The Capital Museum, located in the Confucius Temple, is a large-scale comprehensive museum in Beijing and belongs to the municipal comprehensive museum in China Province. Preparations for the Capital Museum 1953 began, and 198 1 10 was officially opened to the public. At that time, the museum was located in Confucius Temple, Guozijian Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing. Covering an area of 22,000 square meters, the Confucius Temple was built in Dade six years in Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1302). After the renovation, the Sanjin Courtyard is well preserved. The main buildings include Master Gate, Dacheng Gate, Dacheng Hall and Chongsheng Temple. The forest of steles inscribed by scholars in Ming and Qing Dynasties is the only forest of steles in China. The temples on both sides have been turned into exhibition halls, covering an area of more than 2,000 square meters, with elegant environment.
In order to accommodate more collections and serve more visitors. 1999 as a key cultural construction project in Beijing during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, the application for the establishment of the new capital museum was approved by the Beijing Municipal Government on 1999, and the foundation stone was officially laid in 200 1 and 65438+February. The new Capital Museum was officially opened on May 6th, 2006. Appeared on the west side of Baiyun Road in Xicheng District (Fuxingmenwai Street 16) on the west extension line of Chang 'an Street, China First Street. The New Capital Museum is a modern comprehensive museum with the most advanced facilities. The exhibition of the new museum is based on the historical collection of the Capital Museum and the cultural relics unearthed in Beijing, absorbs the latest research results of Beijing's history, cultural relics, archaeology and related disciplines, and draws on the successful experience of museums at home and abroad to form a modern exhibition with unique Beijing characteristics. With its magnificent architecture, rich exhibitions, advanced technology and perfect functions, the Capital Museum has become a large-scale modern museum commensurate with Beijing's status as a "historical and cultural city", "cultural center" and "international metropolis", and ranks among the "domestic first-class and international advanced" museums.
The Capital Museum is a modern comprehensive museum with the most advanced facilities. It is a large-scale modern cultural facility for 2 1 century invested by Beijing municipal government, and it is one of the landmark buildings in Beijing in the new century. Due to its outstanding contribution to the reform and development of cultural heritage protection, on May 24th, 2007, the Capital Museum was awarded the title of National Advanced Collective of Cultural Relics System by the Ministry of Personnel and National Cultural Heritage Administration.
[Edit this paragraph] Exhibition
Since its opening, the Capital Museum has held many well-received exhibitions of historical relics at home and abroad, such as: Beijing Historical Relics Exhibition, Yuan Dynasty History Exhibition, Old Beijing Spring Festival Folk Exhibition, ceramics collection, calligraphy and painting authenticity identification exhibition, Beijing historical and cultural exhibition, etc. Interior: basic exhibition, special exhibition, temporary exhibition, cultural relics warehouse, social education area, business research area, administrative office area, comprehensive service area, underground garage, etc. With perfect functions and advanced facilities, the new museum ranks among the international advanced and domestic first-class modern museums. It integrates cultural relics collection, exhibition, restoration, research, education and communication.
In 2000, the construction of the new capital museum started, and the compilation of the exhibition outline began immediately; The outline of the exhibition has been guided by many academic authorities from China Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University Academy of Social Sciences and Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, and strives to reflect the latest achievements recognized by the academic circles. The exhibition design strives to break through the traditional boring exhibition mode with a brand-new design concept, make full use of modern exhibition technology and techniques, create different kinds of exhibition atmosphere, and give the audience an experiential visit experience, which has formal affinity, fun and interactivity, and appeals to both refined and popular tastes.
For decades, the Capital Museum has collected a large number of cultural relics, with a collection of 250,000 pieces, including bronzes, pottery, calligraphy and painting, stone carvings, coins, jade articles, seals, embroidery, horns of bamboo and wood, Buddha statues, stationery and folk handicrafts. There are also many orphans and treasures in the collection that are well-known at home and abroad. The Capital Museum has a total collection of more than 83,000 cultural relics, including 305 first-class ones. Most of the collections are cultural relics unearthed in Beijing after the founding of the People's Republic of China, from the Neolithic Age, Shang and Zhou Dynasties to Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Treasures in the collection, such as the bronze bronze tripod of the Zhou Dynasty unearthed in Liu Lihe, a suburb of Beijing, are 62 cm high and weigh 465,438 0.5 kg. There are 4 lines and 26 words on the inner wall, which is of great significance to the study of ancient history of Beijing. In addition, there are Bo Moment, Jasper Edition Sonnets and so on.
There are basic exhibitions, fine exhibitions and temporary exhibitions in the Capital Museum.
The basic exhibition includes the history and culture of the ancient capital Beijing, the urban construction of the ancient capital Beijing and the folk custom exhibition of old Beijing. The history and culture of the ancient capital Beijing and the construction of the ancient capital Beijing are the core of the exhibition of the Capital Museum, showing the magnificent Beijing culture, which has been rising and moving towards a glorious history of the development of the capital, and has become a brand display for building a first-class museum in China.
Exquisite exhibitions include ancient porcelain art exhibition, Yan Di bronze art exhibition, ancient calligraphy art exhibition, ancient painting art exhibition, ancient jade art exhibition, ancient Buddhism art exhibition and study art exhibition. These seven exhibitions of fine collections and old Beijing folk customs are the supplements and deepening of Beijing's cultural display.
The above exhibition * * * shows 5622 pieces of cultural relics in the collection.
This temporary exhibition is a stage to study and appreciate the relationship between Beijing culture and other cultures, China culture and world culture.
[Edit this paragraph] Design concept
Interior of the Capital Museum The architectural design concept of the Capital Museum is "people-oriented, cultural relics-oriented, and serving the society", emphasizing "the harmony and unity of the past and the future, history and modernity, art and nature". The design of the Capital Museum originates from the idea that the museum is a place connecting history, modernity and future, juxtaposing traditional materials with modern materials to express the description of history and future. The inclined bronze body comes out of the wall, giving birth to the image of cultural relics excavation; The overhanging roof undoubtedly alludes to the traditional eaves of China, while the suspended frame brick wall blurs the boundary between the ancient city wall and the modern curtain wall; The slope of the square is based on the technique of high-rise buildings in the palace, which sets off a magnificent giant structure. The concise rectangular plane is in harmony with Beijing's urban pattern, and the asymmetrical shape echoes the street corner space. Traditional materials such as bronze, wood and masonry represent the long history of Beijing. Stainless steel ceiling, glass curtain wall and advanced building technology show the modernization of new Beijing. The Four Seasons Bamboo Garden of Sunshine Pavilion introduces landscape space into the museum, and the outdoor sunken bamboo garden extends to the interior, which breaks the closed and dull feeling of traditional museum space and creates an open, warm and bright cultural and leisure environment. The garden and the exhibition hall of cultural relics are intertwined in time and space, showing the unique oriental artistic charm.
[Edit this paragraph] Architectural style
The new Capital Museum covers an area of 24,800 square meters with a total construction area of 63,390 square meters. It has two floors underground and five floors above ground. Design a green cultural square in the north and a sunken bamboo garden in the east. The building (above ground) is152m long from east to west, 66m wide from north to south and 4 1 m high. The shape of the building is mainly composed of three parts: rectangular enclosure structure, oval facade and metal roof. The interior of the building is divided into three independent buildings, namely: rectangular exhibition hall, oval theme exhibition hall and strip office scientific research building. The space between them is the central hall and the indoor bamboo garden. The use of natural light, quaint Chinese archway, sinking bamboo courtyard and flowing water create an environment with both humanistic and natural sentiment for the audience.
The building of the Capital Museum itself is an architectural work of art integrating classical beauty and modern beauty, which has both strong national characteristics and a distinct sense of modernity. The huge roof inherits the far-reaching overhangs of traditional buildings in China; The long stone curtain wall symbolizes the ancient city wall of China; The slope of the square inherits the architectural style of the ancient high platform; On the ground outside the north gate of the hall, there is an Amin archway embedded, which embodies the characteristics of the central axis of China traditional architecture. The oval bronze exhibition hall leans out of the wall, which means that ancient cultural relics have broken ground. The extensive use of bronze, wood and masonry shows a long history. The stone used in the North Square and the lobby is produced in Fangshan area, and has been supplying stone for the construction of Beijing since ancient times. The exterior decoration of the square exhibition hall adopts the most common elm in Beijing; The exterior decoration of the oval exhibition hall is made of bronze, and is decorated with the Western Zhou bronzes unearthed in Beijing. Steel roof, glass curtain wall, etc. Showing Beijing's strong pace of the times, large space and transparent visual effects are in line with the international fashion trend of contemporary architecture.
[Edit this paragraph] Building indicators and functions
The New Capital Museum is not only an important cultural facility, but also a base for the protection and research of cultural relics in Beijing. It spreads patriotism, history and scientific knowledge to the public and young people, is an important place for ceremonies and celebrations in Beijing, and is an ideal place for people to travel and relax. Architectural design attaches importance to the specific functional requirements of the museum, and tries to deal with the relationship between functional areas in a clear, concise and logical way. The main functions are divided into exhibition area, social education area, comprehensive service area, business research area, underground parking garage, administrative office area, security area, collection area and equipment area.
Environmental monitoring of cultural relics safety: The Capital Museum adopts advanced and unique intelligent air-conditioning system, with constant humidity and no constant temperature, and the range of relative humidity in the cultural relics warehouse and exhibition hall is controlled within 2%, which greatly ensures the safety of cultural relics storage; At the same time, the temperature of the exhibition hall fluctuates with the external natural temperature to a certain extent, giving people better comfort.
Etiquette and public activities: When a ceremony is held, relevant slogans and background information will be displayed on the multimedia projection screen in the lobby before the ceremony begins. During the ceremony, the acoustics of the whole hall were even and clear. The lobby is equipped with news photography power supply and news release information terminal, which can automatically control related lighting, curtain, sound, projection and other equipment according to the progress of meetings and etiquette. The big screen in the outdoor square can broadcast the ceremony live at the same time, and shoot and record the ceremony on the spot. Corresponding multimedia discs can be provided within half an hour after the ceremony.
On-site service for the audience: install a tour guide system at the gate and hall of the museum, so that the public can freely browse and inquire about the basic situation and visiting information of the museum. The ticket checking system sells all kinds of tickets such as full price and preferential price of the museum, which can automatically identify the authenticity and denomination of the tickets, so that the audience can return to continue their visit even if they leave the museum temporarily that day.
Information service: Digitize historical audio-visual materials by using information technology, and set up an audio-visual program database and an on-demand system. Viewers can dial through a computer screen or telephone to freely order whatever they want to listen to or watch.
Multifunctional lecture hall: Through digital network, radio station, TV network (wired/wireless) and live video broadcast, interactive broadcast of data network and post-production of electronic publications, the combination of on-site meeting and online meeting can be realized. Internet users can participate in on-site academic discussions in real time by browsing the local area network of our library, no matter where they are.
The Central Etiquette Hall, with an area of over 2,000 square meters and a height of 34 meters, is an ideal place to hold ceremonial activities and large-scale cultural activities with outstanding cultural characteristics and modern flavor in China.
Exhibition hall-different types of exhibition halls are relatively independent, which not only facilitates the selective visit of the audience, shortens the visit route, but also facilitates the safety management. The wide exhibition area and sufficient height also provide an ideal space for various exhibition designs. The temporary exhibition hall of more than 3,000 square meters will provide a first-class exhibition platform for cultural and artistic exchanges at home and abroad. Intelligent temperature and humidity control system and security fire protection system provide conditions for holding the most precious cultural relics exhibition.
Cultural relics warehouse-with sufficient area and reasonable separation; The fire safety facilities are advanced and complete; Using 10 ton hydraulic elevator, the cultural relics transport vehicle can be transported from the ground to the second floor underground warehouse, which is unique in Chinese and foreign museums at present.
Multi-functional conference hall-has the most selected facilities in China, such as multilingual simultaneous interpretation, digital movie playing, conference voting system, special website for conference hall, etc.
Digital projection hall-ultra-wide viewing angle arc screen, which can play high-definition digital movies. The resolution of this equipment is the highest at home and abroad. At present, the first film is Brilliant Beijing. Three-dimensional digital movies will be made in the future.
[Edit this paragraph] Advanced technology
Collection, exhibition and research are the three major tasks of the museum. The new museum of Shoubo has fully absorbed and adopted the advanced technology of museum construction in the world today, and has reached the domestic first-class level in these three aspects.
Intelligent project-installing an air conditioning system with intelligent temperature and humidity control in the exhibition hall to ensure that the audience's activity space in the exhibition hall is comfortable, and at the same time, maintaining the temperature and humidity conducive to the protection of cultural relics in the showcase; In the cultural relics warehouse, different temperatures and humidities are provided according to the cultural relics storage areas made of different materials. The security technical prevention system (including parking garage management and lighting control), fire monitoring and automatic fire extinguishing system (including emergency broadcasting system), building automation system and acousto-optic linkage control system are fully intelligent; Among them, automatic fire extinguishing is also specially designed for the characteristics that cultural relics are easy to encounter water.
The construction of digital museum-the first digital construction project of the World Expo, is an innovative project of the national cultural and artistic circles;
(1) A complete framework for building museum information resources through digital technology; Digital management of collection management;
(2) The exhibition makes full use of digital technology as an auxiliary means, and sets up multi-screen projection, phantom imaging, virtual reality images, digital movies and other multimedia display projects at the necessary positions of the exhibition to enhance the exhibition effect; Break the triviality and monotony of previous textbooks;
(3) A comprehensive information platform serving all departments and visitors (including people outside the museum) was first established in China.
The digital professional subsystem of the Capital Museum includes cultural heritage information management system, multimedia display background management system and the website of the Capital Museum 1 1.
Multimedia Exhibition-In Chen Zhong, multi-screen projection (first used in the field of international museums), phantom imaging, digital movies and other multimedia exhibition means are widely used to enhance the exhibition effect, deepen the information transmission of physical exhibits, and completely break the boring and monotonous teaching materials of historical relics exhibitions in the past.
Environmental protection and energy saving-It is the first museum and cultural venue in China that uses solar energy to generate electricity, and it uses flexible solar panels with amorphous skin. Energy-saving lamps and colloidal battery EPS emergency power supply are also used in the museum; Decorative materials, display cases and other exhibition supplies in the museum are all green products that meet national standards.
Cultural Relics Restoration-Introduce complete sets of advanced cultural relics protection and restoration equipment, comprehensively improve the level of cultural relics protection and restoration by high-tech means, and turn the Capital Museum into a cultural relics protection and restoration center in northern China.
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On the basis of perfecting advanced equipment and facilities and the principle of humanized service;
Reception services-multilingual service consultation, lockers, public drinking tables, rest seats, motor vehicle and non-motor vehicle parking lots, etc. And prepared elevators, wheelchairs and telephones for the disabled; Baby's room, stroller, etc. It's for babies. At the same time, it is equipped with six touch screens for special people.
Tour guide explanation service-provide free multilingual tour guide maps and exhibition color pages in Chinese and English for the audience; Provide special lectures by multilingual commentators and experts; Touch-screen inquiry computer, multilingual intelligent voice navigation machine, and multilingual personal handheld computer (PDA) navigation for the first time in China.
The big screen of the Central Etiquette Hall-adopts the full-color big screen with the highest resolution in the world at present, and plays digital movies introducing Beijing's first exhibition, temporary exhibition and historical sites; Exhibition and service information is played in text form by using a large screen with two primary colors.
Education and interactive services-The museum holds special lectures, children's theme activities, hands-on experience projects and interactive multimedia projects all year round.
Leisure business services-restaurants, cafes, tea rooms, souvenir shops, bookstores, ATMs, mailboxes, public telephones and other facilities are open to the audience.
As a modern comprehensive museum, the Capital Museum will surely make new contributions to enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the broad masses of the people, developing cultural exchanges with foreign countries and building socialist culture in Beijing.
[Edit this paragraph] Access information
Opening hours:
09: 00-17: 00 (16: 00 stops selling tickets and closes on Monday).
Fares:
Free visit. Citizens visiting the Capital Museum must book free tickets in advance, and visitors who have not made an appointment in advance will not be accepted.
Data flow information
1. Subway: 1 Line Muxidi Station.
Second, the bus route:
52, 1 14, 308, 337 Muxidi East Station
37 Road Sanlihe East Road South Exit Station
26, 45, 1 14, 308, 3 19, 937, 937,1-7, 937, 937 Baiyun Road Station of Venus Special Line.