Hangzhou West Lake Museum is the first specialized lake museum in China. It is located on the beautiful West Lake, covering an area of 22,480 square meters. Most of the whole building extends underground, blending with the surrounding lakes and mountains, leaving no trace. The museum has four functions: exhibition, West Lake research, West Lake literature and tourism service. It was officially opened to the public on June 65438+1October 65438+1October 2005.
In order to cooperate with West Lake's application for world cultural landscape heritage, West Lake Museum closed in February 2009, enriched and adjusted the exhibition contents, and reopened on June 65438+ 10/day, 2009. The adjusted building area of West Lake Museum has been greatly expanded, from 7920 square meters to 8500 square meters. The contents of the exhibition are closely related to the application for the West Lake, which fully demonstrates the integrity and authenticity of the West Lake as a human cultural landscape heritage, and confirms the universal value of the West Lake with rich historical materials and objects. On September 20 10, West Lake Museum received experts from UNESCO World Heritage Center, and made on-the-spot assessment and acceptance of West Lake's application for world cultural landscape heritage, which was fully affirmed by world heritage experts. Make a strong contribution to the success of the West Lake in obtaining the world cultural landscape heritage.
The opening hours are 8:00- 17:00, which is open all year round.
Display display
The exhibition hall of West Lake Museum includes six chapters: preface hall, general situation of West Lake, management and landscape formation of West Lake in past dynasties, theme of West Lake, culture and spiritual home of West Lake. Walking into the West Lake Museum, you can not only see the original landscape combination and rich historical and cultural relics of the West Lake, but also feel the profound and rich cultural accumulation behind the landscape from a brand-new perspective and share the aesthetic taste of the West Lake with the world.
Preface Hall: Through the panoramic sand table of the West Lake, the overall pattern of the West Lake is presented intuitively, and the huge rain curtain of the West Lake creates a vast and beautiful artistic conception of the West Lake.
Exhibition Hall No.1: Paradise in Picture-Overview of West Lake
This paper briefly introduces the geographical position of the West Lake, and shows the material basis of the cultural landscape of the West Lake from the aspects of the mountains, water, ecology and overall pattern of the West Lake.
Show highlights:
1. Microscopic observation of water samples from West Lake
The species and activity of flora were observed by high power microscope. At the same time, the picture is transmitted to the relevant video, so that people around the observer can see it at a glance.
2. Observe the West Lake rock specimen with a crystal ball.
It is the first time for our library to try this exhibition technology in domestic museums: visitors appreciate the historical changes of rocks through crystal balls, as if magicians were exploring the past with the help of magical crystal balls.
The Second Exhibition Hall: Achievements of Governance —— Governance and Landscape Formation of West Lake in Past Dynasties
This paper describes the history of Hangzhou citizens' continuous dredging, maintenance and artificial transformation of the West Lake in order to survive and develop, and shows the inseparable relationship between Hangzhou City and the West Lake, vividly showing the continuous interaction between people and the lake.
Highlights of the exhibition: electronic screen linked with prop books
While reading the dredging history prop book, the scanner scans the bar code in the corner of the book, and the electronic screen starts to play the corresponding dredging video after receiving the signal, and reproduces the history with vivid pictures and sounds.
The third exhibition hall: poetic and picturesque-West Lake scenery
It vividly shows the origin and inheritance of the representative work "Ten Scenery of West Lake", which is the landscape design technique of ancient scenic spots in China, and leaves a rich and colorful stroke for this essence of West Lake landscape.
Highlights of the exhibition: Multi-touch West Lake landscape
Watching the introduction of the Ten Scenes of the West Lake through the interactive information desk pioneered the use of this technology in domestic museums. It not only changes the audience from "guest" to "master", but also allows many people to operate at the same time. Lively and interesting, the smart scenery of the West Lake can be shared with many tourists at the same time.
Exhibition Hall 4: Humanities Cave-West Lake Cultural Monument
This paper expounds the humanistic connotation of the West Lake landscape from the aspects of religion, loyalty and filial piety, seclusion, book collection, literature and art, and embodies its important role in the role of "spiritual home".
Show highlights:
1. Multi-scene setting
Through several scene models, such as Su Shi drinking tea with debaters, mother-in-law tattooing and Wenlange model, some representative carriers of West Lake culture are vividly displayed.
2. The Legend of the White Snake Dream Cinema
Since The Legend of the White Snake was told, the theater has interpreted this classic story in the form of ink painting, which can also reflect the elements of China, so that this legend that has been passed down through the ages can reappear through modern technology and shine brilliantly.
The Fifth Exhibition Hall (second floor): Spiritual Home-Poetry and Painting West Lake
For thousands of years, the West Lake has been a sacred place for people to gain aesthetic experience and spiritual habitat. The exhibition hall on the second floor fully proves that the West Lake landscape has been a veritable "spiritual home" of China cultural class since ancient times, and it is also a "paradise on earth" that people from all walks of life yearn for from generation to generation.
Show highlights:
1. West Lake Literature Electronic Edition
Using electronic interaction to turn pages is just like reading a real book. With the waving of hands, the projected pages are turned page by page, and viewers can enjoy themselves in the vast ocean of West Lake poetry.
2. West Lake woodblock printing
Ten scenic spots and important historical and cultural relics of the West Lake are selected and made into prints, so that tourists can participate in the printing themselves and take souvenirs home. This is a vivid representation of the famous West Lake engraving technique in history.
3. Hand-painted West Lake
After watching the exhibition, Xibo Pavilion left creative space for the audience. Here, you can splash ink with your fingers and draw a distinctive West Lake.
Boutique collection
The West Lake Museum has been devoted to collecting cultural and historical materials and precious cultural relics closely related to the West Lake. Numerous historical materials of cultural relics show the profoundness of West Lake culture. This exhibition shows many cultural and historical materials and cultural relics, such as ancient copper coins unearthed under the West Lake, bronze dragons gilded by wuyue in the Five Dynasties, bamboo branches of West Lake in the Ming Dynasty, colorful "Leifeng Zhao Xi" disc of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, blue and white Guanyin bottle of Kangxi West Lake in the Qing Dynasty, and court atlas of Qianlong West Lake in the Qing Dynasty.
social education
The West Lake Museum is a provincial patriotic education base, which is based on youth education. In the ninth grade, it carries out a variety of social education activities and has established cooperative relations with many universities, primary and secondary schools, district education bureaus and youth activity centers in Zhejiang University. The exhibition of Xibo Museum fully considers the visiting needs of young students, and the exhibition techniques pay attention to participation and interaction. Combined with the characteristics of our library, we have successively carried out a series of activities such as "treasure hunting", "film and television education base", "approaching the West Lake", "woodcut prints of the landscape of the West Lake" and "Happy Camp of Xibo Museum", which is the second classroom activity place deeply loved by young people.