The three-dimensional picture of the Bronze Elephant Statue of the Shang Dynasty on the online display platform of the Digital Copper Museum is now in the Freer Art Museum in the United States.
The three-dimensional picture of the Han Dynasty wrong gold and silver Boshan furnace on the digital copper museum network display platform is now in the Freer Art Museum in the United States.
Open the digital copper museum network display platform, the famous He Zun, stepmother Peng Ding, women hao gong zun and other bronze cultural relics "heavy tools" are presented one by one: clear cultural relics photos, inscription rubbings, etc., so that the audience can appreciate the precious bronze cultural relics collected in museums around the world through mobile phones. On the website page, the accurate cultural relics information such as the age, the type data, the excavation time, etc., the historical allusions behind the cultural relics such as the Wuwang Extinction Merchant and the Yue King Gou Jian are clear at a glance, and with the video introduction, the gorgeous beauty of the bronze is in full view between the square inches.
Tongling area is one of the earliest areas where the Chinese nation discovered and used copper, and has the reputation of "China's ancient copper capital". The Digital Copper Museum, which officially opened in May 2020, relies on the Tongling City Museum and is a thematic museum with the theme of copper, including online and offline two major parts. There is a digital copper museum online display platform and copper digital resource library online, and a digital experience hall and a youth interactive experience area built offline. The museum adopts the model of "Internet + museum", comprehensively uses the Internet, big data, three-dimensional laser, 720 ° panorama and other modern digital technology means to collect and sort out the digital resources of copper cultural relics of domestic and foreign collection institutions, and has now included more than 2,000 pieces of digital images and information of copper cultural relics.
On the digital copper museum network display platform, the audience can not only see the local bronze cultural relics in Tongling, but also see the fine bronze artifacts excavated from other parts of the country. Wang Jie, director of Tongling Museum, introduced: "Our museum focuses on bronze and copper culture, not limited to its own collection, and has successively shared bronze cultural relics digital resources with many domestic and foreign pavilions such as Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum, Freer Art Museum of art in the United States, and metropolitan museum of art in the United States. It is particularly characterized by Chinese bronzes that have been lost overseas. ”
According to the statistics of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics and the data released by UNESCO, overseas collection institutions have collected more than 10 million Chinese cultural relics. What important Chinese bronzes are collected abroad? Where are they? How did these bronzes end up in a foreign land? The Digital Copper Museum's "Lost Overseas Chinese Bronzes" column may give an answer. Here, the audience can intuitively understand the main distribution of these Lost Overseas Chinese bronzes on the world map, the main collection institutions and the stories behind them - the Tiger Ofe, one of the treasures of the Izumiya Bokokan Town Hall in Japan, was once a Qing Palace bronze vessel flowing out of the Boxer Rebellion, and the whole instrument was cast into a scene of a tiger with a huge mouth holding a person in its arms, and Japanese experts have different interpretations of its shape: "Tiger desires to eat people" and "the tiger is breastfeeding in its arms" The Duanfang copper forbidden vessel in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States is a group of 14 Western Zhou Dynasty wine vessels, of which the cicada-patterned copper forbidden vessel used to hold the wine vessel is the first time that the "forbidden" artifact that is only recorded in ancient books has appeared in the world since the beginning of epigraphy.
Get in touch with foreign institutions that collect Chinese bronze cultural relics, introduce the construction goals and significance of the digital copper museum to each other through telephone, letters, etc., and invite them to tongling to investigate... In order to achieve the sharing of digital resources that have lost overseas bronzes, the Digital Copper Museum has done a lot of work. In March 2019, Wilson Quisse, director of the Asia Department of the Freer Museum of Art, assistant Zhang Jingmin, and Tang Jigen, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology, were invited to Tongling to discuss the construction of the Digital Copper Museum. After unremitting efforts, the Digital Copper Museum finally obtained the authorization for the display of three-dimensional models of cultural relics such as the Shang Dynasty bronze elephant statue, the Western Zhou Fangyi, and the Han Dynasty Wrong Gold and Silver Boshan Furnace collected by the Friar Art Museum.
With the progress and development of science and technology, cultural relics resources no longer only refer to their material forms, but also contain digital information about cultural relics. In the sharing of digital information resources for museum collections, although there is still a lack of unified legislative norms and management standards, there are objective difficulties such as the collection and integration of collection information resources of various cultural institutions, and the management of intellectual property rights is not uniform, but the cross-library and cross-international sharing of digital information resources of collections has become a general trend. "Through the further opening and improvement of online cultural and expo digital resources, we can provide richer digital cultural content, so that the value of cultural relics can be more fully exerted and the thick history and culture can be interpreted by more people." For the prospect of sharing collection resources, Wang Jie is full of expectations.
(Pictured in this article is provided by Tongling Museum)