Alxa Museum

Alxa Museum

Alashan museum is located in Erlute East Road, East District of BAYANHOT new city, with an area of 20000 square meters, a construction area of 13800 square meters, a cultural relic reservoir area of 750 square meters and an exhibition hall area of 4000 square meters. The main body is a four storey concrete frame structure, in which the zero floor is the technology and equipment room, the first and second floors are the exhibition area and public service area, and the third floor is the office area. The building of Alxa museum is magnificent and solemn, integrating national tradition, local characteristics and the spirit of the times.

Development history

Alxa Museum (old museum) was built in 1732, which was the official office and residence of Alxa flag kings.

The royal residence was built on behalf of the Royal Banner and the tenth Prince dalizaya. It has become a large-scale building community. Each part is composed of a number of Ming and Qing architectural style courtyard, mutual mastery, carved beams, elegant and exquisite. The whole building community is a typical Ming and Qing style of Beijing style quadrangle building group and Yihe garden style, so it is called "little Beijing".

During the Cultural Revolution (from May 1966 to October 1976), Alxa palace was greatly damaged and its houses were greatly renovated.

In 1997, Alxa palace was renamed Alxa Museum. During the restoration, the soft style of the gray tube tile roll shed roof was retained, and the carved and painted appearance of the courtyard and the tortuous appearance of the corridor could be discerned.

The new museum of Alxa is one of the important projects for the league and the executive office to implement the construction of public cultural facilities. It is determined as a gift project for the 30th anniversary of the founding of Alxa League. The foundation was laid in June 2009 and construction started in July 2009. Over the past year, under the care of the League Committee, the executive office and the Cultural Relics Bureau of the autonomous region, under the direct leadership of the league culture and Broadcasting Bureau, and through the joint efforts of all project management personnel and construction units, the civil engineering construction, interior and exterior decoration design, collection and identification of cultural relics, design and production of multimedia display system, creation of multiple scenes, and exhibition of cultural relics were completed in September 2010, It is now officially open to the general public free of charge.

Collection

Alashan Museum mainly displays Alashan Heshuote, turhute tribal history display, Alashan ethnic folk custom display, Alashan religious supplies display, Alashan unearthed cultural relics display, animal and plant specimens display, Alashan industrial and agricultural exhibits display, Alashan urban development planning display, Alashan national defense development display, Alashan rock art display, and the third national cultural relics exhibition Inspection results exhibition, temporary exhibition.

There are more than 600 pieces of historical relics of the stone age and Han, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Alxa Museum. Among them, there are many pictures of Ejina relics. Yuan Dynasty banknotes, Juyan Han bamboo slips and Xixia documents are the representatives of Ejina relics. In addition, there are more than 100 historical photos of rock paintings reflecting ancient nomadic life. In the exhibition room of national customs and cultural relics, 139 pieces of Mongolian clothing, food, housing and transportation decorations and folk art works are exhibited. Visitors can have a look at the style of Alxa palace and learn about the history, culture and ethnic customs of Alxa.

On the afternoon of July 16, 2003, a sudden heavy rain overthrew the putita, one of the Shuangbai pagodas, which had been existing for nearly 300 years in Linan Temple of Helan Mountain and experienced the catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution". A large number of sutras and Buddha statues appeared at the site of the collapsed ancient pagoda. For a time, whether some of the relics used by the Sixth Dalai Lama were preserved in the Bodhi pagoda has aroused people's discussion and speculation. In mid September of that year, the Cultural Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region entrusted the leader of the Inner Mongolia Institute of archaeology to organize the Alxa museum to investigate the site, and then submitted the "Fang Eucalyptus for archaeological clearance of Bodhi pagoda" to the people's Government of azuo banner. After the approval, the archaeologists carried out a 20 day rescue excavation. A large number of clay, wooden Buddha statues, pagodas, thangkas and scriptures were cleared. But most of them have been damaged. In addition, there are two copper coins, a wooden Buddha head, a silk painting, ink books, Tibetan sheep scapula. The most striking thing is the unearthed remains of the roof, Hana, pole and door frame of a Mongolian yurt used by the Sixth Dalai Lama. The degree of corrosion is enough to prove its age.

Exhibition hall layout

The main body of Alxa museum is a four storey concrete frame structure, in which the zero floor is the technology and equipment room, the first and second floors are the exhibition area and public service area, and the third floor is the office area. The building of Alxa museum is magnificent and solemn, integrating national tradition, local characteristics and the spirit of the times.

There are four exhibition halls in Alxa Museum, which are history exhibition hall, folk custom exhibition hall, stone carving exhibition hall and nature exhibition hall.

History exhibition hall

With a construction area of 1500 square meters, more than 600 historical relics from the stone age and Eastern Han, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are exhibited in the museum. Among them, Yuan Dynasty paper money, Juyan Han bamboo slips, Xixia documents, dingyuanying stone carvings, carved dragon zasak King's chair and other cultural relics belong to the national first-class cultural relics. Alashan Museum has more than 6000 pieces of historical, ethnic, religious, stone carvings, rock paintings and other cultural relics, including bronzes, ironware, pottery, porcelain, jade, stone carvings, stone carvings, ancient coins, silk embroidery, dyeing and weaving, calligraphy and painting, official clothes, ethnic crafts, ethnic minorities' clothing, food, housing and transportation, entertainment, medicine and other cultural relics. The archaeological excavations in Alashan area go from the Paleolithic age to modern times. Important collections include stone carvings of the Eastern Han Dynasty, bronze mirrors with Sansun pattern in the Ming Dynasty, copper pots with carved flowers in the Qing Dynasty, copper boxes with carved characters' story patterns in the Qing Dynasty, double ear red copper milk pails with carved flowers in the Qing Dynasty, red copper holding pots with carved flowers in the Qing Dynasty, currency notes from the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, and the official edition of general textual research of literature in the Yuan Dynasty. These large numbers of exquisite historical and ethnic cultural relics reveal the mystery of Alxa to visitors at home and abroad.

Folk exhibition hall

The exhibition hall of Alxa folk custom in the Museum covers an area of 1300 square meters. There are various styles of Alxa Mongolian costumes, Alxa roast whole sheep, the famous Alxa Mongolian camel raising and training skills, the exquisite Alxa antique carpet, the melodious long tune folk songs, the heroic and vigorous shalibor wrestling and the magical and exquisite Alxa Mongolian medicine 139 pieces of decorative objects and folk works of art.

Stone carving exhibition hall

The stone art exhibition hall of the museum, with a construction area of 800 square meters, displays more than 100 rock paintings of Mandela and Helan Mountain, which are the most representative and well preserved rock paintings with a wide range of subjects. It reproduces the life scenes and aesthetic taste of northern nomadic peoples such as Huns, Xianbei, Turks, Uighurs, Tubo and Dangxiang. These "silent historical books" witnessed the vicissitudes of Alashan nomads and revealed their long-term dreams

Nature exhibition hall

The natural exhibition hall of the museum, with a building area of 850 square meters, displays a large number of precious paleontological fossils, dinosaur fossils, animal and plant specimens, desert and Gobi rocks in Alxa, and creates a number of vivid biological scenes, which fully shows the natural ecological landscapes in Alxa, such as Helan Mountain, Badain Jaran Desert, Tengger Desert, Ejina River, Populus euphratica forest, strange forest, etc view

Visit information

Notice to visitors

1、 After the completion of the new Alxa Museum, the free opening system will continue to be implemented. The opening hours are from 9:00 to 18:00 in summer and from 9:00 to 17:00 in winter.

2、 The basic exhibition of the museum is open to the public free of charge from Tuesday to Sunday every week. Every Monday, the museum closes for internal adjustment and does not receive visitors.

3、 Group visits need to be made two days in advance

Four, the museum is free and free of charge. The audience needs to collect the tickets at the museum's ticket office on the basis of identity cards or other valid documents.

5、 In order to maintain the environment and order in the museum, those who are not well dressed or drunk are not allowed to visit.

6、 If you need to consult in the museum, please go to the information desk set up at the door.

7、 Smoking and flash photography are not allowed in the museum. Mobile phones and water are not allowed in the exhibition hall.

8、 Temporary exhibition and explanation are not free

Ticketing information

The Alxa museum is free of charge. Visitors can get the ticket of the same day at the ticket office at the entrance of the Museum Hall with their ID card, officer card, student card and other valid certificates. The ticket is valid on the same day.

Transportation guide

Take No.1 bus in the city, or take a taxi to the museum

Address: Erlute East Road, BAYANHOT new City East District, Alxa League

Longitude: 105.67874145508

Latitude: 38.839706420898

Tel: 0483-8338661

Ticket information: free. The Alxa museum is free of charge. Visitors can get the ticket of the same day at the ticket office at the entrance of the Museum Hall with their ID card, officer card, student card and other valid certificates. The ticket is valid on the same day.

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