Anhui Museum

We will be going to Anhui Museum! Our group is tasked to research on Anhui Museum and Hangzhou Art and Crafts Museum. So we will be going to explain to you about these both museums in this and the other post.

Anhui Museum 

Introuduction:The Anhui Provincial Museum (Anhui sheng bowuguan), built in 1956, is the largest and most comprehensive museum in the province. The 9000-square-meters of space here houses over 100,000 exhibits, many fossils or historical relics that date back over 2,000 years. The museum has no English, however, and so is really only good either for those into their Chinese history or Chinese readers.

 

Exhibits 

A lot of the exhibits are related to the Three Kingdoms period (220-280 AD), a time immortalized by the book of the same name, although exhibits mainly concentrate upon the Cao family. Calligraphists will be pleased with the mostly Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) exhibition pieces of the Four Treasures of Chinese Calligraphy.

There is an exhibition of the Four Treasures of the Scholar's Study with high-quality ink sticks, heavy carved ink stones, weaselhair brushes and multicoloured papers. 

There is a room in the Anhui Museum that houses objects that have been excavated in the Anhui region over the past decades and there are some magnificent things! The gold-rimmed amber bowl from the Song Dynasty, the silver wine vessel also from the Song Dynasty and a lacquer box from the Qing dynasty are just a few of this fantastic collection. All of us are excited about this room that we hope to visit.

Anhui Provincial Museum houses three permanent displays: exhibitions on the ancient history of Anhui, the province's revolutionary history, and ancient plants and animals

A highlight of the exhibition is the Shang bronze unearthed in Anhui Province, such as an exceptional Shang bronze pot in the shape of an animal unearthed from the Cai Marquis Tomb of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC). The ChuDing, which is 113 cm high and weighs 400 kilograms, is the biggest and heaviest extant one of its kind since the Zhou Dynasty.

A precious celadon bowl, unearthed in 1963 from a Susong County tomb of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), is a rare treasure. Luxie Painting (Reed and Crab Painting) by Liang Zaibang of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) is a gem of the art of iron painting.

The Anhui Museum in Hefei, is housed in a spectacular new building over seven floors, displaying superb collections of natural history specimens. Nearby Huanshang Mountain, one of the five great mountains of China, was the centre of Huizhou culture, with its own architecture, commerce, neo-Confucianism and opera and cuisine

Architecture: The provincial artwork ,which is unique of Anhui Province, consists of two separate buildings which seems like a unified body through the poetic design of the skin.  Because it’s designed with the aim of holding international art activities, the Anhui Provincial Art Museum pays special attention to spaces’ distribution. The museum complex aims to achieve different functions such as collection, research, exhibition, education, communication, services, features; it focuses on collections. Exhibition reflects the history of art development in Anhui province and outside through artists’ works of art and literature. 

**[Tourist Information]

Address: in the middle section of Anqing Road, Hefei City

Opening hours: 08:30-10:40 & 14:00-16:00, Monday-Friday; 08:30-11:40 & 14:00-17:00, Saturday and Sunday.

Cost: RMB10 for foreigners.

[What Can We Learn]

The Museum's exhibition focuses on the local history and is arranged into three basic displays: Ancient History of Anhui, Revolutionary History of Anhui and Fossils of Ancient Extinct Life in Anhui. In addition to the annual exhibitions, the museum often organizes temporary special exhibitions at home and abroad.

Works published by the Museum include Selected Masters' Painting, Collections of Anhui Provincial Museum, and Excavations from the Cai Marquis Tomb in Shou County, etc.

 

And some questions that we are curious about! 

When we go to the museums,

-We are wondering whether we will have another tour guide to guide us when we arrive at the museum?

-Why are the exhibits related to the Three Kingdoms Period? (Anhui museum)

-How long will the trip to the museums take? 

-What do we need to bring or prepare before going to the museums? 

Hope that you have learned somehting new today! :-)