On the 3rd, the curators of Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum, Suzhou Museum and Wu Culture Museum appeared at the Jiangsu Book Fair at the same time, telling about the birth of museums due to “luck” and how museums can communicate with each other based on China.
China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou just celebrated its first birthday last month. As a small and young museum with the theme of canal, Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum is not rich in collection, but Zheng Jing, the curator of the museum, thinks: “There is no conflict between the lack of collection and the efforts to build a museum that people like.”
Show the rising and setting of the sun, the rotation of the four seasons and the moonlight wind along the canal by means of LED canopy and dripping water. Make the exhibition hall into a game of “escape from the secret room”, explore the canal and learn about it during the play … By boldly adopting novel presentation methods, the Grand Canal Museum of China in Yangzhou has become a popular online celebrity Museum in less than a year.
Wu Culture Museum is also located on the bank of the Canal. It is only one year older than Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum, but it is already famous in the Yangtze River Delta region. In 2021, a report called “the most humanistic report” was screened on the internet: several tourists from Shanghai visited these ancient buildings with a long history after listening to a lecture on Song and Yuan architecture in Wu Culture Museum. After the publication of the report, Wu Culture Museum and its high-quality lectures were unexpectedly popularized.
Chen Ceng Lu, director of the Wu Culture Museum, said that in recent years, the great cultural development in China has also brought the construction of the museum into a period of rapid development. Different thematic pavilions and regional pavilions emerge one after another, and the corresponding energy levels and levels have been greatly improved, greatly enriching the categories of China museums. But at the same time, we should not stick to one acre and three points, but also broaden our horizons, base ourselves on the local area and look at the world. Recently, Wu Culture Museum held “The Appearance of Civilization-The Exhibition of Ancient Cultural Relics in Eurasia”. Through the representative cultural relics of various historical civilizations on the Eurasian continent, the exchange and integration between civilizations are displayed.
The latest West Pavilion of Suzhou Museum was built less than a year ago. Xie Xiaoting, deputy director of the museum, said that compared with the Suzhou Museum, which is located in the old city and backed by the Humble Administrator’s Garden, the newly built West Pavilion is positioned as a cultural exhibition and experience center for “Suzhou people to see the world”. The first phase of the International Cooperation Pavilion in the museum is cooperating with the British Museum to hold a four-year exhibition on the history of world civilization.
Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum chose canal culture as the link and set up a special exhibition “World-famous canals and canal cities”. Venice, Italy and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, two exotic canal cities, were selected in the first batch to appreciate their differences and surprise each other. The Grand Canal connects north and south with its rivers, and the museum connects east and west with its exhibitions. While basing ourselves on China, we should strengthen the cultural ties between China and foreign countries by seeking common ground while reserving differences. (End)