Wujiang Museum

Wujiang Museum

Wujiang museum is located next to Wujiang Cultural Square. It is a good place for Wujiang citizens to visit and have a rest. Wujiang museum is an important museum to show Wujiang culture. Located in Jiangling South Road, Wujiang City, it was built in October 1988 and completed in June 2000. It was officially opened to the outside world on July 1 of the same year. There are more than 21000 pieces of cultural relics, including more than 7000 pieces of paintings and calligraphy, and more than 10000 pieces of coins. It fully reflects the local Wujiang culture over the past thousand years.

brief introduction

Located on Jiangling South Road in Wujiang City, Wujiang museum was built in October 1998, completed in June 2000 and opened to the public on July 1 of the same year. This is a magnificent modern building with distinctive national characteristics, covering an area of 1216 square meters and a construction area of 3653 square meters. It is one of the landmark buildings of Wujiang culture.

The museum collects more than 10000 pieces of various cultural relics, such as ceramics, bronzes, jade, calligraphy and paintings, coins, etc. It shows the history and culture of Wujiang for thousands of years.

Wujiang Museum has opened six exhibition halls, namely, historical and cultural exhibition hall, ancient outstanding figures exhibition hall, modern outstanding figures exhibition hall, calligraphy and painting collection exhibition hall, Wu Gensheng coin exhibition hall and friendship Hall (friendly communication gift exhibition hall), as well as the audio-visual science exhibition hall and several temporary exhibitions under construction.

Introduction to the library

Wujiang Museum

It is a comprehensive and multi-functional Museum, located next to Wujiang Cultural Square. It blends with the surrounding environment, small bridge and flowing water, and it is a beautiful picture for Wujiang cultural construction and urban construction. The Museum covers an area of 1200 square meters, with a construction area of 3650 square meters. It has four floors. There are eight large and small exhibition halls above the second floor, with an exhibition area of 1900 square meters. There are more than 20000 pieces of cultural relics in the collection, including pottery, porcelain, bronze, calligraphy and painting, jade, stone tools, coins, etc., among which more than 8000 pieces of calligraphy and painting, inscription collection and more than 10000 pieces of coins are outstanding among museums at the same level. It has become a position to propagate history and culture and carry out patriotism education.

Since its opening to the outside world, Wujiang Museum has been concerned and supported by higher authorities. With the joint efforts of the staff of the library, we should be pragmatic and enterprising, open up and innovate, create civilized units, implement management by objectives, establish and improve various rules and regulations, adopt scientific and flexible operation mechanism, strengthen ideological and moral education, pay attention to the improvement of post quality, and formulate and implement long-term and systematic business and academic activity plans. In order to adapt to the new situation, we have constantly expanded our work areas, and made remarkable achievements in display and exhibition, security, storage, archaeological collection, and mass publicity.

Closely around the theme of "know me Wujiang, love me Wujiang", Wujiang Museum grasps the regional characteristics of Wujiang, and strives to make the museum a window to introduce and display Wujiang, a lifelong school for the long-term benefit of the public, and a second classroom for University, middle school and primary school students. Since its opening, in addition to the annual opening of seven fixed exhibitions, such as "Wujiang historical and cultural exhibition", "Wujiang ancient outstanding figures Exhibition", "Wujiang modern outstanding figures Exhibition", "Wujiang calligraphy and painting collection exhibition", "wugensheng coin Exhibition" and "gift exhibition of international friendly cities", the museum has also actively introduced and held nearly 20 distinctive, creative, tasteful and innovative exhibitions every year The influence of the temporary exhibition, with rich exhibition content to meet people's spiritual and cultural needs, is welcomed by the majority of the audience.

Wujiang Museum adheres to the working idea of "serving schools and students" and strives to make the museum a real second classroom for students. Since the opening of the museum, 20 schools have established moral education bases in our museum, and formed a spiritual civilization co construction unit with the municipal armed police squadron. The museum actively sends exhibitions to schools, troops and towns, and holds rich and colorful publicity activities on the World Museum Day every year, so that the citizens pay more attention to the protection of cultural relics and the cause of museums. At the same time, the museum has also been identified as Suzhou national defense education base, Suzhou science popularization education base, Wujiang patriotism education base, Wujiang "double support" window unit, etc.; it has been successively rated as Suzhou cultural relics protection advanced collective, Wujiang civilization unit, Wujiang tourism industry advanced collective, Suzhou safety work advanced collective; the Party branch of the museum has been recognized by Wujiang City of the CPC The Committee awarded the title of advanced grass-roots party organization, and the library trade union was awarded the title of advanced staff home by Wujiang Personnel Bureau and general trade union.

Exhibitions and collections

Water grass pattern pottery pot

Western Zhou Dynasty

The caliber is 10.4cm and the height is 7.3cm. It was collected in 1975.

Grey pottery statue

Western Zhou Dynasty

Its diameter is 16.3 cm, its bottom diameter is 9.3 cm, and its height is 11.5 cm.

Cloud thunder red hard pottery pot

Western Zhou Dynasty

The diameter is 11.9 cm and the height is 15.4 cm. It was unearthed from the Jiulihu site in Tongli in 1973.

Argillaceous black skin pottery Guan Er pot

Neolithic Liangzhu Culture

The diameter is 9.5 cm, the bottom diameter is 11.1 cm, and the height is 18 cm.

Red pottery with sand

Neolithic Liangzhu Culture

It is 31.2 cm in diameter and 27.2 cm in height. It was unearthed from the Longnan site in Meiyan in 1988

cultural background

Wujiang is located in the southernmost part of Jiangsu Province, adjacent to Taihu Lake in the West. At the intersection of Wu and Yue, it is known as the head of Wu and the tail of Yue. Wu culture and Yue culture can be obtained simultaneously, which is a rare regional resource. Wujiang has a long history and is proud of its more than 6000 years of civilization. The completion of Wujiang museum will become an important window to display Wujiang and play an important role in the modernization of Wujiang.

Layout of the Museum

Wujiang Museum has a magnificent appearance and a modern architectural style that imitates Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Beijing. The museum now has six exhibition halls open.

Wujiang historical and cultural exhibition hall

Wujiang Museum has a rich collection of paintings and calligraphy, with more than 10000 pieces. The exhibition selected nearly 100 excellent works. Among them, Shen Zhou, Tang Yin, Wen Zhengming, Wang Yuanqi, one of the "four kings" in the early Qing Dynasty, Wu Changshuo, Ren Xun and other famous artists in the late Qing Dynasty are outstanding, and the works of famous calligraphers and painters in Wujiang are outstanding among them, Wu Wangli, the representative of the maritime painting school in the late Qing Dynasty, and Lu Hui, the representative of the Wumen painting school in the late Qing Dynasty Art has a long history and the traditional culture is brilliant. In addition, there are also calligraphy works of members of the revolutionary literature group Nanshe and modern political and literary figures, such as Chen Qimei, Chen Qubing, Li Genyuan, Yu Youren, Hu Shi, Liang Qichao, etc., which constitute a major feature of the exhibition hall. Is it not beautiful for the audience to be in this art palace, appreciate the good historical and cultural environment of Wujiang, and feel the unique charm and charm of calligraphy and painting!

Taking the pre Qin culture as the exhibition theme, combined with various kinds of cultural relics in various historical periods, this paper shows the evolution of Wujiang culture in the past 6000 years. Among them is the Neolithic Liangzhu Cultural Village site in Longnan, Meiyan, which is known as "the first village in Jiangnan" as far as 5300 years ago, to prove that it is one of the birthplaces of Chinese culture. The exhibition hall of Wujiang history and culture, with the pre Qin culture as the main line and various cultural relics from the Six Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, reflects the long history and civilization inheritance of Wujiang for more than 6000 years, as well as the diligence and wisdom of Wujiang ancestors. More than 20 tombs and unearthed pottery, animal and plant remains from the Majiabang cultural site in Guangfu village, Taoyuan, can prove that the ancestors of Wujiang were still in the matriarchal stage six or seven thousand years ago, but they had already lived a settled life. The Neolithic Liangzhu Cultural Village site in Longnan, Meiyan, known as the "No.1 village in the south of the Yangtze River", dates back about 5300 years. It can be found from the site that people lived along the river and across the river. It has the characteristics of a water town. The carbonized rice and pig remains found in the site fully illustrate the long history of rice culture and livestock raising in Wujiang, and show a picture of the ancestors' agriculture The production and life picture of the main, fishing and hunting as the secondary. It strongly proves that Taihu Basin is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. The black pottery silkworm shaped pot at yuanjiadai site in Meiyan and the spinning wheel, bone cone and bone needle commonly unearthed in Wujiang show that the history of mulberry planting, silkworm rearing and weaving in Wujiang can be traced back to more than 4000 years ago. In addition, the exhibition hall displays finely ground stone tools, exquisitely carved jade, simple and dignified bronzes, as well as ceramics and handicrafts with different shapes, all telling people about the rich cultural heritage and the development process of productivity of Wujiang.

Wujiang ancient outstanding figures Exhibition

Wujiang is famous for its elegant and talented people. "Wujiang ancient outstanding figures Exhibition" and "Wujiang modern outstanding figures Exhibition" show the life stories of 82 ancient and modern Wujiang elites. The political circles include Wu Hong and Wu Shan, the father and son ministers famous for honesty and justice in the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Zongjian, the famous anti castration sage, Wu Chen, the national hero of the anti Qing Dynasty, and Zhang Yao, the patriotic general, as well as Shi Zhaoji, the famous diplomat in modern times, and women in early China

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