Ningxia Museum

Ningxia museum is a provincial comprehensive history museum of China. The original museum is located in Chengtian Temple of Yinchuan city. The general history, special topics and temporary exhibitions on the first, second and third floors of the new museum are complementary to each other, reflecting Ningxia's history, culture and local characteristics from multiple levels and angles.

The first floor of the museum is the audience service hall and temporary exhibition hall. There is also a rock art exhibition hall called "historical records of stone carving". Entering the exhibition hall, you are like entering an ancient era. Most tourists like to go to Helan Mountain to play ancient rock paintings, but there are many places in Ningxia where there are rock paintings, many of which are rare and inconvenient for tourists. In this exhibition hall, visitors can get close contact with more Ningxia rock paintings.

On the second floor of the museum is the "exhibition hall of Ningxia general history", which is also the key tourist area of the museum. The treasures of the town hall are located on the second floor, such as the gold and silver copper sheep of the Western Han Dynasty, the stone door fan of the Hu Xuan dance of the Tang Dynasty, the gold-plated copper ox of the Western Xia Dynasty, the statue pedestal, and the protruding nail glass bowl. In addition, visitors can also see the rubbings of "the inscription on the Gantong tower of the national defense Temple rebuilt in Liangzhou". The Xixia Characters on the rubbings are more like square characters than Chinese characters.

On the third floor of the museum is the "exhibition of homecoming customs". The exhibits are mainly historical books and various collections of the Koran. It is a good place for tourists to learn about Muslim culture and Islamic history.

Museum of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

synonym

Ningxia Museum generally refers to the Museum of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Ningxia museum is located in the East Street of people's Square, Jinfeng District, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, with a total construction area of 30258 square meters. Its predecessor was the Preparatory Office of Ningxia Geological Museum, which was established in September 1959. In 1973, it was officially renamed as the Museum of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In November 2006, it invested 228 million yuan in the new museum of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region The ground was broken and put into use in September 2008.

According to the official website of the museum in January 2016, there are nearly 40000 cultural relics in the collection of Ningxia Museum, including 159 national first-class cultural relics and more than 4000 precious cultural relics above the third level. Among them, Hu Xuan dance stone tomb gate, gilded copper ox and Lishi Zhiwen support have been identified as national treasures.

In October 2018, it was named "national primary and secondary students' research and practice education base" in 2018.

Historical evolution

The predecessor of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Museum is the Preparatory Office of Ningxia Geological Museum established in September 1959.

In 1973, the Preparatory Office of Ningxia geological museum was officially renamed as the Museum of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The site is located in Chengtian temple, Yinchuan City, the capital of Ningxia Autonomous Region, covering an area of 22400 square meters and a construction area of more than 7000 square meters.

In 1988, Chengtian temple, where Ningxia museum is located, was renovated into an antique building.

In 2004, the government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region decided to list the construction of the new museum of Ningxia as a gift project for the 50th anniversary of the founding of Ningxia.

In 2006, the construction of the new museum of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region with a total investment of 228 million yuan was broken, with a total construction area of 30258 square meters.

In August 2008, the new Ningxia museum was completed and put into use.

On December 7, 2012, Ningxia museum was approved as "national first-class Museum".

architectural composition

The Museum of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has a total construction area of 30258 square meters, a total height of 21.2 meters and a total of four floors. Among them, the first floor of the basement covers an area of 8456 square meters, which is divided into cultural relics storehouse, equipment room and office area; the first floor covers an area of 21802 square meters, including the central hall, VIP reception room, temporary exhibition hall and audience service hall; the second and third floors cover all kinds of exhibition halls, reading rooms and libraries, multimedia classrooms and audience service areas.

The layout of the whole building is in the shape of "Hui", which corresponds to the "Hui" of the Hui Autonomous Region. The facade of the entrance and exit draws lessons from the Islamic style, and forms a strong contrast between the traditional art and the modern aesthetic feeling with the glass curtain wall used in the partial decoration of the three-layer exterior wall, which also has strong national characteristics. The combination of the upper permeable frame and the lower stone fully shows the elegance of the whole building They are the representatives of Ningxia's historical and cultural heritages.

Exhibition

General history exhibition

lush southern-type fields north of the great wall

Located on the south side of the second floor of Ningxia Museum, the exhibition hall of Saibei Jiangnan covers an area of 400 square meters, mainly displaying the historical features of Ningxia in yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the end of Xixia, the production of Ningxia declined, the society was turbulent, the agriculture was desolate, and became a ruin. After Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty, he absorbed the advanced economy and culture of the Central Plains, and took a series of measures, which made the social economy of Ningxia recover and develop rapidly, and the Hui nationality formed. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the whole country was unified, the regional society was stable, and the Hui nationality further developed expand. Through the exhibition of Ningxia's social economy, history and culture in this historical period, the exhibition shows the historical style of "the frontier and the south of the Yangtze River" in the past.

The pursuit of Daxia

Located on the second floor of Ningxia Museum, the Daxia trace exhibition hall focuses on more than 300 pieces of Xixia cultural relics excavated by archaeologists in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region since the founding of the people's Republic of China, including dozens of gold-plated bronze cattle and other national treasures and national first-class cultural relics unearthed from the tomb of Xixia King known as "Oriental pyramid". The purpose of this paper is to reveal the unique charm of Xixia Culture and the latest achievements of Xixia studies from the five aspects of Xixia Characters, Xixia casting, Xixia porcelain, Xixia Buddhism and Xixia architecture, so as to show the broad and profound Chinese ancient culture.

Silk Road Town

The exhibition hall of Silk Road Town is located on the second floor of Ningxia Museum. The purpose of the exhibition is to show the relics and relics of cultural exchanges between China and the West unearthed from Guyuan and Lingzhou, two important towns on the Silk Road from the Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, so as to reveal Ningxia's glorious and important position on the silk road. From the Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, China had the most frequent exchanges with its neighboring countries and even distant countries. A large number of other ethnic groups lived in China, while Ningxia was in the silk road channel where ethnic minorities entered the Central Plains.

Farming and animal husbandry homeland

Located on the second floor of Ningxia Museum, the exhibition hall of agriculture and animal husbandry home is mainly divided into two parts: the first part is "grassland Pastoral", the second part is "Qin Guan Han Yue"; it mainly shows the historical development process of Ningxia from the Western Zhou Dynasty, the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period to the Qin and Han Dynasties; through 144 sets of cultural relics, it outlines the civilization process of this period as far as possible for the audience. The first part focuses on the performance of the characteristics of the bronze culture of the Rong nationality in Southern Ningxia, showing bronze ritual vessels, weapons, chariots and horses, bronze plaque ornaments, copper belt ornaments, etc.; the second part focuses on the performance of agricultural development and water conservancy facilities construction in northern Ningxia, showing agricultural and handicraft production related cultural relics, mainly pottery and bronze.

The dawn of civilization

Located in the northeast corner of the second floor of Ningxia Museum, civilization dawn exhibition hall reproduces various cultural phenomena and important excavations from the Paleolithic to Neolithic Age in Ningxia by means of scene restoration, physical display and multimedia interaction. Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the birthplace of Chinese civilization, and the northwest edge of the Loess Plateau. Just as the channel and hub of economic and cultural exchanges between the East, West, North and south, primitive civilization came into being here as far as the stone age. There are Shuidonggou Paleolithic cultural site and Neolithic "microlithic culture" site along the Yellow River in the north, and "Majiayao culture" site in Guyuan area in the south ”"Caiyuan culture" and "Qijia culture" are Neolithic cultural sites.

A long day

The exhibition hall of shuosechangtian is located on the second floor of Ningxia Museum. The exhibition consists of five parts: Dawn of civilization, farm and animal husbandry homeland, Silk Road Town, Daxia trace, North and south of the Great Wall. It describes the splendid culture created by various nationalities in Ningxia over the past 30000 years in rich cultural relic language. The exhibition captures the most representative flower of civilization in history and culture, such as the unique Neolithic time in Ningxia There are 1083 pieces of cultural relics on display, including 114 first-class cultural relics.

Special exhibition

Walking back home

The exhibition hall is located on the southeast side of the third floor of Ningxia Museum, with an exhibition area of 1000-1200 square meters. With the help of novel and diverse exhibition means, the hall shows the rich and colorful ethnic style of Ningxia Hui people in religion, life and culture through cultural relics, photos, characters, models and other exhibits. Hui nationality has a long history and splendid culture. It is a member of the Chinese family. From the introduction of Islam into China in Tang Dynasty to the formation of Hui nationality in Yuan Dynasty, Hui nationality and Ningxia are inseparable from each other. Ningxia is the largest Hui inhabited area in China and the only provincial Hui Autonomous area.

Red flag everywhere

Red flag exhibition hall is located on the west side of the second floor of Ningxia Museum, with an exhibition area of 2200-2600 square meters

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