, Wuyang, Guangzhou Uprising and so on are the best of Chinese city sculptures.

Ancient tombs in Eastern Han Dynasty

The Tomb scenic spot is large-scale, with its original appearance and unique features, fully showing the splendid ancient civilization of Panyu.

The Eastern Han Dynasty tombs are built with blue and gray bricks. The walls of the tombs are in double corners, and the bottom is paved with an adult shape. The tombs are composed of the passage, the sealed door, the corridor, the former Emperor and the back room. From 1993 to 1995, 11 tombs were excavated and more than 400 cultural relics were unearthed.

Panyu Cultural Expo Park

The cultural museum park covers an area of about 30 mu. Ancient dwellings, stone bridges, memorial archways, lanes, ancient cannons, traditional workshops and other relics are integrated into the rural water town, and the landscape is pleasant.

Venue features

Rural water town

The exhibition hall of Han Dynasty unearthed cultural relics in Panyu vividly reproduces the prosperous and peaceful life of Panyu, which is known as the land of fish and rice in the south of the five ridges.

The exhibition hall of Panyu calligraphers and painters of all ages and Lingnan Painting School mainly introduces the exquisite works of Panyu calligraphers and painters of all ages and Gao Jianfu of Lingnan Painting School. Yin Jichang Sculpture Art Museum has collected more than 100 pieces of fine sculptures donated by Mr. Yin Jichang to Panyu Museum during his lifetime, from which we can appreciate the artistic style of this sculpture master.

Love for hometown

The exhibition hall of the deeds of the overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots records the great contributions made by the vast number of villagers in Panyu to the development of Panyu's various undertakings.

Panyu is the hometown of people's musician Xian Xinghai. In 2005, Xian Xinghai memorial hall was completed in Panyu Museum, located on the first floor of Panyu Museum. It is the only exhibition hall in China that comprehensively reflects Xian Xinghai's great achievements and extraordinary movements, an outstanding composer, conductor, music theorist and music educator of the Chinese nation. exhibition

Covering an area of 3000 square meters, the area is divided into seven parts. It adopts high-tech equipment such as focusing loudspeaker, multimedia guide, plasma display screen, infrared automatic control projection device, etc. Besides displaying and consulting Xian Xinghai's life, chronology and works, it also has audio-visual broadcasting, performance appreciation and other functions. The exhibition hall has made breakthroughs in display art, layout design, color combination, lighting and other aspects, and absorbed advanced concepts, presenting Xian Xinghai's outstanding achievements and life footprints from different levels.

Function value

Since the opening of the museum on November 1, 1997, the museum has made great progress in all aspects. The collection of the museum has been managed by computer, the contents of the exhibition are constantly enriched, and the forms are diverse, showing distinctive local characteristics. The scale of the Tomb scenic area is expanded, and the original appearance is displayed. The new ceramic art center and the simulated archaeological excavation project of the tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty combine interest and knowledge, and are unique. It fully shows Panyu's splendid ancient civilization and today's brilliant achievements.

In 2015, the large-scale science exhibition of "Earth history and life evolution" was located in the eighth exhibition hall on the third floor of Panyu Museum. At that time, 14 complete fossil vertebrates will be displayed, including 2 rhinoceros labialis, 2 hippopotamus, 2 spadeworm, 2 Shanxi animals, 1 Henan animal, 2 rhinoceros lanceolata, 1 real horse, 1 spotted deer and 1 saber toothed tiger.

Address: 121 Yinping Road, Shatou street, Panyu District, Guangzhou

Longitude: 113.344544

Latitude: 22.95136

Tel: 020-84809245; 020-848

Ticket information: free.

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