Tongling Museum

Tongling Museum

Tongling museum is located at 1506 Babao Road, Lingjiang North Road, Tongguan District, Tongling City, Anhui Province, on the East Bank of Xihu Wetland Park.

The new Tongling Museum has been open free of charge since December 12, 2014, with a total area of 90 mu, a construction area of 20000 square meters and a total investment of 260 million yuan. The museum is a local comprehensive museum and a national three-level Museum.

As of May 2018, Tongling Museum has more than 5000 collections, including 15 first-class collections, 27 second-class collections and 498 third-class collections. Its main function is to carry copper culture exhibition, Tongling regional culture exhibition and other exhibition halls, as well as cultural relics collection, research, publicity, education and so on.

The shape of Tongling museum is based on the bronze ware unearthed from Tongling, the spring and autumn animal ear bird pattern mirror. Its circular copper curtain wall is composed of nearly 3000 square meters of rhombic bronze plates, with 50 tons of copper. It is the largest single decorative copper curtain wall in China.

Tongling museum is a civilized unit of Tongling City,

Anhui patriotism education base, national 4A tourist attraction.

Historical evolution

On December 12, 2014, the new Tongling museum was completed and opened free of charge.

On December 17, 2015, the reading point of Lake viewing Hall of Tongling museum was opened to the public.

On January 31, 2016, the Zongyang history and culture exhibition was officially launched.

In March 2017, the preventive protection plan of cultural relics in Tongling museum was approved by the State Administration of cultural relics.

In June 2017, Tongling Museum launched a self-service voice interpretation service, in which visitors can scan the QR code through their mobile phones to listen to the voice interpretation of key objects and scenes in the exhibition hall.

architectural composition

overview

Tongling Museum covers a total area of 90 mu, with a construction area of 20000 square meters and a total investment of 260 million yuan. The main building of the museum has four floors, with an exhibition area of 5000 square meters and a cultural relics storehouse of 2000 square meters. Tongling Museum has opened five exhibitions, including the basic exhibition of wanshijijin Tongdu Tongyun, the ceramics exhibition of taofengciyun, the folk collection exhibition, the copper handicrafts exhibition of Tongdu, and the special exhibition of Zongyang history and culture. The main exhibition hall is copper culture, supplemented by ceramic exhibition, two temporary exhibition halls and bronze Museum exhibition hall. Copper culture is mainly composed of bronze culture theme exhibition and Huishi Tiangong Copper Craft Exhibition. The bronze culture theme exhibition, through the reappearance of scenes such as copper mining and smelting, the display of historical relics, and the display of multimedia, comprehensively shows the special Museum of Tongling in the history of bronze civilization, the development of copper culture, and the prosperity and future of copper industry.

 

Tongling Museum has built a 600 square meter national reading demonstration site in the lake viewing hall on the third floor, with a collection of more than 7000 books, including archaeology, cultural heritage, history, literature, philosophy, children's books and other books. It implements the mode of free book reading and integration of leisure and learning. After visiting the bronze culture exhibition hall and the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, citizens can come here for leisure and reading Study and exchange, see the West Lake wetland scenery.

 

Permanent exhibition hall

The main exhibition of Tongling museum is divided into three parts: pottery style and porcelain charm collection ceramics exhibition, Wanshi Jijin Tongdu Tongyun copper culture theme exhibition and Tongdu Copper Craft Exhibition.

 

Temporary exhibition hall

As of February 2017, Tongling City Museum has "canger Engraved Stone - Dali famous stele rubbings Exhibition", "the way of sages - the story of Yangming" and "clay block making five colored sculptures of life and real soul - Zhao's clay figurine Works Exhibition" open to the public.

 

Venue features

The main body of Tongling Museum fully embodies the characteristics of bronze culture. The combination of square and circle interprets the relationship between "model" and "utensil" of ancient Chinese bronze smelting and casting. The architectural appearance is based on the design prototype of the bronze ware unearthed in Tongling, the bird pattern of animal ear in spring and Autumn period. The design of architectural appearance has the meaning of taking copper as a mirror, witnessing the historical development of Tongling. The circular copper curtain wall of the museum is composed of nearly 3000 square meters of rhombic bronze plates, with 50 tons of copper. It is the largest single decorative copper curtain wall in China.

With rich historical relics, brand-new exhibition methods and advanced scientific and technological means, Tongling Museum fully displays Tongling's long history of bronze civilization, splendid culture and gorgeous treasures.

Tongling Museum, as a landmark cultural and Expo facility integrating copper culture theme exhibition, domestic and foreign bronze culture academic research and tourism leisure, has become a new cultural tourism landmark of Tongling City.

 

Tongling City Museum is a special museum with copper culture as the main line, which comprehensively displays the status of Tongling in the history of Chinese bronze civilization, the development of copper culture and the prospect of copper industry.

 

Collection

overview

As of May 2018, there are more than 5000 collections in Tongling Museum, including 15 first-class collections, 27 second-class collections and 498 third-class collections.

 

Major cultural relics

Cultural Activity

Activity construction

On September 2, 2015, "Jianghuai Zhuang song Anhui Anti Japanese War historical facts photo exhibition" was officially launched.

On January 1, 2016, the 60th anniversary exhibition of Tongling City was officially launched.

On May 18, 2016, "the great beauty of black and white world" - Zhang Wensheng's pen painting exhibition was officially launched.

On June 11, 2016, "stories around you and me" - Tongling folk collection exhibition was officially launched.

From September 24 to September 25, 2016, China (Tongling) bronze culture forum was successfully held in Tongling and officially launched.

On October 20, 2016, the "Flying Red Flag - Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army Long March" photo exhibition was officially launched.

On November 22, 2016, the exhibition of grassland ancient charm and customs outside the Great Wall - cultural relics exhibition of Baotou Museum in Inner Mongolia was officially launched.

On January 26, 2017, the joint exhibition of Dingyou spring chicken cultural relics was officially launched.

 

Honors

In 2013, Tongling museum was selected as the founding unit of "women's civilization post" in Tongling City from 2010 to 2012.

 

On April 6, 2017, Tongling museum was officially approved as a national 4A tourist attraction.

 

In September 2018, Tongling museum was selected as the fifth patriotic education demonstration base in Anhui Province.

 

In April 2019, the Ministry of social education of Tongling Museum won the title of "National Women's civilization post".

 

On November 15, 2017, Tongling museum was awarded the 19th Tongling civilized unit.

 

Organization setup

Tongling Museum consists of office, finance room, exhibition department, publicity and education department, cultural relics preservation department, cultural industry development department, Archaeology Department, security department, information department and bronze culture research department.

 

Visit information

Notice to visitors

Opening Hours

Closed on Monday, 9:00-17:00 from Tuesday to Sunday. Legal holidays will be notified.

 

　

Ticket Price

It's free.

 

transport line

address

Tongling museum is located at 1506 Babao Road, Lingjiang North Road, Tongguan District, Tongling City, Anhui Province.

traffic

transit

You can take bus No.26 from Tongling City to the new Tongling Museum.

 

Address: intersection of Huanhu East Road and Donghu Second Road, Shizishan District, Tongling City

Longitude: 117.86801623638

Latitude: 30.9757609432

Tel: 0562-2836290

Ticket information: free.

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