China Silk Museum is located at No.73-1Yuhuangshan Road, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is a national silk museum and the largest silk museum in the world. It is a provincial institution in Zhejiang Province. The main function of China Silk Museum is to collect, study, identify, restore and protect silk cultural relics. Publicity and education of silk culture; Management of silk cultural tourism souvenirs. It covers an area of 42,286 square meters, with a building area of 22,999 square meters and an exhibition area of 5,000 square meters.
On February 26th, 1992, China Silk Museum was officially opened to the public. China Silk Museum shows the silk history and culture of China for 5,000 years. Its basic display includes five parts: Preface Pavilion, Historical Relics Pavilion, Silk Pavilion, Dyeing and Weaving Pavilion and Modern Achievement Pavilion.
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Relevant temporary exhibition catalogues and monographs edited and published by China Silk Museum, such as Introduction to Textile Appraisal and Protection compiled by China Textile Protection Appraisal Center, Wang Xu and Textile Archaeology written by Zhao Feng, Silk in Liao Dynasty, and Introduction to Textile Archaeology and Silk Road Art Archaeology, etc. Among them, A General History of China Silk, edited by Zhao Feng of China Silk Museum, is a national key book publishing planning project during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period and published by Suzhou University Press.
As a masterpiece that comprehensively reflects the 5,000-year history of silk development in China, it dates back to the end of the 20th century, covering all aspects related to the silk industry, in which the production technology, fabric types and patterns are the main statements, and the historical period is the context, and it is written in chapters. It contains 65,438+0,358 precious historical pictures related to silk history, with a list of references and a chronology of silk events in China.
Baidu Encyclopedia-China Silk Museum