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Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou are the trillion-dollar cities of Jiangsu and the cities of museums.
A few days ago, the list of the fifth batch of national first-class museums was announced, and a total of 123 museums across the country were on the list, and 13 new museums were added in Jiangsu. Among them, three district and county-level museums, including Yixing Museum, Jiangyin Museum, and Suzhou Wuzhong District Museum (Suzhou Wu Culture Museum), were selected.
The Modern Express reporter noticed that as early as 2020, Changshu Museum has been listed as a national first-class museum. The Suzhou-Xichang region is the highland of the county-level economy in the country, and in the 2023 China's top 100 county-level economies, 7 counties in the Suzhou-Xichang region are on the list and the top four. Two of the new national first-class museums are from the top 100 counties and one from the top 100 districts, and the GDP of the districts and counties in which they are located will exceed 100 billion yuan in 2023.
Top 100 districts and counties VS national first-class museums
△ Jiangyin City Museum
In the 2023 list of China's top 100 county economies, Jiangsu has 23 places on the list. Among them, Jiangyin ranked second. "Jiangwei Haitou, lock the navigation fortress". Jiangyin is located in the core sector of Suzhou-Xichang territory, with a developed private economy and many listed companies, and is known as "the first county of A-shares" and "the first county of China's manufacturing industry". In 2023, Jiangyin's GDP will reach 496.05 billion yuan. According to the 2024 government work report of Jiangyin City, the city will achieve the "21st consecutive crown" in the basic competitiveness of the national county economy in 2023. As a comprehensive museum, the ranking of Jiangyin Museum is not inferior to the economic ranking of Jiangyin City, and it has been ranked among the top 100 popular museums in the country for many times, ranking 23rd in the highest ranking.
△Yixing City Museum
Yixing, ranked ninth on the 2023 list of China's top 100 county economies, has a GDP of 233.75 billion yuan in 2023. As a well-known "hometown of academicians" in China, Yixing has successively produced 32 academicians, nearly 100 university presidents and more than 10,000 professors, and is known as "the first county of Chinese academicians". The 32 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yixing collected by the Yixing Museum all show the strong cultural soft power of this small city in the south of the Yangtze River.
△Kure Culture Museum
In the 2023 High-quality Development Report of China's Municipal Districts, Wuzhong District of Suzhou City ranked seventh among the top 100 districts, with a GDP of 162.4 billion yuan. Wuzhong District has also topped the list of the top 100 GEPs (Gross Ecosystem Product of Counties/Municipal Districts in China) in China. As early as 2022, the Wu Culture Museum ranked among the top 100 popular museums in the country (ranked 53rd).
△Changshu Museum
Changshu ranks fourth on the list of the top 100 county economies, with a GDP of 287 billion yuan in 2023. As early as 2020, Changshu Museum became the first national first-class museum among all county-level cities in the Yangtze River Delta region.
△ Liyang City Museum
△Jintan District Museum
In Changzhou, the new trillion-dollar city, although there is no county-level museum on the list of national first-class museums, there are 3 state-owned county-level museums, among which Liyang City Museum and Jintan District Museum are "Internet celebrity" museums in recent years, and the GDP of these two districts and counties has also reached 155.72 billion and 130.292 billion respectively.
Jiangyin City Museum
The collection of "Duojin" reflects the wealth of Jiangnan
There are 65 registered museums in Wuxi, including other types of museums and exhibition halls, with an average of one museum for every 83,000 people, ranking first in the province. With the two county-level museums of Jiangyin and Yixing being selected as national first-class museums, Wuxi took the lead in realizing the "full house" of national first-class museums in the whole region.
△ Yuan Dynasty Fu Lu Shou three-star gilt silver fruit box
If there is one word to describe Jiangyin, it seems that there is no more appropriate than "rich". Historically, Jiangyin has been known for its prosperity and wealth, which can also be seen from the collection of the Jiangyin City Museum. There are more than 10,000 pieces of cultural relics here, including 35 pieces (sets) of national first-class cultural relics, pottery of Majiabang culture and Songze culture in the Neolithic Age, jade ware of Liangzhu culture, porcelain and lacquerware of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and gold and silver ware of the Ming Dynasty, forming a strong local cultural characteristics.
△ gem-inlaid golden phoenix hairpin
The gold and silver utensils are especially worth seeing. The five-flowered head phoenix bird pattern golden hairpin of the Song Dynasty, the three-star gilt silver fruit box of Fu Lushou in the Yuan Dynasty, the golden phoenix hairpin inlaid with gems in the Ming Dynasty, the golden hairpin of the peach-shaped pavilion figures, the butterfly peony gold head inlaid with gemstone silver hairpin, etc., are all national first-class cultural relics. In particular, the gem-encrusted golden hairpin, which is made of a piece of gold leaf and hammered as a whole, is inlaid with 19 red sapphires. These collections not only reflect the wealth of Jiangnan, but also represent the exquisite craftsmanship of the ancestors.
In addition, Jiangyin Museum plans to launch a number of original exhibitions every year, organizes brand service activities such as "Walking Jiangbo", and is committed to building the museum into a "collection position", "a long corridor for cultural museums", "a platform for research" and "a classroom for learning".
Yixing City Museum
The first Forbidden City Education Sub-center in China posted exhibits related to 32 academicians
Located in the country's famous "hometown of academicians" and "the first county of Chinese academicians", as a comprehensive museum that comprehensively reflects local culture, Yixing Museum has posted 32 academicians of Yixing and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the museum, where not only their life deeds, but also the items they have used.
△ Huiyuan Zhuangyuan Fang (Xiangguo Archway)
With 35,000 cultural relics, Yixing Museum is also the first Forbidden City Education Sub-center in China. The treasure of its town hall "Huiyuan Zhuangyuan Fang (Xiangguo Archway)" is composed of more than 400 white marble components, which is the historical witness of Yixing people's respect for literature and education. The flat-bottomed waist eaves kettle is a typical vessel of the camel dun cultural site, witnessing the life of the ancestors in the Taihu Lake basin 7,000 years ago.
Kure Culture Museum
Launched the first AI cultural museum course project in China to make young people fall in love with cultural museums
The Wu Culture Museum, which has only been "debuting" for more than 3 years, is the first comprehensive museum in the country to systematically study and comprehensively display the culture of Wu Land, and has been called "a model and benchmark for the construction and operation of small and medium-sized museums" by many experts and scholars, and also a "ceiling of small and medium-sized museums" in the hearts of many audiences.
△ Yuan to Zheng Yi Youzhu Bishan made silver cups
The museum has a number of first-class cultural relics such as the Neolithic Liangzhu culture belt carved black-clothed pottery fish basket-shaped ear pot, the red cloud dragon pattern lid jar in the Yuan glaze, and the silver cup made by Zhu Bishan in the Yuan Zhizheng Yiyou. Among them, the Yuan to Zheng Yi Youzhu Bishan made silver cups, only 4 pieces in the world.
△ Yuan glaze red cloud dragon pattern lid jar
With the help of science and technology, the young Wu Culture Museum has created three-dimensional digital exhibitions, developed themed digital collections, and launched VR exhibitions...... At the same time, it also launched the first "AI cultural and museum course project" in China. According to a set of data, in 2023, more than 80% of visitors will be under the age of 45, and the museum is using innovative ways to make young people fall in love with the museum.
Changshu Museum
"A condensed version of Jiangnan", with "Liangzhu First Dragon"
△ Qing Dynasty Wang Hui "Fangzhou Map" axis
As early as 2020, Changshu Museum was the first to pass the evaluation and became the first national first-class museum among all county-level cities in the Yangtze River Delta region. The museum has been completed and put into use for 27 years, with a collection of 20,000 pieces (sets), 22 pieces (sets) of national first-class cultural relics, with Ming and Qing Dynasty calligraphy and painting, ceramics of the past dynasties, jade of the past dynasties, rare books, literary toys, seals, inscriptions, bronze mirrors, coins and other nine categories for the collection characteristics, which can be called the "condensed version of Jiangnan".
△ Liangzhu culture double dragon ring jade pendant
In addition, the treasure of the town hall, the Liangzhu cultural double dragon ring jade pendant, is the earliest one of the absolute age of similar collections in the mainland, and has the reputation of "the first dragon in Liangzhu".
Liyang City Museum
The original stone carvings of the collection of "Chunhua Pavilion Post" are only two and a half sets of domestic remaining
As the hometown of Jiaoweiqin (one of China's four major guqins), Liyang attaches great importance to this glory from history, and even a museum must be designed in the shape of Jiaoweiqin. Unexpectedly, it is precisely because of this cherishment that Liyang City Museum has inadvertently become an "Internet celebrity", and its unique shape has attracted a large number of tourists to check in, and tens of thousands of people come to visit every day during this year's "May Day".
△ "Chunhua Pavilion Post" stone carving display area
From the fossils of the "Shanghuang Fauna" paleontology to the gold, silver, lacquer and porcelain of the Song and Song dynasties, thousands of cultural relics in the museum record the history of civilization in this small city. Among them, the fossil of Ape sinensis, which is about 45 million years old, is another extremely important discovery of paleontology in mainland China in the 20th century.
△ "Chunhua Pavilion Post" stone carving partial drawing
The museum also has half a set of precious "Chunhua Pavilion Post" original stone carvings. "Chunhua Pavilion Post" is one of the earliest calligraphy ink blots in China, because it brings together the extremely precious calligraphy and important historical documents of celebrities in the past dynasties, and has extremely high research value for literature, art and archaeology. At present, there are only two and a half sets of original stone carvings of "Chunhua Pavilion Post" in China, except for this half set in Liyang, the remaining set is in Xi'an, and one set is in Lanzhou.
Jintan District Museum
It collects the life picture of the ancestors of Jiangsu
While striving to raise the banner of the new energy industry town, the archaeological excavation of the Sanxing Village site was quietly restarted, and the ancient culture and modern civilization were blended in the land of Jintan. In the Jintan District Museum, there are not only various collections of geological science, but also more than 100 exquisite cultural relics of the Neolithic Age.
△ Stone Yue unearthed from the ruins of Sanxing Village
The site of Sanxing Village, located in Jintan District, has been selected as one of the "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in China in 1998" and has been listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit, enjoying a high reputation in the academic circles at home and abroad. According to experts, its age is more than 2,500 years older than the Sanxingdui site in Sichuan. The relevant cultural relics exhibited in the Jintan District Museum are selected from more than 4,000 pieces of cultural relics unearthed from the ruins of Sanxing Village, including important cultural relics such as cloud and thunder pattern painted pottery beans, carved bone plates, and stone Yue, which reveal the life picture of the ancestors of Jiangsu to a certain extent.
Gong Liang: Small and medium-sized museums can tell the story of regional civilization
In the view of Gong Liang, honorary director of the Nanjing Museum, in order to become a national first-class museum, it must meet the requirements in both hardware and software. Whether it is Changshu Museum or Wu Culture Museum, they can become national first-class museums because of high-quality development.
"Differentiation, diversity, and specialization are the current development goals of museums." Gong Liang said that although the number of museums in Jiangsu is not the largest in the country, the quality is the highest. He said that Jiangsu's museums have their own characteristics, and although Jiangyin City Museum and Yixing City Museum are small and medium-sized museums, they all have their own characteristics and can tell the story of regional civilization well. At the same time, Su Xichang's museum has invested a lot, and the exhibitions and social and educational activities launched are interesting.
Gong Liang said: "Exhibition-led cultural products are the vitality of museums. Regardless of the size, museums in Jiangsu can combine cultural relics with stories of spatial beauty in terms of exhibitions and services, attracting more and more audiences. ”
Modern Express/Modern + reporters Hu Yumei, Song Tijia, Chen Min, Gao Gao, Xu Xiaoan, Zhang Min, You Liting, Chang Yi