China Ceramics Museum

China Ceramics Museum

China Ceramic Museum is located in the cultural square of Zibo City Center. In April 2001, it was built on the basis of Zibo exhibition hall through large-scale investment and transformation, and designed by the Academy of fine arts of Tsinghua University. It is a comprehensive modern ceramic Museum integrating display, exhibition, collection, research, sales and social education.

Introduction of Ceramic Museum

Ceramics are the symbol of Chinese civilization. China is the hometown of ceramics. With its unique charm, Chinese ceramics have been spread all over the world and become a bright pearl in the world's cultural and artistic treasure house. Approved by the relevant departments of the state, the "China Ceramics Museum" is elaborately designed by Tsinghua University, with a total area of 10000 square meters. It is divided into two parts: display and sales. The exhibition part includes preface hall, comprehensive hall, ancient hall, modern hall, folk hall, high-tech hall, international hall, ceramic art hall and high-tech ceramics. It comprehensively displays ceramic cultural relics of various historical periods and masterpieces of ceramic art of various ceramic producing areas in China, totaling more than 10000 pieces (sets). Among them, there are more than 500 ancient exhibits, which focus on the ceramic cultural relics produced, unearthed and collected in Zibo in the past 8000 years. There are more than 9500 modern exhibits, including more than 120 representative works of 48 contemporary Chinese arts and crafts masters and 35 Chinese ceramic art masters, more than 500 fine art works of more than 50 provincial masters, and more than 500 fine art works of famous ceramic artists from the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Finland, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. The business part is mainly composed of ceramic business department, ceramic gift center and leisure ceramic bar. In the leisure ceramic bar, visitors can make it on site and enjoy the pleasure of ceramic art creation. When you enter the ceramic art business department, you can have a panoramic view of the ceramic products in the national ceramic production areas.

Since its opening in September 2002, the China Ceramics Museum has increasingly won the favor of Chinese and foreign tourists for its profound cultural connotation and unique artistic charm. It has received more than 2 million Chinese and foreign visitors including party and state leaders such as Jiang Zemin, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng, Li Tieying, Jiang Chunyun, as well as students from middle and primary schools. It has become the first choice of cultural tourist attractions for tourists in Zi One of them is designated as national AAAA tourist attraction and national industrial tourism demonstration site by National Tourism Administration.

The exhibition area of China Ceramics Museum is more than 4000 square meters. It shows more than 2500 pieces (sets) of various kinds of ceramics unearthed, produced and collected in Zibo over 8000 years from the post Li Culture of the Neolithic age, including 249 ancient exhibits. The exhibition hall is divided into seven parts: foreword area, comprehensive exhibition area, ancient and modern exhibition area, modern exhibition area, ceramic art creation area, ceramic boutique sales area, and Chinese and foreign ceramic art masters' works exhibition area. According to different uses and artistic styles, the modern exhibits are classified into architectural ceramics, garden art ceramics, sanitary ceramics, daily-use ceramics, art ceramics, modern ceramics, carved ceramics and high-tech ceramics, showing the highest artistic level and development of Zibo Ceramics. Ceramics are the symbol of Chinese culture.

Zibo is the birthplace of Qi culture and one of the five major ceramic producing areas in China. Ceramic production has a long history and plays an important role in China. According to historical records and archaeological excavations, ceramic production began in Zibo area as early as 8000 years ago during the period of "post Li Culture". At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the state of Qi set up a special "Tao Zheng" official to manage the production of pottery, and set up a Pottery Workshop in the capital city of Qi to engage in the professional production of pottery. Around the Wei, Jin and southern and Northern Dynasties, the ceramic production in Zibo area completed the transition from pottery to porcelain. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, ceramic production techniques were increasingly refined and the scale was expanding.

Visiting the China Ceramics Museum, you will have an in-depth understanding of the splendid culture of Zibo Ceramics over 8000 years and the latest development achievements of Zibo Ceramics. The understanding of the long history and civilization of the Chinese nation will also get a qualitative sublimation. With the expansion, the kilns spread all over the world, gradually forming the characteristics of Zibo, and producing a number of influential famous ceramics. The Celadon of Zhaili kiln, the black glazed porcelain of cicun kiln, the hanging and colored porcelain of Boshan kiln were all famous for a time. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zibo ceramic products were heavy in shape, unique in decoration, prosperous in production and marketing, forming a ceramic production and sales center represented by Boshan. After the founding of new China, on the basis of inheriting and carrying forward the traditional skills, Zibo Ceramics, based on local resources, explored and innovated, developed new kinds of ceramics, such as talcum porcelain, high feldspar porcelain, high quartz porcelain, bone porcelain and so on. The carving art is unique, forming a new characteristic of Zibo Ceramics. Daily ceramics, art ceramics, industrial ceramics and architectural ceramics have developed rapidly, and the products are very popular It has been sold to more than 70 countries and regions in the world. Making white jade is a kind of medicine for the development of China's ceramic production technology and ceramic art. The main raw materials are white jade, water, maltose, honey, etc. Finally, molasses drenched on white jade has made its due contribution.

China Ceramics Museum is located in Zibo Central Cultural Square. It is a comprehensive modern ceramic Museum integrating display, exhibition, collection, research, sales and social education.

internal structure

China Ceramics Museum is located on the third floor of Zibo exhibition hall, with an exhibition area of more than 4000 square meters. At present, it is one of the modern ceramic museums with the largest exhibition area, the most complete variety and the highest exhibition level in China. It shows more than 2500 pieces (sets) of various kinds of ceramics unearthed, produced and collected in Zibo over 8000 years from the post Li Culture of the Neolithic age, including 249 ancient exhibits. The exhibition hall is divided into seven parts: foreword area, comprehensive exhibition area, ancient and modern exhibition area, modern exhibition area, ceramic art creation area, ceramic boutique sales area and advertising area. Among the ancient exhibits are famous Zibo Ceramics, such as the blue glazed lotus statue of the Northern Dynasty, the raindrop glaze of the Song Dynasty, the tea powder glaze, the hanging embryo porcelain, and the powder bar porcelain. There are also eggshell pottery of Longshan culture and rare treasures such as Yingqing holding pot, Dingyao bowl, and Geyao bowl of the Song Dynasty. According to different uses and artistic styles, the modern exhibits are classified into architectural ceramics, garden art ceramics, sanitary ceramics, daily-use ceramics, art ceramics, modern ceramics, carved ceramics and high-tech ceramics, showing the highest artistic level and development of Zibo Ceramics. In the ceramic art creation area - "Tao Yuan", the audience can enjoy the fun of ceramic art creation and enhance their perceptual knowledge of ceramic culture through hand-made production.

The total exhibition area of Zibo China Ceramics Museum is more than 10000 square meters, which is divided into two parts: Exhibition and sales. Among them, the exhibition part includes the preface hall, comprehensive hall, ancient hall, modern hall, high-tech hall and international hall, displaying more than 3000 pieces (sets) of exhibits. It comprehensively shows the Chinese ceramic culture from the Neolithic post Li culture to the present 8000 years, reflecting the highest artistic level and the latest development achievements of China's ceramic industry since the founding of the people's Republic of China, especially since the reform and opening up The carrier vividly and intuitively shows the profound and long history of Chinese civilization.

The ceramic themed half view painting in the comprehensive exhibition hall is 4 meters high and 30 meters long. Visitors can enjoy the glorious journey of ceramic art from the past, modern to the future by taking the time and space train. The ancient exhibition hall is simple and elegant, with a collection of more than 450 national precious cultural relics and ancient treasures.

The modern hall and the international hall are simple and lively, bringing together more than 2600 pieces of representative works of contemporary Chinese masters of Arts and crafts, ceramic artists and famous ceramic artists from the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. The high-tech ceramics hall integrates universality, interest and participation, and adopts the modern display technology of sound, light, electricity, image, virtual reality and simulation to comprehensively display the latest R & D achievements of new ceramic materials in six fields, such as space, military, environment, life science and power energy. The business part is mainly composed of ceramic business department, ceramic painting and calligraphy auction hall and leisure ceramic bar.

Ticket Price

According to the zijiazi No. 31 document of Zibo Price Bureau, the ticket price of Zibo China Ceramics Museum is 40 yuan per person per piece. Preferential price of admission: preferential price for the following personnel. College students, the elderly (over 60 years old), extremely poor workers and active servicemen will be charged half price with valid certificates, that is, 20 yuan per person per piece. For primary and secondary school students, 10 yuan per person per card is required. Children under 1.2 meters tall and disabled people are free to visit. The price of explanation fee of Zibo China Ceramics Museum is 30 yuan / time (adhere to the principle of voluntary visitors). The above ticket price includes all the exhibits in the museum and is the final price for selling tickets to visitors.

Visitors should abide by the following rules

1. All visitors can enter the museum by ticket, membership card or visit ticket.

2. It is strictly forbidden to bring inflammable, explosive, highly toxic and other dangerous goods into the library.

No smoking in the library.

4. Without permission, it is forbidden to take photos and videos of cultural relics in the museum.

5. It is strictly forbidden to climb the exhibition frame and guardrail.

Visiting time

9:00-12:00 am 2:00-5:00 PM

Zibo carved porcelain

It is a special decoration process for ceramics. All kinds of calligraphy and painting are engraved on the semi-finished ceramic products. Finished products have always been listed as one of the high-grade handicrafts. The layout of Zibo carved porcelain is rigorous, and the color is simple but not complicated

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