Jimu news reporter Xu Ying
Wuhan is a national historical and cultural city, with a history of 3,500 years of founding, and historical sites and cultural relics are all over the city. Since 2012, Wuhan has proposed the concept of building a "Museum City". So far, Wuhan has become a veritable "city of 100 museums", and the number of museums has grown from 58 in 2012 to more than 100 today.
Recently, the "City of a Hundred Museums - Wuhan Regional Museum (Memorial) Tour" edited by Wang Ruihua, director of Wuhan Museum, was published and quickly became a Cultural Gift for the New Year.
This book can be used as a tool for traveling to Wuhan
One of the readers who was fortunate enough to get the new book first sighed: "The 124 museums in Wuhan have been exhausted, and the content is too complete!" This book can be used as a tool for traveling to Wuhan, and even as a cultural gift from Wuhan to friends from other places. ”
On February 7, Wang Ruihua said in an interview with Jimu News that he had not yet had a reference book that included all the museums and memorials in Wuhan, because he had been working on the museum front for a long time, and he thought of doing such a thing. "The museums in the Wuhan area introduced in this book, including state-owned museums, university museums, corporate museums, industry museums and other types, include 124 museums that have been opened and 94 museums that have been officially registered, including 6 national first-level museums, 5 second-level museums, and 7 third-level museums."
It has reference significance for many cities in the country that aim to be "museum cities"
The 6 national first-class museums in Wuhan are: Hubei Provincial Museum, Wuhan Museum, Wuchang Uprising Memorial Hall of the Xinhai Revolution, Wuhan Zhongshan Ship Museum, Wuhan Revolution Museum, Yangtze River Civilization Museum (Wuhan Museum of Natural History); the five national second-level museums are: Hubei Ming and Qing Ancient Architecture Museum, Jianghanguan Museum, Wuhan Dayu Culture Museum, Xinhai Revolution Museum, Yifu Museum of China University of Geosciences; 7 national third-level museums are: Hubei Geological Museum, Memorial Hall of the Former Site of the Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army, Wuhan 27th Memorial Hall, Ethnology Museum of South Central University for Nationalities, Memorial Hall of the Site of the 87th Conference, Wuhan Xinzhou District Museum, Wuhan Qintai Piano Museum.
Liu Shuguang, chairman of the China Museum Association, wrote the preface to the book, and he commented: "The City of a Hundred Museums - Wuhan Regional Museum (Memorial Hall) Tour", presenting the achievements of the construction of Wuhan's "City of Museums", with rich pictures and texts, with both cultural meaning and practical "guide" function, and also has certain reference significance for many cities in the country that aim at "City of Museums".
Many great folk museums are explained in detail in the book
In "The City of a Hundred Museums", the reporter saw many unknown folk museums, such as the Wuhan Desen Land Deed Museum (referred to as the Deed Garden, opening hours: 10:00-17:00, closed on weekends). The museum is located in Ziyang Park. From the Ming Dynasty to the 1960s after the founding of New China, the documents cover Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Hubei and other provinces, which is an empirical evidence of China's social, political, economic and cultural development in different historical periods.
From the book "The City of a Hundred Museums", the reporter learned that folk museums can also be graded. Among the many non-state-owned museums in Wuhan, the Wuhan Qintai Piano Museum is the first museum to be rated. In December 2020, the museum won the national third-level museum award, becoming the first non-state-owned museum in Hubei Province to be recognized as a national museum. Wuhan Qintai Piano Museum, located in Hanyang Qintai Grand Theater, was founded by Dr. He Lijun, an expert of "Wuhan Yellow Crane Talents", and has a collection of more than 1,000 antique pianos, including more than 100 Steinway pianos known as the "King of Pianos".
On February 9, Director He Lijun was interviewed by Jimu News reporter and said that the book "City of a Hundred Museums" reflects the achievements of the construction of the "City of Museums" in Wuhan, and we have also participated in the construction of the "City of Museums" as a non-state-owned museum, and we can share our collections with the society and have a sense of achievement. The publication of this book is also an encouragement and encouragement for us, and it has added impetus to our continued operation of the museum.
Director He Lijun shared with reporters: "We carry out music salons and piano performances every year, and there are 40 or 50 performances a year. "Last year, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party was celebrated, and concerts co-produced by the Piano Museum and outstanding pianists were very popular. On New Year's Day 2022, the "'One See The Carillon' 2022 New Year Concert", sponsored by the Hubei Provincial Museum and co-organized by the School of Music of Jianghan University and the Wuhan Qintai Piano Museum, chimes and piano ensembles showed an artistic dialogue beyond time and space, which had a great impact.