On the morning of July 27th, the opening ceremony of Shanxi Bronze Museum was held in Changfeng Business District of Taiyuan City. With the high attention and eager anticipation of all walks of life, Shanxi Bronze Museum, a branch of Shanxi Museum and the largest bronze museum in China, officially opened.
Lei Jianguo, director of Shanxi Culture Relics Bureau, is inaugurating the opening ceremony.
Zhang Fuming, vice governor of Shanxi Province, is making a speech.
Guan Qiang, deputy director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, is making a speech.
Yan Xiangdong (the first from the left), deputy chief editor of Science Press and president of Cultural Relics and Archaeological Branch, sent The Complete Collection of Bronzes Unearthed in China to Shanxi Bronze Museum.
Hang Kan (the second from the left), vice president of Shanxi University, Sun Qingwei (the first from the left), dean of Archaeology and Culture College of Peking University, Wang Xiaoyi (the first from the right), director of Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Zhang Yuancheng (the second from the right), director of Shanxi Museum, attended the opening ceremony of China Bronze Protection Research Center.
Guan Qiang, deputy director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, and Zhang Fuming, vice governor of Shanxi Province, started the opening ceremony of Shanxi Bronze Museum.
Shanxi Bronze Museum, with the bronze ware found in Shanxi as its basic collections, tells the story of the Chinese Bronze Age from a new cultural perspective in a new design philosophy and display mode. Its exhibition service system includes five parts, namely Basic Exhibition, Educational Interaction, Digital Bronze, Temporary Exhibition and Cultural Creation Space, covering an exhibition area of 11,000 square meters.
Zun vessel with inscription Western Zhou Dynasty
Exhibition Halls
The basic exhibition “The Bronze Brilliance” has on display more than 2,200 cultural relics which span the whole bronze age from the time of the Taosi site to the Qin and Han Dynasties, fully exhibiting the brilliance of Chinese bronze civilization. The exhibits mainly come from the cultural relics excavated by archaeologists over the years and the cultural relics recovered in recent years in the special action against cultural relics crimes. The contents of the exhibition are divided into three parts, namely “The Source of Chinese Civilization”, “The System Evolution of Rites and Music”, “The Model of Skill and Art”. The first part mainly tells about Shanxi's special position in the formation and development of Chinese civilization through the exquisite bronzes unearthed from the Taosi site, the Jiuwutou cemetery in Wenxi, the Qucun-Tianma site of the Jin State, the cemetery of the Peng State and the cemetery of the Ba State. “The System Evolution of Rites and Music”, with bronze ware unearthed from the cemetery of Jin Marquis and the Minister Zhao’s tomb as well as bronze treasures such as the zun vessel with inscription and the square yi vessel with inscription as realia, fully introduces the instrumental system, demonstrates the development and evolution of the ritual and music system in the Western and Eastern Zhou period, and interprets the spiritual connotation of Chinese bronzes. “The Model of Skill and Art” shows the exquisite casting technology and modelling and decorative art of bronze ware. By representing the continuous innovation of the casting technology of the Jin State through the cultural relics found in the bronze casting site in Houma, it exhibits the outstanding achievements of the Shanxi-style bronze art.
Digital elements
Shanxi Bronze Museum is characterized by various kinds of multimedia experience and intelligent museum services. Digital simulation, demonstration, interaction and service render the museum more modern and thus make the visit more interactive and interesting. The “Digital Bronze” exhibition area, with digital multimedia technology, allows viewers to experience the artistic beauty of Chinese bronze culture and enhance the audience's ability to appreciate and learn about the bronze culture. The “Educational Interaction” exhibition area combines interactive display and hands-on experience and integrates modern technology with traditional skills to popularize bronze culture knowledge to the audience. On the occasion of its opening, Bronze Museum launched free regular explanations, cultural relics drawing observation, bronze rubbing, and copying of inscriptions on ancient bronze objects.
Visitors are appreciating.
Free regular explanations
Cultural relics drawing observation
Bronze rubbing
Copying of inscriptions on ancient bronze objects
On the opening day, Shanxi Bronze Museum also launched its first temporary exhibition "The Drum-beating Sound Across Time and Space", which exhibited bronze drums collected by relevant museums in Guangxi and Yunnan and displayed splendid and colorful minority bronze drum cultures. By comparing the bronze culture in southwestern China with that in the Central Plains, the exhibition has enriched the audience's knowledge of the bronze culture.
