Donated cultural relics "Shang Martingale" Xinhua News Agency
Xinmin Evening News (reporter Le Mengrong) During the closure of the museum due to the epidemic, the Shanghai Museum launched a special event. At 7 o'clock last night, the curator Yang Zhigang selected 20 exhibits and led the audience to watch the exhibition "Sheng Shi Fanghua - Shanghai Museum Donated Cultural Relics Exhibition" together on the cloud, admiring the precious donated cultural relics and interpreting the moving story between the donor and Shangbo.
This exhibition focuses on the important cultural relics donated in the 1970s and 1980s, covering various categories, which is another exhibition of donated cultural relics after the Shanghai Museum held the "Peak of the Thousand Autumns" and "Gaoshan Mountain Tour", and is also one of the series of activities for the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Shanghai Museum.
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By the end of 2021, the Shanghai Museum has a collection of more than 1.02 million cultural relics and more than 140,000 precious cultural relics. More than 88,000 cultural relics in the collection were donated by people from all walks of life, accounting for about 8.6% of the total collection of cultural relics and 23.6% of the total precious cultural relics in the collection. So far, the number of donors to the Shanghai Museum has exceeded 800, more than 120 collective donations, and more than 1,200 batches of cultural relics have been donated.
What is different from the past is that the cultural relics in this exhibition are arranged with the donor as the main vein, so that the audience can understand the donors behind them from the "cultural relics". In the video, you can see that there are not only relevant introductions next to the cultural relics, but also the information of the donors, and Director Yang mentioned: "We want more people to know the righteous deeds and personality stories behind the donation of cultural relics." Many donations come from the family tradition, their ancestors and Shanghai have a deep relationship, and the Shanghai Museum has a deep friendship, which can reflect their patriotic, patriotic, patriotic and cultural lofty characteristics. ”
Taking this exhibition as an opportunity, the Shanghai Museum also specially planned and produced a documentary with the theme of reviewing the donations and donations since the establishment of the Shanghai Bo Museum, "Mountains and Rivers", through precious historical images and archival materials, interviewing the descendants of domestic and foreign donors, promoting the donors' feelings of home and country, and triggering the cultural identity and resonance of the audience. In order to thank the donors for their righteous deeds, the Shanghai Museum has decided that a "donation exhibition" will be arranged when the East Pavilion is opened.
Yang Zhigang introduced that the "ShengShi Fanghua - Shanghai Museum Donated Cultural Relics Exhibition" will last until September 4. At the same time, adhering to the attitude of "closing the museum and not closing the exhibition", the Shanghai Museum will open and plan a series of online exhibitions, lectures, guided tours and other activities during the epidemic.