Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum

Sanxingdui site is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is a Bronze Age site in Southwest China. It is a place worthy of special visit in Chengdu. Sanxingdui, which was excavated in 1980, is named after three loess mounds that stand out on the Chengdu Plain. The museum is divided into a comprehensive museum and a bronze Museum, where you can enjoy a large number of unearthed gold, bronze, jade, pottery, ivory and other cultural relics, with distinctive features of Bashu culture. It is the earliest known civilization in China's history. The bronze museum is the essence of the relics.

Sanxingdui Museum

synonym

Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum generally refers to Sanxingdui Museum

Sanxingdui Museum was founded in August 1992 and opened in October 1997. It is located in the northeast corner of Sanxingdui site, a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is located on the Bank of Duck River in the west of Guanghan City, 40 km south of Chengdu and 26 km north of Deyang. It is a modern special site museum in China. Sanxingdui Museum has two pavilions with an exhibition area of nearly 12000 square meters.

The first batch of national primary and secondary school students' research and practice education bases.

On September 20, 2019, it won the title of national greening model unit.

In March 2020, in order to thank the national medical staff for their dedication, the museum will implement free medical service for the first-line medical staff and their families.

Development history

In April 1988, the Preparatory Office of Sanxingdui Museum was established.

In March 1989, the main building design scheme of Sanxingdui Museum was approved.

In August 1992, the foundation of Samsung museum was laid.

In July 1994, the civil work of the main hall of Sanxingdui Museum was completed.

In June 1995, Sanxingdui Museum's "ancient city, ancient country and ancient Shu Culture Exhibition" formal design scheme was approved.

In August 1996, the interior decoration and exhibition of Sanxingdui Museum, as well as the construction of external gardens and ancillary buildings, were in full swing.

In October 1997, the Sanxingdui Museum was completed and opened to the public for a comprehensive display of Sanxingdui cultural relics.

In July 2008, the renovation project of the bronze Museum of Sanxingdui Museum was completed.

architectural composition

The shape of Sanxingdui Museum pursues the combination of landform, historical sites and cultural relics plastic arts, and integrates the original meaning and modern, aiming to show the Sanxingdui culture and Sanxingdui civilization. Outside the museum, there are antique sacrificial platform and large-scale performance field for modern cultural and sports activities; there are classical style ancillary buildings and catering and entertainment facilities; there are lawns, waters, lakes, rockeries, water tankers; and children's paradise. The shape of the main building of the museum pursues the charm of combining with the landform, historical sites and cultural relics plastic arts, which also reflects the characteristics of the "combination of Museum and garden".

Exhibition display

Basic Display

Three stars with the moon: splendid ancient Shu civilization

Chen Zhanjin, bronze, jade, stone, pottery and other kinds of cultural relics in the comprehensive museum set up the title by category, and the title shows the meaning. They are vertically connected and horizontally expanded. They introduce the history of ancient Shu and the brilliant achievements of Sanxingdui ancient Shu in various fields. The museum takes the panoramic hanging screen of Sanxingdui site as the main exhibit, takes a pair of strange animals at the bottom of the altar as the prototype to make the main sculpture, supplemented by a large mural "the source of Yangtze River civilization".

The comprehensive museum is divided into six units: the first unit is "occupying the Southwest -- the vicissitudes of ancient Shu in 2000"; the second unit is "Wuhua Tianfu -- agriculture and Commerce of Sanxingdui"; the third unit is "turning Earth into pottery -- Sanxingdui pottery"; the fourth unit is "communicating with God by Jade -- Sanxingdui jade stone tools"; the fifth unit is "melting gold by fire -- Sanxingdui smelting"; and the sixth unit is "melting gold by fire -- Sanxingdui smelting" The Yuan Dynasty is "the God tree of heaven -- the symbol of wisdom and spirit of ancient Shu people".

"Three stars shine forever - mysterious bronze kingdom" bronze Museum

The bronze Museum takes the bronze statues of human head and bird body as the main landmark sculpture, supplemented by large-scale copper relief back screen. Through continuous and progressive scene combination, it comprehensively and systematically displays the bronze statues of Sanxingdui and a number of ancient Shu bronze artifacts. The bronze museum is divided into six exhibition halls, namely: the first exhibition hall is "bronze casting magic face, carrying Spirits - strange secret mask"; the second exhibition hall is "illustrious gods, dense Witches - images of witches"; the third exhibition hall is "heaven and earth, people and gods dancing together - sacrificial ceremony"; the fourth exhibition hall is "standing on earth, communicating with heaven and earth - advantages of witches"; the fifth exhibition hall is "thousands of years of Shu soul - fantastic" The sixth exhibition hall is "the journey of the mind - the archaeological record of Sanxingdui".

Outbound Exhibition

Sanxingdui Museum focuses on international and interlibrary exhibition exchange and cooperation. Sanxingdui cultural relics have been exhibited in more than ten countries and regions, and special exhibitions have been held in more than ten museums in China.

Special exhibition

The exhibition hall of the cultural relics protection center of the Sanxingdui Museum, with an area of about 900 square meters, has a total of 137 pieces of exhibits on display in Guanghan.

"Sanxingdui and the Southern Silk Road bronze relics exhibition": the special exhibition hall of Sanxingdui Museum bronze Museum, with an exhibition area of 400 square meters, is a large-scale special exhibition with the "Southern Silk Road" as the exhibition clue in China.

Collection

Sanxingdui Museum integrates the functions of cultural relics collection and protection, academic research and social education. It collects and displays more than 1000 precious cultural relics, such as bronzes, jade, gold, pottery, bone and so on, unearthed from Sanxingdui site and No.1 and No.2 Shang Dynasty sacrificial pits in the site.

Important events

On January 20, 2014, the launching ceremony of Baidu Encyclopedia Sanxingdui digital museum was held in the academic lecture hall of Sanxingdui Museum. More than 200 guests including Museum representatives, media representatives and experience tourists in Sichuan Province witnessed the official launch of Baidu Encyclopedia Sanxingdui digital museum.

On September 13, 2015, the second "China Africa Cultural Heritage Protection Forum" was held in Chengdu. On September 14, African representatives visited Sanxingdui Museum.

historical significance

The establishment of Sanxingdui Museum makes people have a new understanding of Bashu culture and changes the view of the historians, that is, compared with the Central Plains, the ancient Bashu area is a relatively closed place, which has no connection or little communication with the Central Plains Civilization. The Sanxingdui Museum and its ruins prove that it should be an important cultural center around the Xia and Shang dynasties or even earlier in China, and has a certain connection with the Central Plains culture, which verifies the authenticity of ancient Shu records in ancient literature. In the past, historians believed that the birthplace of the Chinese nation was the Yellow River Basin, and then gradually spread to the whole of China. The discovery of Sanxingdui pushed forward the history of ancient Shu to 5000 years ago, proving that the Yangtze River Basin was the birthplace of the Chinese nation as well as the Yellow River basin, proving that there was an ancient civilization in the Yangtze River Basin no less than that in the Yellow River Basin. Some people believe that Sanxingdui was the birthplace of the ancient Shu It shows the culture of the ancient Qiang and Yi people.

Honor record

Sanxingdui Museum is one of the five major tourist attractions in Sichuan Province, one of the first batch of national AAAA tourist attractions, one of the 50 most worthy places for foreigners in China, National Youth Science and technology education base, and the first museum in the world to pass the "Green Globe 21" tourism sustainable development standard and ISO9001:2000 quality management system standard certification number.

On September 20, 2019, it won the title of national greening model unit.

Visit information

Ticket information

Museum ticket: 80 yuan / piece; 82 yuan / piece (including postage).

① Soldiers in active service: 65 yuan per ticket (with my officer card or soldier card). (2) reporter: 65 yuan / piece (with my press card issued by the State Administration of press and publication or the State Administration of radio, film and television). (3) student: 42 yuan / piece (excluding adult education, private, graduate and above, only full-time students, with their student ID card). (4) for the elderly aged from 60 to 74 years old: 42 yuan / ticket (with ID card). (5) senior citizens aged 75 or above: free ticket (with ID card). (6) children under 1.2m (inclusive): free of charge. (7) retired cadres: free of charge (with my retirement certificate). (8) disabled military personnel: free ticket (with my disabled military certificate). (9) disabled person: free ticket (with my disability certificate).

favoured policy

On February 18, 2020, in order to support front-line medical workers, Sichuan Sanxingdui Museum announced that it will be open to medical workers nationwide free of charge from the date of restoration to December 31, 2020.

Opening Hours

Ticketing and opening hours of exhibition hall

Ticketing time: 10:00-16:00

Opening hours: 10:00-17:00 for the first Pavilion, 10:00-17:00 for the second Pavilion

Traffic information

Sanxingdui scenic area has convenient transportation, including 108 National Highway, Chengdu Mianyang Expressway and Baoji Chengdu Railway. It's only 20 minutes' drive from Chengdu zhaojuesi station to Guanghan, and take a 6

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