Wuxi Museum

Wuxi Museum is composed of Wuxi science and Technology Museum, Wuxi revolution exhibition hall and Wuxi Museum. The permanent exhibition halls include Wuxi historical exhibition area, Qian Yu tomb cultural relics exhibition area, purple sand art exhibition area, Huishan clay figurine art exhibition area, virtual Western Art Museum, Wuxi people who shoulder the expectation of national rejuvenation, and the memory of blood and fire city.

Wuxi Museum

Wuxi Museum was founded on October 15, 2007. It is composed of the original Wuxi Revolution Museum, Wuxi Museum and Wuxi Science Museum. It is located in the south of Taihu square in Wuxi City. The new museum was officially opened to the public on October 1, 2008, with a building area of 71000 square meters. The building shape reflects the design concept of "water light and stone color". It is a landmark building in Wuxi.

There are 24 permanent exhibitions in Wuxi Museum, which reflect the characteristics of Wuxi regional culture and highlight the unique charm of Wuxi City. At the same time, according to the requirements of the National Digital Museum, we will build a national leading digital cultural relics management and exhibition system, which is a multi-functional, comprehensive and modern large-scale museum integrating education and guidance, viewing and entertainment, participation and interaction. In addition, Wuxi Museum has five museums under its jurisdiction, including Zhou Huaimin's art collection, Wuxi Chinese national industrial and commercial Museum, Chengji Art Museum, Zhang Wentian's former residence and Wuxi inscription exhibition hall.

Over the past 20 years of reform and opening up, cultural and Museum undertakings have been booming. After several generations of hard work of cultural and museum workers, Wuxi Museum now has more than 30000 cultural relics in its collection, especially the calligraphy and painting of Ming and Qing Dynasties and local historical relics.

In October 2018, it was named "national primary and secondary students' research and practice education base" in 2018.

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Introduction to the new hospital

Wuxi Museum adheres to the design concept of "people-oriented, audience first", unifies the layout, forms four sections of "cultural history, light of science and technology, film and television education, special features", and 24 permanent exhibitions, which reflect the regional cultural characteristics of Wuxi and highlight the unique charm of Wuxi City. At the same time, in accordance with the requirements of the National Digital Museum, the construction of the national leading digital cultural relics management and exhibition system is a multi-functional, comprehensive and modern large-scale museum integrating education and guidance, viewing and entertainment, participation and interaction.

Wuxi Museum integrates local comprehensive history, art, science and technology exhibition. Through the collection, storage, research and exhibition of cultural relics or specimens related to revolution, history, art, science and technology, Wuxi Museum has become a "second classroom" for Wuxi citizens, especially teenagers, to acquire historical knowledge, improve scientific quality and cultivate patriotic feelings. In May 2013, it was rated as a national second-class Museum.

4A scenic spot

On August 23, 2011, According to the national standards of the people's Republic of China "classification and evaluation of quality grades of tourist attractions" and "administrative measures for quality grade evaluation of tourist attractions", the relevant provincial, autonomous regional and municipal quality grade evaluation committees of tourist attractions recommend that the national quality grade evaluation committee of tourist attractions organize the evaluation, and the scenic spots of Wuxi Museum meet the requirements of national 4A standard of tourist attractions According to the research and decision of the national quality rating committee of scenic spots, it is approved as a national 4A scenic spot.

Collection works

The existing collection resources of Wuxi Museum come from the original Wuxi Museum, with a total of more than 30000 items in the collection. Among them, calligraphy and painting are the most distinctive. Ni Zan's handwriting "moss mark and tree shadow" can be called "the treasure of the town museum". Wuxi Museum takes the interlibrary exchange as the platform to enrich the exhibition content through various channels such as collection, borrowing and introduction of temporary exhibitions, so that the citizens can enjoy the high-quality exhibitions.

Exhibitions and collections

The story of Wuxi City

Since the late Neolithic period, this land near Taihu Lake has become more active. The discovery of gaochengdun site of Liangzhu Culture and shecheng site of Maqiao culture shows that Wuxi entered the era of civilization with a great bearing. In the Zhou Dynasty, the Taibo brothers settled down in Meili, which not only established an institutional framework for the development of social economy, but also created Wu culture which had a great impact on the historical process. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, it has experienced a great change from crude and refined, from martial arts to literature, and developed into one of the most developed agricultural areas in China in the Tang and Song dynasties. However, the most remarkable thing in Wuxi's history is the development of commercial economy in Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially the prosperity of a century since modern times. The location advantage of riverside and lake, the cultural gene of pragmatic innovation and people's unremitting exploration and development under the background of social transformation, together gave birth to the most gorgeous flower of industrial and commercial culture in modern China, and made Wuxi the birthplace of Chinese national industry and commerce.

Purple sand art exhibition

Purple sand pottery is an art of turning stone into gold. It is said that a strange monk called for the sale of "rich and noble earth", which made the local people find that purple clay was used. For thousands of years, they used clay to make pottery. In the Ming Dynasty, they began to consciously use purple clay with higher green body strength and smaller firing shrinkage to make pottery, and creatively used body beating tube and body inlaying tube to make pots. It can be said that the development of ceramic art to the emergence of purple clay ware in the Ming Dynasty, whether in raw materials, modeling, molding techniques or practicality and aesthetics The appreciation has reached an unprecedented level. On the other hand, the development of Chinese tea culture is associated with the continuous renewal of tea sets. In Ming Dynasty, the way of tea drinking changed from boiling tea to brewing tea. It is the call of this new way of tea drinking that led to the emergence and popularity of Zisha teapot. The excellent material of Zisha pottery also makes the natural beauty of tea play incisively and vividly. It can be said that Zisha teapot is a high-quality teapot culture of pottery culture, teapot culture and tea culture The appearance of purple clay ware marks the arrival of the peak era of Chinese pottery industry.

Exhibition of cultural relics unearthed from Qian Yu's tomb in Yuan Dynasty

Qian Yu (1247-1320), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, is a descendant of Qian Liu, king of Wu and Yue during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. During the Yuan Dynasty, Wuxi's rich families were buried in the first year of Zhizhi (1321).

Its funeral objects include 154 pieces of gold, silver, jade, crystal, agate, amber, silk clothing, lacquerware, banknotes, wood, nuclear ware and bronze mirrors, which are of great historical value, scientific value and arts and crafts value. Among them, the gold plated petal silver holding cup is like a blooming peony, full of vitality, which is one of the most distinctive pieces of Yuan Dynasty silver unearthed in China.

Huishan clay figurine Art Exhibition

In Wuxi, a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a wonderful work of art with the fragrance of soil, which is Huishan clay figurine, an excellent national traditional craft listed as the national intangible cultural heritage. Huishan clay figurine, which has a thousand years of cultural tradition, has been permeated with the unique local conditions and customs of Jiangnan work area since its birth. In the process of its development, in addition to the influence of social politics, economy, culture and many other factors, the temples, gardens, ancestral halls, neighborhoods and dramas, sculptures, temple fairs, incense fairs in Huishan, Wuxi, as well as the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal and Wuxi ancient culture with which huishanbang communicates, are also affected The "rice market" on both sides of the canal had a special and extensive influence on the artistic characteristics of Huishan clay figurines, which formed the local characteristics of vulgarity and elegance, vulgarity and elegance, vulgarity and delicacy, sweetness and not greasy.

Tao Shoubo painting and calligraphy Museum

Tao Shoubo (1902-1997), formerly known as zhifen, changed his name to zhifen at the age of 55. His life was engraved with more than 10000 inscriptions, and he was not the owner of Wanshi building. At the age of 15, he became an apprentice in Suzhou hanzhenge stele shop, learning seal cutting, calligraphy, rubbings and inscriptions. In 1920's, he went to Shanghai to develop. He was introduced by his elder martial brother Qian Shoutie, and was introduced by Chen julai to study painting by Zhao Shuru. In 1947, Mr. Zhang Daqian was worshipped as a teacher and became the master of the hall. In his later years, when he worked as a landscape and an old pine, he sometimes used the method of splashing ink and color, that is, he imitated the original creation of Da qianfuzi.

Mr. Tao Shoubo entered Taiwan via Hong Kong in 1950 and has lived in Baodao for half a century. During his stay in Taiwan, he never stopped his artistic creation of calligraphy, painting and seal cutting. He also paid with Yu Youren, Zhang Daqian, Pu Xinshe, Huang Junbi and other famous artists who went to Taiwan. He also held art exhibitions in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong and other places. Under the influence of Mr. Tao, Tao is an elegant family. His wife, Qiang Shuping, is good at painting orchids. His children, Tao longruo, Tao fengruo and Tao baoruo, can carry on their family name and master Danqing. They are an enviable family of art. Although Mr. Tao has lived abroad for a long time, he is still homesick. In 2010, Mr. Tao longruo, his successor, presented 60 pieces of Mr. Tao Shoubo's calligraphy, painting and seal cutting works to Wuxi Museum, which not only helped our calligraphy and painting collection, but also made Mr. Shoubo's fine works spread in his hometown forever.

Zhou Huaimin Art Gallery

Zhou Huaimin (1907-1996), formerly known as Ren, is a native of Qianqiao, Wuxi. He once served as professor of Jinghua Art College and national Beiping art college. After 1949, he successively served as the first-class painter of Beijing Academy of painting, the vice president of Zhongshan painting and calligraphy society, the vice president of Chinese painting and Calligraphy Research Association, and the central supervisory committee of the democratic revolution. In 2001, it was listed by the State Administration of cultural relics in the list of "works of late famous calligraphers and painters restricted from leaving the country after 1949". In his early years, Zhou Huaimin's family was very poor