Recently, the heat wave of 40℃degrees swept the north, While in Qingzhou, the heat did not stop the tourists to visit Qingzhou Museum, a huge Han and Tang style building is its new hall, an endless stream of people are climbing the stairs to see the Longxing Temple statue and many national treasure cultural relics style.
“Our average daily reception is now more than 5,000 people," said Yang Huasheng, deputy director of the Qingzhou Museum, who has lost count of the number of groups he has received in the more than a month since the museum opened, and that day is only a weekday, and if it is a weekend, the audience will be more.
More than 5,000 visitors per day, this is an unattainable number as a county-level museum, and confirmed the unique charm of Qingzhou Museum as the only county-level comprehensive museum in the first batch of national first-class museums.
Grand new museum
New city landmark
Qingzhou City Museum is a comprehensive museum, its predecessor Yidu County Museum was founded in 1959, the original site of the Qing Dynasty Kangxi period of Wenhua Hall Grand master Feng Pu ancestral hall reconstruction, moved to the old museum in 1989, covers an area of about 28,000 square meters, construction area of 12,000 square meters, with the increase of unearthed cultural relics, the old warehouse is difficult to bear, the exhibition area is not enough. Started the construction of the new museum project.
After three years of construction, on May 15, 2023, the new Qingzhou Museum was completed and opened, with a total construction area of 50,934 square meters, designed by Zhang Jinqiu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a disciple of Liang Sicheng, using Han and Tang styles to highlight the characteristics of "high platform, tower, slope roof" of traditional Chinese architecture, and abstract and simple with modern design techniques.
Qingzhou Museum has a collection of more than 50,000 cultural relics, of which there are more than 3,000 national precious cultural relics, many of which are national first-class cultural relics. The famous painter Huang Zhou once wrote the title of "the first-class small but plentiful museum" for Qingzhou Museum.
The increase in the exhibition area of the new museum also provides more functional areas. The new museum is divided into six functional areas, including exhibition area, storage area, technical protection area, public service area, office area, and equipment area, which have functions such as cultural relic protection, exhibition, scientific research, leisure and entertainment and provide a good learning and visiting environment for domestic and foreign visitors.
The new museum exhibition is divided into the below eight exhibition halls
Eternal Smile -- an exhibition of Buddhist statues at Longxing Temple site
The first state in the East of the Ancient China - Qingzhou historical exhibition
Han Dynasty Theme - Han Tomb burial cultural relics exhibition in Xiangshan
King of Heng’s House - Heng ‘s History and culture thematic Hall
Porcelain - Exhibition of collection of porcelain and specimens
Paintings and calligraphy exhibition hall
Qingzhou Stone Carvings Exhibition Hall
and reserve exhibition hall
The visitors could deeply understand the cultural value and historical connotation by a large number of pictures, text, sound, photoelectric and other high-tech means.
Among these exhibitions, the most famous collection is of course the more than 400 Buddhist statues unearthed from the Longxing Temple Site in 1996, spanning 500 years from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty. These statues have a large number, a full range of varieties, exquisite carving, well-preserved gold painting, and a long span of time, which has attracted high attention at home and abroad, and has been rated as "the Top Ten National archaeological discoveries in 1996" and "China's 100 Major archaeological discoveries in the 20th century", known as the masterpiece of rewriting Eastern art history. It has held large-scale special exhibitions in famous museums for many times, becoming a bridge for Qingzhou to the world, and is an outstanding representative of ancient Chinese sculpture art.
In addition, in the Wanli 26th year of the Ming Dynasty Zhao Bingzhong’s final imperial examination volume filled the blank of the Ming Dynasty court archives; The jade of the "Benefit offspring " in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the jade figures of the Warring States Period are rare jade treasures. The painted pottery and terracotta figurines in the burial pits of Han tombs in Xiangshan are preserved most among similar relics of the same period in China.
Creative layout
a new model of exhibition
During the three-year construction period, the exhibition was delayed for two months due to the epidemic, but it was still completed on time, and completed more than 2,000 cultural relics layout with high quality within one month." Yang Huasheng participated in the whole developing process of the new museum.
Increasing of functions and the exhibition area, the new museum displayed more exhibition forms. Many new media technologies are used in the new museum to interact with audience better. The whole museum display closets use Laminated flexural low reflected display glass, so that the audience can see more clear and take a clearly photo when visiting.
7 different exhibition halls, according to the characteristics of exhibits, select different thematic design, exhibition techniques and streamline layout, meanwhile considering lighting, background, tone and auxiliary display means.
Qingzhou Museum is also attaching importance to the academic research. Yang Huasheng has been working in Qingzhou Museum since 1992. Over the past 30 years, he has participated in many major archaeological excavation projects. Because Qingzhou Museum closely integrates local archaeological excavation, cultural relic protection and exhibition, it has also accumulated a large number of unearthed cultural relics and academic research results, meanwhile laid a solid academic foundation for the later development of the museum.
Combination of life with museum
a new museum culture
Qingzhou museum became fame thanks to its Longxing Temple statue, but now, Qingzhou museum owns not only this sign, has also become a comprehensive museum. In particular, it plays an important role in combining urban development and excavating the deep cultural heritage of the city.
Qingzhou Museum has been developed in a broader space under the support of government, as well as the Museum empowered the city with its reputation as "the Oriental first State" .
Bright future
New Museum new way
Whether it is from the aspects of collection research and protection, museum operation and construction and academic research, Qingzhou Museum has created a new idea of county-level comprehensive museum operation.
