Guangzhou Museum

Guangzhou Museum is located in hailou, Yuexiushan Town, Guangzhou city. It was officially opened to the public on February 11, 1929. It is one of the earliest museums in China. It is a specialized organization for collecting Guangzhou historical relics, holding exhibitions and conducting scientific research. Zhenhai building, a famous ancient building in Guangzhou with a history of more than 600 years, was built in 1380, the 13th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. It is known as "the first building in the south of Wuling". Zhenhai story building and Yuexiu story building are one of the eight sceneries of Yangcheng in Qing Dynasty and modern times respectively. After continuous development, Guangzhou Museum now has three sub exhibition areas: Guangzhou Art Museum, Sanyuanli people's anti British struggle Memorial Hall and March 29 uprising headquarters Memorial Hall.

Guangzhou Museum

Guangzhou Museum, located in hailou, Yuexiushan Town, Guangzhou City, was officially opened to the public on February 11, 1929. It is one of the earliest museums in China. It is a specialized organization for collecting Guangzhou historical relics, holding exhibitions and conducting scientific research. Zhenhai building was built in the 13th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, which has a history of more than 630 years. It is a famous ancient building in Guangzhou, known as "the first building in the south of Wuling". Zhenhai story building and Yuexiu story building are one of the eight sceneries of Yangcheng in Qing Dynasty and modern times respectively.

After continuous development, Guangzhou Museum now has three sub exhibition areas: Guangzhou Art Museum, Sanyuanli people's anti British struggle Memorial Hall and March 29 uprising headquarters Memorial Hall. On May 18, 2017, it was promoted to the third batch of national first-class museums.

In February 2020, in order to pay homage to the majority of medical workers, the scenic spot will be opened to medical workers after the end of the epidemic and the resumption of operation.

Development history

In 1380, when Zhu Liangzu, the Marquis of Yongjia, repaired Guangzhou City, he built Chenglou Zhenhai tower on Yuexiu mountain. Since the Qing Dynasty, Zhenhai tower has been rated as one of the eight scenic spots of Yangcheng and the top ten modern tourist attractions for many times.

In 1928, the Guangzhou municipal government organized the "Guangzhou Municipal Museum" while repairing it,

On February 11, 1929, Guangzhou Municipal Museum was officially opened to the outside world, one of the earliest museums in China.

From 1941 to 1945, it was called Guangzhou municipal library museum.

From 1946 to 1949, it was called Guangzhou Municipal Museum.

Since 1950, it has been called Guangzhou Museum.

On May 18, 2017, he was awarded the third batch of national first-class museums in the capital museum.

After continuous development, Guangzhou Museum now has three sub exhibition areas: Guangzhou Art Museum, Sanyuanli people's anti British struggle Memorial Hall and March 29 uprising headquarters Memorial Hall. Guangzhou Museum is a comprehensive historical museum with local characteristics. It is an important place to collect and display local historical relics in Guangzhou. At present, the permanent exhibition in the museum is "Guangzhou history exhibition". Through nearly 1000 ancient and modern pictures and materials, people can understand the general situation of Guangzhou's historical development and the characteristics of local culture. In addition, Guangzhou Museum also regularly holds all kinds of special and commemorative temporary exhibitions.

The collections of Guangzhou Museum are mainly the unearthed cultural relics excavated since the founding of the people's Republic of China, which are the basis of the collection. At the same time, through the transfer of the municipal government, the collection has increased from more than 3000 pieces in the initial stage to 100000 pieces.

Venue composition

Zhenhai building exhibition area

The exhibition area of Zhenhai building of Guangzhou Museum is located in the beautiful Yuexiu Park. The site of the museum is Zhenhai building, a famous ancient building in Guangzhou. Zhenhai building was once known as Wanghai building, because the building is five stories high, commonly known as "five stories". It was built in 1380, the 13th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Liangzu, the general of the Ming Dynasty, built a city wall to expand the urban area. He combined the three cities of the Song Dynasty into one, built the city wall across the Xiushan mountain in the north of the city, and built the tower at the highest place. You can have a panoramic view of Yangcheng by climbing the building. For hundreds of years, poets and poets have been chanting a lot. Since the Qing Dynasty, it has been one of the "Eight Sights of Yangcheng".

Exhibition area of Art Museum

The exhibition area of Guangzhou Museum Art Museum is located in the east of Zhenhai road. The main building of the exhibition area is Zhongyuan library, which was built in memory of Deng Zhongyuan, the general of the 1911 Revolution. The building adopts the style of combining Chinese and Western decoration, which was laid in 1929 and completed the next year. Guangzhou Art Museum was built in 1957, with the Zhongyuan library as the site. Now it is a key cultural relic protection unit in Guangzhou. There are two special exhibitions in this exhibition area: "treasures of international trade: art works exported to Guangzhou from the 18th century to the early 20th century" and "history of the earth and evolution of life". Zhongyuan Building displays the exhibition of "treasures of overseas trade", which shows the traditional crafts of tooth carving, embroidery, silk weaving, Guangcai, export porcelain, export painting, etc. exported to Guangzhou from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century, and reproduces the grand history of foreign trade at Guangzhou port in the Qing Dynasty. The exhibition on display in the natural science museum is the history of the earth and the evolution of life, which vividly shows the whole process of the formation and development of the earth and the birth and evolution of life with three rare and precious objects: meteorites, minerals and fossils.

Sanyuanli people's anti British struggle Memorial Hall

Sanyuanli people's anti British struggle memorial hall is located at 34 Guangyuan Middle Road, Guangzhou. The Sanyuan ancient temple was originally a temple of the northern emperor, with a mountain gate, a fragrant Pavilion, a main hall, two corridors and a side room. It covers an area of 1025 square meters, with a construction area of 446 square meters. It has green brick and stone feet, a hard top, a gray plastic Bo Gu roof, decorated with glass fish beads, and frescoes and patterns such as "Fu Sheng Chuan Jing" painted on the front corridor and the four walls of the temple. 150 years ago, the gunfire of the Opium War broke the quiet life of Sanyuanli village. In the face of the British invading army, the villagers fought back angrily. After killing and injuring some British soldiers, they went to sanyuangu temple to discuss the anti British countermeasures. Taking Sanyuanli as the center, they contacted 103 townships nearby, and then the earth shaking battle of niulangang took place. From then on, this small temple built in Shunzhi period of the early Qing Dynasty was famous at home and abroad. At present, the museum displays the exhibition of "Guangzhou people's Sanyuanli anti British struggle historical relics exhibition".

Memorial Hall of the former site of March 29 uprising headquarters

The memorial hall of the former site of March 29 uprising headquarters is located at No. 5, xiaodongying, Yuehua road. It is a large blue brick building with Lingnan residential characteristics. It is located in the north and south, with a construction area of 444 square meters. As early as the Qing Dynasty, it was an official's residence, known as "chaoyidi". Although it changed its ownership several times, the big house still maintained the original pattern of four in three Bay, single floor, and plain tiles on both sides of the slope. Stepping into the long gate, you can see that every step in the courtyard is separated by a patio, and the wood carved flower partition is simple and generous. This is the site of the Famous March 29 uprising headquarters in history. In 2005, it was awarded as the patriotic education base of Guangzhou. In 2006, the Municipal Bureau of culture carried out a comprehensive maintenance of the memorial hall at the former site of the March 29 uprising headquarters, which was fully opened on March 29. Now the exhibition in the museum is "blue blood and yellow flowers forever - March 29 uprising of 1911".

Organization setup

Exhibition Research Department

It is mainly responsible for the content and form design of the exhibition in our museum, compiling the outline and explanation of the exhibition, participating in the arrangement and removal of the exhibition, taking charge of the collection and removal of the exhibits, adjusting, supplementing and modifying the existing exhibitions, designing and making the layout of our publications, auditing the contents of the imported domestic and foreign exhibitions, and formulating the annual plan Exhibition plan; carry out scientific research on the cultural relics in the library, complete the research and compilation tasks of corresponding topics; be responsible for the collection of papers, introductory books and pages of the library; plan and organize academic seminars held in the name of the library; assist in the design of major exhibition contents; be responsible for and issue the Journal of Guangzhou Cultural Museum.

Education Promotion Department

It is mainly responsible for organizing and receiving visitors to the museum, providing good explanation service, compiling the exhibition explanation words of the museum, publicizing the exhibition and academic activities, and compiling the planning documents, investigating and studying the suggestions and opinions of the audience, and timely feeding back the suggestions and opinions of the audience, so as to provide the basis for improvement. To provide patriotic education tour exhibition for major, middle and primary schools, communities, enterprises and institutions; to organize and contact "Friends of Guangzhou Museum" to carry out relevant activities, and to train volunteer commentators of Guangzhou Museum.

Cultural relics protection and management department

Cultural relics protection and management department: it is mainly responsible for the registration, cataloging and filing of cultural relics, the production and storage of collection files when the collection of our library is received; it is responsible for the regular check of cultural relics, data and other account books and the statistical filling of relevant collection reports at the end of the year; it carries out the investigation and collection of social scattered cultural relics; it participates in the scientific research of cultural relics in the collection, and makes the collection of cultural relics scientific in time Put forward opinions and suggestions on standardized management.

Branch Library Department

It is mainly responsible for the security, fire prevention and collection of related cultural relics of Sanyuanli people's anti British struggle Memorial Hall and the memorial hall at the former site of March 29 uprising headquarters; publicity of exhibitions in the exhibition hall, audience organization, explanation and reception; co construction of patriotism education base of the two branches; cleaning and sanitation work and greening maintenance of the two branches.

office

Mainly responsible for our library administration, logistics management (including finance department, personnel department) and mechanical and electrical fire management; docking

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