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Yesterday was the 47th International Museum Day, the museum is really a treasure in every city to walk the baby, but many mothers will feel that although the entrance fee to visit the museum is not expensive, but the "threshold" is very high, you need to have a wealth of knowledge to explain to your children, and you are afraid that your children will not be able to stay in a quiet environment.
I was also before, every time I took OK to the museum, the psychological burden was very heavy, and then I specially consulted with my good friend, the beautiful mother who specializes in running the cultural line, but I didn't expect her experience and methods to be quite effective.
A while ago, he took OK to the Hangzhou Museum, and he carefully observed the bottles and cans for an afternoon. One of the tricks that my beautiful mother taught me is to go to the museum to find sacred beasts, which is very testing the child's observation ability, and the child will also be very interested, this is the sacred beast we collected in the afternoon...
Of course, as a senior brush "museum" master, there are still a bunch of methods for beautiful mothers, for what can "brush the museum" bring to the child, what strategies to brush the museum, I specially asked her to compile a super practical sharing, you can collect and forward, you can act immediately after reading.
Text: Pretty mom
Because my own job is a reporter for the cultural line, I often have to run to the cultural center museum, so I will take her with me when the conditions of work allow. In the past two or three years, I have taken Xiaomei to visit almost all major museums and cultural venues.
You may ask, can babies below the third grade of primary school understand when they go to art galleries and museums?
The real situation is that every time she asks Xiaomei where she wants to play, her answer is usually a museum and an art museum.
Famous American psychology professor Laura. E. Burke's theory in Burke's Lifelong Development Psychology roughly means that a child's early brain development depends largely on everyday experience. Now, I'm coming to understand that.
In fact, every time she takes a little beautiful "brush the museum", she will have a sense of freshness, and the longer she insists on taking her to brush the museum, the more it nourishes her curiosity, and she prefers to see new things.
It is said that understanding a city starts with a museum, and for children, museums and art galleries are also a high-quality carrier for them to understand the world.
There are many museums in each city, such as Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Zhejiang Natural History Museum, Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum, China National Silk Museum, China Tea Museum, Liangzhu Museum, China Hangzhou Cuisine Museum, China Wetland Museum, Hangzhou Museum...
You may think about picking and choosing a few dolls that you are interested in, in fact, I don't think you need to choose, all museums are worth visiting, because each museum will have its own treasure of the town hall; Each museum will have points of interest for children, find it, and the baby can "interact" with the museum to play hi.
Zhejiang Provincial Museum is the largest comprehensive museum in our province, and there are many treasures of the town hall, which is a must-visit. The most famous in this museum is the popular Ningbo "Ten Thousand Gong Palanquin" in "National Treasure".
China National Silk Museum is the world's largest silk professional museum, which has a lot of silk clothes, and they are all very high-end and high-grade.
Not only can you see China's exquisite silk products from ancient times to the present, such as the most traditional silk cultural relics and the dragon robe of Empress Dowager Cixi.
There are also Western fashionable silk home decorations, and many people will specifically go to check in and take photos.
There are also many haute couture silk products at the level of top fashion designers.
You see, this is the classic masterpiece and design draft of Christobor Valenciaga, founder of Balenciaga, the originator of fashion, and Mr. Dior, founder of the Dior brand.
Children are very aura, they have a natural aesthetic and love for beautiful things, just like when Xiao Mei saw this embroidered skirt, she said to me, mother is beautiful, buy it home... The mother can't do it, but it can be seen that the child's aesthetic is online.
The China Wetland Museum is the first wetland-themed museum in China, with many animal and plant specimens that children like.
And the Hangzhou Cuisine Museum, we can take the baby to see all kinds of stone made of Hangbang dishes, tell the children about Su Dongpo and Dongpo meat, and after watching it, you can also eat a beautiful authentic Hangbang dish next to the museum, which child will not love it?
If you want your children to fall in love with visiting museums, it must be a good way for us to let children "interact" with museums.
For example, before going to visit the Liangzhu Museum, I found that there were many cute animal patterns in the cultural relics unearthed in Liangzhu, so I played a game with Xiao Mei and let him find several small animals in the museum's cultural relics, as long as he found it, he could reward her with a lollipop.
In fact, the current museum is also increasing children's interest and has made a lot of careful arrangements. Liangzhu Museum specially introduced deer, when visiting the museum becomes a game, children will be very motivated and passionate.
So almost every museum must have a part that children are interested in, children are full of curiosity about new things, we must take them to see more!
The exhibitions of each museum are generally divided into permanent exhibitions and temporary exhibitions.
A permanent exhibition means that the exhibits are in this museum all year round. (Of course, the exhibits also occasionally have "business trips", which will be specifically explained later on how to avoid missing out.) ）
The easier part of visiting the permanent exhibition is that the treasures of each museum and the stories behind them are more easily accessible.
For example, in "National Treasure", Zhejiang Museum took out three treasures of the town hall, "Wangong Palanquin", "Lyre" and "Jade", which are generally visible to the capital, and the story behind it can be vividly understood by looking at "National Treasure".
Of course, most of the treasures of the town hall, the text of the story that can be found or the text description that can be matched in the museum may be relatively obscure, and I usually digest it myself before going. When I get to the museum, I don't make a fuss and tell my children what I know, in fact, I think it is more important for children to learn to observe than to let them know the knowledge behind it. I would encourage her to describe the collection in her own way, and then I would tell her what I had previously learned in simple and direct language.
For example, Xiao Mei saw the gods and beasts on the jade and said that it was a monkey. I would tell her, yes, it's a lot like a monkey, but people in the past actually called it a god and a beast, and it was found in the Liangzhu Ruins Park where we went to see the deer, and it was used by the king who lived there at that time...
The first time I took Xiaomei to the Hangzhou Pavilion of the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, I met a child in the lobby who pointed to the "gray whale skeleton" and said, "Mom, look, dinosaur." ”
In fact, many adults also think that it is a dinosaur, but if you know a little, you will know that it is a gray whale!
There is also a twisty story behind this treasure of the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History Hangzhou, if you know, tell it to Wa, he must be very interested.
Although this "gray whale skeleton" is a treasure of the town hall, it was "picked up".
The story begins in 1936, when an American fisherman caught the gray whale off the coast of California, bought it by a businessman, made a simple embalming treatment, and dragged it along the coastline to various port cities in a boat for traveling exhibitions. That summer, the merchant took the gray whale to Shanghai for exhibition, but due to the hot weather and incomplete embalming treatment, the gray whale's carcass began to decompose and emitted a very smelly smell. Naturally, the exhibition could not be held, and if this behemoth was to be made into a specimen or buried, it would cost a lot of money, and unscrupulous businessmen directly threw the gray whale on the bank of the Huangpu River and sneaked away. This left the Shanghai government at a loss.
When experts from the provincial West Lake Museum (the predecessor of the Zhejiang Natural History Museum) learned the news, they immediately rushed to Shanghai to transport the gray whale back to Hangzhou Railway Station by train. At that time, the railway station was in the Nanxingqiao generation (near the Qiantang River), there were no trucks or trains, and such a large gray whale had to be transported by the most primitive rolling wood, and it took dozens of people three days to move to the lakeside. A number of West Lake fishing boats were then connected by iron cables and transported to Zhongshan Park Wharf for disembarkation. At that time, this incident was a major event in Hangzhou, and the citizens were empty of people to see this gray whale. After the gray whale was transported to the museum, experts made the gray whale into a specimen, and this "hot potato" eventually became the "treasure of the town hall".
In addition, there is a South China tiger in the Zhejiang Natural History Museum, which is also the treasure of the town hall, and it is the only South China tiger specimen that remains, and the origin of this tiger specimen is also quite interesting.
In the winter of 1952, a South China tiger appeared in the village of Lishui, and many farmers were attacked with buffalo and pigs. Later, the People's Liberation Army and more than 20 villagers formed a "tiger fighting team" and shot the tiger, which weighed more than 360 kilograms, with guns. The tiger-fighting hero at that time was also rewarded with 3 million yuan from the Lishui municipal government. Later, the tiger was transported to Hangzhou by charcoal truck, where it was made into a precious specimen of the South China tiger and became the treasure of the Zhejiang Natural History Museum.
This is a real "one-two-three-four-five, up the mountain to fight tiger stories".
In addition to permanent exhibitions, the museum also has temporary exhibitions, that is, temporary exhibitions for a specific period of time.
This kind of exhibition is curated theme, some are theme exhibitions carried out by museums according to their own warehouse collections, and some are museums from other places to do cultural exchanges locally, which is a good opportunity to learn about exotic styles.
Unlike free permanent exhibitions, some temporary exhibitions are charged, but the general cost is not high, dozens of yuan. Each museum will have a preview of the exhibition, and the curator will tell the media about the biggest highlights of the exhibition in the guide, so if you want to know more information, you need to search for information about the exhibition, extract the highlights and convert them into simple "stories" that children can understand.
The Zhejiang Museum of Natural History has previously held a special exhibition "Protecting Wild Animals and Protecting the Home of Life", which displays a series of Chinese gongbi paintings created by Tang Qing, the "first Chinese wildlife environmental painter".
When I visit this exhibition, I tell my children that these animals are homeless because there are no trees in the forest where they live. You know why? Because you always smoke a lot of paper towels, waste paper towels, paper towels are made of trees, you have to cut down trees to make paper, you waste paper, the little animals have no home... Later, Xiao Mei used paper towels to be particularly economical, and if one can be wiped clean, it will definitely not draw the second one, which is quite effective.
The Zhejiang Art Museum, on the other hand, will change its temporary exhibitions in a few months, and many of them are suitable for children to explore.
In addition to exhibitions of Chinese paintings, oil paintings, prints and other works, there will be many cutting-edge industrial design, installation art exhibitions, and multimedia exhibitions. What I remember most fondly was a fiber art exhibition, where adults and children were playing crazy.
There are also some temporary exhibitions that are easy to overlook, such as the twice-yearly Xiling Auction, Guardian Auction, and every Spring and Autumn Auction there will be a preview exhibition, in which you can see a lot of scarce artworks.
It should be noted that temporary exhibitions sometimes come with a lot of heavy exhibits, but there is a problem, the cloth exhibition uses decoration materials, and there will be a taste when it is first launched, so it is recommended that if you take your children, it is best to go at the end of the exhibition, which is relatively safer.
In addition to exhibitions, each museum will have its own extended activities, covering all ages.
The activities of Zhejiang Museum are relatively suitable for older children and all ages. For example, Zhebo has activities such as making ancient donkeys, wearing Hanfu on the winter solstice, learning to release dishes, embroidering sachets and other activities...
Many of the activities are free to give viewers a deeper understanding of some cultural traditions, and the competition for places is not fierce, which is very suitable for bringing children.
The Zhejiang Museum of Natural History is the same, there are weekly activities that allow you to learn about various phenomena of nature through interactive means, and some activities can be participated by young people.
Zhejiang Art Museum will have an ART LAB children's experiment sharing program, in the form of happy workshops, so that more children can get to know the artists.
Taking "Eye" as the starting point, let the children use the new element material "mosaic patch" combined with rich color matching to draw a work with emotional color.
Of course, when you go to the museum, you can not take photos less, in fact, many of the buildings of the museum itself also have a lot of origins, and it is a popular place for checking in and taking photos.
Liangzhu Museum is the famous British architect Dai Wei · Chipperfield's work, the Berlin Museum in Germany, was designed by him. He designed the museum with the concept of "a jade cone scattered on the ground", consisting of four long buildings that are not perfectly parallel, and is called "a box for storing treasures".
The Anji Pavilion of Zhejiang Natural History Museum is also designed by the world-famous architectural design company Daiwei Chipperfeld in Germany, following the overall design of "the building grows on the hillside".
The Lin'an Museum was designed by Pritzker Prize winner Wang Shu.
Even if it is not a museum designed by famous artists, there are many buildings that are very chic, some beautiful and beautiful, and some majestic.
Go to these museums and shoot a blockbuster.
Finally, I would like to reveal some exhibition viewing tips that will make you less wasted energy. If it weren't for the OK Damn readers, I wouldn't say it.
Pay attention to the museum's official account
If you want to brush the museum, you can pay attention to the public account of each interested museum.
On the major public accounts, each museum will collect the latest exhibition news and activities on the WeChat public account, which is the fastest way for everyone to accept the first-hand information of the museum. Reservations are basically made on the official account.
In addition, as mentioned earlier, sometimes museum exhibits will be "on business trips", borrowed to participate in some major exhibitions, or to tour the country or even the world. There are also times when the exhibits will need to "rest", such as Zhejiang Natural History Museum has a lot of animal and plant specimens, every once in a while need to close the museum for sanitize, if you have not done your homework to go is likely to "empty", so it is best to see the museum's public account before going.
The choice of exhibition time is exquisite
There is also time to choose from the exhibition, the first thing to note is that the general museum is closed on Mondays (except for statutory holidays), don't run empty.
When Xiaomei didn't go to school before, I would take her to the museum on weekdays, and there were relatively few people on weekdays, and the environment for visiting the exhibition was much better.
As I mentioned at the beginning of the article, many people say that they failed to meet a deer by chance at the ruins of Liangzhu Ancient City, in fact, it is also because deer can generally only be encountered on weekdays.
Because only when there are few people and the weather is good, the staff will release them, this time is generally in the morning and afternoon of weekdays. (This kind of little trick, do the strategy in advance, or ask the staff in advance can get the answer).
Of course, there are fewer interactive and handicraft activities in the museum on weekdays, and most of these are scheduled on weekends.
Hangzhou is really a good place, I know that many fans of OK mom are from abroad, you don't have to envy, if you come to Hangzhou specifically, if you have enough time, you can look at the map, arrange several museums nearby, and visit a few more museums in one go!
For example, there are many museums near West Lake, most of which are not far away, such as the China Printing Museum next to the Gushan Museum of Zhejiang Natural History.
Turn a corner to Beishan Street and there is the West Lake Expo Museum, and the Manx Temple next door also has exhibitions, which show our Taiwanese customs.
Out of the door is the beautiful scenery of West Lake, the museum is tired, basking in the sun on the benches by the West Lake, quite comfortable.
For example, there are 3 museums in Hangzhou West Lake Cultural Square - Zhejiang Provincial Museum (branch), Zhejiang Natural Museum Hangzhou Pavilion, Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Museum, you can eat all three heavy museums at once.
For another example, there are three industrial museums (China Umbrella Museum, China Fan Museum, and China Sword and Scissors Museum) on the side of the canal are connected...
In the past few years, with my daughter, she has taught me to see the world from a childlike perspective. And taking her to brush the museum, let me deeply feel that the sense of beauty can only be cultivated from a young age, so take the children to the museum when I have time.
Everyone is also welcome to come to Hangzhou to play