The predecessor of the Chinese History Museum was the "National History Museum Preparatory Office" established by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China in imperial academy on July 9, 2002.
19 17 The Ministry of Education decided to designate the area from the terminal gate to the meridian gate of the Forbidden City as the site of the National History Museum.
In July 2008, 1965438+ moved in, and the main building of Wumen, the swallow wing building and the quadrangle pavilion were converted into 10 showrooms, with three rooms in the east and three rooms in the west, and two rooms in the east and west as storage rooms, with a total of more than 150 rooms and more than 50,000 cultural relics.
1 924 August1officially opened to the outside world.
1926 was named "National Museum of History".
1 949 65438+1October1,renamed as "National Museum of Beijing History", which belongs to the Central Ministry of Culture of People's Republic of China (PRC).
1959 moved into the new museum on the east side of Tiananmen Square, which was later renamed "Chinese History Museum".
The predecessor of the Museum of Chinese Revolution was/kloc-0, the preparatory office of the National Revolution Museum, which was established in March 1950.
1960 was officially named "Museum of Chinese Revolution".
1In August, 959, two buildings located on the east side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing were completed. In the same year1October 10, it began to receive audiences on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the National Day.
1969 In September, the Museum of Chinese Revolution and the Museum of Chinese History merged to become the Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History.
1959 When the top ten buildings in the capital were selected, the Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History had not yet been established, and one building belonged to two national museums.
At the beginning of 1983, the two libraries resumed their independent organizational system.
On February 28th, 2003, the two museums merged into the National Museum of China.
At that time, the National Museum had a total area of more than 65,000 square meters, and there were twelve huge square porches between the central part and the wings.
Through the entrance and into the central hall, the whole building is divided into two parts, north and south, which are symmetrical to each other.
The number of collections exceeds 6.5438+0.05 million, and the number of exhibition halls is 49. There are two basic exhibitions, "Ancient China" and "Road to Rejuvenation", as well as more than ten special exhibitions of various art categories and international exchange exhibitions.
The New China Expo will control the total number of visitors, with a daily reception capacity of 8,000.
collection
The Museum of Chinese History is an institution that collects ancient and modern cultural relics and studies historical science and related academic issues in China, with a total collection of 6,543,800 pieces.
Part of ancient China, representing the collection:
The teeth of Yuanmou people in Yunnan
Bronze Jue of Xia Dynasty Unearthed from Yanshi, Henan Province
Jade carvings and tooth carvings unearthed from Muwuding and Muhao tombs in Shang Dynasty.
Bamboo slips of Sun Tzu's Art of War in the Warring States Period, Qi Jie of Hubei Group in the Warring States Period, bronze ice guide of Ceng Houyi, bronze mirror of warrior fighting animals, iron double sickle model, bronze chime.
Qin Yangling bronze tiger symbol, Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, 12-character brick of Xiao Zhuan.
In the Han Dynasty, painted terracotta warriors and horses, jade clothes, bronze rhinoceros statues, glazed pottery buildings, pottery boats, five baht Qian Wen bronze drums, wind-aid paper, drum rap figurines, seismographs (models), and murals in the western regions of Zhang Qian were exhibited.
Bronze crossbows, pottery courtyards, celadon goat-shaped candlesticks, pottery military attache maps, civilian maps, pottery ox carts, pottery camels, official tribute maps, portrait bricks in Dengxian County, etc.
Cultural relics unearthed from Li Tomb in the Tang Dynasty, stone railings, camel figurines with three colors in the Tang Dynasty, secret porcelain plates of Yue Kiln, white porcelain lotus petal lamps of Dingyao, lotus beads of Lu Wenjin, jiaozi unearthed in Xinjiang, dim sum, old tooth carvings in Yulin Kiln, Buddha inscribed by Xuanzang, woodcut unearthed in Chengdu and Guanyin statue unearthed in Zhejiang.
Wooden Pagoda (model) of Yingxian County in Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Kiss of Xixia Tomb, Goldfish-patterned bronze mirror, porcelain of five famous kilns in Song Dynasty, acupuncture bronze man, Lugou raft map, copper pot dripping water, * * * digital iron plate.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the map of Beijing Palace, the map of the Emperor's Victory, the porcelain of Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln, the bronze bells of Gao Zuwan and Zheng He with fish and algae patterns on the bronze tire, the imperial seal of the "treasure of the emperor" in the Qing Dynasty, the portrait of Zheng Chenggong, the scroll of Qianlong's southern tour, the textile carding machine made in Britain, and the oath (replica) of Sun Yat-sen when he took office as interim president.