Baotou Museum was founded in199865438+February, and it has been more than ten years since it opened in September 1999. Baotou Museum is a comprehensive museum based in Baotou, with exhibits covering western Inner Mongolia. Through the display of cultural relics, the development process and profound cultural heritage of Baotou and its surrounding areas are shown to the world, which is a position to spread historical, scientific and cultural knowledge, carry forward the national spirit, educate the people in ideological and moral education and patriotism, and also an important window to reflect Baotou's economic construction and spiritual civilization construction.
I. Geographical environment
Baotou Museum is located in the southeast of Friendship Square, Ahldin Street, Baotou City, covering an area of 3.5 hectares, with a building area of 24,000 square meters and an exhibition hall area of 1.5 million square meters. Integrated with Baotou Art Museum, the exhibition area is a three-story building, with the first floor being an art museum and the second and third floors being museums. With the theme of "the boulder on the grassland, the culture on the boulder", she has a magnificent shape and profound connotation. From a distance, the whole building is like a steep cliff, towering into the sky and full of interest. It is in harmony with the lawns, flowers, green trees and fountains on Friendship Square, forming a magnificent landscape with profound cultural connotation and modern rhythm, symbolizing the integration and long history of grassland civilization and Yellow River civilization, just like an unfolded historical picture scroll. There are 8 exhibition halls in the museum, 6 of which are permanent exhibition halls, showing the basic and special exhibitions of the museum; Two mobile exhibition halls are used to receive temporary exhibitions.
Second, achievement and glory.
1999 Inner Mongolia Ancient Rock Painting Exhibition was awarded the annual "Top Ten Excellent Exhibitions in China" by National Cultural Heritage Administration. "Rare Earth Pavilion" was rated as one of the top ten events in the national rare earth industry by China Rare Earth Association 1999. In 2000, the basic exhibition of Baotou Museum was rated as "Top Ten Excellent Exhibitions in 50 Years in the Region" by the Cultural Department of the Autonomous Region. On February 25, 2009, the Cultural Relics Bureau of the Autonomous Region awarded the Second Class Museum of Baotou Museum with the Qualification Certificate for the Restoration of Movable Cultural Relics. In mid-May, National Cultural Heritage Administration awarded the title of "National Secondary Museum"; In mid-February, 65438+, Baotou Youth League Committee awarded the title of "Baotou Demonstration Unit for Safeguarding the Legal Rights and Interests of Teenagers"; 65438+February 65438+June, the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region, the Science and Technology Department of the Autonomous Region, the Education Department of the Autonomous Region and the Association for Science and Technology of the Autonomous Region named Baotou Museum as the "Youth Science and Technology Education Base of the Autonomous Region".
At the same time, Baotou Museum has also been awarded many honorary titles, such as "Civilized Unit", "Quality Education Base for Primary and Secondary School Students", "Popular Science Education Base", "Youth Civilization", "Civilized Window for Reception Work in Baotou City", "Civilized Demonstration Window for Spiritual Civilization Construction", "A-level Enterprise Credit Unit in Baotou City" and "Social Practice Base for College Students". Visiting the museum has become the first choice for our city to receive domestic and foreign leaders and guests, and it has become an important content to show the civilization level of Baotou.
In addition, Baotou Museum also strongly supports and encourages technicians to carry out academic research. The papers written have been read and published in national, provincial and municipal professional academic conferences for many times, which greatly promoted the academic status of Baotou Museum among its peers. In recent years, the research on the dating of ancient rock paintings by computer technology has been completed, and the national project "Investigation on Meidaizhao and Wudang Zhao in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in western Inner Mongolia" has been completed, and the municipal project "Study on the Golden and Bronze Buddha Statue and Thangka in Wudang Zhao, Baotou City" has been completed, and a 4 million-word dictionary of Jin language is being compiled.