Capital Museum

The capital museum is divided into two exhibition areas, East and West. The East exhibition area is a circular exhibition area. When you walk into the East exhibition area, there is a screening hall on the first floor, which is the city background propaganda film. The West exhibition area is also the main exhibition area of the Museum, which mainly reproduces the history of Beijing. Here, you can not only understand the evolution process of Beijing's King City, but also see the inherited folk customs, porcelain, Buddhist culture and folk culture The culture of Peking Opera.

Capital Museum

Capital museum is located at No.16, Fuxingmenwai street, on the west side of Baiyun road and on the West extension of Chang'an Street in Beijing. The museum, which integrates collection, exhibition, research, archaeology, public education and cultural exchange, is a large-scale comprehensive museum in Beijing and a provincial and municipal comprehensive museum in China.

By the end of 2015, the Capital Museum has a total construction area of 63390 square meters, with 5622 permanent exhibition collections. The exhibition hall has five floors above ground and two floors below ground.

It has been rated as "national first-class Museum"

"National popular science education base"

"Patriotic education base".

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Historical evolution

In 1953, the capital museum began to prepare. The site of the museum is located in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian street.

In October 1981, the capital museum was officially opened to the public.

In 1999, in order to accommodate more collections and serve more visitors, as a key cultural construction project in Beijing during the 10th Five Year Plan period, the capital museum applied for a new construction project, which was approved by Beijing municipal government this year.

In December 2001, the new capital museum was officially built.

On May 18, 2006, the new capital museum officially opened.

On May 24, 2007, the capital museum was awarded the title of advanced collective of national cultural relics system by the Ministry of personnel and the State Administration of cultural relics of the people's Republic of China.

architectural composition

The New Capital Museum covers an area of 24800 square meters, with a total construction area of 63390 square meters. It is divided into two underground floors and five above ground floors. The green cultural square is designed in the north and the sunken bamboo courtyard is designed in the East. The building (above ground) is 152 meters long from east to west, 66 meters wide from north to south, and 41 meters high. The building shape is mainly composed of rectangular enclosure structure, oval facade and metal roof. The interior of the building is divided into three independent buildings, namely: rectangular exhibition hall, oval theme exhibition hall and strip office and scientific research building. The space between them is the central hall and the bamboo courtyard.

Venue composition

Millennium treasure exhibition

The Millennium treasure exhibition is located in hall L on the sixth floor of the circular exhibition hall. In order to show the profound Buddhist cultural heritage, unique Buddhist cultural features, and the development level of architecture, sculpture and various crafts in the ancient capital of Beijing, part of the pagoda cultural relics of ancient Beijing are selected for exhibition.

Ancient porcelain exhibition

The exhibition of ancient porcelain is located in hall E2 on the fourth floor of the square exhibition hall. It displays the porcelain unearthed and handed down from the historical period of Beijing as the capital city

From Song Dynasty, Liao Jin Dynasty to Ming and Qing Dynasties, porcelain was unearthed from sites, tombs and hoards in Beijing. The exhibition is divided into four parts with 170 cultural relics.

Ancient Buddha Exhibition

The ancient Buddha statue exhibition is located in hall E1 on the fourth floor of the square exhibition hall. The exhibition is divided into Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, with 262 statues on display.

Ancient jade exhibition

The ancient jade exhibition is located in hall K on the fifth floor of the circular exhibition hall. The exhibition is divided into three parts, displaying 181 components of cultural relics. Among the exhibits are a large number of jades unearthed from the tombs of princes and nobles, as well as jades with the emperor's model year and engraved with imperial poems. A "list of main jades in ancient China" and a schematic diagram of the use of some jades are set up. The design is divided into static exhibition area and dynamic exhibition area.

Yandi bronze Exhibition

Yandi bronze exhibition is located in hall J on the fourth floor of the circular exhibition hall. The exhibition focuses on the comparison of bronzes between the Central Plains culture and the northern grassland culture and the Western Zhou Dynasty

Compared with the bronzes of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, a square city with rammed earth layer is designed in the center of the exhibition hall, which symbolizes Fangshan Liulihe, the capital of Yan state in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The inner and outer walls of the city wall and the Exhibition cabinets on the four walls of the exhibition hall form three concentric exhibition lines. The exhibits of the Western Zhou Dynasty are located in the center of the exhibition hall, while the exhibits of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty are located in the ring-shaped display cabinet on the four walls of the exhibition hall. The exhibits of the two weeks are placed in the order of weapons, ritual musical instruments and miscellaneous weapons, realizing the comparison of the two bronze cultures.

Collection treasures

research findings

Professional journals

Founded in 1993, collector magazine has won the first "National Journal Award", the second "National Journal Award nomination Award", and the second "national 100 kinds of social science journals Award". He has published several journals, including northern cultural relics, Beijing Cultural Expo, Journal of the Palace Museum, archaeology, Journal of archaeology, archaeology and cultural relics, cultural relics, world of cultural relics, China Museum, Chinese archaeology, Cultural Expo, Journal of China National Museum, and Central Plains cultural relics.

Publishing monographs

This book is a supporting book for the exhibition of the same name in the capital museum in 2015. It is a professional book focusing on the research and exhibition of royal and folk porcelain of the Kangxi Dynasty. It shows the elegant demeanor of imperial porcelain and folk porcelain of the same period in Jingdezhen imperial kiln during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty with 100 pieces of porcelain collected in the Palace Museum.

Contract documents of Qing Dynasty in capital museum collection (eight volumes) is one of the compilation projects of Qing Dynasty history. It contains more than 4000 sets of contract documents of Qing Dynasty in capital museum. It was published in the form of photocopies. The compilation period is from 1684 to 1911. The contents focus on land sales, leasing, donation and other economic activities, including the capital and some provinces in China in the late agricultural civilization Most of the reliable information about social and economic relations was made public for the first time, which is of great historical value in reconstructing the social and economic history of the Qing Dynasty.

The book "regional integration, cultural context, history and culture of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei" is a supporting catalogue of the exhibition "regional integration, cultural context, history and culture of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei". The book takes the conflict and integration of agricultural civilization and grassland civilization in ancient China in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei as the starting point, and takes the historical process of coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei as the main line to show the historical origin of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

Honors

In April 1992, Shoubo was named "Beijing Youth Education Base".

In October 1994, the capital museum was named "Beijing advanced youth education base".

In December 1995, the capital museum was named "national excellent social education base".

In December 2000, the "ancient capital culture exhibition" was awarded the "1999 fine exhibition nomination Award" by the State Administration of cultural relics.

In July 2004, the capital museum was named "capital civilization unit of 2003" by the capital Spiritual Civilization Construction Committee.

In June 2006, the Party committee of capital museum was named as "advanced grassroots party organization in propaganda system" by the Propaganda Department of Beijing Municipal Party committee.

In June 2007, the capital museum was rated as the "2007 model of capital civilized unit".

In December 2008, the capital museum was awarded as "excellent unit of Ideological and political work in Beijing", "national AAAA tourist attraction", "advanced demonstration site of standardizing English signs in public places in Beijing", "excellent organization unit of foreign language speaking activities of Beijing citizens" and "high precision three-dimensional cultural relic image - Wuhua Tianbao" won the second China excellent publication electronic Award ".

In October 2009, the capital museum was awarded the title of "Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China - advanced security unit" by Beijing Tourism Administration.

In January 2010, the capital museum was awarded the 13th "Capital Tourism forbidden cup advanced collective" by the Municipal Tourism Bureau and the municipal human resources and Social Security Bureau.

In December 2011, the capital museum was awarded the honorary title of "national civilized unit" by the Central Steering Committee of spiritual civilization construction.

In December 2012, the capital museum was rated as "excellent unit of Ideological and political work in Beijing propaganda system" by the Propaganda Department of Beijing Municipal Party committee.

In March 2013, the capital museum was rated as "the 11th excellent unit of Beijing's ideological and political work" and "the civilized unit of Xicheng District in 2012".

In April 2013, the opening management department of Capital Museum won the title of "Beijing worker pioneer".

Organization setup

The office consists of two secondary departments: Foreign Affairs Office and archives office. The personnel department consists of two secondary departments: standard implementation office, scientific research management office, Party committee office, supervision office, finance department, security department, opening management department, property management department, publicity and information center,

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