On December 28, the reporter learned from the China Silk Museum that in 2022, the museum will hold many activities and exhibitions such as the 30th anniversary celebration of the national silk industry, the “International Museum Day” forum, and the “2022 Silk Road Week”. Viewing its contents, the museum will have both cultural and scientific senses.
The China Silk Museum (hereinafter referred to as the “National Silk Museum”) is the largest textile and clothing museum in China and the largest silk museum in the world.
The Silk Road is an ancient trade route, connecting the two major civilizations of China and the West. It also retains many cultural heritages due to cultural interaction. The National Silk Museum held the first Silk Road Week in 2020, and will usher in the third by 2021.
Zhao Feng, curator of the China Silk Museum, said that this activity will be jointly carried out in Qinghai Province. Qinghai is an important part of the Silk Road Economic Belt. The Silk Road Qinghai Road has shouldered the heavy task of Sino Western exchanges for more than 200 years.
At the “2022 Silk Road Week”, the exhibition “Qinghai Changyun: Tuyuhun on the Silk Road in the 6-8th Century” will be launched.
The exhibition will focus on the international trade of the Silk Road on the Qinghai Road, starting from the Tugu Hungu State, which has been operating the Qinghai Road for a long time, to show the value of the Qinghai Road in connecting the East and the West on the Silk Road, as well as the diversified integration of various ethnic groups in Qinghai, and to serve the “cultural aid for the youth”.
In addition to displaying the Silk Road culture, the China Silk Museum has been exporting experience in textile restoration.
In 2010, the State Administration of Cultural Relics established a key scientific research base of the State Administration of Cultural Relics for the Protection of Textiles based on the National Silk Museum, and it was listed in 2012. In the past 10 years, the scientific research base has set up 7 workstations at home and abroad, and has carried out a lot of work in scientific research, emergency protection, cultural relics restoration, personnel training, etc.
Based on this, in June 2022, the National Silk Museum will launch the “Colorful Reproduction: Exhibition of Conservation and Restoration Achievements of Textile Cultural Relics Research Base”. The exhibition summarizes the application of modern scientific and technological means in the protection of textile cultural relics, and shows the collaborative application of traditional methods and scientific and technological means in the protection of textile cultural relics.
“On the spot, we exhibited the cloaks unearthed in the Xinjiang Creek Cemetery, the flags in the Potala Palace in Tibet and other heavy cultural relics.” Zhou Yang, deputy secretary of the General Party Branch of the National Silk Museum, said that each cultural relic was restored in a different way, and the restoration technology behind it would be presented in this exhibition.
Located in Hangzhou, the “Digital City”, the National Silk Museum also made full use of digital technology in the “Silk Road Nishang: 30 pieces of clothing digital activation and innovative design exhibition” launched in May 2022. It is reported that the exhibition will use digital virtual display technology to conduct static and digital virtual exhibitions on 30 pieces of clothing.
In addition, the “Microscopic Image Exhibition of Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeological Science”, which will be held in June 2022, will show cultural relics under the microscope to the public and spread the scientific beauty in cultural relics protection.
February 26, 2022 will be the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the National Silk Museum. At that time, a series of activities with the theme of “Thirty Years of the National Silk Road, a New Journey of the Silk Road” will also be held in the Museum. (Tong Xiaoyu)