Shanxi Museum

--Shanxi Museum covers an area of 168 mu with a total investment of nearly 400 million yuan. It is one of the few large modern and comprehensive museums in China.

--The main hall has four floors. The first floor is equipped with a general service desk, the second and third floors are equipped with historical and cultural exhibitions, and the fourth floor is equipped with art exhibitions.

--There are about 400000 pieces of precious collections, among which the relics of Taosi site in Neolithic age, Fangguo relics of Shang Dynasty, relics of Northern Dynasties, stone sculptures, cultural relics of Jin Yuan opera, cultural relics of Jin Merchants in Ming and Qing Dynasties are quite unique.

--The museum will also hold some temporary exhibitions from time to time, and there are restaurants and teahouses in the main museum for tourists to use.

Shanxi Museum

Shanxi Museum is located at No.13, north section of Binhe West Road, West Bank of Fenhe River, Taiyuan city. It was formerly Shanxi Education Book Museum founded in 1919, and has been renamed many times since then. It has been called Shanxi provincial museum since 1953. The new museum was founded on August 10, 2001 and completed in 2004. It is named Shanxi Museum. It is a national key construction project in the ninth five year plan. It is also the largest cultural infrastructure investment since the founding of Shanxi Province. It is a modern comprehensive museum.

Shanxi Museum covers an area of 168 mu, with a construction area of 51000 square meters, a total investment of nearly 400 million yuan, and about 400000 pieces of precious collections < I (as of September 2015) < / I.

The basic exhibition of Shanxi Museum, with the theme of "Jin soul", is composed of seven historical and cultural topics, including the cradle of civilization, the traces of Xia and Shang Dynasties, the hegemony of Jin State, the melting pot of nationalities, the charm of Buddhist style, the hometown of traditional opera, and Jin merchants of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and five artistic topics, including civil works, mountains and rivers, calligraphy, Danqing, Fangyuan world, and porcelain garden.

On October 11, 2018, he was selected into the list of "national primary and secondary students' research and practice education base".

Historical evolution

On October 9, 1919, the predecessor of Shanxi Museum, Shanxi Education Book Museum, was founded.

In October 1925, Shanxi education library museum was renamed as Shanxi Public Library. The area of the original museum was expanded to 90000 square meters. The museum has become an affiliated institution of the library, with 13 librarians and a collection of more than 130000 books.

In October of 1933, Shanxi Public library prepared to open Shanxi Provincial Public Education Center in accordance with the organization rules of Shanxi Provincial Public Education Center issued by the provincial government, the original site of Shanxi Public Library and all books and articles.

On November 8, 1937, Taiyuan was occupied. After the Japanese army took over the provincial public education center, it was renamed Taiyuan Library, attached to the "Shanxi Cultural Protection Association" and managed by the Japanese army's mountain troops. After that, they successively changed hands with the Japanese dance corps and the secret service agency of Shanxi army.

In December 1940, the secret service of Shanxi army was transferred to the puppet Shanxi Provincial Administration.

In January 1941, it was renamed Xinmin education center of Shanxi Province. The Japanese army plundered books and cultural relics from all over the province to fill their collections, and transported some precious cultural relics and books to Japan.

In 1945, after the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Yan Xishan appointed Wang Zhongyuan as the receiving member and restored the name of the provincial public education museum.

In 1948, on the eve of the liberation of Taiyuan, Yan Xishan set up the ordnance factory in the Confucian temple, the site of the mass education Museum, and the work of the museum was interrupted.

In April 1949, the provincial people's education museum was taken over by the cultural and educational takeover group of Taiyuan Military Commission of the people's Liberation Army, and was renamed as Shanxi provincial library museum, under which there was a museum department.

In September 1953, Shanxi Library Museum and Taiyuan Museum of cultural relics were merged and renamed as Shanxi Provincial Museum, with a staff of more than 70.

In 1956, Shanxi Provincial Museum successively completed the basic display of the Ministry of nature, the Ministry of history and the Ministry of socialist construction according to the mode of Local Records Museum, and opened it to the public.

In 1966, during the cultural revolution, museum exhibitions and collections were classified as "fengzixiu" or "Sijiu", which was criticized and the cause of museums was destroyed.

In November 1971, the museum began to gradually resume its business.

In 1992, Shanxi provincial Party committee and government decided to build a new modern museum.

In 1997, the new Shanxi Museum project was approved.

In 2001, the foundation of the new Shanxi Museum was laid.

In 2004, the new museum was built and named Shanxi Museum. In August, the exhibition design project started.

On January 8, 2005, the jinhun exhibition held a preview at the newly completed Museum site to solicit the opinions of people from all walks of life. On September 26, the basic Exhibition "jinhun" was officially opened to the public.

architectural composition

Shanxi Museum covers an area of 112000 square meters, building area of 51000 square meters, exhibition area of 10000 square meters. The general layout adopts the traditional Chinese method of axial symmetry, with the east-west axis as the main axis and the South-North axis as the secondary axis. The 4-storey main hall is located at the intersection of the main and secondary axes, forming a symmetrical pattern. Four turrets set off the main hall. The four floors of the main hall are square and regular, and the buildings are slanted outwards layer by layer, reflecting the aesthetic orientation of the ancients. The theme image of the main museum is endowed with the moral of "dou" and "Ding", which symbolize the joy of harvest, and "Ding" symbolizes stability and auspiciousness.

The external space design adopts the traditional courtyard combination technique to create the trend of "Taiji center, in all directions". It integrates heaven, earth, human and space-time. It uses landscape design such as pool, water folding, sculpture and outdoor exhibits to create cultural atmosphere. The central hall imitates Yingxian Wooden Tower.

Exhibition

Basic Display

The basic exhibition of Shanxi Museum takes "Jin soul" as the theme, which is composed of seven historical topics including "cradle of civilization", "traces of Xia and Shang Dynasties", "hegemony of Jin State", "national melting pot", "charm of Buddha style", "hometown of traditional opera", "Jin merchants of Ming and Qing Dynasties" and five artistic topics including "Huazhang of civil engineering", "elite of mountains and rivers", "Hanmo Danqing", "Fangyuan world" and "flower of porcelain garden art" Yes.

Cradle of civilization: it is composed of two units: the ancient flame and the root of China, showing the ancient human and civilization of Shanxi.

Traces of Xia and Shang Dynasties: it is composed of the ruins of the great Xia Dynasty, the important places of yin and Shang Dynasties and the relics of Fangguo, which clearly shows that Jinnan is one of the central areas of Xia culture.

The hegemony of the state of Jin: Jinnan is the initial fiefdom and central area of the state of Jin, with rich remains. Qucun Tianma site is the early capital of Jin State. "Houma Jinguo site" is Xintian, the capital of the Late Jin State, "copper casting site" and "Houma alliance" are famous all over the world. The "ancient city of Jinyang" in the middle was the political and military base of Zhao Jianzi, who was in power at the end of Jin Dynasty, and later became the initial capital of Zhao state.

National melting pot: since the Han Dynasty, all ethnic groups in the North constantly collided with the Central Plains, and cultural exchanges and ethnic integration also took place. During the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, the Central Plains was bustling, and various ethnic groups in Mobei rose one after another, dominating Shanxi and galloping in the Central Plains. More than 300 years of war and suffering at the same time, also contributed to the unprecedented scale of national integration in Chinese history.

Buddhist Charm: it shows the ancient Buddhist sculptures in Shanxi, including not only Yungang Grottoes and Tianlongshan grottoes, but also various Buddhist statues of ancient temples in the countryside.

Hometown of Chinese Opera: it shows that Shanxi is one of the birthplaces of Chinese opera and has the reputation of "hometown of Chinese opera art".

Shanxi Merchants in Ming and Qing Dynasties: in the early years of Ming Dynasty, Shanxi merchants began to manage grain and salt with the huge military demand of the northern frontier fortress of Ming Dynasty and the promotion of "Kaizhong" salt law.

Calligraphy and painting: Shanxi Museum collects thousands of ancient paintings and calligraphy, from which some works of yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are displayed.

Porcelain Garden: among the Northern Dynasties to Ming and Qing Dynasties porcelain collected by Shanxi Museum, northern porcelain is the most distinctive. There are celadon in the Northern Dynasty, celadon and white porcelain in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and famous kilns in the Song Dynasty; Shanxi is an important porcelain producing area in the northern part of the song and Yuan Dynasties.

Fangyuan world: Ancient Chinese coins, mainly metal coins, originated in Xia and Shang Dynasties and ended in the late Qing Dynasty. The ancient Chinese coins in Shanxi Museum, to a certain extent, represent the historical track of the emergence and development of ancient Chinese coins.

Huazhang of Civil Engineering: Ancient Chinese architecture is a unique architectural system, which takes civil engineering structure as the main body and skillfully melts Chinese philosophy and aesthetic taste into one furnace. Shanxi is known as the "treasure house of ancient Chinese architecture". There are more than 18000 ancient buildings in Shanxi.

Temporary Exhibition

Collection quality

Shanxi museum is the largest collection, protection, research and Exhibition Center of cultural relics in Shanxi province. It collages the essence of the province's cultural relics and has about 400 thousand collections. Among them, there are more than 400 pieces of cultural relics