Handan Museum

Handan Museum

Handan museum is located at No.45, Zhonghua North Street, Handan City, Hebei Province. Founded in 1984, it is a national first-class Museum and patriotic education base of Hebei Province. The predecessor of the main building is Handan exhibition hall, long live the victory of Mao Zedong thought, which was built in 1968.

With a total construction area of 11000 square meters, Handan museum is equipped with five basic exhibitions, including "Cishan culture" in the early new period, "Zhao Culture" in the two Han Dynasties, China's Cizhou kiln porcelain display, "Chinese coins display" and "Handan ancient stone carving art". Since 1996, Handan Museum has collected more than 1000 pieces of cultural relics, of which more than 60 pieces have reached the third level, more than 30 pieces have reached the second level and 2 pieces have reached the first level.

In 2001, Handan museum was rated as a cultural relic protection unit in Hebei Province. In 2009, Handan Museum obtained the qualification of national second-class Museum and opened free of charge.

In 2017, it was promoted to the third batch of national first-class museums.

Development history

The predecessor of Handan museum is Handan exhibition hall. Handan exhibition hall was built on July 25, 1968 and completed on December 26, 1968. It was named Handan exhibition hall "long live the victory of Mao Zedong Thought".

On July 5, 1984, the CPC Handan Municipal Committee decided to set up the Handan museum with the official seal of Handan Museum. It was the same team with the then Handan exhibition hall. The two brands shared the same main building, which was directly under the leadership of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Handan Municipal Committee. The opening of the official seal of the museum marks the official establishment of Handan Museum.

On August 30, 1986, the CPC Handan Municipal Committee decided to cancel the construction of the exhibition hall and only retain the Handan Museum, which was under the leadership of the Handan Municipal Bureau of culture and served as the moral education base for primary and secondary school students and the patriotic education base for Handan.

On September 27, 1987, Handan Museum held a grand opening ceremony.

At the end of 1994, the municipal Party committee invested 2.7 million yuan to carry out the "Qixin project" for the museum and its square, which greatly promoted the development of cultural and Museum undertakings.

Since 1997, Handan Museum has been affiliated to Handan Cultural Relics Bureau.

In 1999, three 188 square meters of cultural relics storehouses were rebuilt, with additional storehouse facilities. All the storehouses were welded and installed with cultural relics storage racks.

From June 2000 to September 2001, the municipal government invested more than 23 million yuan to carry out the reconstruction and expansion project of the museum. At the same time, it also renovated all the basic exhibitions. The newly built 800 square meters cultural relics storehouse has arranged and put on the shelves nearly 2000 cultural relics specimens, which has changed the situation of placing cultural relics specimens on the stalls in the past.

In 2005, Handan museum was jointly awarded the title of "advanced collective of national cultural system" by the Ministry of personnel and the State Administration of cultural relics.

In 2017, it was promoted to the third batch of national first-class museums.

Venue composition

The main building is divided into upper, middle and lower floors, with a height of 26 meters. There are 15 exhibition halls. The Museum covers an area of 18000 square meters, with a construction area of 1050 square meters and a exhibition hall of 5500 square meters. The square in front of the Museum covers an area of 10000 square meters.

There are five basic exhibitions in the museum, namely, Cishan culture of the Neolithic age, Zhao Culture of the two Han Dynasties, Cizhou kiln porcelain of China from the Northern Dynasty to the song and Yuan Dynasties, Tomb of Princess RuRu in the Northern Dynasty, and ancient stone carving art of Handan in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

General preface hall

The most splendid thing in Handan history is "Zhao Culture". Therefore, a large screen is designed in the whole preface hall. The center of the screen is the giant picture of "the Longtai site of Zhaowang city in the Warring States period". On both sides are the exhibition title and the preface. The text is in both Chinese and English.

There are three large-scale forged copper murals on the north, East and south walls: one on the front (east wall) is "Hufu riding and shooting"; the murals on both sides are "light of Cishan" and "strength of Jian'an" reflecting the cultural life scene of Cishan (North wall) and the cultural features of Wei and Jin Dynasties (south wall) in Yecheng, the "capital of Six Dynasties".

In the center of the hall, there is a group of three 3-meter-high bronze galloping horses in the original form of the Warring States bronze horses unearthed from tomb 2 of Zhao's mausoleum.

Exhibition of Cishan culture

The northwest hall on the second floor (324 square meters) is equipped with the exhibition of "Cishan culture". The exhibition is divided into four parts: primitive agriculture, primitive handicraft industry, fishing and hunting collection and breeding, primitive art and belief.

On the east wall of the exhibition hall, there is a row of aluminum alloy cabinet, displaying 110 pieces of cultural relics, such as stone grinding plate, stone grinding stick, bracket pottery bowl, chicken bone, carbonized millet, carbonized walnut, etc., with a length of 32 meters. The sand table of "Cishan culture" site is placed in the center of the exhibition hall. In the northwest corner, there is a semi landscape that reflects the life scene of the Cishan people. It reproduces the activities of the Cishan people, such as grinding millet, making pottery, raising chickens, hunting, sowing seeds, etc., and integrates the typical artifacts unearthed from the Cishan site. Cishan culture, represented by millet culture, chicken breeding, primitive pottery making, primitive art and walnut planting, is prominently displayed through cultural relics specimens, words, photos, pictures and large-scale landscapes.

Exhibition of Zhao Culture

The North Hall (324 square meters) on the second floor and the Northeast Hall (188 square meters) on the second floor, with the historical development sequence as the clue, are divided into: Zhao political and military reform (Hufu riding and shooting), Zhao economy, Zhao ritual and music system, Zhao lineage, Zhao territory, Zhao urban construction, Zhao's mausoleum, Han Dynasty Zhao land feudalism, Han Dynasty Handan urban construction, etc.

In the south of the exhibition hall and at the East and West corners, a row of cupboards and window type connecting cupboards are arranged, and the exhibition line is about 45 meters. About 200 pieces of cultural relics of the Warring States and Han Dynasties, such as bronze horses, gold medals, jade pieces, chimes, chimes, gold and silver painted Chengyu wine bottles, are displayed. In the northeast corner of the Northeast hall, the eastern horse pit unearthed in Qi village of Handan was restored.

Tomb of Princess RuRu in the Eastern Wei Dynasty

On the second floor of the new rear building, the tomb of Princess RuRu, one of the imperial tombs of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties, is on display, displaying more than 600 precious cultural relics unearthed from the tombs, such as warriors and warriors, shaman mages, terracotta warriors and horses, and East Roman gold coins. According to the west wall of the exhibition hall, a row of cupboards and window type connecting cupboards are arranged; by the east wall of the exhibition hall, a scaled down cross-section tomb chamber with landscape box is restored. The tomb structure characterized by earth sealing, ticket top and inner wall is restored by artistic techniques. With the murals of the tomb chamber and passage as the background, the painted terracotta warriors and horses array in the tomb passage and chamber is magnificent. Spotlights are added in the tomb to emphasize the visual effect and create the atmosphere of the tomb.

Display of Cizhou kiln

The special exhibition of Cizhou kiln includes five parts: preface hall, Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Ming, Qing and Republic of China, and after the founding of the people's Republic of China. It occupies four exhibition halls in the South half of the second floor of the museum, namely, the South transition Hall (149 square meters), the southwest Hall (324 square meters), the South Hall (324 square meters) and the southeast Hall (188 square meters), with an area of nearly 1000 square meters and an exhibition line of about 200 meters.

During the heyday of Cizhou kiln in song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, it was an important part of the exhibition, occupying the second half of the southwest hall and the first half of the South Hall, with about 300 specimens on display. This part includes the creation of a large-scale semi landscape in the southwest corner of Southwest Hall (about 35 square meters), which reflects the environment of Cizhou kiln in Song Dynasty, the scene of workshop and the traditional process of porcelain making.

The Ming, Qing and the Republic of China occupied the second half of the South Hall, displaying about 200 cultural relics. In the northeast corner of the exhibition hall, there is a folk house with local characteristics of Ming and Qing Dynasties, including the hall and bedroom, reflecting the display and use of Cizhou kiln porcelain.

Southeast hall plans to arrange modern Cizhou kiln porcelain, including imitation song art porcelain, popular daily porcelain, porcelain murals, modern art porcelain and other parts, with about 100 specimens on display.

Exhibition of Handan Centenary

The exhibition of Handan centenary occupies the first floor exhibition hall (600 square meters) of the newly expanded back building. The contents of the exhibition are divided into two parts: the history of Handan's modern local revolution and the history of the development of socialist construction after the founding of the people's Republic of China. It fully shows the political, economic and cultural activities, historical events and historical figures with important influence in Handan over the past century, and reproduces the road of Handan's centenary revival.

Achievements of urban construction planning

The South transition Hall (146 square meters), the southwest Hall (324 square meters), the South Hall (324 square meters) and the southeast Hall (188 square meters) on the first floor are the exhibition of "achievements in urban construction planning of Handan". Through a large number of words, pictures and models, the exhibition focuses on the great changes, achievements and future development of Handan since the founding of the people's Republic of China, especially after the reform and opening up Planning, objectives.

Collection quality

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Important events

"Cizhou ancient charm -- Exhibition of Cizhou kiln porcelain in Handan Museum"

From September 16 to November 10, 2015, jointly sponsored by Guizhou Provincial Museum of nationalities and Handan Museum

The exhibition is divided into three parts: "Celadon of the Northern Dynasties", "peak of Cizhou kiln Art - song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties" and "colorful porcelain of both refined and popular tastes". The exhibits include celadon bowls from the Northern Dynasties, celadon beans and celadon plates from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and celadon wares from the song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties

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