From May 17th to 19th, the main venue of the 2024 "5.18 International Museum Day" in China will be held in the Qinhan Pavilion of the Shaanxi History Museum. As the main venue of the event, the Qin and Han Museum breaks through the inherent mode of cultural relics display, and enriches the exhibition experience with multimedia interaction through digital technology.
"In order to comprehensively present the concept of Qin and Han civilizations, we have designed multimedia interactive installations in each unit of the exhibition to extend the specific content of the exhibition." Peng Wen, the curator of the exhibition, said that the highly experimental digital installation was applied to the main line of the museum's basic display, and the digital images were used to promote the interpretation of the theme content of each exhibition section, which opened up a new analysis and viewing perspective from "small exhibits" to "big history", guided the audience's viewing rhythm in a relaxed manner, and explained the huge theme of Qin and Han civilizations vividly, vividly and concretely.
Shaanxi has a profound history, and Xi'an, as one of the "four ancient historical capitals", has the reputation of "Natural History Museum". According to relevant statistics, more than 280 immovable cultural relics have been found in Xixian New Area alone, and there are 46 cultural relics protection units at all levels and 54 points. How to care for and make good use of these massive and unique cultural relics and cultural resources? Xixian New Area has inserted the wings of science and technology for the revitalization of cultural relics and cultural inheritance, and has realized digital empowerment in the whole process of excavation, protection, display and inheritance of cultural relics.
The digitization of cultural relics excavation has opened up a new path for archaeology
The Taiping site located in Fengdong New Town adopted the field digital management system during the archaeological excavation, which greatly improved the work efficiency and provided technical support for the rapid, accurate and scientific publication of ancient results.
The archaeological team also joined hands with the Fengdong New Town Cultural Relics Bureau, based on the three-dimensional data collected in the archaeological excavation work, and integrated multiple data fusion technology, virtual reality technology and experience interaction technology to develop a 3D holographic immersive experience display of the Taiping site in the archaeological camp, so that the various relics unearthed by the archaeological excavation can be reproduced, so that the site can be fully "resurrected" in the virtual space, giving the viewer an immersive experience, and also opening up a new path for further exploration and analysis of various aspects of field archaeology.
Also in the Airport New City, before the start of the third phase of the airport expansion project, archaeologists found more than 6,000 cultural relics of various types during large-scale exploration, and unearthed a large number of precious cultural relics. These memories are also carefully "stored" in the digital museum, and perhaps in the future, passengers from all over the world will be able to appreciate the depth of this land while waiting for their flights."
The digitization of heritage protection makes the image of cultural relics more vivid
In fact, through digital creation, the cultural relics are "lived", and the most "voice" in the new area is the Qinhan New Town.
The gilded bronze horse of the Western Han Dynasty, which is now stored in the Maoling Museum, is a national treasure with a history of more than 2,000 years. The New Silk Road Digital Culture Technology Co., Ltd., Qinhan New Town, Xixian New District, grabbed the characteristics of cultural relics and combined with the stories behind them, and designed them as a digital cartoon image of a war horse - "Big Silk Horse". "The name of this one is taken from the word 'silk' of the Silk Road, which means that the 'big silk horse' is the disseminator of Han culture on the 'Belt and Road'." Tian Lin, the person in charge of the enterprise, said.
The Han plastic clothes style painted female figurines unearthed from the Yang Mausoleum of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty also have their own digital image. Technicians use digital collection methods to make digital archives, use 3D modeling technology to restore the appearance of cultural relics, and use motion capture, rendering and other technologies to allow the audience to appreciate the style of the ladies of the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, and feel the new experience brought by "culture + technology".
Through digitalization, museums can comprehensively display precious cultural relics on the digital platform, and vividly present the thousand-year-old "treasures" buried underground in front of people's eyes, so as to realize the protection and inheritance of cultural relics.
"We have carried out cultural relics collection, museum digital transformation and cultural and creative cooperation with a number of cultural and museum institutions, collected more than 10,000 cultural relics, and used digital technology to restore, analyze and build a historical and cultural data resource library - Qin and Han historical and cultural resource cloud." Wang Zhanwu, deputy director of the Management Committee of Qinhan New Town in Xixian New Area, said that with the help of digital technology, tourists can not only see precious cultural relics, but also learn more about the historical stories behind them, and feel the charm of cultural and tourism integration.
The digitalization of cultural and museum education has made history and culture popular
It is worth noting that the main venue of the "5.18 International Museum Day" in 2024 will set up a "Digital Culture Experience Area for the 2024 International Museum Day" in China. The experience area is jointly created by the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics and Shaanxi Silk Road Creative Brand Culture and Technology Communication Co., Ltd., an enterprise of the Airport New City.
Relying on the application of multi-dimensional technology of virtual digital humans, the exhibition area is equipped with a language model in the field of culture and museums trained based on a multi-dimensional cultural resource database for the first time, and deeply serves public cultural education with the help of AI intelligent capabilities. At that time, the Shaanxi cultural relics wisdom recommendation officers "Zhou Zhili", "Qin Weiwu", "Han Yingjun" and "Tang Meili", who have been "serving" for one year, will "appear" in the on-site interactive experience area.
In the past year, with the theme of Shaanxi's history and culture, these four virtual digital humans have used digital technology and the wisdom of large language models trained based on multi-dimensional cultural resource databases in the field of cultural and museum fields to interact in real time and virtually, and provide explanations, guides, consultations and other services for the audience as volunteers. They have attracted much attention during the 10th Western Cultural Expo and the 7th Silk Expo, attracting frequent interaction with the audience.
"On this International Museum Day, we will also unveil a large-scale 3D real-time graphics engine on a domestic full platform based on completely independent intellectual property rights of cultural and museum industry services, the first physical invisible 3D watermarking technology in China, and a number of application products with deep integration of technology and culture combined with AR technology and naked-eye 3D technology." Guo Peihui, general manager of Silk Road Imagination, said that the company is committed to awakening traditional Chinese culture with science and technology, and has served cultural institutions such as Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, Dunhuang Academy, and Shaanxi History Museum for many years. ”
In Xixian New Area, more and more cultural relics have been "resurrected" from history through technology and model innovation, and a cultural and creative industry chain of "cultural relics + technology + content + consumption" has gradually formed. The R&D personnel of the Qin-Han New Silk Road Digital Culture (Creative) Industry Base use scientific and technological means to make ancient paintings accessible and Han style touchable; Enterprises in the zone have formed a certain influence by using the Qin and Han rendering cloud technology and the Qin and Han historical and cultural resources cloud to create "Xuan Jue Talks"; The Hanjing Emperor Yangling Museum has successively launched a series of story-based and immersive cultural experience products such as "The Oldest Tea" and "Cai Lun Papermaking" by using the "Internet + Cultural Relics" education platform...... Through digital creation, the cultural relics of the museum are breaking through the limitations of time and space to "move", "live" and become popular, providing more diversified display paths and broader communication space for the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and making the cultural inheritance more vivid and vivid.