Artifacts come alive
May 18 is the 48th International Museum Day. This year's theme is "Museums Committed to Education and Research". The stars are changing, life is changing, and only cultural relics can seal those vivid moments. Next, please follow the reporter's lens, walk into museums around the world, explore the trajectory of civilization together, and feel the charm of different cultures.
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Taiyuan, Shanxi: Visit the museum built on the site of the original tomb
Danqing is blended, interweaving the atmosphere of the times of Hu and Han integration. The iron line is outlined, depicting the interesting life scene. Walking through the museum, we can see multiple groups of tomb murals unearthed in Taiyuan and surrounding areas.
Reporter Song Wenzhi: Where I am now is the original site of the tomb where our museum is located, for the sake of the protection of the tomb, we tourists have no way to go directly into it, but it doesn't matter, we have other ways.
Technical Blessing: "Dancing with the Ancients" Through Time and Space
With the blessing of VR equipment and other technologies, various details of the murals in the tomb are reproduced one-to-one. Putting on a VR headset, it is as if you have traveled back in time to that banquet more than 1,400 years ago.
Song Wenzhi reporter: More than 1,400 years ago, people ate barbecue and listened to music around you. Because of these frescoes, this is no longer like a cold burial chamber, but more like a time capsule that stores good memories.
Chongqing: Walk into the Baiheliang Underwater Museum to observe the underwater stele forest
Out of the tomb, we now go to the water. The Baiheliang Underwater Museum in Chongqing is the world's first underwater heritage museum that is accessible by non-diving.
Baiheliang is a 1,600-meter-long natural stone beam that is submerged when the water rises. There are 165 inscriptions from 763 A.D., including 108 hydrological information. Therefore, it is also known as the "underwater stele forest".
Reporter Zhao Congcong: As early as the Tang Dynasty, people carved two stone fish on the lowest water level of the Yangtze River in Baiheliang to observe the water level of the Yangtze River. Looking through this observation window, it is the treasure of the town hall - "double carp stone fish".
Archaeologists have found that the elevation of the two stone fish eyes is on the same level as the zero water level of the local hydrological station, and the wisdom of the ancients is also reflected here.
Shiyan, Hubei: Observe dinosaur egg fossils and feel the pulse of ancient life
Back on the shore, we went to the Qinglongshan Dinosaur Egg Site Museum in Hubei Province, which is the world's largest dinosaur egg fossil site.
Reporter She Lixia: This is the largest No. 3 hall in the whole site, so you can see a very shocking scene here, this whole mountain, everyone sees the fossils of dinosaur eggs, so from the air, it can be said that thousands of dinosaur eggs are in full view.
Make fossil rubbings and feel the joy of learning
Nowadays, in Qinglong Mountain, visitors can use the professional tools provided by the museum to make a variety of fossil rubbings and experience the restoration of fossils first-hand.
Zhao Bi, Senior Engineer of Hubei Provincial Institute of Geological Sciences: In addition to leading primary and secondary school students to see dinosaur eggs, we can also let them take away their own rubbings, so that they can learn knowledge here and have more fun.
Counting "Museum Fever"
"A museum is a big school". Nowadays, major museums come up with "eighteen kinds of martial arts" to attract tourists to check in, giving "10,000 reasons" to fall in love with museums. Such a two-way rush has brought the cultural relics that have been sleeping for thousands of years to life, and the consumption of cultural tourism has been continuously upgraded.
For one museum to one city: "museum fever" drives cultural tourism consumption
According to data released in 2023, the total number of museums in the country has reached 6,565, with a free admission rate of more than 90%.
Statistics show that during the Spring Festival this year, museums across the country received 73.58 million visitors in eight days, a year-on-year increase of 98.6%. During this year's May Day holiday, the number of visitors to museums across the country exceeded 50 million, reaching the highest level in the same period in history. Behind the popularity is the continuous enrichment of research projects, innovative interactive methods, and the development of cultural and creative products, so that museums are becoming more and more popular.
Immersive Experiences Dialogue between the past and the present
An immersive experience that connects the audience to history. At present, the newly upgraded Zhejiang Provincial Museum has created an immersive digital image space, and through digital means, the Zhejiang Provincial Museum's collection of "Fuchun Mountain Residence: Remnant Mountain" and the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei "Fuchun Mountain Residence: Useless Master Scroll" are reproduced and combined. At the China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, visitors can travel through 17 cities in 8 provinces and cities along the Grand Canal in 3D with a panoramic view.
Develop diversified cultural and creative industries to integrate traditional culture into life
Creative cultural and creative products also enrich the experience of visitors. Sanxingdui Museum launched a blind box cultural creation, the ancient Shu Meng Bao showed their strengths, played face change, show tea art, practiced Shu embroidery, ate hot pot, more than 1,500 kinds of cultural and creative products, to meet the desire of tourists to bring cultural relics home.
In the Tianjin Museum, the cultural and creative products developed with the treasure jade pot spring vase of the town hall have attracted the attention of many visitors.
At the Grand Canal Museum in Beijing, many visitors will also pick one or two favorite cultural and creative products after the tour to draw a successful end to the museum trip.