On May 15th, the home activities of “5.18 International Museum Day” in Zhejiang and Hangzhou in 2022 and the launching ceremony of the opening of Linping Museum in Hangzhou and the series of activities of “Poetry and Painting Zhejiang Treasure Tour” were successfully held.
Chu Ziyu, director and party secretary of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Yang Jianwu, member of the party group of the Department and director of the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, Huang Haifeng, member of the Standing Committee of Hangzhou Municipal Committee and Minister of Propaganda Department, and the main leaders of four teams in Linping District of Hangzhou attended the ceremony.
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Yang Jianwu said in his speech that the theme of this year’s Museum Day is “The Power of Museums”. Zhejiang is a major museum province with 420 registered museums, ranking second in China. We should take the lead in bringing positive changes to the surrounding world and people’s lives and helping to build a better home through the “power of museums”. It is hoped that museums at all levels in the province will make efforts to cultivate the four “powers” of “museum power”, that is, cultural creativity, cultural productivity, cultural dissemination and cultural influence.
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He pointed out that this year, the provincial government listed the construction of rural museums as the top ten livelihood issues in the province in 2022. Through the joint efforts of everyone in the early stage, a number of rural museums with local flavor and higher taste have been built one after another, which has released great energy in protecting rural cultural heritage, inheriting rural excellent traditional culture and helping rural revitalization. Today’s series of activities of “Poetry and Painting Zhejiang Treasure Tour” is also based on characteristic cultural relics. Through live webcast, star interaction, digital cultural creation and other ways, museums all over the province are connected in series with the surrounding non-legacy food, homestays and scenic spots, effectively transforming museum resources into development kinetic energy, and realizing the deep integration of cultural tourism industry.
Chu Ziyu, director and party secretary of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Yang Jianwu, member of the party group of the Department and director of the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, Huang Haifeng, member of the Standing Committee of Hangzhou Municipal Committee and director of the Propaganda Department, and other leaders jointly launched the “5.18 International Museum Day” in Zhejiang and Hangzhou in 2022 and the opening of Linping Museum in Hangzhou and a series of activities of “Poetry and Painting Zhejiang Treasure Tour”.
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At the launching ceremony, Hangzhou Linping Museum (China Jiangnan Water Town Culture Museum), which took three years to complete the exhibition and renovation, was officially opened. The West Pavilion District, which is based on the jade cong shape, is mainly used to display local history, while the East Pavilion District, which is based on the folk houses in the south of the Yangtze River, is used to display the culture of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. It has become a veritable “cultural complex” by integrating new functional areas such as Wenchuang Bookstore, Leisure Bar and Water Town Workshop Experience Hall. At the same time, in order to further explore the historical background, give full play to the museum’s social function, and have fun games and life experiences with the theme of “Song Yun Culture”, a series of activities such as “Tong Meng Water Town, Song Yun Ji Yi” and the second children’s sand painting and art competition in Zhejiang Province will be held one after another during the opening period, highlighting the “power of the museum”.
At the launching ceremony, the list of the first batch of rural museums in Zhejiang, “Song Yun Ji Yi” Hangzhou Song Yun Boutique Research Route and the most innovative museums in Zhejiang Province in 2022 were also announced.