The National Dunhuang Art Research Institute was established and began to manage and protect Dunhuang grottoes. From 65438 to 0949, the National Dunhuang Art Research Institute was renamed Dunhuang Cultural Relics Research Institute, and a protection room (group) was established, and the rescue, restoration and protection of the Mogao Grottoes began.
1984
Dunhuang Cultural Relics Research Institute was expanded to Dunhuang Research Institute, and the protection room was expanded to Dunhuang Research Institute. She is the earliest specialized institution engaged in the protection of grotto cultural relics in China. In the past 50 years, it has developed into a scientific research entity focusing on the protection of grotto cultural relics, murals, statue restoration and engineering reinforcement. The protection institute consists of environmental research room, analysis research room, restoration technology room, file information reference room, image processing research room and cultural relics protection technology service center; It also owns the Conservation Research Institute of Dunhuang Research Institute, the Getty Institute (GCI) of the United States, the National Institute of Cultural Property in Tokyo, Japan, and the cooperative project research office of Osaka University, Japan. It has formed a team of protection technology and restoration technology composed of doctors, masters, bachelors, chemistry, physics, engineering geology, computers, forestry, architecture, surveying and mapping, photography, meteorology and other disciplines, with nearly 50 senior, middle and junior titles. It also has a number of advanced analytical and environmental monitoring instruments and equipment, such as X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, Fourier infrared, polarizing microscope and automatic environmental monitoring instrument. The current director is Dr. Wang Xudong.
Over the past decades, three grottoes in Dunhuang have been reinforced, and murals and colored sculptures have been restored and reinforced. At the same time, it has helped to complete or is completing dozens of major cultural relics protection and maintenance projects in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Henan, Ningxia, Tibet, Zhejiang and other provinces, such as mural painting, color plastic restoration, and soil site reinforcement projects. At present, there are more than 40 protection scientific research projects issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology, National Cultural Heritage Administration and other departments. Among them, it won national and provincial awards 12 and national invention patents 1. In cooperation with some universities and scientific research institutes in China, we have successively completed high-tech projects such as Gansu Provincial Science and Technology Commission's key scientific and technological project "Study on Computer Storage and Management System of Dunhuang Murals", National Science and Technology Commission's Ninth Five-Year Plan National Scientific and Technological Project "Computer Storage and Replication System of Endangered and Precious Cultural Relics", National 863 Project "Application of Shuguang Power Station in Cultural Relics Protection" and National Natural Science Foundation. The research and implementation of the above projects will open up a new field for our country to use computer technology to store cultural relics.
In the late 1980s.
We started the project of international cooperation to protect Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, and successively cooperated with foreign institutions such as Tokyo National Institute of Cultural Property, American Getty Protection Institute (GCI), Tokyo University of the Arts, Osaka University, American Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University to study the protection and preservation of Dunhuang Grottoes. From 65438 to 0993, our institute, GCI and China Institute of Cultural Relics successfully held the International Academic Conference on the Protection of Ancient Silk Road Sites. "China Grottoes Cultural Relics Protection Research Training Course" sponsored by UNESCO and entrusted by National Cultural Heritage Administration. In 2000, entrusted by National Cultural Heritage Administration, the "Earth Site Protection Training Course" was held. The Protection Research Institute of Dunhuang Research Institute will base itself on Dunhuang, face the national grottoes, murals and earthen sites, look around the world, continue to strengthen cooperation and exchanges with domestic and foreign countries, seize the rare development opportunity of the western development, and make new contributions to the protection of human cultural heritage.