Taizhou Museum

Taizhou Museum

synonym

Taizhou Museum generally refers to Taizhou Museum

Taizhou Museum, located at 168 Aihua Road, Taizhou Economic Development Zone, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, was founded in 2016 and officially opened to the public on July 12, 2016. It is a local comprehensive museum and a cultural activity center integrating cultural relics collection, protection, research, publicity and education.

The building area of Taizhou museum is 12500 square meters, and the exhibition area is 6000 square meters. Taizhou Museum has a total of 2500 pieces of cultural relics, including Lingjiang human fossils.

Taizhou museum is a public welfare facility in Taizhou city.

Historical evolution

In 2004, Taizhou city began to put the museum construction project on the agenda.

In December 2009, the construction of Taizhou museum began.

In 2012, Taizhou Museum started the work of collecting and purchasing cultural relics from the people.

In 2014, the civil engineering of Taizhou museum was completed.

On July 12, 2016, Taizhou Museum officially opened.

architectural composition

overview

The main building of Taizhou Museum has four floors, with a total construction area of 12500 square meters and a total exhibition area of 6000 square meters.

The first floor is the temporary exhibition hall, the second floor is the historical Hall of "mountain soul and sea soul", the third floor is the folk Hall of "earth feelings", and the fourth floor is the exhibition hall of folk collection. Among them, "mountain soul, sea soul" and "earth feelings" are the two basic exhibitions of the museum.

History Hall of mountain soul and sea soul

"Mountain soul and sea soul" historical hall is divided into four chapters: Lingjiang riverside, zhangan ancient harbor, Tiantai state and Chicheng Chaoyong. It is mainly composed of Lingjiang human fossils 100000 years ago, Neolithic stone tools, bronzes, pottery and other collections unearthed in Taizhou. It tells the nine thousand year history and culture stories of Taizhou by combining scene reproduction and multimedia means.

Earth feelings folk Hall

"Earth feelings" folk hall adopts the cultural geography theory of Wang Shixing (Linhai people), a human geographer of the Ming Dynasty, to interpret the living conditions and customs of the people in the mountainous, plain and coastal areas of Taizhou from the three aspects of ecology, livelihood and life. It depicts a colorful picture of the people in the valley, the people in the country and the people in the coastal areas.

Exhibition hall of folk collection

The special exhibition hall of folk collection displays the embroidery exhibits of different ages collected by Zhejiang Arts and crafts masters and famous embroidery masters and all the history of Taizhou embroidery.

Venue features

Taizhou is located between the mountains and the sea. The soul of the mountains and the soul of the sea, as the two fulcrums of Taizhou People's spiritual world, make Taizhou not only have a strong urban character, but also have the cultural and geographical characteristics of the valley, the country and the seaside. The two highlights of Taizhou Museum start from the mountain and sea characteristics of Taizhou, and let the audience fully understand the land of Taizhou by telling stories.

The exhibition of Taizhou history and culture in Taizhou Museum runs through the complete historical sequence of Taizhou from prehistory to modern times. In this time clue, the audience will trace the evolution of Taizhou's organizational system and economic development, explore historical and cultural celebrities, experience important historical events, and have a deeper understanding of Taizhou.

Based on the theory of cultural geography, the Taizhou Museum interprets the living conditions and customs of the people in the mountainous, plain and coastal areas of Taizhou from the correlation of ecology, livelihood and life, and depicts a colorful picture of the people in the valley, the people in the country and the people in the seaside.

Collection

overview

Taizhou Museum has more than 2500 pieces of cultural relics, including bronzes, ceramics, portraits, stone carvings, wood carvings, etc.

Major cultural relics

Water drop of Golden Toad porcelain in Longquan of Southern Song Dynasty

The water drop of Longquan Golden Toad porcelain in Southern Song Dynasty is 11 cm long and 6.5 cm high. The water drops of Golden Toad porcelain are stationery. The shape of the toad is three-dimensional. The body of the toad is oblate, with its head raised, eyes round and bright. The back is slightly raised, and the surface is decorated with Ganoderma like breast nails symbolizing warts, with Ruyi shaped cirrus in the middle. The abdominal cavity is hollow and can hold water. The lower abdomen is relatively flat with no striation. There are two feet with slightly curved squat in the front, webbed between the toes, and the back arc is retracted, with one foot (limb) supporting, such as tail. Toad is full of aura, vivid, lifelike and cute. The green glaze is applied to the whole body, with fine texture, moistening and shining.

The lotus statue of the Southern Song Dynasty

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the diameter of the lotus is 10.6 cm, the bottom diameter is 7.5 cm, and the height is 11.5 cm. Fold round lip, high ring foot, silver edge. With high relief and Yin line carved into a blooming lotus. Its elegant color, green glaze and profound artistic conception complement each other with lotus's extraordinary and refined character.

Qing Shunzhi blue and white flower and bird porcelain pot

Qing Shunzhi blue and white flower and bird porcelain pot has a diameter of 9 cm, a abdominal circumference of 70 cm, a bottom diameter of 12.5 cm and a through height of 27 cm. Straight mouth, short neck, full shoulder, round abdomen, abdomen gradually closed. The pot is decorated with blue and white, and painted with peony, bamboo and bird patterns. The birds are standing or playing and flying, and the painting is lifelike. The carcass is thick and hard, the blue and white hair color is gray, and the glaze is white and blue.

Han bronze furnace

The Han bronze furnace is 21 cm long, 11 cm wide and 12.5 cm high. For heating and cooking. The bronze furnace is divided into two parts, the upper and the lower, with an ear cup placed on the upper part, which is used to hold food or wine. The lower part is a combustion furnace, which can be used to place charcoal and other fuels. A rectangular vertical ear is set on both sides of the furnace, the four sides and the bottom are of fence structure, which can be used for ventilation and filtering of carbon ash, and the bottom is supported by four hoof feet.

The original porcelain beam of the Warring States Period

The diameter of the tripod is 7 cm, the abdominal diameter is 16.8 cm, the bottom diameter is 9.3 cm, and the overall height is 19 cm. It is a warm wine or wine mixer. Small straight mouth, oblique shoulder, round abdomen to the bottom, flat bottom, three hoof shaped feet at the bottom, with cover. Cover concave, straight wall, flat ring button. The shoulder is equipped with a dragon shaped beam, with the front of the dragon head and the back of the dragon tail. The shoulder and abdomen are decorated with a rope pattern. The color of the body is gray and white, and the whole body is covered with green glaze.

Cultural Activity

On October 26, 2016, Shan Jian, member of the Standing Committee and Secretary General of Taizhou Municipal Party committee, visited the history and folk custom exhibition hall of Taizhou Museum.

Honors

In 2016, Taizhou museum was approved as Taizhou Municipal Museum.

Visit information

geographical position

Taizhou museum is located at 168 Aihua Road, Taizhou Economic Development Zone, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province.

Ticket Price

Free Admission

Opening Hours

Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-16:30

(admission will be suspended at 16:00 p.m.) there will be no rest on holidays and the museum will be closed on Monday.

transport line

Citizen Square Station

No. 902 inner ring road, No. 915, No. 905, No. 108 inner ring road, No. 907, No. 123 can be reached.

Municipal certificate center and municipal library station

Take bus line 1, 103.

Address: No.168, Aihua Road, Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City

Longitude: 121.416292

Latitude: 28.660339

Tel: 0576-88851268

Ticket information: free. Free admission with ID card.