Guangdong foreign affairs museum

·Guangdong foreign affairs museum, originally the French Consulate in Guangzhou during the period of the Republic of China, was built in 1890. It is a class a cultural relic building in the Shamian complex.

·In addition to the collection of Foreign Affairs gifts and pictures of important foreign affairs activities in Guangdong since the reform and opening up, the space of revolving stairs is specially used to display more than ten old pictures of Shamian 100 years ago.

Guangdong foreign affairs museum

Guangdong foreign affairs museum was originally the French Consulate in Guangzhou during the period of the Republic of China. It was built in 1890. It is a class a cultural relic building in the Shamian building complex and a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Development history

On the afternoon of November 26, 2012, the opening ceremony of Guangdong foreign affairs museum was held at No. 20, South Shamian street, Guangzhou. Zhao Yufang, vice governor of Guangdong Province, ye Dabo, deputy director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office, and consuls General of Consulates General of various countries in Guangzhou attended the opening ceremony.

Guangdong foreign affairs museum is open to the public free of charge. The opening hours are 9:00-11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Group visits with more than 20 people can be made by phone.

When you enter the Guangdong foreign affairs museum, the first local foreign affairs museum in China, you will not only have the opportunity to understand the water affairs of Guangdong, a major foreign affairs Province in the past half century, but also see more than 200 precious foreign affairs gifts from 122 friendly provinces and states in the world.

architectural composition

Guangdong foreign affairs museum is the first local foreign affairs museum in China. It is located at No. 20, South Street, Shamian, Guangzhou. It is a baroque style building built in 1890. It was originally the French Consulate in Guangzhou during the Republic of China. It is a class a cultural relic among the Shamian Buildings and a national key cultural relic protection unit.

"It's a building with a lot of bad luck." Liu Lu, a commentator at Guangdong foreign affairs museum, said that in the past 100 years, the building had been rented as an office of a foreign enterprise, and the front hall had been changed into a barber shop. The wooden floor of the museum is still the wooden floor that the building laid a hundred years ago.

Collection

In addition to collecting pictures of Foreign Affairs gifts and important foreign affairs activities in Guangdong since the reform and opening up, the museum also specially uses the space of revolving stairs to display more than ten old pictures of Shamian a hundred years ago, one of which records the figure of a Westernization interpreter wearing a long braid and a big coat a hundred years ago. "This should be a picture of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China." Liu Lu said that the old photo, which was hung in the hall on the second floor, not only fully reflects the scenery of the West Bridge in Shamian, but also shows that the Westernization interpreter who was walking in the British and French consular area still kept his clean clothes.

In 1958, Zhou Enlai met with North Korean leader Kim Il Sung at the upstream steel plant, the predecessor of GISE. In 1986, Sihanouk and his wife planted the carefree tree in South China Botanical Garden. In the same year, the queen visited Guangzhou and planted a friendship tree with her then governor ye Xuanping in Liuhua Lake Many precious moments of Guangdong's diplomacy have been fixed by light. In the form of old photos, the Guangdong foreign affairs museum tells the public the history of Guangdong's diplomacy in the past half century, and cleverly deciphers the secrets in the history of Guangdong's foreign affairs since the founding of new China. For example, new South Wales, Australia, is the first province in the world to establish friendly relations with Guangdong In 1979, Guangdong signed the first friendly Province State agreement by letter.

In addition to displaying the precious moments of Guangdong's diplomacy with a large number of old photos, the museum also displays more than 200 foreign affairs gifts from 122 friendly provinces and states of Guangdong on different foreign affairs occasions.

For example, a little red Trojan horse presented by Sweden to Guangdong Province is sold in IKEA, a well-known household brand store. "The foreign affairs gift stresses the heart, often takes the local national craft as the first choice, this kind of small Trojan horse in the Swedes mind artistic value is not general." Commentator Liu Lu said that in Sweden, almost every family has this kind of small Trojan horse decoration, and the price of a 10 cm high manual Trojan horse is about 200 yuan.

In 2007, Morocco presented a pure copper tea ware, because of its pure copper texture, after several years of oxidation, as if it was smoked black. "I've tried a lot of ways, but in the end it's Qufeng oil that makes it shine again." The person in charge of the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office disclosed. After wiping with Qufeng oil, the copper tea ware reappeared bright silver white.

Address: No.20, Shamian South Street, Liwan District, Guangzhou

Longitude: 113.24335074425

Latitude: 23.106166617428

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: 9:00-11:30 am on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays