Revival of the Cantonese Opera

WALKING along the archaistic streets of Yongqingfang Square in Guangzhou,one will notice a museum built in the architectural style of a Lingnan gar-den (a typical garden south of the Five Mountain Ridges in south China).That is the Cantonese Opera Art Museum.Standing as a local landmark,the "garden museum" has attracted many Canton-ese Opera lovers.     

Through the Looking Glass

正A museum presents Chinese culture from an American lawyer's perspective Museum exhibits are usually protected by glass cases or windows. However, at the Six Arts Museum in Lili, an ancient town in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, visitors can approach and physically touch the exhibits.     

Great Unity In Diversity

A collection of more than 240 artifacts unearthed in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is now on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing.     

A Roaring Revel

Chinese New Year folk art takes center stage in the nation’s capital An exhibition on Chinese folk art opened to the public at Beijing’s China National Arts and Crafts Museum on February 22, featuring 164 pieces and sets of traditional folk and art works in celebration of the Year of the Tiger.     

Showcasing Colombia＇s Native Icons in Beijing

THE Object/Colombia Exhibition, the biggest ever held in China, went on display at the Beijing Jintai Art Museum in July of 2003. This exhibition structured as a journey across historic Colombia, featuring five uses of objects as icons: furniture, decorations, containers, clothes, and ritual and games relics, all grouped     

A Window on Tibet

正A Beijing museum attracts visitors with its unique exhibitions on Tibet Autonomous Region If you are a big fan of Tibet but worry about the altitude, the Beijing-based Tibet Culture Museum may be a good option for you to get a closer look at the plateau. A special exhibition featuring 61 artifacts and more than 350 old photographs is hosted in the museum, which aims to illustrate the region's development over the past seven decades, ever since it was peacefully liberated on May 23, 1951.     

Once and Future

Traditional museums in China get innovative to woo the public Cecilia Lin, a college student in Henan, a province rich in cultural relics, recently became one of the first visitors to experience new trial exhibits opened at Henan Museum. In February, the museum introduced new services for visitors to interact with other visitors through their phones.     

Romantic Bridges

ON the seventh night of the seventh moon (around August 10), rural and urban Chinese people alike have their eyesfixed on the heavens. According to the story known to them all, it is on this day that two star-crossed lovers are reunited on a celestial bridge of love. The day of their reunion, known in Chinese as Qixi (Seventh Night), has been a Chinese     

Old Home of the Most Venerated of Calligraphers

IN recent years,ancient calligraphic works havefetched millions at auction,most notably in 2003 whenthe Shanghai MuseumPurchased ChunhuaPavilion Rubbings of Model     

Cyberpunk Explosion

正Amazing Museum, an annual activity hosted by Guokr, China's leading popular science website, opened to the public in Beijing on September 29. This time around, the event took place at a shopping mall so that more people would be able to catch a glimpse of scientific lure.This year, the theme was Cyberpunk Explosion. With a transboundary interaction framework that combined popular science and art, the exhibition gave visitors the opportunity to indulge in a full-on immersive experience.     

OUR SHARED CULTURAL LEGACY

One spring day in 1994,an original work by Yuan Dynasty master painter Zhao Mengfu(1254-1322)was brought to the warehouse office of the Palace Museum in Beijing.Two museum staff wearing white silk glovesgingerly unrolled the 700-year-old picce of art ona long table in front of a group of visitors watchingintently.They were Chinese and American schol-ars working on a book,Three Thousands Years ofChinese Painting,one of the volumes in an unprec-edented publishing collaboration series called TheCulture and Civilization of China.     

THE POWER OF ORIGINAL THINKING FOR CHANGE

Significant progress achieved in science and technology Soon,you will be able to check out lunar soil in Beijing.The National Museum of China announced that it would exhibit the lunar samples brought back in December 2020 by the Chang’e-5 lunar probe.Preserved in a delicate container made of artificial crystal,the samples have already arrived at the museum.These are not just China’s first samples from Moon but also the world’s freshest lunar samples in over four decades.     

JOURNEY TO THE PAST

Red tourism destinations with unique features gain increasing popularity Since childhood,Mao Haofu has been hearing stories about revolutionary figures and the revolutionary base in his hometown—Jinggangshan City in Jiangxi Province—from his grandfather Mao Binghua,former curator of the Jinggangshan Museum.     

“红砖厝”的建筑表征——解读中国闽台缘博物馆设计理念

中国闽台缘博物馆设计者选用＂红砖厝＂作为建筑表征,并将之融合到博物馆建筑的整体和局部设计的一系列构思当中。＂红砖厝＂作为两岸文化认同的核心,成为参观者在展陈中体验闽台文化一家亲的重要媒介。     

Magic of Conservation

正What happens to cultural relics during the whole process from being unearthed to well restored?An exhibition showcasing the results of the work and devotion of specialists brings the past back to life. From Terracotta Warriors to bronzeware, silk pieces and paintings, the 50-odd cultural relics gathered inside a gallery of the Capital Museum in Beijing pay homage to those cultural relic doctors who gave them a second life in the public eye.     

Picasso on Show in Shanghai

A staff member of the National Picasso Museum of France checks one of the great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s works at the China Pavilion inside the site of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai on October 12.Sixty-two priceless paintings and statues selected from the works of the renowned artist have been brought to the pavilion for an upcoming exhibition to premiere on October 18.Besides these representative masterpieces,50 valuable photographs showing the artist’s whole life will also be presented.The exhibition’s estimated value is 678 million euros ($934 million).It will be held until January 10,2012.     

The Face of Fayum in Beijing

The moment I set eyes on one of the Fayum portraits depicting a middleaged man on a coffin lid in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, I was hooked. His pensive gaze and striking resemblance with many Egyptian friends put me on a journey of learning more about these spectacular mummy portraits, many of which reside in diaspora far away from home. Little did I know back then that my next encounter with them would be in no other place than the capital of China.     

Encountering the Palace Cats

Since 2009, certain furry occupants in the Forbidden City, or the Palace Museum, have been receiving global social media attention: the palace’s small army of stray cats. Some descendants of imperial pets, others wandering in from other parts of the city, these diligent feline guards are allowed inside the museum walls for the primary purpose of defending its wooden structures and priceless relics against mice and rats.     

A Crafty Renaissance

正A recent exhibition, co-hosted by the China Artists Association and the National Museum of China, shares with visitors a glimpse of the latest achievements in the contemporary arts and crafts, part of China's profound cultural and historical narrative.     

我国博物馆管理机制创新——基于湖南省博物馆的个案分析

博物馆免费开放后,我国博物馆事业的发展面临着新的机遇,也遇到新的问题。本文对湖南省博物馆管理机制改革的个案分析表明,以行政为中心转变为以观众为中心;打破横向阻隔,建立业务主管负责制;盘活人力资源,由身份管理向岗位管理转变等是博物馆功能得到充分发挥,管理更具活力、更有效率的有效途径。但是,博物馆事业的发展不但需要内部管理机制的不断创新,更需要外部管理体制的有力支撑。