International Museum Day is celebrated on 18 May, and this year's theme is "The Future of Museums: Restoration and Reinvention". Looking back at the themes of the past years, from "Committed to Equality" to "As a Cultural Hub", from "Super Connection" to "Unspeakable History", the museum's positioning has gradually gone beyond the scope of collecting, researching and displaying human cultural heritage, and has increasingly become a leading force for ideas and progress.
In Jiangsu, the museum is also quietly undergoing profound changes, becoming a social education classroom that connects the vast world. Che Ning, director of the Museum Division of the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, said, "If the free opening that began in 2008 is compared to the demolition of the 'threshold' of the museum, so that the public cultural living room is open to everyone, then the social education activities that the museum is now breaking the circle and integrating are demolishing the 'wall' and expanding the museum to the world." ”
Walk and let the museum out of the museum space
To learn about the Grand Canal of China, a world cultural heritage site, it is essential to walk in the field. The Nanjing Museum designed the "Grand Canal and a Better Life" walking class to allow high school students to visit and perceive the canal. "Although the walk is only one day, the lectures are quite intensive, including the history of the canal, the change of the river, water conservancy projects, coastal wind objects, and also go to the museum exhibition hall to perceive the canal cultural relics, before leaving, the students should determine the topic selection and roadshow in groups." Chen Gang, deputy director of Nanbo's social services department, said, "Here, walking is a course rather than a tour. ”
From the ruins of the ancient Jingkou Locks to the modern Jianbi Locks, to the Jiaoshan Search for Historical Inscriptions, to the XijinDu to understand the changes at the mouth of the Zhenjiang Canal... Nanjing Tin Ka Ping Senior High School has participated in this walking class in three batches of more than 100 students this year. Vice President Shi Jiang said that the museum provides students with high-quality curriculum resources and teachers, which can help students see the world with Bo Rui's eyes.
Salt, leaving a thousand years of endless context for Yancheng. The China Haiyan Museum in Yancheng has designed a "salt" cultural tourism route connecting ancient and modern times - "Looking for Salt". This walking class for primary and secondary school students teaches haiyan culture in the museum, demonstrates the intangible cultural heritage technique "brine salt making", learns about modern salt making technology at the sea salt factory, and visits the checkerboard-like salt pans and high-piled salt mountains in the salt field. "The endless salt pans are full of salt and brine, and there are layers of snow-white salt crystals precipitated under the water, which is really amazing!" A primary school student at Yancheng No. 1 Primary School left a message saying.
Xia Chunhui, director of the open department of the China Haiyan Museum, said that the walking class is equivalent to the exhibition outside the museum, if the museum is the display place of regional civilization, then the museum walking class is the best way to experience regional civilization.
Profound cultural heritage and developed modern civilization provide a wealth of topics for museum walking classes. In just one year, the Wuxi Museum has launched 5 walking series of study and travel courses, such as "Ni Roundabout Realm", "Canal Trace" and "Clay Sculpture Elegant Rhyme". "The Realm of Ni Fan" chooses Ni Zhan, one of the four families of the Yuan, to design the course. Tao Chunyi, director of the open department of the hospital, said, "Ni Zhan's "Moss Tree Shadow Map" is the treasure of Xibo's town courtyard, we use AR courses to analyze the picture, and then let the participants copy its composition and pen and ink, and finally organize a group to go to Taihu Lake to sketch and appreciate how Yanbo Taihu Lake nourishes his escape, light and innocent. ”
Break the circle and design new ways to bring new experiences
Connect more groups and institutions, use more scientific and technological means to present, and enter communities, schools... More and more museums are trying to break the circle and continuously approach the essence of museum exhibitions with innovative ways of playing - amplifying the appeal of tradition and culture, so that the "outer wall" of the museum extends infinitely.
With rich historical and cultural resources, nanjing museum and Nanjing No. 29 Middle School jointly developed a comprehensive practical elective course of "playing in the museum". Tang Liwei, a librarian at the Nanjing Municipal Museum, introduced that in the museum, students observe and understand cultural relics and experience intangible cultural heritage handicrafts; back to school, through project research, writing explanatory words for cultural relics, rehearsing historical dramas, etc., "We hope that students will become communicators and 'small spokesmen' of Nanjing history and culture." ”
The integration of museums and classrooms not only makes book knowledge "alive", but also makes history "alive". Wuxi Donglin College", "Shuyuan Workshop" to create a "college life journey", in different lengths of experience and study, the audience is both tourists and students, they wear Hanfu into the door, in the real experience to learn. "Unlike the simple visits in the past, people can intuitively experience the restored scenes, come to the lecture hall to feel the lecture scene, and if the school organizes the visit, we will also invite the class teacher to be a guest lecturer." Li Grape of donglin academy workshop said.
Visiting the Changzhou Sanjie Memorial Hall on weekends, visitors may enjoy the daily life of Qu Qiubai and his family in the "Qu Ancestral Hall". Guo Tingting, deputy head of the Propaganda and Education Section of the Memorial Hall, introduced that the immersive performance of "Seeing The Young Ah Shuang Again" took advantage of the scene of the former residence, and the student volunteers and staff jointly interpreted the story of the teenager Qu Qiubai. The performance allows students to change from "bystanders" to "participants" and "travel through time and space" to touch the most authentic emotions. Taking this as an opportunity, the memorial set up the "Huaishuang Opera Club", and more and more students volunteered to join the performance team, which also became an opportunity for them to actively learn the spirit of Autumn White and inherit the red gene.
Care, so that special groups can enjoy services equally
Museums are often likened to the city's public cultural living rooms, and their publicity dictates that museum services should cover all people as much as possible, including people with disabilities. Whether they can protect their cultural rights and interests will test the service ability of museums and the degree of civilization of the city.
More than 100 years ago, Zhang Jian founded the Nantong Museum and set up a number of charitable undertakings, including the establishment of the first blind and dumb school Chinese self-taught. Since 2017, the Nantong Museum has launched the "White Cane in the Museum" activity. Librarian Zhou Yin introduced, "The white cane is another name for the blind cane, and the activity is mainly for visually impaired students, helping them touch the pan iron and mazu bronze statue of boiling salt, listening to traditional musical instruments such as guqin and chimes, identifying ancient spices, and tasting intangible cultural heritage foods such as Xiting shortbread and Dong sugar." The biggest significance of the 'white cane' is to provide them with a channel to contact society, so that they can experience ordinary and ordinary life. "Ordinary children can also participate, walk blind alleys, write Braille, and feel the life of the visually impaired, which is also a special communication experience and life education for them."
Suzhou Museum's "Passing on Love with One Heart" project opens a cultural relics touch class for visually impaired teenagers and a calligraphy and painting copying class for hearing-impaired teenagers. Yin Jieyu, an educator of the mission department of the museum, told reporters that the touch course prepared replicas of red pottery, blue and white porcelain, pastel cups and so on from different periods, which have different shapes, textures, textures, craftsmanship characteristics and heavy history, which are understood by visually impaired children through explanations in their own way.
Yin Jieyu introduced that the Suzhou Museum holds an annual "Impression @ Su Bo" painting letter activity, please draw on the postcard and then send it to the museum, and every year there will be hearing impaired people who will win awards with strength. This year's event kicked off on May 14 with the theme of writing a letter to I.M. Pei and looking forward to the hearing-impaired contestants' surprises.
If museums can make special groups feel the cultural charm, then we can confidently say that museums really make life better! (Wang Hongwei, Yao Yiyi)
Source: China Jiangsu Net