China Silk Museum

Located on the Bank of Xizi Lake in Hangzhou, China Silk Museum is the first National Silk Museum and the largest silk museum in the world. The architectural style is soft and elegant. The mulberry garden is dyed with grass, and the bridge is flowing with water. You can enjoy the natural scenery.

The Silk Museum is divided into five halls to tell you the story of silk -- the origin and development of silk, the main types of silk, production technology, the Silk Road and the position of silk in ancient social life. There is also a temporary exhibition hall to hold all kinds of temporary special exhibitions. Those who are interested can also buy Silk here.

China Silk Museum

Located on the Bank of Xizi Lake in Hangzhou, China Silk Museum is a National Silk Museum and the largest silk museum in the world. It is a provincial deputy department level institution in Zhejiang Province, covering an area of five hectares, with a construction area of 8000 square meters and a display area of 3000 square meters. It was officially opened to the public on February 26, 1992. Former President Jiang Zemin wrote an inscription for the Museum: "carry forward the ancient silk culture and open up a new silk road."

China Silk Museum displays 5000 years of Chinese silk history and culture. Its basic exhibition includes five parts: preface hall, historical relics hall, silk hall, dyeing and weaving hall and modern achievement hall.

Development history

On December 28, 1987, the foundation of China Silk Museum was laid. In the process of preparation, it received the help of the cultural and Expo circles, silk circles, compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, and overseas friends, with a total cost of more than 20 million yuan. It was officially opened to the outside world on February 26, 1992.

In 1997, the original display was modified. The original preface hall, historical relics hall, folk custom hall, sericulture hall, silk making hall, silk weaving hall, printing and dyeing hall and modern achievement hall are compressed into preface hall, historical relics hall, silk hall, dyeing and weaving hall and modern achievement hall.

In 2000, with the approval of the State Administration of cultural relics, China Silk Museum established the China Textile identification and Protection Center, which started the work of textile cultural relics identification and protection in an all-round way.

In 2003, the basic display of the museum was comprehensively adjusted.

In October 2010, the State Administration of cultural relics approved the establishment of the key research base of the State Administration of cultural relics of textile protection.

In 2012, the 20th anniversary of the founding of the China Silk Museum, the exhibition in the museum has undergone a large-scale transformation, and the basic display has set up "the story of China's silk", "tiancanlingji - Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition of China's sericulture and silk weaving skills", "textile heritage restoration Exhibition hall" and "Xinyou reference hall" to collect textile information. There is also a temporary exhibition hall to hold all kinds of temporary special exhibitions.

In August 2014, the reconstruction and expansion project of China Silk Museum, as a key cultural facility project at the provincial level in the 12th Five Year Plan for cultural development of Zhejiang Province, is planned to carry out the overall reconstruction and expansion construction of China Silk Museum in three years. After the expansion, the total construction area will reach 24635.6 square meters (including 9700 square meters underground), and the expansion part includes fashion hall, collection building and Museum Storage, equipment, parking and other public facilities.

On December 13, 2019, Zhengzhou work station, the key research base of the State Administration of cultural relics for the protection of textile cultural relics, was unveiled at Qingtai site in Xingyang. The base was jointly established by China Silk Museum and Zhengzhou Institute of cultural relics and archaeology.

Exhibition hall distribution

Preface hall: the shape of preface hall is a jacquard loom model of Song Dynasty, which rises high in the center of the hall. This is the earliest known jacquard model. On the left and right walls of the preface hall are the silk chronology and the display map of the silk road. On the back wall, it visually summarizes the achievements of China's silk performance, production and sales ranking first in the world.

The hall of historical relics: the essence of 5000 years of silk cultural relics is concentrated, and the environment of constant temperature and humidity in the hall provides good preservation conditions for the delicate silk cultural relics. The hall of historical relics is divided into two halls according to the age: the first hall mainly introduces the history of silk development from the Neolithic Age to the song, Liao and Yuan Dynasties; the second hall specially displays the Royal silk treasures and archaeological objects of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Silk Hall: it mainly displays the natural properties of silkworms, adopts the semi closed display of popular science education, and reveals the mystery from silkworms to silk through eight aspects, such as "magical changes", "silkworm favorite to eat mulberry leaves", "mystery of silkworm body", "cocoon", "silk", "beautiful silk spinning insects", "home of silkworm farmers" and "utilization of silkworm". With mulberry, silkworm and moth specimens and colorful drawing boards as the main exhibition means, a number of touch screens were installed in the form of multimedia to show the process of silkworm selection and cocooning, silkworm organs and local silkworm customs.

Dyeing and weaving Hall: with the weaving and dyeing process of silk as the main line, the audience can vividly understand the production process of ancient Chinese silk dyeing and weaving with fabric models. The exhibition is divided into five parts: "technological process", "silk thread processing", "loom principle", "loom vein" and "dyeing system". This hall also set up a "learning garden" exhibition area, where the audience can make silk handicrafts and experience silk handicrafts personally. At the same time, "ZIS plain fabric computer design system" is installed on the multimedia, so that the audience can design the fabric weave and fabric pattern under the guidance of professionals.

Modern achievement Hall: it shows China's achievements in silk production, scientific research and foreign trade in the past 50 years since the founding of the people's Republic of China. At the same time, there are various kinds of handicrafts and some new silk products made with silk as the carrier.

Silk Hall: the exhibition is divided into three parts: "preface", "origin and development of silk" and "colorful Chinese silk", which tells the development history of silk and colorful weaving, dyeing and embroidery. "The origin and development of silk" shows three important stages in the 5000 year history of Chinese silk through the organic combination of exhibits and charts in the sub unit of "origin and start-up - innovation and maturity - integration and development"; and "colorful Chinese silk" is divided into "colorful silk varieties - colorful printing and dyeing fabrics - gorgeous silk embroidery - fabulous silk embroidery" The four parts of "Silk patterns with rich meanings" show the organization structure enlarged models of the fine embroidery products of the past dynasties, such as Ling, Luo, silk, satin and brocade, the official weaving materials of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and silk varieties, and set up the fabric observation platform and the scene of "embroidery room" to intuitively explain to the audience what is Ling, Luo, silk and satin, and what is weaving, dyeing and embroidery.

Silk Road Corridor: through the large-scale map of the ancient Silk Road and the display of Han and Tang Dynasty fabric treasures unearthed from the Silk Road, it reproduces the specific trend of the four silk roads, including the grassland land Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road, as well as the Silk Road after the opening of the new air route and the integration of Chinese and Western cultures brought about by them. In order to make up for the deficiency of the content of the Silk Road in the static scene, a DVD video of the silk road was produced, and a small projection room was set up in the exhibition area to play the video.

Clothing Hall: it is divided into three parts: "following the gods and following the Rites - brocade clothes - household daily use". It interprets the function of silk in ancient society in the form of combining silk clothing with miniature clothing figure models, drawing boards and symbolic restoration scenes of the past dynasties, and shows the popular court costumes and household daily embroidery from the Warring States period to the Qing Dynasty.

Weaving workshop: a fully open exhibition hall, which focuses on the on-the-spot operation performance of looms, showing the ethnic and folk looms still in production and the restored ancient looms. According to the theme of recovery loom, Jiangnan dyeing loom and ethnic minority loom, 13 different kinds of looms are arranged.

Xinyou Information Center: Xinyou information center is a textile information center named after Zhu Xinyu and Jiang Youlong, the forerunners of sericulture and silk industry. It displays samples of modern textile fabrics, precious files of textile figures, and historical and valuable Chinese and foreign newspapers, books, audio-visual materials related to sericulture and silk history, dyeing and weaving history, textile Archaeology and silk road. It also records and collates modern technology To provide information services for textile research.

Collection

There are historical relics related to silk in various dynasties since Neolithic era in China Silk Museum, especially the fabrics of Han and Tang Dynasties unearthed along the Silk Road, the objects of Liao and Jin Dynasties in northern grassland, the costumes of Song Dynasty in Jiangnan area, the official machinery products of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the modern Qipao and image fabrics. In addition, there are many national cultural relics and modern cultural relics.

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Hold activities?

Since 2011, at the end of each year, China Silk Museum will cooperate with the annual fashion retrospective exhibition to carry out hand knitting teaching activities. The purpose of this activity is to encourage people to return to tradition.

On August 26, 2011, the Silk Museum of China held the silk Palace Heritage search activity. The summer camp team, composed of Qian Bao readers and classmates from Wahaha primary school in Hangzhou, respectively visited the ruins of Hangzhou silkworm learning Museum, former residence of Du Jinsheng, China Silk Museum, Hangzhou stele forest, Hangzhou silk industry guild hall and other cultural attractions.

In June 2012, China Silk Museum launched the Centennial cheongsam exhibition, which was jointly sponsored by China Silk Museum, China Academy of fine arts and Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe There are more than 110 pieces of cheongsam exhibits in five units, namely, the origin of cheongsam, the evolution of cheongsam, the combination of Chinese and Western cheongsam, the craftsmanship of cheongsam, and cheongsam today,

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