Nanjing, a "city of museums", has a long history and a prosperous cultural context. As a preserver and recorder of history, the museum not only carries the story of human civilization, its existence itself is a story. In 2021, there will be 7 new museums in Jiangsu Province, among which the Inspirational Society Museum, Nanjing Fire Museum, Nanjing Iron and Steel Museum, and Nanjing Forestry University Museum are listed among them.
Nanjing Fire Museum
The Nanjing Fire Museum, which took four years to build, is the first fire-fighting theme museum in Jiangsu Province, located in the compound of the Municipal Fire Rescue Detachment, No. 1 Beijing West Road, Gulou District, covering an area of nearly 2,000 square meters.
Since the start of construction, more than 60,000 copies of relevant historical materials have been reviewed, more than 10,000 pieces of precious documents, photos, objects and other historical materials have been collected, and more than 400 pieces of various fire-fighting cultural relics since the Ming and Qing dynasties have been displayed, interpreting the construction trajectory of Nanjing's urban development, telling the history of Nanjing's fire protection development in the past century, and also showing the history of Nanjing's construction of various fire brigades.
In the museum, the first domestically modified fire truck made in Nanjing is particularly eye-catching: the red body, with wooden chairs, is a bit like the current tourist car. There is also an old fire truck that is also eye-catching, which is the fire truck used in the entrance ceremony of the second fire sports games in Nanjing, because it is well preserved, this sixty-year-old fire truck can still be used normally today.
The museum also displays precious materials donated by citizens and firefighters. The exhibition hall contains a ticket to Return to Nanjing from Chengdu Shuangliu Airport on May 24, 2008. It is reported that at that time, the Jiangsu rescue team rescued the Wenchuan earthquake, and when they left, the airport issued a special ticket to everyone, and the names of all the people on the ticket were heroic in English.
Nanjing Iron and Steel Museum
Nanjing Iron and Steel Museum has a three-storey exhibition hall, which is divided into five parts, such as "Metallurgical History", "Zhengrong Years", "Forge Ahead", "Transformation and Take-off", and "How Steel is Made", with an exhibition area of about 2500 square meters.
The content of the exhibition is novel, through the exhibition of graphic panels, physical models, video images, vision online, interactive experience and other exhibition means, showing the development process of the NISCO brand, 3,000 years of metallurgical history and 200 years of steel industry history.
Want to know more about "how steel is made"? The Department of Science, Technology and Education is well worth a visit. During the period, the first scientific and educational version of the 3D film in the national steel industry is played on a loop, allowing you to experience the whole process of steelmaking in an immersive way.
Nanjing Forestry University Museum
The Museum of Nanjing Forestry University is the cultural exhibition site of Nanlin University, and has four parts: the History Museum, the Animal Herbarium, the Tree Herbarium and the Wood Herbarium, covering a total area of 1,300 square meters.
The museum has two basic exhibitions: the basic exhibition of school history and the basic exhibition of animal specimens, with an exhibition hall area of 600 square meters and a collection of 1140 pieces/set.
Inspirational Society Museum
The site of the Inspirational Society Museum, located at No. 307 Zhongshan East Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, is mainly built by relying on three ancient buildings on the former site of the Inspirational Society of the Republic of China, of which the old site of the Inspirational Society Building is the main historical and collection display area.
The exhibition hall closely focuses on the important historical events of the "five places" in modern history, such as "the decision-making place of the all-round War of Resistance", "the trial site of the Japanese war criminals who invaded China", "the place of the Nanjing Republican Peace Talks Conference", "the command site after the victory of the People's Liberation Army crossing the river", and the "nanjing underground municipal party committee first 'debuted' place", combined with the life deeds of Zhou Enlai and important historical facts such as the heroic martyrs of Yuhua, the New Fourth Army, and the Huaihai Campaign, and concentrates on displaying relevant important historical stories that occurred from 1929 to 1949.
Taking physical objects, real scenes, examples and real situations as the carrier, in the next step, the Inspirational Society Museum will change the museum into a classroom, materials into teaching materials, and explanations into interactions, making it a new business card to display Nanjing's urban culture.
In addition to the above-mentioned museums in Nanjing, the new museums in Jiangsu include yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum, Suzhou Education Museum, Dafeng Shanghai Zhiqing Memorial Hall, etc., which are worth a visit. In early spring, when everything is revived, it is better to meet relatives and friends and visit the museum full of culture.
Source: Wen Wei Po, Nanjing Release, Modern Express