Building a museum is a long-standing dream of Ningbo people. It is unreasonable for a city not to have a comprehensive museum, especially in a place with a long history and cultural accumulation like Ningbo. Museum people have been working hard towards this dream: Ningbo Museum 198 1 included in the city exhibition hall; 200 1 Ningbo museum preparatory office established in Qing' antang; In June 2004, 165438+ 10, Ningbo Museum was relocated. These actions are of milestone significance.
Now, Ningbo Museum has finally been built. In the China museum industry, it is quite a bit of a late bloomer.
Ningbo is an international port city. The first appearance of Ningbo Museum with a high starting point and international standards has placed hopes on all sides. Bayin Lu Chao, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, clearly put forward when inspecting the construction site of the museum: "Ningbo Museum should become a window for Ningbo to show its civilization to the world and a stage for the world!"
The window has just opened. Although it is a little late, it naturally has a "latecomer advantage": we can take what others have succeeded; We can avoid the detours that others have taken. To stand out among the world museums, there is no other way but to blaze new trails.
Explore the new mechanism of urban museum construction.
Speaking of museums before, Ningbo seems a little embarrassed, because there has always been no museum. In recent years, in order to build a famous cultural city and prosper cultural undertakings, Ningbo has listed the museum construction as a major cultural project of the municipal government and located it in Yinzhou District. At that time, the government of Yinzhou District of Ningbo hoped to build a comprehensive history museum in order to prosper the cultural undertakings in this area. In order not to cause duplication and waste of public resources such as manpower, material resources and financial resources, Ningbo decided to build Ningbo Museum at the city and district levels. The museum is jointly invested by Ningbo Municipal Government and Yinzhou District Government, located in Yinzhou District, and jointly managed and used by the municipal and district governments, realizing the mode of sharing resources and platforms at the municipal and district levels, and the museum is rooted in a large community area. Taking Ningbo Museum as the leader, Yinzhou District has built 17 state-owned and private museums in this area, which has turned Yinzhou District into a large-scale community museum group, highlighted the regional cultural characteristics and embarked on the road of "museum-like" protection of cultural heritage. "Museum-like" has promoted the social, economic and cultural agglomeration effect of Yinzhou Central City and promoted the overall development of Yinzhou District. At present, this * * * construction mode has been popularized in Ningbo.
Exploring the New Local Style of Museum Architecture
In China, from the original antique architecture to the later imitation of cultural relics, museum architecture has made a fuss about an "antique" style and concept. Nowadays, the upsurge of building and expanding museums has spread all over the country, and all localities require that museums be built into local urban landmark buildings. The symbolism of the museum undoubtedly means realizing the uniqueness of external modeling and connotation culture, as well as the unity of historical, natural and modern elements.
The architecture of Ningbo Museum advocates the new local style. This is a design tendency that emphasizes local characteristics and folk style, and emphasizes local flavor and nationalization characteristics. It has no fixed planning and design mode, but uses local materials as much as possible in the design, showing the characteristics of adapting to local conditions, which makes the museum building integrate with the local environment in overall style and has a strong local flavor.
The architectural appearance of Ningbo Museum highlights the regional characteristics of "mountain", "water" and "ocean". The simple rectangular layout is concentrated, but over two floors, the building is cracked and slightly tilted, and it has evolved into an abstract mountain, making the whole building slide slightly to the south. The north of the venue is a water area, and the whole building looks like a big ship that has just landed from the water. Its uniqueness lies in that the external wall of the building consists of "ceramic tile wall" and "bamboo formwork concrete". The "ceramic tile wall" uses millions of old bricks and tiles demolished and recycled in Ningbo. Handlaid by 50 craftsmen, the museum has a history of 100 years once it is completed, and the building itself has become a historical exhibit. On the other hand, the bamboo texture of the external wall of "Bamboo Transverse Concrete" highlights the profound natural local customs in the south of the Yangtze River, which is more natural, economical and environmentally friendly than marble and exterior paint.
Explore the platform of academic museums
Ningbo Museum strives to build the museum into a "wisdom valley" that breeds new ideas and new wisdom, making the museum an important force to promote social development. Ningbo Museum plans to jointly set up the Maritime Professional Committee of the Chinese Museum Society with coastal cities in the Mainland and museums in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, with a view to cooperating and exploring in this field, generating new ideas and forming a joint force to promote the development of marine civilization. At the same time, since June 5438+ 10, 2008, Ningbo Museum has launched the "Oriental Forum", inviting well-known experts and scholars to hold one or two academic lectures for the public free of charge every month to stir up ideas and open up wisdom.
New ideas and new wisdom not only need to be nurtured in exchanges and cooperation, but also need to blossom and bear fruit with publications as the carrier. In the future, Ningbo Museum will publish periodicals and series more systematically. Museum journals include: Collection of East Zhejiang Culture published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, published twice a year, collecting papers focusing on museum science and cultural research in East Zhejiang for major universities and scientific research institutions at home and abroad; There is also an internal quarterly "Window of Ningbo", which communicates in the industry and condenses a number of core forces of museum research. The total title of the series is "Ningbo Museum Research Series", which is divided into four series: Ningbo Museum Collection Cultural Relics Research Series, Contemporary Famous Museum Excellent Exhibition Series, Contemporary Famous Ningbo Artists and Collectors Excellent Exhibition Series, and Ningbo Museum Academic Research Series. These publications are carriers of new ideas and new wisdom, and will also facilitate more Ningbo people to "take the museum home".
Explore new ways to open museums.
Ningbo is an international port city. As a city museum, its social responsibility is not only to do a good job in the internal affairs of the museum, but also to further expand the influence of Ningbo, an open city at home and abroad, and fully reflect the irreplaceable force in the influence of the museum city. Before its official opening, Ningbo Museum opened a new field of career development from a high starting point with an open mind and the spirit of courage to take responsibility. First, vigorously plan and hold "Join hands with 20 10: Ningbo International Museum Summit Forum" to actively provide a forum platform for the development of international museums. In 20 10, the 22nd General Assembly of the International Association of Museums will be held in Shanghai. Ningbo Museum will take the initiative to declare to National Cultural Heritage Administration that "Join hands with 20 10: Ningbo International Museum Summit Forum" is jointly sponsored by China Museum Society and Ningbo Municipal Government. This is the first time that Ningbo Museum has shown its elegance to the world. The second is to launch the "Ningbo International Friendship City Museum Alliance" to carry out international cultural cooperation and exchanges. The third is to establish the Ningbo Museum Development Foundation, which will be the first museum development foundation in China. The first project sponsored by the Foundation will be the "Top Ten People in China Museum" jointly organized by Ningbo Museum and China Heritage Newspaper. The fourth is to implement the "Century Project" and mobilize famous Ningbo artists and collectors at home and abroad to donate their collections to Ningbo Museum. Ningbo people have a collection tradition since ancient times. Tianyige Library in Ming Dynasty is the cultural brand of Ningbo. Today, the collection tradition of Ningbo people has evolved into a unique "museum sentiment" phenomenon, from Ma Heng, former director of the Palace Museum, and Ma Chengyuan, former director of the Shanghai Museum, to Qin Bingnian, a descendant of a businessman in Ningbo, Shanghai, and Zhuang Guilun, a famous collector in Hong Kong ... These Ningbo celebrities have a special liking for museums and contributed their talents and donations to the museum.
In 2004, Zhefu, a famous Ningbo collector in Hong Kong, donated dozens of postcards and stamps reflecting the history of Ningbo in Qing Dynasty to the Ningbo Museum under construction. On July 19, 2008, Mr. Shao Keping, a 92-year-old contemporary famous printmaker in China and a native of Ningbo, Shanghai, donated more than 200 fine prints, woodcuts and manuscripts created in his life to Ningbo Museum. Subsequently, Chen Yan, a professor from Peking University, also expressed his willingness to donate money. It is reported that "mobilizing Ningbo artists and collectors at home and abroad to donate their collections to Ningbo Museum" is one of the strategic goals of Ningbo Museum to implement "big museums" and "big resources", and it is also a century project.
Explore a new model of volunteer socialization and international service.
Ningbo has 670,000 volunteers who are enthusiastic about various public welfare activities. Ningbo Museum hopes to build volunteers into a loyal social force of the museum and help the museum undertake the social responsibilities of heritage protection, civilized communication and national education. Therefore, the volunteer service model-the specialization and socialization of volunteer service has been innovated and developed. Most of the volunteers recruited have professional expertise, such as professors, doctors, engineers and artists. These people are the core of the volunteer team. For volunteers, the museum will carry out all-round training on etiquette, skills and knowledge in accordance with the "five innovations" standards (establishing a national first-class museum, a national civilized city, a 4A-level scenic spot, a national patriotic education base and an international quality certification system), so as to improve the comprehensive quality of volunteers, and through them, promote the overall improvement of citizens' quality, and truly embody the value concept that "the museum is a lifelong classroom for national education". In addition to explaining, the museum hopes that volunteers can integrate into society more widely and deeply, spread museum culture to people around them and the surrounding society, and mobilize more people to join the volunteer team. With the help of volunteers' social networks, the museum will jump out of the fence and really approach the citizens and society in the unique form of "mobile museum".
Another feature of innovation is the internationalization of voluntary service. In order to build a volunteer team that reflects international standards and plays an important role in international cultural exchange, Ningbo Museum is cooperating with unnc, an internationally renowned British university, to set up the "Volunteer Service Team of Nottingham University International Museum" in Ningbo Museum. The team consists of more than 60 teachers and students from all over the world. Their main tasks are multilingual translation, explanation, academic exchange and exhibition exchange. At present, Ningbo Museum is training international volunteers according to the standards of "Five Innovations", and plans to build an "International Museum Volunteer Training Center" in the future, so as to build a cultural bridge for Ningbo Museum and the city of Ningbo to the world and create a new trend of international volunteer work in China museum circles.
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Ningbo is an important port city in the southeast coast of China, the economic center in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta, and a national historical and cultural city. Hemudu culture, a famous prehistoric culture in the Yangtze River valley of China, was born here. It is the birthplace of China celadon, and also the port of origin of the "Maritime Silk Road" in the East. At the same time, Ningbo also has a unique collection culture of Tianyige, the ancient architecture culture of Guobao Temple, the eastern Zhejiang school culture in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the Ningbo gang culture. Ningbo Museum, with profound regional cultural heritage, is a key public facility built by Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government during the 11th Five-Year Plan period. Located in the southeast new town of Ningbo, it covers an area of 60 mu with a total construction area of 30,000 square meters. It is a comprehensive museum showing Ningbo's history, art and folk customs.
Ningbo Museum has a collection of more than 60,000 pieces and seven exhibition halls, and a "trinity" exhibition system is constructed according to the theme exhibition, special exhibition and special exhibition content.
The theme exhibition is "Oriental Shenzhou"-Ningbo History Exhibition, which consists of seven parts: four ancient civilizations, expanding the Three Rivers, establishing a city, an international port, Haiding Boning, a southeast metropolis and opening ports for trade. Based on the development of Ningbo's regional culture and the Maritime Silk Road as the main line, it shows the 7000-year history of Ningbo's civilization since Hemudu culture.
There are two special exhibitions: one is "Bamboo Carving Art Exhibition in Ming and Qing Dynasties". Most of the exhibits are the old collections of Qin Kangxiang, a famous bamboo carving collector in Ningbo. 200 1, and his philosopher Mr Qin bingnian donated them for free. Wang, a famous expert in cultural relics appraisal in China, said: "This is the most important bamboo carving collection known at present, and its quality and quantity are among the best in the country." The second is the "Ala Old Ningbo-Folk Exhibition", which includes six parts: Ningbo Time-honored Brand, Shang Yong Wedding Custom "Shili Red Makeup", Ningbo Old Wall Gate, Ningbo New Year Custom, Ningbo Folk Craft, Ningbo Opera and Ningbo Dialect. Here, the audience can find the memory of the city and find their way back to old Ningbo.
The special exhibition is: "The imprint of the times-a special exhibition of works of art donated by Shao Keping, a famous contemporary printmaker in China". Mr. Shao Keping began to participate in the "China Emerging Printmaking Movement" from 1940, and his works reflect the era imprint of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in a realistic style. In July 2008, Shao Keping, a 92-year-old printmaker in Ningbo, Shanghai, devoted his life to woodcuts and prints.
In addition, during the opening of Ningbo Museum, "Royal Treasures-Special Exhibition of Royal Treasures of the Forbidden City" was planned to show the royal treasures of the Qing Palace. The purpose of launching the special exhibition is to let the citizens enjoy the excellent exhibitions of famous museums, famous collectors and artists all over the world without leaving Ningbo, so that the exhibitions in the museums can be constantly updated. Holding a special exhibition is the bright spot of Ningbo Museum in the future, and it is an initiative for the museum to practice the concept of "big resources" and take the world's cultural relics for our use.
In the collection, research, protection and display of Ningbo's regional, holistic and complete cultural heritage, Ningbo Museum can not only let people know about history, but also let the public travel through time and space with the help of cultural relics, appreciate the immortal charm of Ningbo culture, feel the eternal power of the famous city, think and look forward to the future on the historical platform, and become the spiritual coordinate that reflects this modern international port city from tradition to modernity and from region to the world. Become a cultural palace to interpret history and understand the world.