The development history of Xiangfan City Museum

Original Museum

The original Xiangyang Museum is located in Qiaolou, South Street, Xiangcheng District, Xiangyang City. According to historical records, during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty in my country, the prefect He Yuan built a platform with two floors, built two doors, and erected a tower on the platform with a base below. On the base, he built a double-eaves double-story brick and wood structure house. The base is 40 meters long from north to south, 16 meters wide from east to west, and 6.4 meters high. The building is 9.6 meters high, facing east and west, and is a 2-story hard mountain-style wooden structure with double eaves. It is 5 rooms wide and 3 rooms deep. It was destroyed in the late Ming Dynasty. It was rebuilt on the old site in the fifth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1727), and has been repaired many times since. The ancient Qiao Tower faces east from the west and is a wooden structure building with a masonry platform. After the founding of New China, the building was heavily renovated. Later, it was used as the Xiangfan City Museum. In November 2002, it became a key cultural relic protection unit in Hubei Province.

The current Xiangyang City Museum

The Xiangyang City Museum is located in Zhaoming Terrace in the ancient city of Xiangyang. Zhaoming Terrace is a high-rise antique building on a city platform rebuilt in 1993, covering an area of ??4202.2 square meters. The construction area is 9739 square meters. There are currently two basic exhibition halls and three temporary exhibition halls. The basic display is on display all year round in the exhibition hall on the second and third floors of Chengtai. The exhibition hall covers an area of ??more than 3,200 square meters. The basic exhibition theme is: "Listening to the Footnotes of Civilization and Tasting the Legacy of the North and the South - Xiangyang Ancient History and Culture Exhibition". Nearly 4 879 pieces (sets) of various types of high-quality cultural relics were selected from 10,000 cultural relics, using pictures, objects, models, audio and video and other forms to display the clear context and profound heritage of Xiangyang's history and culture since 200,000 years ago.

Since its establishment in April 1975, it has collected nearly 70,000 cultural relics and specimens of different eras and categories through archaeological excavations, social donations, private collections, receipts and transfers, and allocations (archaeological Excavations are still being unearthed), including 102 first-class cultural relics, 378 second-class cultural relics, and 4,709 third-class cultural relics. The collection is complete in variety, including pottery, copper, porcelain, iron, lead and tin, gold and silver, lacquered wood, jade, stone, agate, materials, crystal, wax, bone, teeth, horns, calligraphy and painting, rubbings, etc., covering a wide era. From the Late Paleolithic Age to the present day. The bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties are particularly distinctive. The most concentrated ones are the bronzes of the vassal states from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the late Spring and Autumn Period. The quantity and quality of bronzes with inscriptions rank among the top in the province. The vassal states involved include E, Deng, Zeng, Chu, and Zheng. , Fu, Cai, Huang, Wei, Xian, Ying, Wu, Xu, Xu, Qin, etc. There are also a complete collection of cultural relics from the Three Kingdoms period, bronze mirrors from the Warring States Period to the Qing Dynasty, rich portrait tiles from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, small Ming and Qing Taoist statues, thousands of original rubbings from the collection, etc., which also have certain characteristics. The revolutionary cultural relics, documents and materials in the museum are blank.

As a public cultural service institution, Xiangyang Museum has relatively complete service facilities, such as visiting instructions, guide maps, various signs, electronic display screens, audience rest areas, audience opinion books, etc. , warmly remind everyone to visit in a civilized manner and disseminate service information in a timely manner.

After being open for free for more than four years, the Xiangyang Museum has received more than 1,200 visiting groups of various types from home and abroad, with a total number of visitors of 350,000 per year, and has achieved good social benefits.

In order to let people understand the fine cultural relics of the Municipal Museum and highlight the history and culture of Xiangyang, we squeezed out funds to edit and publish two atlases, "Excellent Cultural Relics Collection of Xiangfan Municipal Museum" and "Exhibition of Cultural Relics of Xiangfan Municipal Museum" , and will soon publish two books to popularize cultural relics, "Scanning Historical Sites in Xiangyang" and "Tour of Xiangyang Treasures".

In order to fully demonstrate Xiangyang’s rich historical and cultural heritage, promote Xiangyang to audiences at home and abroad, promptly report the city’s fruitful civilizational achievements to the general public, meet people’s diverse cultural appreciation needs, and attract citizens many times When entering the museum, while organizing basic displays, the Municipal Museum also actively prepares temporary exhibitions to give full play to the museum's publicity and education function.

So far, 18 temporary exhibitions have been held, including "Exhibition of Calligraphy and Painting by Modern Chinese Masters", "Memory of Xiangfan - Exhibition of Old Photos of Xiangfan for a Century", "China's No. 1 Bronze Horse - Exhibition of Bronze Horses Unearthed from the Tomb of the Three Kingdoms in Fancheng", "Exhibition of Important New Discovery Results of the Third National Cultural Relics Census in Xiangyang City", "Combating Cultural Relics Crime and Protecting Cultural Wealth - Photo Exhibition of Recovered Cultural Relics Achievements in Gucheng", "Exhibition of Fine Cultural Relics Unearthed from Chenpo Tomb in Xiangyang", "Good Wind in Xiangyang" Day - Xiangyang City's First Cursive Calligraphy Exhibition", "Xiangyang Sunny Day - Xiangyang City's First Cursive Calligraphy Exhibition", "Chutian Xiangyang Cable Spring - Wang Taixiong and Wang Shilin Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition", "Qin Furong Donated Cultural Relics Exhibition", " Glorious Course and Great Achievements - Exhibition to Celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", "Towards Peace of China - Exhibition to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Revolution of 1911", "Exhibition of Jiang Jialin's Lianmo Art Works", "Liu Changbin's Book of History" Poet's Ode to Xiangyang Art Works Exhibition", "The Spirit of the Dragon, the Dragon Flying to Xiangyang, and the Dragon's Descendants" and "The National Flower is Blooming, the Country is Beautiful and Fragrant, the Country is Rich and the People are Strong" - Cai Mingzhen and Zhang Jinpeng's Calligraphy and Painting Art Exhibition", "Wang Binkun Ticket Art Exhibition", "Seven Years of Grassroots Journey - Exhibition of Achievements of Gleaners in Protecting Cultural Heritage", etc. He also went to Beijing to participate in the "United Wills and Thunder Attack - Exhibition of the Achievements of the Special Action to Combat Cultural Relics Crime in Key Areas across the Country", to Wuhan to participate in the "Jingchu Yinghua - Joint Exhibition of Fine Cultural Relics Collections in Museums across the Province", and to Xi'an to participate in "The Image of Sex and the Image Changed - —Exhibition of the origins of ancient Chinese murals. In 2013, the "Xiangyang Treasures Photo Tour Exhibition" was actively carried out, and the exhibition was sent to schools, communities, military units and other places.

As a famous historical and cultural city with a history of more than 2,800 years, Xiangyang has tens of thousands of precious cultural relics. Zhaoming Terrace, where the museum is located, is a landmark building in Xiangyang City and is known as the longest antique cultural street in the country. The leader of the street. Xiangyang has always been a battleground for military strategists and a gathering place for literati and poets throughout the ages. It is rich in cultural relics on the ground and underground. The museum currently has more than 10,000 cultural relics, among which it is particularly famous for its rich collection of bronzes, ceramics, ancient calligraphy and paintings, and ancient books and stone carvings. A cultural relics expert said: "The portrait of Confucius painted by the famous Tang Dynasty artist Wu Daozi and the stone carving of Meng Haoran painted by the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei are all national treasures. The number of bronze artifacts also ranks first among similar cities in the province. The Xiangyang Municipal Museum is in the extreme To a large extent, the artistic essence and historical treasures that have been discovered in Xiangyang area for thousands of years have been concentrated.

Xiangyang New Museum

The planning and construction of the new Xiangyang Museum has begun. The museum is located in Fenghuang Shanchong in the east of Xianshan, Xiangcheng District. It covers an area of ??212 acres and has a construction area of ??30,000 square meters. The new museum after completion will not only be a palace to display Xiangyang's fine cultural relics and long history, but also satisfy the leisure needs of citizens and tourists. Entertainment needs. On the north side of the square of hundreds of square meters, the museum's academic lecture halls, exhibition halls, and office buildings are scattered in an orderly manner. The outside of the main building is modeled after the ancient city of Xiangyang, forming a three-story square city platform building with four corners and four floors standing high in the middle. The pointed-top pavilion-style building was named Fenghuang Pavilion based on the Fenghuang Mountain on its back. The Fenghuang Pavilion will echo the Zhaoming Tower in Xiangyang City in the north, and the Xianshou Pavilion in the east will be restored.