The former Xiangyang Museum is located in South Street, Xiangcheng District, Xiangyang City. According to historical records, during the Ming Chenghua period in China, the magistrate He Yuan built a terrace, built two doors, set up a tower on the terrace, and built a house with double brick and wood structure on the pedestal, with double eaves. The base is 40 meters long from north to south, wide from east to west 16 meters and 6.4 meters high. The building is 9.6 meters high and east-west. It is a two-story hardwood structure with double eaves. Five rooms are wide and three rooms are deep. Destroyed in the late Ming dynasty. In the fifth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1727), it was rebuilt in the old site and repaired many times. This ancient pagoda from east to west is a wooden building with masonry abutment. After the founding of New China, the building was renovated. Later, it used to be the Xiangfan Museum. In 2002, 1 1 became a key cultural relics protection unit in Hubei Province.
The present Xiangyang Museum
Xiangyang Museum is located in Zhaomingtai, the ancient city of Xiangyang. Zhaomingtai is a high-rise antique building rebuilt by 1993, covering an area of 4,202.2 square meters and a building area of 9,739 square meters. Now there are two basic exhibition halls and three temporary exhibition halls. It is basically displayed in the exhibition hall on the second and third floors of Zhengtai, covering an area of more than 3,200 square meters. The basic theme of the exhibition is "Listening to the lasting appeal of the foot of civilization-Xiangyang Ancient History and Culture Exhibition". From the collection of nearly 40,000 cultural relics, 879 pieces (sets) of various fine cultural relics are selected to show the clear context and culture of Xiangyang since 200,000 years in the form of pictures, objects, models, audio and video.
Since its establishment in April, 1975 has collected nearly 70,000 cultural relics and specimens of different times and types through archaeological excavation, social donation, folk collection, acceptance, transfer and allocation (archaeological excavation is still under excavation), including 102 first-class cultural relics, 378 second-class cultural relics and 4,709 third-class cultural relics. The collection is complete, including pottery, copper, porcelain, iron, lead and tin, gold and silver, lacquer wood, jade, stone, agate, pigment, crystal, wax, bone, tooth, horn, calligraphy and painting, rubbings and so on. The time span is very long, from the late Paleolithic to the present. Especially in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the bronzes in the vassal states from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the late Spring and Autumn Period were the most concentrated. The quantity and quality of bronze inscriptions rank in the forefront of the province, involving vassal States such as Hubei, Deng, Zeng, Chu, Zheng, Tan, Cai, Huang, Wei, Xian, Ying, Wu, Xu, Xu and Qin. There are also a number of complete cultural relics from the Three Kingdoms period, including self-contained bronze mirrors from the Warring States to the Qing Dynasty, rich portrait bricks in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, small Taoist statues in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and thousands of original rubbings in the collection, which also have certain characteristics. The revolutionary cultural relics and documents in the museum are blank.
As a public cultural service organization, Xiangyang Museum has relatively perfect service facilities, such as visiting instructions, guide maps, various signs, electronic display screens, audience lounges, audience suggestion books, etc. Warmly remind everyone to visit in a civilized way and spread service information in time.
Over the past four years, Xiangyang Museum has received more than 200 visitors from home and abroad/KLOC-0, with a total annual audience of 350,000, which has achieved good social benefits.
In order to let people know about the fine cultural relics of the city museum and show the history and culture of Xiangyang, we have squeezed out funds to edit and publish two picture books, namely, Fine Cultural Relics Collected by Xiangfan Museum and Cultural Relics Exhibition of Xiangfan Museum, and will soon publish two popular cultural relics reading books, namely, Scanning Xiangyang Historical Cultural Relics and Journey to Xiangyang Treasures.
In order to fully display the rich historical and cultural heritage of Xiangyang, publicize Xiangyang to audiences at home and abroad, report the rich achievements of civilization in our city to the general public in time, meet people's diverse cultural appreciation needs, and attract citizens to visit the museum many times. While doing a good job in basic exhibitions, the Municipal Museum also actively organizes temporary exhibitions to give full play to the museum's propaganda and education functions. Up to now, 18 temporary exhibitions have been held. Including China Modern Famous Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, Xiangfan Memory-Xiangfan Hundred Years Old Photo Exhibition, China No.1 Bronze Horse-Bronze Horse Unearthed from the Tomb of Fancheng Three Kingdoms Exhibition, Xiangyang Third National Cultural Relics Survey Exhibition, Combating Cultural Relics Crimes and Protecting Cultural Wealth-Recovering Cultural Relics from the Old City Photo Exhibition, Xiangyang Chenpo Tomb Unearthed Fine Cultural Relics Exhibition, and Beautiful Days here in Xiangyang. These wonderful days were staged in Xiangyang-the first calligraphy exhibition in Xiangyang, Suochun exhibition in Xiangyang-Wang Taixiong and calligraphy and painting exhibition, Qin Furong donated cultural relics exhibition, and great achievements in the glorious course-exhibitions celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), marching towards * * and commemorating the Revolution of 1911 100. "Dragon Soul Dragonfly Descendants of Xiangyang Dragon" and "The national flower is gorgeous, the national color is beautiful, the country is rich and the people are strong" —— Cai Mingzhen, calligraphy and painting art exhibition, Wang Binkun's door ticket art exhibition, seven-year grass-roots trip —— exhibition of cultural heritage protection achievements, etc. went to Beijing to participate in the national special action exhibition on cracking down on cultural relics crimes in key areas, went to Wuhan to participate in the joint exhibition of Jingchu Huaying, a collection of provincial museums, and went to Xi 'an to participate in the exhibition. 20 13 Actively launched the "Xiangyang Treasure Photo Tour Exhibition" and sent the exhibition to schools, communities, military units and other places.
Xiangyang is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of more than 2,800 years. There are tens of thousands of precious cultural relics in Xiangyang. Zhaomingtai, where the museum is located, is a landmark building in Xiangyang and the leader of North Street, the longest antique cultural street in China. Xiangyang has always been a place where military strategists fought and scholars gathered, and there are rich underground cultural relics. There are more than 10,000 pieces of cultural relics in the museum, including bronzes, pottery, ancient calligraphy and painting, and ancient stone carvings. An expert on cultural relics said: "The statue of Confucius painted by Wu Daozi, a famous scholar in the Tang Dynasty, and the stone carving of Meng Haoran painted by Wang Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, are all national treasures. The number of bronzes also ranks first among similar cities in the province. Xiangyang Museum has collected thousands of years of artistic essence and historical treasures that have been discovered in Xiangyang area to a great extent.
Xiangyang new museum
The planning and construction of the new Xiangyang Museum has begun. The new Xiangyang Museum is located in Fenghuangshanchong, east of Xianshan, Xiangcheng District, covering an area of 2 12 mu and a construction area of 30,000 square meters. After the completion of the new museum, it will not only be a hall to display Xiangyang's outstanding cultural relics and long history, but also meet the leisure and entertainment needs of citizens and tourists. On the north side of the square with hundreds of square meters, the academic lecture hall, exhibition hall and office building of the museum are scattered. The appearance of the main building is modeled after the ancient city of Xiangyang, forming a three-story square terrace building. In the middle stands a four-story pyramid-shaped pavilion, named after the Phoenix Mountain. At that time, Fengge will echo Zhaomingtai in Xiangyang City in the north, and Xianshou Pavilion, which will be restored on Xianshan Mountain in the east, will also echo from a distance.