The sports style in the old building, the sports blue ocean on Nanjing Road. On the 11th, the Shanghai Sports Museum located in the Sports Building on West Nanjing Road was officially opened. It took three years from preparation to opening, and it will become a "public sports and cultural space for citizens", a comprehensive sports museum with an international perspective, sports characteristics and a Shanghai style.
The four main exhibition halls of the Shanghai Sports Museum are the Boat of History, the Light of the Olympic Games, the City of Vitality and the Window of the Future. With an exhibition area of 1,813 square meters, the museum contains more than 1,200 exhibits and more than 500 historical pictures, and behind each collection is the inner journey of Shanghai sports people and tells intriguing sports stories. In addition, there are themed temporary exhibition areas, VR experience areas, multi-dimensional space shows, and a variety of creative multimedia installations, where visitors can immerse themselves in them and feel the profound sports culture.
From the original showroom to today's museum, the preparatory process has received strong support from museum insiders, sports people, and folk sports enthusiasts. At the opening ceremony, Wu Minxia, Wang Liqin, Zou Shiming, Le Jingyi, Tao Luna and Huo Liang, representatives of previous Shanghai Olympic champions, sent blessings to the Shanghai Sports Museum through video messages.
Diving Olympic champion Huo Liang donated three of his World Cup and World Championship gold medals to the Shanghai Sports Museum. He said: "Putting the gold medal in such a meaningful place hopes to let more people understand sports, like sports, and read the stories behind sports in the collection." I am considering taking the Olympic gold medal to the museum in the future. ”
Olympic champion Huo Liang donated three of his world cup and world championship gold medals.
At the Shanghai Sports Museum, there are many treasures donated by old sports people that have been treasured for many years. In the 1933 Fifth National Games of the Republic of China, Qian Xingsu, a famous female athletics athlete in modern Shanghai, won four consecutive championships in the women's 100 meters, 200 meters, 80 meters low hurdles and 4×100 meters relay, setting four new national records and being known as the "queen of sprinting". Qian Xingsu's son, Chen Shihe, donated his mother's precious collections such as the trophy of the Fifth National Games of the Republic of China to the Shanghai Sports Museum.
Chen Shihe told reporters that he came from a sports family, he was also a first-class athlete in Shanghai, "when new China was founded, I was only 13 years old, I am now 86 years old, my growth is under the cultivation of the party." I have long considered donating these trophies to the state, they are not personal collections, but should be shared by citizens. In the museum, friends at home and abroad can see these collections and understand how China has gradually become a sports power. ”
Chen Shihe, the son of Qian Xingsu, a famous female athletics athlete in modern Shanghai, donated precious collections such as his mother's trophy for the Fifth National Games of the Republic of China.
Hou Kun, a researcher at the Humanities Olympic Research Center of Chinese Min University and a member of the Cultural and Olympic Heritage Committee of the International Olympic Committee, is a special visitor who has visited nearly 30 sports or Olympic museums at home and abroad. From the preparation to the exhibition, the Shanghai Gymnasium made him realize the word "heart", "Although these collections will not really speak, the story they tell together is the history of the development of modern and contemporary sports in China and the history of the development of the Olympic Games." The museum is not only to keep the collections, introduce the history behind them, but most importantly, let people feel the culture of the country, the nation and the city, and the Shanghai Sports Museum absolutely did it. ”
Old buildings, new means, Chinese and English comparisons of collection introductions, etc., many details made Hou Kun praise. He said the Shanghai Sports Museum will be a window to show the world Chinese sports culture, "Until now, this is the best sports museum in China that I have seen..."
In May 2012, when the Shanghai Sports Museum showroom was officially opened, there was only one hall with an exhibition area of 440 square meters. Of the more than 500 exhibits in the first exhibition, more than 400 were borrowed. Building a real Shanghai Sports Museum has become the common aspiration of many people. After 9 years of accumulation by successive builders, the current collection has reached more than 4,000 pieces. Many complete collections, such as the torches of previous Summer Olympic Games, the torches of the Winter Olympic Games and Olympic medals, medals, posters, mascots, etc., were completed over several years and in the hands of several museum builders.
The history of Shanghai sports is closely intertwined with the history of the city and the history of Chinese sports, and reflects the history of the party, the history of new China, the history of reform and opening up and the history of socialist development from the side. Xu Bin, secretary of the party group and director of the Municipal Sports Bureau, said, "Telling the historical story of Shanghai sports, telling the story of a century-old inheritance, and inheriting and promoting the spirit of the times and sportsmanship contained in it is the original mission of the construction of the Shanghai Sports Museum." ”
Vr experience area inside the museum.
In May this year, China proposed that it would basically build itself into a world museum power by 2035. Yang Zhigang, president of the Municipal Museum Association and director of the Shanghai Museum, said: "World-class cities need world-class museums, which is an important support for the 'Shanghai culture' brand, and it is also a cultural self-confidence that empowers the times with historical heritage." ”
The completion and opening of the Shanghai Sports Museum is a practical project for the private sector to promote the construction of Shanghai As a humanistic city and enhance the soft power of the city. From the day of opening, the Shanghai Sports Museum is officially open to the public, and the reservation method is adopted, and the ticket is free and free. Visitors can log on to the "Shanghai Sports" government affairs WeChat and enter the "Shanghai Sports Museum Online Service" Mini Program to register for a visit under the real-name system.
The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday (closed on Mondays, except statutory holidays), 9:30-11:30 a.m. (11:00 p.m. to stop checking), 14:00 p.m. to 16:30 p.m. (4:00 p.m.), holidays, other important events and other special circumstances will be announced in advance. It is worth mentioning that on July 9, after the official release of the museum's online service Mini Program, 10 minutes later, all the places on the first day of the opening of the museum were booked; as of 15:00 on the day of release, the 7-day reservation quota was fully booked.
Vice Mayor Chen Qun inaugurated the Shanghai Sports Museum.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Chen Hua Text Editor: Qin Dongying Title Image Source: Haishar
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