1, different designers
The designer of Suzhou Museum is I.M. Pei, a foreign academician and civil expert from China Academy of Engineering.
The West Pavilion of Suzhou Museum was designed by German GMP Architecture Office.
2. Different addresses
Suzhou Museum is located at No.204 Northeast Street, gusu district, Suzhou. The former site of the museum is the former Zhongyi Palace of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with a total construction area of 26,500 square meters.
The West Pavilion of Suzhou Museum is located at No.399 Changjiang Road, huqiu district, Suzhou. According to the plan, the construction area is 48,365 square meters, and the Manoj Exhibition 1339 1 square meter.
The focus of the exhibition is different.
Suzhou Museum focuses on traditional culture and history, mainly displaying Jiangnan culture and paying attention to appreciation. It is a local comprehensive museum that spreads Suzhou's history, culture and art. It is divided into four basic exhibitions: Wu Di Yi Zhen, Wu Ta Bao Guo, Feng Wu Zhong Ya and Wu Men calligraphy and painting.
Suzhou Museum has a total collection of 24,729 pieces/sets, including 9,647 precious cultural relics, including 222 pieces/sets of first-class products, 829 pieces/sets of second-class products and 8,596 pieces/sets of third-class products. It is famous for archaeological relics, Ming and Qing paintings and handicrafts unearthed over the years.
The West Pavilion of Suzhou Museum is open to the world, focusing on experience, including six exhibition halls: the Exploration Experience Pavilion and Suzhou Life Museum on the first floor, the Suzhou History Pavilion on the first floor, the Suzhou Craft Pavilion and the International Cooperation Pavilion on the second floor, and the special exhibition hall on the third floor.
4. Different architectural styles
The design concept of Suzhou Museum is based on "not high, not big, not outstanding, doing in the middle and doing in the Soviet Union", which is in line with the architectural characteristics of Suzhou and the local cultural atmosphere. The architectural style of this museum blends the architectural style of Suzhou. As for the courtyard, it is mainly based on Jiangnan culture, which makes the museum in harmony with the surrounding environment.
The West Pavilion of Suzhou Museum not only collects Suzhou's history, art and culture, but also displays many exhibits of ancient Rome. Therefore, the overall architectural style of the West Pavilion is full of modernity, focusing on modern exploration and experience, focusing on experience, and there is also a children's museum.
5. The construction time is different.
Suzhou Museum was established in June 1960+ 10/0/. On June 23, 2003, the construction of the new Suzhou Museum was approved, and it was completed and officially opened to the public on June 6, 2006.
The West Pavilion of Suzhou Museum started construction on March 20 18, and was completed and opened to the public on September 29, 20021year.
Suzhou attractions: Suzhou Museum Introduction: Suzhou Museum was founded in 1960. The museum site, Loyal Palace of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, is one of the first national key cultural relics protection units, and it is a complete historical building of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in China. Share the relevant information of Suzhou Museum below.
Introduction of scenic spots
Suzhou Museum includes a new museum opened in 2006 and the old building of Zhongwangfu in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The whole museum is like a small garden. In the new museum, you can see pottery, jade, calligraphy and painting and other cultural relics from ancient times to modern times; In Zhongyi Palace, you can also see exquisite and elegant "Soviet-style paintings".
The gate of the new building is the entrance, and the gate of Zhongwangfu is the exit. After entering the museum, you can have a good look at the new building. Designed by architect I.M. Pei, it has a traditional Suzhou garden style. The height is patchy, and the dark gray roof with white walls is fresh and elegant. The pyramid-shaped glass skylight on the roof fills the museum with natural light, which can be seen in the gate, skylight corridor, pavilion and exhibition hall. There are courtyards, pools and stone bridges in the museum, which are both traditional and modern. Walking in the courtyard of the new building, the blue sky, white walls, green bamboo and clear water are very comfortable; Walking on the stone bridge, you can also see the paintings made of gravel under the white wall, which are very distinctive. You might as well take a picture as a souvenir.
There are four permanent exhibitions with Suzhou characteristics: Wu Di Yi Zhen, Wu Ta Bao Guo, Feng Wu Zhong Ya and Wu Men Painting and Calligraphy. Many cultural relics have been found in Tiger Hill and Ruiguang Pagoda, among which we have to look at two treasures of the town hall displayed in Wuta Bao Guo. One is "Yue Kiln Secret Porcelain Lotus Bowl", which consists of a bowl and a lamp holder. The large lotus relief is very elegant and crystal clear. Second, the "Zhenzhu relic building" is a container for storing relics, which is made up of seven treasures such as pearls and is dazzling.
In addition, there is a folk exhibition in the museum to understand the customs of Suzhou; Temporary special exhibitions such as "Ming and Qing Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition" are often held. In Zhongyi Palace, you can visit the ancient buildings of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and feel the scene at that time. There are many flowers and trees in this yard, which are pleasing to the eye.
Special tips
1. When the number of visitors is too large, the museum will be restricted. It is recommended to avoid weekends and holidays as much as possible.
When you enter the museum, you should accept the security check. No food and colored drinks, no slippers. The temperature in the museum is around 20 degrees Celsius all the year round. Please pay attention to dress appropriately. People over 70 years old and disabled people have special green passages.
3. Sometimes there will be special exhibitions (tickets are required), but it will not affect tourists' free visit to the basic exhibitions.
4. The museum provides audio tour guide rental, and the rental of 20 yuan can be handled at the audio tour guide rental office in the lobby; There is also a special person to explain the service, starting from 100 yuan per game.
5. Group visits must be booked 1-3 days in advance. Tel: 05 12-67575666.
6. This scenic spot is similar to Lion Forest, Suzhou Garden Museum and Suzhou Folk Museum, so you can visit it together.
Suzhou Museum Suzhou Museum, located next to Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, is the last work of Mr. I.M. Pei, a master architect.
Mr. I.M. Pei, a native of Suzhou, combined traditional aesthetics with Suzhou characteristics and designed the new museum in a modern way. Open steel structures use a lot of transparent materials and natural light to reduce the damage of lighting to cultural relics.
The roof is made of a special kind of stone, which is black in sunny days to avoid direct sunlight, and gray in rainy days to facilitate lighting. The overall style is a combination of Huizhou architecture, white walls and black tiles, geometric modeling of horse head wall and Zen. By the way, Mr. I.M. Pei browsed the collection of Suzhou Museum before designing, and then considered how to lay it out. There really are hills and valleys in his chest. The master style is unobstructed.
When it comes to Suzhou, you can't help but mention the Forbidden City. Kuai Xiang, the designer of the Forbidden City in Beijing, was born in Wuxian, Suzhou. Judy, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, moved from Nanjing to Beijing, and Kuai Xiang participated in or presided over the design of the Forbidden City in Beijing. There are probably two kinds of artistic conception to appreciate the scenery. One is the boundless magnificent smoke, and the other is the winding path of a covered bridge, which can leave room for imagination.
The collection of Suzhou Museum generally shows the characteristics of Jiangnan craftsmen. Jade carving, horn carving, bamboo carving, and of course, Suzhou embroidery, which is as famous as Hunan Xiangxiu and Nanjing Yunjin. This is a tradition and has its historical roots. Jiangnan has many fields and few rivers, and it is intensively cultivated. The liberated laborers began to make a living by processing handicrafts.
Another very important reason is the champion, one of Suzhou's local products. It is an indisputable fact that Suzhou is a scholar. Scholars are often frustrated when they are officials, so they settle for the second best, live in seclusion in the mountains, buy a few acres of houses as gardens and enjoy life. Scholars participate in the design of handicrafts, thus enhancing the taste of Suzhou handicrafts.
Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty once recruited more than forty craftsmen from Suzhou to serve the royal family in the north. There are also organizations that specialize in making clothing fabrics for the royal family, such as Jiangnan Weaving, including design. Jade carving alone produced the earliest Soviet works, Beijing works and outstanding Shanghai works in recent ten years.
Jiangnan has a strong humanistic atmosphere and exquisite output. Shili Lotus, Sanqiu Guizi, is always intoxicating and memorable.
Suzhou Museum Collection Introduction Suzhou Museum was established at 1960, located in the Palace of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is a well-preserved historical building of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in China.
Suzhou Museum has more than 40,000 cultural relics, including 865 first-class cultural relics, 88 second-class cultural relics 1 188, and 32,295 third-class cultural relics, especially archaeological excavations, Ming and Qing paintings and handicrafts. In addition, Suzhou Museum has 725 kinds of rare books with 365,438+028 volumes, and 285,065,438+0 kinds of general books with 965,438+0,754 volumes, which is the key protection unit of ancient books in China.
Series introduction
Suzhou Wushixin Museum: The top side is 22.5cm, the bottom side is 27cm, and the total height is 44. 1cm. 1956 was found on the third floor of Yunyan Temple Tower in Huqiu, Suzhou. The stone culvert plane is square, with a wide bottom and a narrow top. It consists of five overlapping parts. There is no carving, and the iron characters are already in it.
Bronze Buddha statue: 16 cm high. 1978 found the tiangong on the third floor of the Ruiguang Temple Tower. Buddha statues all have spiral hair and bun, but the carving treatment is different. Shoulders and arms are thin, chest muscles are strong, and the waist sits on the lotus platform. According to legend, Sakyamuni settled down under the bodhi tree and realized the way of osawa, which is the posture adopted. Therefore, Buddhism usually takes the whole body as the Buddha, and there is a flame backlight behind it, which shows light.
Copper large gold-plated tower: the overall height is 36.8 cm, and the tower bottom is 15 cm. This tower is square and can be disassembled. The whole tower can be roughly divided into five parts, from top to bottom, the pagoda, the banana leaf angle, the tower body, the copper cover and the sumitomo of the sixteen arhats all around. The whole tower is carved in Indian style, and each side is engraved with Buddhist stories. There are 32 stories carved on the outside of the leaf-shaped corner of banana, and four statues of heavenly kings are separated on the inside. The tower brake accounts for about one-third of the whole tower, the brake seat is a lotus-shaped bowl, and the brake body has five-phase wheels.
Bronze Buddha statue: 19.2 cm high, 1956 Discovered on the third floor of Yunyan Temple Tower in Huqiu, Suzhou. Steamed stuffed bun, with double earlobes, dressed in a right-handed cassock, sitting on a round futon seat, with a buckle on the back and no backlight.
Copper eleven-sided Guanyin: 23.5 cm high. The two eleven Guanyin statues are roughly the same. Guanyin statue stands on the waist-sealed lotus platform, with one foot slightly extended to the side, wearing a heavenly dress, a ribbon gently draped in the right hand and an Aquarius in the left hand. The whole body is decorated with all kinds of jewelry, such as garlands, ears, neck ornaments, chest ornaments, armbands, wrist bracelets and so on. A bead chain extends obliquely from the neck to the instep, slightly in the shape of "S".
Bronze Buddha statue: 2 1 cm high. A statue of a Tibetan Bodhisattva was found in the Heavenly Palace on the third floor of the Ruiguang Temple Tower. It looks quiet and dignified, with a wide forehead and long ears, wearing a robe and a smooth face, sitting on a rectangular seat with his left foot on the lotus platform. Hold a ball in your right hand and put your left hand on your knee.
Secret porcelain lotus bowl: the bowl height is 8.9 cm, the caliber is 13.9 cm, the lamp holder height is 6.6 cm, the bottom diameter is 9.3 cm, and the total height is 13.5 cm. 1956 was found on the third floor of Yunyan Temple Tower in Huqiu, Suzhou. This celadon lotus bowl made in Yue Kiln is composed of a bowl and a lamp holder. The bowl is straight and deep, and the cup holder is shaped like a bean. The mouth of the dish is turned out, the waist is tied, and the feet are omitted. The outer wall, disk surface and circle foot of the bowl are decorated with double lotus flowers, such as bas-relief protrusions, which are considered as the standard of secret color porcelain in the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty.
Stone letter relief Buddha statue: 46 cm long, 26.5 cm wide and 25 cm high. 1956 was found on the second floor of Yunyan Temple Tower in Huqiu, Suzhou. It is made of six cut inkstone plates, with a flat rectangle and a top. There are five embossed Buddha statues on each side of the letter body, with ruyi moire lace carved on the bottom and painted on the inside of the letter cover. In the stone letter, there was originally a nanmu warp box with gold-plated carved edges.
What museums are there in Suzhou? There are more than 20 kinds known. Suzhou Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine Address: Chunhuitang +04 Jingdezhen Road Opera Museum Address: 65438 Zhang Jiaxiang, Suzhou +04 Suzhou Police Museum Address: Xishan Changxiang, Siqian Street, Canglang District (Great Hall of the People) Suzhou Buddhist Museum Address: No.38 Chuanxin Street Garden Museum Address: No.202 Northeast Street Folk Museum Address: No.32 Panru Lane, Pingjiang District Suzhou Museum Address: No.204 Northeast Street, Pingjiang District Suzhou Silk Museum Address: No.2001Renmin Road Suzhou Inscription Museum Address: No.613 Renmin Road Suzhou Confucian Temple Revolutionary History Museum Address: No.3 Sanxiang Road 12 16 Pingtan Museum Address: No.3 Zhang Jiaxiang, Chengdong Middle School, Pingjiang District, Suzhou (near Pingjiang Road) Kunqu Museum Address: Suzhou Chamber of Commerce. Kloc-0/92 Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum Address No.8 Jiaochangqiao Road, Hanyuguan, Shantang Street, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province Suzhou Ancient Stone Carving Art Museum Luohanyuan Twin Towers Suzhou Qiaosheng Road Museum Xiangcheng District Yuanhe Cultural and Creative Industry Park Suzhou City Wall Museum Xiangmen Section City Wall Suzhou Champion Cultural Museum Pingjiang Road Pan Former Residence Suzhou Celebrity Hall No.2075 Renmin Road.