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New Beijing Museum: No “Dead Corner” in Protection
New Beijing Museum, New Experience
New Beijing Museum: Masterpiece of Classicality, Modernity, and Humanity
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Beijing Museum: Treasured Relics
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For Beijing residents, the old
Beijing Museum that has lodged in the Beijing Confucian Temple since 1981
is only an old piece of architecture neglected by the temple visitors.
Few people know how many artifacts that Beijing Museum really has. In fact,
only about 500 pieces from the 250,000 cultural exhibits have been displayed
throughout the years, and many more have to be kept in storage due to limited
space and out-of-date equipment.
New Museum vs. Old Museum
Four years ago, Beijing municipal government started the construction
of the new venue in order to put more of the museum’s relics on show. The
old Beijing Museum finally accomplished her mission in October and was superseded
by the new Beijing Museum, which started trial operation on December 16th
of 2005.
The 1.23-billion-yuan (US$147 million) new venue, located on the West
Chang’an Avenue, covers an area of 24,8000 squar meters. It is 40 meters
high and has over 60,000 square meters of floor space.
With five stories above ground and two stories below, this seven-storied
building will have 5,622 items on display, which are almost 10 times the
number of exhibits displayed at the old venue. Lu Xiaofan, vice director
of the museum said that the museum was expected to be opened officially
in two or three months.
Armed with state-of-the-art technology and equipment, the museum has
13 initial theme exhibitions, presenting a complete picture of the city’s
history, architecture and folk culture.
Highlights
The exhibitions can be classified into three parts-- three basic exhibitions,
seven selected works exhibitions and two temporary exhibitions.
Three basic exhibitions are "Ancient Capital: Chapter on the History
and Culture of Beijing", "Ancient Capital: Urban Consction", and "Stories
of the Capital City--Old Beijing Folk Customs Exhibition."
The seven selected works exhibitions displaying porcelain, bronze, calligraphy,
paintings, jade, Buddhist statues, and stationery are all on show for the
first time.
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