Mentougou Museum

Mentougou Museum

Mentougou District Museum is the first district and county-level comprehensive museum in Beijing. It was built in September 1982 and officially opened in September 1984. In May 2004, it was moved from the lower courtyard of Xifeng temple, an ancient temple of Tang Dynasty, to No.8 Mentougou Road, Mentougou District. The new hall covers an area of 10120 square meters, covering an area of 8 mu, and is divided into four exhibition halls, covering an area of 4000 square meters. In addition, there are multi-function hall, conference room, reading room and other auxiliary facilities.

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Development history

Mentougou District Museum is the first district and county-level comprehensive museum in Beijing, located in Mencheng area.

It began to be built in 1982.

In 1984, the museum officially opened to receive the audience. The site of the museum used to be the lower courtyard of Xifeng temple, an ancient temple. It was the sacrificial courtyard of Zaiying, the second son of Prince Yixin in the late Qing Dynasty. The whole building is divided into internal and external courtyard, and the architectural layout belongs to the late Qing Dynasty garden style. There are more than 3400 cultural relics and specimens in the collection.

Display content

The basic exhibition is divided into three parts: "Mentougou District brief history exhibition", "Mentougou District revolutionary struggle history exhibition" and "Mentougou District folk custom Exhibition".

On the fourth floor of Mentougou District Museum, the basic display of "Mentougou from history" shows the historical development process of Mentougou from 110000 years ago to December 1948 through more than 700 cultural relics and materials discovered and preserved since the founding of the people's Republic of China. The third part "the early activities of the Communist Party of China in Pingxi" focuses on the revolutionary struggle history of Mentougou District from 1912 revolution to December 1948 liberation. Combined with the display of precious historical relics, it vividly reproduces the new democratic revolutionary struggle history led by the Communist Party of China in the form of pictures and texts.

Brief history exhibition

With 112 pieces of cultural relics, together with a large number of charts and photos, it shows the splendid ancient culture created by the working people in Mentougou area from the early Neolithic Age to the end of the Qing Dynasty, including the relics of "Donghulin people", which played an important role in the history of Beijing, Precious historical materials include shell coins, sword coins, bronze swords and daggers from the Shang, Zhou and Warring States periods, Mural Tombs of Zhaitang in the Liao Dynasty, three color Bodhisattvas of the Liao Dynasty unearthed from the Wu Liao porcelain kiln in Longquan, and coal mining industry in western Beijing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Exhibition of the history of revolutionary struggle

Including more than 140 pieces of revolutionary cultural relics and historical materials, supplemented by more than 120 pictures and photos, this paper shows the process of the Communist Party of China propagating Marxism Leninism in Mentougou area, leading farmers, students and coal miners to carry out revolutionary movement, and establishing and developing the basic organization of the party and the Youth League since the autumn of 1924. During the Anti Japanese War, Zhaitang became the center of the Pingxi Anti Japanese base area. The Party led the people to carry out arduous struggle, establish the people's political power, carry out the mountain guerrilla war, smash the rampant attacks of the Japanese aggressors, and achieved the victory of the Anti Japanese war. During the war of liberation, the people of Mentougou actively devoted themselves to defending the fruits of victory, supporting the national liberation and fighting against the Kuomintang reactionaries, It has become an important classroom of revolutionary traditional education.

Folk display

It is a popular special exhibition, and also one of the earliest exhibitions involving folk custom research in Chinese museums. The contents of the exhibition mainly reflect the customs of rural life, social production, religious belief and folk art in Mentougou area. With 123 folk cultural relics, supplemented by a large number of pictures and models, the folk customs of western Beijing are systematically displayed. There are rare oil lamp, kiln lamp, coal bed, shuidulu, tiger hat, embroidered shoes, and a complete set of folk musical instruments, props, clothing and other items in the exhibits, showing the production and living customs, traditional crafts, and rich and colorful folk entertainment organizations and forms of the mountain area.

The museum also held various temporary exhibitions, such as "commemorating the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War", "West Beijing folk art exhibition", "West Beijing folk art exhibition", etc., and promoted the "West Beijing folk art folk art exhibition" to the society. The exhibition lasted one month in Tianjin, with 13000 visitors. Also held, such as "cultural knowledge class", "history and geography folk lecture" and other training classes and lectures. It has established the "Friends of cultural heritage" society, carried out the comprehensive investigation activities of Yongdinghe culture, collected more than 500000 words of data, and published three printed tabloids of "Friends of cultural heritage" and six printed Yongdinghe culture.

Honors

Mentougou District Museum has been awarded the titles of "Beijing Science Popularization Education Base", "Beijing excellent science popularization place", "Beijing patriotism education base" and "Beijing primary and secondary school students' lecture hall".

Function value

Since its establishment, Mentougou District Museum has been undertaking the task of patriotic education platform and carrier, with rich historical materials and cultural relics. In recent years, relying on the rich resources of revolutionary history, party history and patriotism education, the District Museum has successively held the exhibition of commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the exhibition of Mentougou in the new century, the Documentary Exhibition of commemorating the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the exhibition of inheriting Lei Feng's spirit and building a harmonious society, and the exhibition of commemorating the construction of the Communist Party of China The 80th anniversary of the Communist Party of China in Mentougou, the 110th anniversary of Zhou Enlai's birth, the great changes in western Beijing - the achievements of Mentougou's reform and opening up, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China - the painting and calligraphy exhibition of praising the motherland for the elderly, the 60th anniversary of the founding of new China - the photo exhibition of Mentougou, and the Pingxi Anti Japanese war group song commemorating the founding of the people's Republic of China A series of special exhibitions, such as "the 65th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War", give full play to the role of the museum as an educational position, and have achieved good results and won unanimous praise from all walks of life. In order to give full play to the educational platform and the role of the second classroom of the museum, the District Museum actively expands the service methods and means, and constantly enriches the contents and methods of museum education.

The first is to carry out training activities for commentators throughout the year, so that commentators can fully grasp the contents of the exhibition and temporary exhibitions in the museum, and can provide interpretation services at any time, so as to solve the problems raised by the audience in a timely manner.

The second is to enhance the vividness and interactivity of the exhibition with the assistance of modern technology. For example, the Anti Japanese War knowledge touch screen in the exhibition "commemorating the 65th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War - Pingxi Anti Japanese war songs". Through the display screen, the audience gets a sense of novelty that is different from that when they usually watch the exhibition, especially to satisfy the curiosity and curiosity of teenagers.

The third is to enhance the staff's concept of social education service, constantly learn new knowledge and service methods, put social benefits first, and improve the quality and level of service for visitors.

The fourth is to actively support and assist the educational bases of party history and revolutionary history in villages and towns to hold relevant exhibitions, such as the exhibition of "march forward and Malan" in the "Memorial Hall of the former headquarters of march forward" in Malan, and the exhibition of "spark in the west of Beijing" in the "Memorial Hall of the first branch of the Communist Party of China in jingxishan district" in Yanchi town.

In order to further strengthen the self construction of the museum, tap the potential of education, improve the service quality and level, and welcome the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. In the future work, the District Museum will conscientiously implement Comrade Hu Jintao's important directive spirit of "combining the study of party history with strengthening the education of revolutionary tradition, helping the broad masses of cadres, especially young people, to further strengthen their understanding of the party, firmly establish the belief of following the party on the socialist road with Chinese characteristics", continue to make use of its own resources and advantages, and give full play to its own advantages The function of Museum exhibition is to push through the old and bring forth the new, keep up with the pace of the times, and do a good job in the propaganda and education of party history.

Address: 8 Mentougou Road

Longitude: 116.096856

Latitude: 39.943207

Tel: 010-69852446

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