Jingmen Municipal Museum

Jingmen Municipal Museum

Jingmen museum is a comprehensive museum of Social Sciences under the jurisdiction of the province. It integrates the protection, collection, collection, research and exhibition of cultural relics, and systematically collects precious cultural relics of ancient, modern and contemporary China. There are three basic exhibitions: "exhibition of cultural relics unearthed from the Chu tomb in Baoshan", "exhibition of female corpses of the Warring States period and Chu bamboo slips in Guodian" and "exhibition of fine cultural relics". All kinds of temporary exhibitions with distinctive themes, novel forms and rich contents are held throughout the year to show and publicize the history and culture of Jingmen to the public and convey diversified cultural information. In 2000 and 2002, it was announced as "Hubei patriotism education base" and "Hubei National Defense Education Base" by the provincial Party committee and the provincial government. Jingmen museum is located in the west of the north section of Xiangshan Avenue in Jingmen City, Hubei Province, covering an area of 15.72 mu. Jingmen museum is administratively subordinate to Jingmen Bureau of culture, sports, press and publication, a vice County institution. At present, there are 68 cadres and workers, including 3 with senior professional title, 3 with deputy senior professional title, 52 with intermediate professional title and 10 with assistant professional title. There are ten internal organizations, including office, planning and finance department, Institute of cultural relics and archaeology, exhibition department, security department, collection keeping department, industrial management department, Guodian Chu bamboo slips Research Center, urban cultural relics management office and mass work department.

Development history

Founded in 1984, Jingmen museum is now located at No.19 Xiangshan Avenue, Jingmen City. It is a comprehensive museum integrating cultural relics and archaeology, cultural relics collection and cultural relics display. The main buildings in the museum include the main building of cultural relics display and the Museum of cultural relics. The main building of cultural relics display is an antique building, covering an area of 1000 square meters, with a display area of more than 3000 square meters. The two ends protrude outward and the middle part retracts inward. Glass tube tile on the roof, cornice angle, simple and elegant. Before 1984, there was only one cultural relics working group in Jingmen County Cultural Museum. In 1983, Jingmen county and city were merged and upgraded into a provincial city. After that, the city museum was set up, temporarily taking advantage of the ancient architecture of Lu Fuzi Temple. In 1987, the exhibition building began to be built at 19 Xiangshan Avenue, covering an area of 11340 square meters. On November 8, 1993, the exhibition building was completed and officially opened to the public.

With the development of cultural and Museum undertakings, the municipal government invested 1.5 million yuan in 2001 to build the "treasure Museum", with a construction area of 1200 square meters, which was used to display the "Warring States female corpses and Guodian Chu bamboo slips"; in 2010, the central cultural relics warehouse with a construction area of 2068 square meters and an investment of 4.2 million yuan was built and put into use; in 2010, the central cultural relics warehouse was built The cultural relics management office of Jingmen City, located at No.4 Baiyun Avenue, was incorporated into the Jingmen Museum, and its Taoist cultural complex, baiyun temple, covers an area of 15 mu.

Internal organization

Institute of cultural relics

To be responsible for the protection and law enforcement of underground cultural relics in the city, to cooperate with the national, provincial and municipal large and medium-sized and small projects to carry out archaeological investigation, exploration and excavation; to be responsible for the collation of archaeological excavation materials, the compilation of briefing and reports; to be responsible for the organization, coordination and implementation of specific projects of archaeological research of cultural relics in the city; to organize the publicity, implementation, inspection and supervision of cultural relics laws and regulations; to supervise and control all counties, cities and cities To guide and help the business work of the district.

Research Library of Chu bamboo slips

To be responsible for formulating the scientific research plan of the museum, drawing up the annual scientific research projects of the museum, supervising the implementation and establishing the Guodian Chu bamboo slips information database.

Cultural Relics Management Office

To be responsible for the safety of ground cultural relics in Jingmen City, to supervise and guide the protection and management of ground cultural relics by the users of ground cultural relics in the city, to guide the protection, management, rescue, research and publicity of ground cultural relics in the city, and to be responsible for the formulation, examination and approval of the maintenance plan of ground cultural relics in the city.

office

Responsible for the party affairs, administration and other specific daily work of the library. To formulate and inspect various rules and regulations and organize their implementation; to receive visitors; to be responsible for secretarial work, data compilation and storage; to plan, implement and manage infrastructure projects; to be responsible for cultural relic statistics and annual reports; to be responsible for Museum internal affairs management, field management and logistics support.

Security section

To be responsible for the security of cultural relics in the collection, state property and internal property of units, and to cooperate with the public security departments in cracking down on cultural relics crimes.

Planning and finance section

To be responsible for the management and rational use of the revenues and expenditures of the whole museum, such as the subsidy fund for free admission tickets, the reward fund for free opening, the special fund for national cultural relics protection, the subsidy fund for cultural relics protection at higher levels, the fund for cultural relics protection projects, and the income from cultural relics industry.

Industrial Management Division

Responsible for the environmental sanitation in the museum, "Three Guarantees in front of the door", and responsible for the maintenance of water and electricity in the office area of the museum, family building and facade rental.

Collection keeping department

To be responsible for the preservation and protection of the cultural relics in the museum. It includes daily maintenance, registration, card building, filing, restoration and protection of the collection, and standardized management of cultural relics in and out of the library according to the prescribed procedures.

Mass Work Department

It undertakes the work of museum audience reception, tourist guidance, exhibition explanation, etc., carries out all kinds of social education activities in cooperation with festivals, and completes the construction of "patriotism education base", "national defense education base" and other bases.

Exhibition Department

It is mainly responsible for the renewal of permanent exhibitions, the planning, design, production and arrangement of temporary exhibitions, the introduction of outward exhibitions, the holding of exhibitions with Jingmen characteristics, and the going out tour.

Collection

There are more than 60000 cultural relics in the collection of Jingmen Museum, and more than 700 cultural relics above the third level. The total amount of cultural relics and the first level cultural relics are in the forefront of municipal museums. In particular, the collection of "Guodian Chu bamboo slips" and "Warring States female corpses" has a significant impact in the country and even at home and abroad. "Guodian Chu bamboo slips" is recognized as "the world's earliest original book" by academic circles at home and abroad; "Warring States female corpse" is 200 years earlier than the Western Han female corpse unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha, known as "China's first wet corpse", which is identified as a national treasure by the State Administration of cultural relics.

Special exhibition of Chu tombs in Baoshan shows the etiquette and music system and luxurious life of the aristocratic class of Chu at that time, and reflects the extraordinary creativity and imagination of the working people.

The exhibition of Warring States women's corpses and Guodian bamboo slips shows that the Warring States women's corpses in guojiagang are the best preserved wet corpses in China, and the silk unearthed from the tombs is another "Silk treasure house" of the state of Chu. Guodian bamboo slips are the earliest original books in the world, most of which are lost books of the pre Qin period.

The exhibition of fine cultural relics shows the rich connotation of more than 60 fine cultural relics in Jingmen.

A total of 804 bamboo slips with 13000 characters were unearthed in October 1993. All the 18 Confucian and Taoist works in Guodian bamboo slips are academic classics in the pre Qin period, which are known as the earliest original books in the world.

The female corpse of the Warring States period, more than 2300 years ago, is the earliest preserved wet corpse in China.

Lacquer trousseau in the picture of greeting guests and traveling lacquer trousseau is a utensil for holding toilet articles. There are the most well preserved lacquer paintings of pre Qin period, which represent the high achievement of Chinese painting art in pre Qin period.

Special activities

Taking the excavation process of the Chu tomb in Baoshan as the main content, this paper vividly reproduces the scenes of the life of the Chu aristocracy in the Warring States period and the huge funeral scene after the death of the tomb owner in the form of film and television projection and on-the-spot answers by experts of cultural relics and archaeology.

Honors

Visit information

1. The basic exhibitions of Jingmen museum are open to the public free of charge all the year round.

2. Opening hours: 9:00 to 17:00 from Tuesday to Sunday. Monday is the closing day for maintenance, not open to the public (except legal holidays).

3. There is an automatic storage cabinet in the exhibition hall. You can deposit your belongings for free. Please keep your valuables by yourself.

4. Please don't bring dangerous goods into the exhibition hall. Go into the exhibition hall and extinguish the smoke consciously.

5. Please don't bring food, drink and pets into the exhibition hall. Don't litter. Keep the environment clean.

6. Please take good care of the cultural relics and do not touch the exhibits.

7. Group visit, please make an appointment in advance.

Ticket information

Free Admission

On February 20, 2020, Hubei announced that all A-level tourist attractions will be free of tickets for medical aid team members within five years. Jingmen museum is one of them.

Address: 19 Xiangshan Avenue

Longitude: 112.197348

Latitude: 31.046826

Tel: 0724-2334869

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