Located in the Confucian Temple, the old Capital Museum Capital Museum is a large-scale comprehensive museum in Beijing, belonging to the provincial and municipal level comprehensive museums in China. Capital Museum in 1953 began preparations, in October 1981 officially opened to the public. At that time, the museum was located in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Street in Dongcheng District, Beijing. The Confucian Temple covers an area of 22,000 square meters, was founded in the Yuan Dynasty in the sixth year of Dade (1302 A.D.), through successive generations of repair, three courtyards are well preserved. The main buildings include the Gate of the First Master, the Dacheng Gate, the Dacheng Hall and the Chongsheng Ancestral Hall. The inscription forest of Ming and Qing scholars is the only one in China. The two sides of the hall for the exhibition hall, an area of more than 2,000 square meters, the environment is elegant and quiet.
In order to accommodate more collections and to serve more tourists, in 1999, as a key cultural construction project during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period of Beijing, the project application for the construction of the new Capital Museum was approved by the Beijing Municipal Government in 1999, and the foundation stone was officially laid in December 2001 for the construction of the new museum. The new museum was officially opened on May 18, 2006, and is located on the western extension of Chang'an Street, the first street in China, on the west side of Baiyun Road (No. 16 Fuxingmenwai Avenue) in Xicheng District. The new Capital Museum is a modern comprehensive museum with the most advanced facilities. The exhibitions and displays in the new museum are based on the collections of the Capital Museum over the years and the unearthed relics in Beijing as the basic materials, absorbing the latest research results of Beijing's history, cultural relics, archaeology and related disciplines, and drawing on the successful experiences of museums at home and abroad to form a modernized exhibition display with unique Beijing characteristics. With its grand architecture, rich exhibitions, advanced technology and perfect functions, the Capital Museum has become a large-scale museum in line with Beijing's status as a "famous historical and cultural city", "cultural center" and "international metropolis".
The Capital Museum has become a large-scale modernized museum that is commensurate with Beijing's status as a "famous city of history and culture", "cultural center" and "international metropolis", and has become one of the "first-class domestic and international advanced" museums.
The Capital Museum is a modern comprehensive museum with the most advanced facilities, is the Beijing Municipal Government invested in the construction of large-scale modern cultural facilities for the 21st century, one of the landmarks of the new century in Beijing. For its outstanding contribution to the reform and development of cultural heritage protection, the Capital Museum was awarded the title of Advanced Collective in the National Cultural Relics System on May 24, 2007 by the Ministry of Personnel of the People's Republic of China and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
[Edit Paragraph]Exhibits Display
Since its opening, the Capital Museum has organized many well-received historical relics display exhibitions both at home and abroad, such as "Beijing Historical Relics Display", "Historical Display of the Yuan Dynasty Capital", "Old Beijing Spring Festival Folklore Exhibition", "Collection of Ceramics of All Times, Calligraphy and Painting Authenticity and Falsehood Dialectic Exhibition", "Beijing Historical and Cultural Exhibitions", etc. Hundreds of exhibitions have been held. Inside: basic display, special exhibition, temporary exhibition, cultural relics warehouse, social education area, business research area, administrative office area, comprehensive service area and underground garage. The new museum with perfect function, advanced facilities, among the international advanced, domestic first-class modern museum ranks. So that the collection of cultural relics, exhibitions, restoration, research, education, communication into one.
In 2000, the Capital Museum, when the construction of the new museum was launched, the exhibition outline of the preparation work began immediately; exhibition outline by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University, the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences and other academic institutions, a number of academic authorities, and strive to reflect the latest achievements have been recognized by the academic community. The exhibition design strives to use new design concepts, break through the traditional, boring display mode, make full use of modern display technology and techniques, create different categories of display atmosphere, give the audience an experiential visit experience, with the form of affinity, fun, interactivity, to achieve elegance and vulgarity **** appreciation.
Decades, the capital museum extensive collection of various types of cultural relics, the collection of cultural relics has reached two hundred and fifty thousand pieces, including: bronze, ceramics, painting and calligraphy, stone carvings, coins, jade, seals and seals, weaving and embroidery, bamboo, wood, teeth and horns, buddhist statues, stationery, folk crafts, etc., the collection is also not lacking in the reputation of the domestic and international reputation of the orphaned and treasures. Capital Museum collection of various types of cultural relics totaled more than 83,000 pieces, of which 305 pieces of first-class. Most of the collections are relics unearthed in Beijing after the founding of the People's Republic of China, ranging from the Neolithic Age, the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. The collection of treasures, such as the Beijing suburb of Liuli River unearthed in the Zhou Dynasty copper "cordial tripod", 62 cm high, weighing 41.5 kg, the inner wall has an inscription of 4 lines of 26 words, the study of Beijing's ancient history has an important role. In addition, there are also "Bo矩鬲", "Jasper version of thirteen lines" and so on.
The Capital Museum has basic display, fine display and temporary exhibition.
The basic displays include "Ancient Capital Beijing - History and Culture", "Ancient Capital Beijing - City Construction", and "Old Beijing Story - Old Beijing Folklore Exhibition". The "Ancient Capital Beijing - History and Culture" and "Ancient Capital Beijing - City Construction" are the core of the exhibition of the Capital Museum, which shows the magnificent Beijing culture and the history of the development of the capital city that has been constantly rising to splendor, and has become the brand display for the creation of a first-class museum in China.
The fine display of "ancient porcelain art exhibition", "yandi bronze art exhibition", "ancient calligraphy art exhibition", "ancient painting art exhibition", "ancient jade art exhibition", "ancient buddhist art exhibition", "study treasures exhibition". These seven exhibitions and the "Old Beijing Folklore Exhibition" are a supplement to and deepening of Beijing's cultural presentation.
The above exhibitions*** exhibit 5622 pieces of cultural relics in the collection.
The temporary exhibition is a stage for studying and viewing the relationship between Beijing culture and other regional cultures, and between Chinese culture and the world's cultural exchanges.
[edit]Design concept
Interior view of the Capital Museum The architectural design concept of the Capital Museum is "people-oriented, heritage-oriented, and serving the society", emphasizing the "harmonious unity of the past and the future, the history and the modernity, and the art and the nature. The design of the Capital Museum is based on the concept of "people-oriented, heritage-oriented and serving the society". The design of the Capital Museum originates from the idea that a museum is a place that connects history, modernity, and the future, and juxtaposes traditional and modern materials to express the portrayal of history and the future. The tilted bronze body breaks through the wall, giving rise to images of artifacts being excavated; the overhanging roof no doubt alludes to traditional Chinese eaves, while the suspended framed brick wall blurs the line between ancient city wall and modern curtain wall; the plaza's sloping form is inspired by the high-topped architecture of the royal palaces, which emphasizes the grandeur of the structure. The simple rectangular plan harmonizes with the urban pattern of Beijing, and the asymmetrical form echoes the corner space of the street. Traditional materials such as bronze, wood and masonry represent Beijing's long history. Stainless steel roofs, glass curtain walls and advanced construction techniques represent the modernity of the new Beijing. The sunny hall, the four-season bamboo garden, introduces landscape space into the museum. The outdoor sunken bamboo garden extends to the interior, breaking the closed and dull feeling of the traditional museum space and creating an open, cozy and bright cultural and leisure environment. The interplay of time and space between the garden and the cultural relics exhibition hall shows the unique oriental art charm.
[edit]Architectural style
The new museum of the Capital Museum has a construction site area of 24,800 square meters, with a total floor area of 63,390 square meters, two floors underground and five floors above ground, with a green cultural plaza in the northern part of the building, and a sunken bamboo courtyard in the eastern part of the building. The building (above ground) is 152 meters long from east to west, 66 meters wide from north to south, and the building height is 41 meters. The shape of the building is mainly composed of three parts: a rectangular enclosing structure, an elliptical facade and a metal roof. The interior of the building is divided into three separate buildings, namely: the rectangular pavilion, the oval thematic pavilion, and the strip-shaped office and research building. The space between the three is the central hall and the indoor bamboo courtyard. The use of natural light, the ancient Chinese pagoda, the sunken bamboo courtyard, and the gurgling water create a humanistic and natural environment for the audience.
The Capital Museum building itself is a work of architectural art that combines classical and modern beauty, with strong national characteristics and a distinctive sense of modernity. The huge roof inherits the far-reaching eaves of traditional Chinese architecture; the long stone curtain wall symbolizes the ancient city wall of China; the slope of the plaza inherits the ancient high platform architectural style; the ground outside the north door of the hall is inlaid with the Dan陛 of the Qing Dynasty, and there is a pagoda of the Ming Dynasty inside the hall, which embodies the characteristics of the central axis of the plane of the traditional Chinese architecture; and the oval bronze pavilion slanting out of the wall signifies that the ancient cultural relics are breaking out of the ground. Bronze, wood and masonry of a large number of applications more show a long history. The stone used for the floor of the North Square and the lobby is produced in Fangshan area, which has been supplying stone for the construction of Beijing since ancient times; the exterior decoration of the square exhibition hall is made of elm wood, which is the most common wood in Beijing; the exterior decoration of the oval exhibition hall is made of bronze material and decorated with the patterns of the bronze vessels of the Western Zhou period unearthed in Beijing. The steel structure roof and glass curtain wall show Beijing's powerful pace of the times, and the tall space and transparent visual effect comply with the international fashion trend of contemporary architecture.
[Edit Paragraph]Architectural Indicators and Functions
The Capital Museum is not only an important cultural facility, but also a base for cultural relics preservation, cultural relics research, and dissemination of the spirit of patriotism, history and scientific knowledge to the public and young people in the Beijing area, and also an important place for ceremonial and celebratory activities in Beijing, as well as a desirable place for the people to go for tourism and leisure. It is also an ideal place for people's tourism and leisure. The architectural design emphasizes the specific functional requirements of the museum and tries to deal with the relationship between various functional areas in a clear, concise and logical way. The main functional areas are divided into: exhibition area, social education area, comprehensive service area, business research area, underground parking garage, administrative office, safety and security area, collection library area, equipment area.
Environmental monitoring of cultural relics safety: the Capital Museum adopts the advanced and unique intelligent air-conditioning system of constant humidity and constant temperature, which controls the change of relative humidity of the cultural relics storage room and exhibition hall within 2%, which greatly ensures the safety of cultural relics storage; at the same time, it also makes the temperature of the exhibition hall with the outside world's natural temperature fluctuate with a certain degree of magnitude, to get a better degree of comfort to the human being.
Ceremony and public activities: when holding ceremonial activities, before the ceremony, the hall multimedia projection screen will show relevant slogans and background information. During the ceremony, the hall has an even and clear sound from all parts of the hall. The hall is equipped with news photography power and release information terminals, which can automatically and jointly control the relevant lighting, curtains, sound, projection and other equipment according to the process of meetings and ceremonies. The big screen in the outdoor plaza can simultaneously broadcast the ceremony live, and carry out live shooting and recording by itself. The corresponding multimedia CD-ROM is available within half an hour immediately after the ceremony.
Audience on-site service: Inside the various gates of the museum and in the halls, a visiting guide system is installed to allow the public to freely browse and inquire about the basic situation of the museum and visiting information. Ticketing system sells the museum's full-price, discounted price and other kinds of tickets, can automatically identify the authenticity of the ticket, the denomination, and allows the audience to return to continue to visit even if they temporarily leave the museum in the middle of the day.
Information technology services: information technology will be the past history of audio and video data digitization of the establishment of audio and video program database and on-demand system, which allows the audience through the computer screen or telephone dialing free on-demand want to listen to, watch the opera, opera programs.
Multi-functional lecture hall: through the digital network, radio, television network (wired/wireless) and on-site video broadcasting, data network interactive broadcasting, post-production of electronic publications, to realize the combination of on-site meetings and network meetings. Internet users, no matter where they are, can participate in live academic discussions in real time by browsing the local area network (LAN) of the Library.
Central Ceremonial Hall - with an area of more than 2,000 square meters and a height of 34 meters, it is decorated with prominent Chinese cultural features and a strong modern flavor, making it an ideal place for holding ceremonial and large-scale cultural activities;
Exhibition Halls. Different types of exhibition halls are relatively independent, which not only facilitates the audience to visit selectively and shorten the visiting route, but also facilitates security management. The wide area and sufficient height of the exhibition halls also provide ideal space for rich and diverse exhibition design. 3000-square-meter temporary exhibition halls will provide a first-class display platform for domestic and international cultural and artistic exchanges. Intelligent temperature and humidity control system, security and fire control system, for the most precious level of cultural relics exhibition provides the conditions.
The cultural relics storage room - adequate area, reasonable separation; advanced and complete security and fire-fighting facilities; with a 10-ton hydraulic elevator, the cultural relics transporter can be transported from the ground to the second basement level of the storage room, which is currently unique for Chinese and foreign museums.
Multifunctional conference hall - with multilingual simultaneous interpretation, digital movie playback, conference voting system, conference hall dedicated website and other domestic most selected facilities.
Digital Screening Hall--Extra-wide viewing angle curved screen, can play high-definition digital movies, the resolution of this equipment is the highest at home and abroad at present; at present, the first movie is Splendid Beijing; in the future, it will produce three-dimensional digital movies.
[Edit Paragraph]Advanced Technology
Collection, display and research are the three main tasks of museums, and the new museum of the Shou Bo has fully absorbed and adopted the advanced technology of today's world museum construction, and has reached the first-class level in China in these three aspects.
Intelligent engineering - the exhibition hall to install intelligent control of temperature and humidity of the air-conditioning system to ensure that the exhibition hall audience activities in the space is comfortable temperature and humidity, while the display cabinets to maintain the temperature and humidity conducive to the protection of cultural relics; in the cultural relics warehouse is based on the different materials of cultural relics storage area to provide different temperatures and humidity. Pavilion security technology prevention system (including parking management and lighting control), fire monitoring and automatic fire extinguishing system (including emergency broadcasting system), building automation system, sound and light linkage control system, the full realization of intelligent; which automatic fire extinguishing is also for the properties of cultural relics are fragile and afraid of water to make a special design.
Digital museum construction--Shou Bo digital construction project is an innovative project in the national cultural and museum sector:
(1) the construction of the museum's information resources to achieve a complete framework of digital technology; collection management to achieve digital management;
(2) exhibitions to make full use of digital technology as an auxiliary means of the necessary location of the exhibition. As an auxiliary means, a variety of multimedia display projects such as multi-screen projection, phantom imaging, virtual reality images, digital films, etc. are set up in the necessary positions of the exhibition in order to strengthen the exhibition effect; it breaks the tediousness and monotony of the previous textbook exhibitions;
(3) it takes the lead in the country to establish a comprehensive information platform based on the specialized subsystems of museums that serves all the departments of the whole museum as well as the audience (including the audience outside of the museum). comprehensive information platform.
The digitized professional subsystems of the Capital Museum include 11 items, such as the cultural heritage information management system, the multimedia display backstage management system, and the website of the Capital Museum.
Multimedia display--In the exhibition, multimedia display means are widely used, such as multi-screen projection (used for the first time in the field of international museums), phantom imaging, and digital movies, to strengthen the effect of the exhibition and deepen the conveyance of information on the physical exhibits, which completely breaks the tediousness and monotony of the previous textbook display of historical relics.
Environmental protection, energy saving - the use of skinned amorphous flexible solar power generation panels, is the first domestic museum and cultural venues using solar power. The museum also uses energy-saving lamps and lanterns, colloidal batteries EPS emergency power supply; the museum decorative materials and display cabinets and other exhibition supplies are in line with national standards of green products.
Restoration of cultural relics -- the introduction of complete sets of advanced cultural relics protection and restoration equipment, the use of high-tech means to comprehensively improve the level of cultural relics protection and restoration, so that the Capital Museum has become a center for cultural relics protection and restoration of the northern region of China.
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Based on perfect and advanced equipments and facilities, and the principle of humanized service concept;
Reception Service--With multi-language service consulting, goods storage cabinet, public **** drinking water counter, rest seats, motorized and non-motorized parking lot, etc.. And for the handicapped, we have prepared handicapped elevators, wheelchairs, disabled phones; for infants, we have prepared baby rooms, strollers, and so on. It is also equipped with six touchscreens for use by special groups.
Guide and interpretation services - free multilingual guide maps for visitors, exhibition color pages in English and Chinese versions of the exhibition; the provision of multilingual interpreters to explain, expert interpretation of special sessions; touch-screen query computers, multilingual intelligent voice guide machine, as well as the first in the country to adopt the multilingual personal handheld computer (PDA) guides.
The Central Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) has been working on the development of a new system for the promotion and protection of human rights.
Large screen in the central ceremonial hall - a full-color large screen with the highest resolution in the world is used to show digital films introducing the exhibitions, temporary exhibitions and historical places in Beijing; a double-color large screen is used to show exhibition and service information in text.
Educational and interactive services--The museum organizes special lectures, children's theme activities, hands-on experience programs, interactive multimedia programs, etc. all year round.
Leisure and business services--Restaurants, cafes, tea rooms, souvenir stores, bookstores, ATMs, post boxes, public telephones and other facilities are open to visitors.
The Capital Museum, as a modern and comprehensive museum, will certainly make new contributions to enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the general public, carrying out cultural exchanges with foreign countries, and building a socialist culture in the capital city of Beijing.
[Edit]Visiting Information
Opening Time:
09:00-17:00 (ticket sales stop at 16:00, closed on Mondays)
Ticket Price:
Free Admission. Members of the public to visit the Capital Museum need to book a free admission ticket in advance, the audience without prior reservation will not be accepted to visit.
Transportation Information
I. Metro: Line 1 Muxidi Station.
Second, bus lines:
52, 114, 308, 337 Muxidi East Station
37 Sanlihe East Road South Exit Station
26, 45, 114, 308, 319, 937, 937 branch, 937 Branch 1-Branch 7, 937 special, 937 Venus Special Line Baiyun Road station.