National Museum of Central University for Nationalities

Located at 27 Baishiqiao Road, Haidian District, the campus of Central University for nationalities is a comprehensive ethnology museum focusing on Teaching in the campus. It was founded in 1952. The Central University for nationalities is the holy hall for the study of outstanding ethnic minority youth in China. The environment is quiet. The museum is located in the central area of the campus, with a construction area of 1200 square meters and an exhibition area of 500 square meters. There are more than 30000 pieces of cultural relics, documents and classics, clothing, production tools, etc. of various ethnic minorities in the museum.

National Museum of Central University for Nationalities

The National Museum of the Central University for nationalities is located in the campus of the Central University for Nationalities at No. 27, Baishiqiao Road, Haidian District. It is a comprehensive museum of Ethnology focusing on Teaching in the campus. It was founded in 1951, with a building area of 4800 square meters and an exhibition area of 1800 square meters. It is an ethnological museum with 56 national cultural relics as its main collection, exhibition and research objects. There are 14 categories of cultural relics, including production tools, daily necessities, religious utensils, clothing, ancient utensils, literature, musical instruments, and more than 20000 pieces (sets).

Visitor Route

Address: 27 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing

Southwest corner of Minzu University (next to the Library)

Bus routes: take bus No. 332, 320, 319, te6, te4, 634, 645, 653, 716, 717, 727

727 branch, 732, 804, 808, 814, 827, Yuntong 105, Yuntong 205, Yuntong 106

Night shift bus No.209 Minzu University Station

Development history

The National Museum of the Central University for nationalities is one of the professional museums of Ethnology with a long history, a large scale and a large collection. It is the only museum that collects and displays 56 national cultural relics among more than 100 museums in Colleges and universities. It is also the first museum in China to display the relics of Niu Yuru, a good cadre of the party. It is also the only museum in northern China to display the cultural relics of Taiwan's ethnic minorities The museum.

Founded in 1951, it was called the cultural relics Office of the research department of the Central Institute for Nationalities at that time. Mr. Yang Chengzhi, a famous ethnologist, was the first director of the cultural relics office. In 1982, it was changed into the cultural relics research office of the Institute for Nationalities of the Central University for nationalities. On September 16, 1988, the National Museum of the Central Institute for nationalities was officially established with the approval of the National Committee of the people's Republic of China. In November 1993, it was renamed the National Museum of the Central University for nationalities. In order to support and promote the construction and development of the museum, the school decided in 2002 to renovate the old library with a total area of nearly 5000 square meters and use it as a new museum. The new museum was put into use on September 26, 2004. The museum has achieved constant temperature and humidity in the exhibition hall and warehouse, and 24-hour monitoring.

There are about 20000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics, such as brocade banners, revolutionary cultural relics, local products, production tools, clothing, fur, ancient utensils, historical documents, jewelry, weapons, musical instruments and religious articles of 56 nationalities, and porcelain, coins and pictures of some foreign countries and nationalities. One of the characteristics of these collections is that they belong to various ethnic groups and have rich contents. Almost all kinds of cultural relics reflecting the history, culture and spiritual outlook of 56 ethnic groups in China are collected. Second, most of them are folk traditional costumes and jewelry. Most of the costumes have decades, hundreds of years of history. These costumes fully reflect the outstanding talents and skills of people of all nationalities in textile, printing and dyeing, embroidery, leather tanning, etc. Third, many collections are of great political and historical significance, such as a large number of precious gifts presented by the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama to Chairman Mao in the early days of liberation, and a large number of precious gifts given by the people of ethnic minorities in various places to Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee. These collections vividly and truly record and reflect the party's cordial care for ethnic minorities and the sincere support and love of the majority of ethnic minority people for the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao. Fourth, there are many treasures with high historical and artistic value, such as stone tools of neopaleolithic age, bronzes of Shang and Zhou dynasties, bronze mirrors, bronze drums, pottery figurines, porcelain, ancient coins, calligraphy and paintings since Qin and Han Dynasties, ancient fans of yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, gold and silver vessels used by Mongolian and Tibetan nobles, Tibetan Tangka, Li's Dragon quilt, she's family map, Tibetan Buddhism and Yi nationality They are precious religious utensils and ancient books of silanism, and ancient books of Tibetan, Dai, Yi, Naxi, Shui and other nationalities. Fifth, there are a large number of high-quality cultural relics. Many collections are valuable materials for ethnological research. The library has 16 staff members from 8 nationalities. Among them, there are 2 professors (Doctoral Supervisors), 7 associate research librarians, 3 librarians, 3 doctoral degree holders and 4 masters. The educational background and professional title structure of the above personnel are rare in museums all over the country.

architectural composition

There are seven exhibition halls in the new museum, namely, the Department of northern ethnic costume culture, the Department of southern ethnic costume culture, the Department of life culture, the Department of religious culture, the Taiwan ethnic culture exhibition, the school history exhibition and the Chinese ethnic ancient characters exhibition.

North National Costume Culture Department

Traditional clothing, jewelry, hats, shoes and gloves of Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Korean, Oroqen, Ewenki, Hezhe, Hui, Tu, Yugu, Uygur, Kazak and Uzbek nationalities are exhibited.

Southern Ethnic Costume Culture Department

Traditional clothing, jewelry, shoes, brocade and embroidery works of Tibetan, Menba, Luoba, Yi, Hani, Lahu, Naxi, Bai Dai, Susu, Nu, Dulong, WA, De'ang, Bulang, Jinuo, Miao, Buyi, Dong, Shui, Zhuang, Yao, Tujia, Li, she, Gaoshan and other nationalities are exhibited.

Department of religion and culture

On display are the religions of Han, Mongolian, Ewenki, Hui, Tibetan, Yi, Bai, Dai, Susu, WA, Naxi, Miao, Shui, Buyi, Yao, she, Gaoshan, and other nationalities, including the costumes (cassock, hat, and garment) and implements (wooden fish, Buddha beads, Buddha banners, and Buddhists) of Buddhism (Han Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Southern Buddhism), Islam, Christianity, Taoism, and various primitive religions Lamp, feeding bottle, faling, water purification bowl, bowl, Buddha box, Vajra cup, Vajra pestle, Faluo, Dharma number, divination device, staff, drum, Prayer Box), scriptures (all kinds of Koran, Buddhist scriptures, Tibetan scriptures, Dongba Scripture, New Testament, Shuishu, Beiye Scripture, etc.), religious portraits, puppets, Buddha statues, pagodas, totem boards, etc.

Headdress Culture Hall

More than 100 sets of headwear and jewelry of ethnic minorities are displayed from the aspects of life customs, religious belief, status and practical use

Exhibition hall of Taiwan minority culture

Nearly 100 pieces of cultural relics collected from Taiwan in the 1920s-1930s are exhibited, including pottery pots, pearl shell clothes, wood carvings, jewelry, pipes, armor, rattan hats, wooden pillows, sabres, wooden pots, gourds, Rattan Baskets, double cups, clothing, etc.

Exhibition hall of school history

On display are the relics of Comrade Niu Yuru, the manuscripts and relics of famous scholars Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong, Ma Xueliang and song Shuhua, the award-winning academic works of teachers after the reform and opening up, and the teaching and scientific research achievements of the school in the past 50 years.

social influence

For decades, the National Museum has been adhering to the tenet of serving teaching and scientific research, foreign affairs and society,

We have made active use of the cultural relics in our collection and held dozens of exhibitions of various forms and scales in Beijing, Zhanjiang, Nandaihe, Kunming, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom, which have achieved good social benefits. For example, in 1981, the exhibition of Chinese minority costume culture toured Tokyo, Japan and other six major cities for three months. During the 11th Asian Games in 1990 and the fourth World Women's Congress in 1995, it was twice exhibited in Beijing at the invitation of the organizing committee. From September to October 2000, China Tibet folk culture exhibition was exhibited in South Korea. The exhibition of visual culture of ethnic minorities in China was held in the UK in 2004 and received wide acclaim. It was included in the series of activities of the year of Chinese and British culture held by the Chinese Embassy in the UK and the series of exhibitions of the 8th Birmingham International Jewelry Festival. In 2005, our Museum held an exhibition of Chinese national costumes to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China. In 2006, our museum participated in the exhibition of women's art in China, Japan and South Korea and the first exhibition of intangible cultural protection achievements in China, which won honors for our country and our school.

On September 26, 2004, the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference on nationalities and religions and our University jointly sponsored the exhibition of "commemorating the 55th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China and the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference on costumes and figure paintings of all ethnic groups in China", which was a complete success. Our museum undertakes two tasks: Exhibition and performance of 56 ethnic costumes in China. Fu Tieshan, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Wang Zhongyu, Bai lichen, Ding Guangxun and other leaders visited and watched the exhibition and performance. Vice President Ding Guangxun said: "it's very exciting to see your exhibition. I hope the excellent culture of the Chinese nation will go to the whole country and the world." Cai Zhonghan, a legislator of Taiwan's Gaoshan ethnic group, said when visiting the exhibition hall of Taiwan's ethnic minority culture in our museum: "my current psychological feelings can only be described as" shock ". The exhibits I saw no longer exist in Taiwan."

Since the opening of the new museum, nearly 50000 people have visited it, which has produced a great influence at home and abroad

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