Architectural introduction
Lanzhou Museum Lanzhou Museum is the former site of Baiyi Temple. According to the "Rebuilding the Pagoda of Baiyi Temple" established by Qing Xianfeng in the temple, "Baiyi Temple was built by the former Ming King.
According to legend, it is the merit of the princess, which has been more than 400 years.
"The White Temple faces south and has two courtyards.
The front yard is the White Bodhisattva Hall, which contains a white Guanyin statue, hence the name White Temple.
Jialan Temple is in the east, the Earth Temple is in the west, and the White Pagoda is in the backyard.
Baiyi Temple Tower is a solid brick tower with a height of about 30 meters. The tower foundation is square, strewn at random, with a length and width of about 7 meters and a height of 2.8 meters, and it is carved on all sides.
The lower part of the tower is bowl-shaped and 8 meters high.
At the junction of Zhengnan Taki, there is a Buddhist shrine with a couplet embedded outside, which is now blurred. According to the newspaper of the Republic of China, the couplets are: the jade column and the exquisite emperor sit, and the golden city protects the eternal grace.
According to textual research, according to the inscription, the author of the couplet is Su Ming Wang Zhu Zhishu, who advocates Taoism and "Taihua Zhenren" is his nickname.
The upper part of the tower is an octagonal cone with a height of about18.5m.. It has twelve dense eaves, and there is a Buddhist shrine on each side of each floor, which contains 96 Buddha statues. There is a wind chime hanging on each corner of each floor, and there are 96 wind chimes in the whole tower.
The tower brake is about 1 m high and looks like an Aquarius.
General pagodas have odd floors, while Baiyi Temple Pagoda has even floors, which is extremely rare in pagodas.
1986, during the maintenance of Baiyi Temple Tower, more than 30 precious cultural relics were found at the top of the tower, among which gold thread, precious jade carving Guanyin hairpin and gem fish Blue Guanyin hairpin were particularly precious.
Baiyi Temple is now a provincial cultural relics protection unit.
Basic display
Buddha statues in the collection
Lanzhou Historical and Cultural Exhibition aims at "carrying forward the essence of cultural relics in Lanzhou and showing the centuries-old customs of Lanzhou", and exhibits more than 200 cultural relics such as Majiayao, Qijia, Xindian cultural pottery, cultural relics in Baiyi Temple Tower, Buddha statues, bronzes and funerary wares of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Focus on the ancient civilization created by ancient ancestors in Lanzhou, and enlighten people's understanding and love for the Yellow River civilization in Lanzhou.
"Fine Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition" * * * exhibited 78 works by famous local painters and painters in Lanzhou, showing the artistic charm of painting and calligraphy in Longshang with unique regional characteristics in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Precious collection
Vortex serrated ear painted pottery drum mud red pottery.
The upper end of the utensil is a straight tube, and the lower end is a big horn. There are six protruding chest nails on the edge of the big horn.
It is one of the earliest percussion instruments found at present.
Kuiwen bronze GUI in Western Zhou Dynasty.
The abdomen is almost rectangular, with round feet turned outwards below.
The animal head has two ears, and there are two ears from the lower part of the animal head to the bottom of the abdomen.
The main decorative pattern is a scroll-shaped dragon pattern, based on Yun Leiwen.
Characteristic activity
Folklore and Tradition —— Talking about the Dragon Boat Festival and exhibitions of Lanzhou calligraphers' works during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China are often held, so that the audience can understand the rich connotation of China's traditional culture from many angles.
Every year, the collection appraisal and appreciation activities are held irregularly, and the collection appraisal and consultation services are provided for folk collectors.
Gansu Provincial Museum
Introduction to the museum
"The ancient Silk Road is 3,000 miles, and the Yellow River civilization is 8,000 years.
Gansu is the birthplace of Fuxi and Nu Wa, ancestors of China people in ancient myths and legends. As one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, Gansu section of the ancient "Silk Road" is one of the major cultural relics provinces in China because of its special geographical environment and long history and cultural relics. Gansu Provincial Museum also has historical relics, modern cultural relics, national cultural relics and paleontological fossils and specimens.
From the fossil specimens of Cretaceous paleontology to the painted pottery culture of Paleolithic and Neolithic Age; From bronzes and ceramic jade articles since Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Silk Road civilization in Han and Tang Dynasties; Our museum has a rich collection, including Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing porcelain, wood carving, silk and painting.
Among them, the collection of painted pottery, Han bamboo slips, documents, treasures of the Han and Tang Silk Road and Buddhist art treasures is the most prominent.
These collections are of high historical, scientific and artistic value and have distinctive local characteristics. In order to give full play to the value of cultural relics, apart from the conventional physical exhibition, it is undoubtedly the best choice to provide them with a more open display mode, so that the long-hidden cultural relics can be appreciated by the masses and the ancient historical civilization of China can be known to the world.
We try to build a mobile virtual museum through the internet, where the solidified history will be organically combined with the mobile modern information to provide us with communication across time and space. Here, it will show you another charm of Gansu Provincial Museum.
Since the museum was established, more than 82,000 historical relics have been collected through archaeological excavation, collection and donation, including more than 3,000 historical relics that can be called fine works, 0/6 national treasures/kloc-0 (groups) and 720 national first-class cultural relics (groups).
From the fossil specimens of Cretaceous paleontology to the painted pottery culture of Paleolithic and Neolithic Age; From bronzes and ceramic jade articles since Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Silk Road civilization in Han and Tang Dynasties; There is a rich collection of porcelain, woodcarving, silk and paintings of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Bronze galloping horses, chariots and horses unearthed from Leitai Han Tomb in Wuwei, ritual bamboo slips unearthed from Mozizi Han Tomb in Wuwei, medical bamboo slips unearthed from Gantanpo, relic gold coffin of Dayun Temple in Jingchuan in Tang Dynasty, and silk paintings of "repaying parents' kindness and changing scriptures" in Dunhuang Tibetan Sutra Cave in the second year of Chunhua in Northern Song Dynasty are all well-known cultural relics at home and abroad.
In addition, the bronze galloping horse in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the "postal map" portrait brick in the Wei and Jin Dynasties have been designated as the symbols of national tourism and post and telecommunications respectively.
The ancient elephant fossils of the Yellow River collected in the museum are the largest ancient elephant fossils in China and the most complete skeleton fossils of the saber-toothed elephant in the world.
There is also the largest sauropod dinosaur in Asia-the ancient fossil specimen of Mamenxilong in Hechuan, which is world-famous and has a great influence.
In 2006, the new Gansu Provincial Museum was restored and opened. The new building covers an area of 28,000 square meters, including a collection warehouse area of 7,600 square meters and an exhibition area of 9,000 square meters. It is an intelligent building integrating office area, collection warehouse area and exhibition area. Have a variety of modern facilities to achieve all-round image service. Large screen and TV touch screen can provide a large number of color graphic information for viewers to choose at will.
At the same time, Internet international websites make the collection, research and display of cultural relics in Gansu Provincial Museum enjoy network resources.
Edit this theme exhibition
After the completion of the new museum, according to the characteristics and advantages of cultural relics in Gansu Province, three permanent theme exhibitions, namely "Gansu painted pottery", "Gansu Silk Road civilization" and "Gansu paleontological fossils", were presented to the society, and won the "Top Ten Exhibition Award of the Seventh National Museum" in 2007.
"Gansu painted pottery" exhibition hall
Gansu is located at the intersection of Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Mengxin Plateau in northwest China. It is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River basin, where there are very rich ancient cultural relics and it is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization.
Gansu is a big painted pottery province in China, and is known as the hometown of painted pottery.
The prehistoric relics in the province are densely distributed, with rich cultural connotations, and the unearthed artifacts are numerous and of high grade, which occupies an unparalleled position in the world painted pottery culture.
The Dadiwan site in Qin 'an, Gansu Province preserves the complete accumulation of Yangshao culture in the early, middle and late stages, which is consistent with the Yangshao cultural remains in Henan and Shaanxi, and provides important clues for solving the origin of Yangshao culture.
Nearly a hundred years of archaeological research shows that Gansu is the birthplace of painted pottery in China, and it is the region with the longest duration, the largest variety, the richest types, the most exquisite production, the most gorgeous patterns and the highest artistic value in the Neolithic Age in China.
Dadiwan culture, Yangshao culture, Majiayao culture and painted pottery in the bronze age complement each other in the "Gansu Painted Pottery" exhibition hall. The most striking ones are broadband three-legged painted pottery bowls, painted pottery bottles with human heads and famous paintings in Dadiwan.
Gansu Silk Road Civilization Exhibition Hall
"Gansu Silk Road Civilization" Exhibition Hall
Camel bell bursts, Qiang flute melodious.
The exploitation and development of the Silk Road, the blending and collision of eastern and western cultures have left countless splendid historical, cultural and artistic treasures in Gansu, showing the glory of ancient civilization.
The "Gansu Silk Road Civilization" exhibition hall displays more than 420 exquisite cultural relics that systematically reflect the ancient Silk Road, including the northern grassland culture bronzes, bronze galloping guards, Han and Tang silk products, Buddhist statues, gold and silver utensils, Tang Sancai, Yuan Dynasty blue and white and other colorful cultural heritages.
Gansu paleontological fossil exhibition hall
"Gansu Paleontological Fossils" Exhibition Hall
The "Gansu Paleontological Fossils" exhibition hall shows a large number of paleontological fossils discovered in Gansu, including Maple Museum, Marine Animal Museum, Dinosaur Museum and Yellow River Ancient Elephant Museum.
This paper introduces all kinds of paleontological fossils found in Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic during the evolution of the earth and life, as well as their living environment and related knowledge.
Other temporary exhibitions
Over the years, the Gansu Provincial Museum has successively presented the golden bronze statue of Gansu Buddhism, the ancient calligraphy art exhibition of Gansu, the century-old special exhibition of the discovery of the Tibetan Sutra Cave in Dunhuang, the collection and painting exhibition of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the photo exhibition of Gansu spirit and earthquake relief, the fine bronze wares exhibition of Shang Dynasty in Xingan Oceania, the cultural relics exhibition of the Silk Road in Xinjiang, and the wildlife-the natural heritage of mankind.
In addition, the Ministry of Social Education of the Museum also organizes museum volunteers to carry out "Friends of the Museum" activities, hold popular science lectures and expert explanations, and "send cultural relics to the campus and enter the military camp" to carry out a variety of social education activities, which provides a broad platform for the innovative practice of museum education.
The development of history
1939, the board of directors of Sino-British boxer indemnity established Gansu Science Education Museum.
1943 was renamed as National Gansu Science and Education Museum.
1950, renamed Northwest People's Science Museum.
1956, officially named Gansu Provincial Museum.