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Fangshan World Geopark Museum
On September 17, 2006, at the Second World Geopark Conference, Fangshan World Geopark in China was officially approved and awarded by UNESCO, becoming the only world geopark in a capital city. The park covers a total area of 953.95 square kilometers, spanning Fangshan District, Beijing, Laishui County, and Laiyuan County, Baoding City, Hebei Province. The park is divided into eight parks according to resource types and historical culture, showing the historical picture of the evolution of the earth in North China for billions of years, and recording the turmoil and changes in various geological eras. The museum is the landmark building and core display area of the geopark, located in Changgou Town, Fangshan District. The foundation stone was laid on March 29, 2009, and the trial operation was carried out on May 15, 2010. The reception capacity and experience effect have had a wide impact on the society and have been well received by all sectors of society. On July 12, 2010, it received unanimous praise from the experts of the jury in the mid-term evaluation of UNESCO. French expert Martini praised the museum as a brand-new, outstanding and unparalleled museum, representing the future and development of China World Geopark; Malaysian expert Kumo commented: This is the art masterpiece of the World Geopark Museum and the best place for popular science education; Chinese expert Zhao Xun wrote the inscription: the Palace of Science and the Enlightenment Base. The museum covers an area of 6.11 hectares, with a total investment of 180 million yuan and a construction area of 10,000 square meters. The architectural design concept is "shocking", which fully reflects the characteristics of "respecting natural mechanisms, making use of native terrain, naturally stretching shapes, and consistent internal and external spaces", and is unique and typical. The museum exhibition is based on "heaven, earth, man, and harmony" as the soul, with the geological changes, biological evolution, and human evolution of the park as the main line, supported by geological knowledge, and with popular science, storytelling, and popular language as the link. Using various modern scientific and technological means, the park's geological relics and cultural landscapes are displayed in all directions and from multiple angles, allowing visitors to feel the power of nature and the creation function of the earth, so as to achieve the purpose of enlightening thoughts, spreading knowledge, cultivating interests, and stimulating exploration. The museum has indoor exhibitions and outdoor science plazas. The indoor exhibition area is 5,800 square meters, with six exhibition halls, including the opening hall, the geological history and evolution hall, the eight park exhibition halls, the domestic and foreign world geological park exhibition halls, the physical specimen hall, and the prospect hall; the outdoor science plaza displays large specimens and some statues of geoscientific celebrities. Since it was officially opened to the public for free on April 3, 2011, the museum has conscientiously implemented the work requirements and work arrangements put forward by the leaders of the Fangshan District Tourism Committee and the Land Management Office, namely "standardization of target management, refinement of daily management, standardization of comprehensive management, diversification of policies, and overall efficiency of operation", and has always adhered to the "three closeness" principle and the purpose of "always paying attention to the needs of the audience" to serve the public. Since its opening, the museum has fully played the role of popular science education, leisure tourism, scientific research education, publicity and display, and information exchange. Its reception capacity and experience effect have been well received by leaders at all levels and all sectors of society. In 2012, it was awarded the title of "National 3A-level Tourist Attraction", the Science Education Base of the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Science Education Base of Beijing, the Patriotism Education Base of Beijing, and the Youth Extracurricular Activity Base of Beijing. It actively played the role of youth league members and established the "China Fangshan World Geopark Museum Youth Forum", which was rated as a municipal youth forum. It was also awarded the title of "Youth Civilization Unit" in Fangshan District, "Women Civilization Post" in Fangshan District, "Fangshan District Primary and Secondary School Students' Social Classroom Resource Unit", and "Changgou Middle School Student Social Practice Activity Education Base". While doing a good job in daily exhibition visits, the museum successfully held the 2010, 2011, 2012 Spring Beijing International Long Walk Conference and the 17th and 18th Fangshan Tourism and Culture Festival, the 2011 Nobel Prize Winner Beijing Forum - "Innovation and Development" Theme Exhibition, China World Geopark Photo Exhibition, Tourism Souvenir Competition, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Travel Agency Promotion Conference, "Earth Day", "5.18 Museum Day, China Tourism Day, Cultural Heritage Day" and other large-scale science theme day publicity activities. At the same time, many theme activities were held in Fangshan District, including social classes for primary and secondary schools, science knowledge competitions, tour guide speech competitions, weekend lectures, science popularization in communities and schools, etc., so that the museum's role as a base for science popularization education and enlightenment hall was fully played, providing a good learning and activity venue for all sectors of society, and becoming a beautiful business card to promote Fangshan.
Guya Museum (temporarily closed)
The Gu Ya Museum is located on Machang Road, Hexi District, Tianjin. This museum is the most distinctive. Gu Ya means: elegant and ancient, determined, and able to overcome all difficulties to achieve success. It mainly displays modern guns (these old guns have all been filled with lead and have lost their use value) and Western furniture. Here you can see more than 1,300 kinds of cultural relics, including old guns, American printers, telephones, coffee sets, various Western wine cabinets, filing cabinets, electric fans, flashlights, sugar bowls, Western vases, Western sofas, etc. The most distinctive feature of this museum is that it is both a hot pot restaurant and a museum.
Yangliuqing New Year Woodblock Prints Museum
Tianjin Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings are a unique gem of Chinese folk art. It began in the late Ming Dynasty and was named after the town of Yangliuqing in Tianjin. It has been passed down for more than 400 years. It has rich relics and expresses the spiritual world and cultural continuity of the folk people. Therefore, it is known as the "folk encyclopedia" and is included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists announced by the State Council. The modeling method and artistic style of Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings absorb the essence of Chinese fine brushwork and folk printmaking art, retaining the ancient Chinese woodblock printing technology, with exquisite carving, delicate painting, vivid characters and elegant colors. Among the many Chinese folk New Year paintings, it is loved by people of all generations for its vivid and interesting themes, beautiful and real images, decorative composition and bright colors. Its content highlights national traditions, expresses the civilized aesthetics and survival experience of agricultural society vividly, and entrusts people's hopes and aspirations, becoming an important carrier for welcoming the new year and bringing good luck. Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings are inclusive and perfect in their development, forming a great art system. Its formation and prosperity have profound historical background and cultural soil, and it is a living fossil of art left by our ancestors to mankind. Tianjin Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Painting Museum was founded in September 2008, with a construction area of 3,535 square meters. It is a public welfare museum with the theme of collecting, researching and displaying Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings. The museum comprehensively and objectively reflects the historical process of the origin, prosperity, endangerment, rescue, protection, inheritance and development of Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings. The museum has a collection of more than 10,000 Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings and more than 6,400 painting blocks since the Ming Dynasty. Its establishment plays an important role in studying the folk customs and customs of Tianjin and northern China, and better protecting and inheriting Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings.
Wang Family Courtyard
It was first built in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the late Qing Dynasty. It is a typical Ming and Qing courtyard-style building complex. It covers an area of 10 mu and has 18 exhibition halls. There are tens of thousands of exhibits, ranging from beds and furniture to needles and threads, from gold and silver jewelry to clothes and cloth, candlesticks and lights, beds, cabinets and tables, pillows, quilts, hats, scarves, shoes and socks, copper basins and utensils, porcelain lacquer cups and plates, washing utensils, pearls and jade curios, and four treasures of the study... It is a thematic museum in Shanhaiguan area that collects and displays folk products, displays Ming and Qing daily utensils, studies folk customs, and promotes traditional folk culture.
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
The museum as a social phenomenon has its origins in the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. Built between 1824 and 1930, the five museums on Berlin's Museum Island are the realisation of a vision and demonstrate the evolution of the approach to museum design in the 20th century. The design of each museum establishes an organic relationship with the artworks in its collection. The importance of the museum's collections - tracing the development of civilization through the ages - is enhanced by the urban and architectural qualities of the buildings.
Naval Mechanical School Museum and Memorial - Former Site of Secret Detention, Torture and Execution
The site is located in the former officers' quarters of the former Naval Mechanics School complex in Buenos Aires. It was the main clandestine detention center of the Argentine Navy during the period of the military-civilian dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. As part of the national strategy to destroy opponents of the military regime (both armed and non-violent), the officers' quarters of the Naval Mechanics School were used to detain, interrogate, torture and eventually kill opponents who were kidnapped in Buenos Aires.
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
The museum as a social phenomenon has its origins in the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. Built between 1824 and 1930, the five museums on Berlin's Museum Island are the realisation of a vision and demonstrate the evolution of the approach to museum design in the 20th century. The design of each museum establishes an organic relationship with the artworks in its collection. The importance of the museum's collections - tracing the development of civilization through the ages - is enhanced by the urban and architectural qualities of the buildings.
Chinese Folk Collection Museum
Huaxia Folk Collection Museum is located at the intersection of National Highway 106 and Yingbin East Road in Bazhou City. It has a construction area of 38,887 square meters and is the largest county-level museum in the country. It has been rated as a national AAA-level scenic spot. The first floor of the museum is a history museum, which houses more than 3,000 cultural relics from Bazhou dynasties, showing the overall picture of Bazhou's historical development. The second floor is a folk customs museum, which displays the local customs, living habits and the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in Bazhou in recent years from multiple angles and in all directions. The third floor is a ceramic collection hall, which displays the ceramic masterpieces collected by the famous collector Mr. Zuo Baoyin over the years, including blue and white, powder color, doucai and other varieties, including Jun kiln, official kiln, Ru kiln and other ceramic masterpieces from past dynasties. The fourth floor is a bicycle museum, which has the largest collection, the most complete variety and the largest scale among the world's bicycle exhibition halls. It is also the only bicycle museum in China. At present, the museum has collected more than 500 bicycles from 20 different countries and different eras. The exhibits include the British "Platinum Man" and other domestic and foreign fine collections. The fifth floor is the calligraphy and painting exhibition hall, which exhibits 1,500 works of national-level famous calligraphers and painters collected by the famous collector Mr. Jin Baoshuan.
Junzhen Museum
Junzhen Museum is a national A-level tourist attraction. It is the first private museum in Tianjin. It is a cultural relic protection unit in Tianjin. It is located at No. 8 Tiyuan North Road, Hexi District, Tianjin. It is a thematic museum that displays wooden furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Junzhen Museum is one of the three "edible museums" of the "Yueweixian" Cultural Group. It mainly collects ancient Chinese furniture relics. In the cold winter, you can eat hot pot while listening to the waiter explain the knowledge of these furniture relics in Junzhen Museum, which is also a wonderful enjoyment. As an "edible museum", in addition to some furniture relics arranged in the hall, the names of the individual rooms in Junzhen Museum are also very distinctive, such as "Qinfang Garden", "Xingye Pavilion", "Ouxiangxie", etc.
Yingda Leather Museum
Located in Tianjin Airport Economic Zone, Yingda Leather Museum has a building area of 1,500 square meters and is a modern intelligent museum. The museum strives to cross-display professional leather clothing content with a long history and a wide span of time and space for people of different ages. The Leather Museum has a collection of more than 220 leather clothing collections from classical to modern, from China to Europe, as well as a variety of leather clothing manufacturing tools and leather materials. These collections all reflect the development history of the origin of leather clothing. The restoration of the fur trading scene seems to bring us back to the rural market in the Middle Ages. The various collections are like a textbook, allowing us to fully understand the evolution of leather clothing, and also show the development process of Yingda for more than ten years. The Leather Museum is a microcosm of the progress of Chinese leather clothing technology, design, craftsmanship, and equipment. It will become a display center for leather clothing culture, a data center for leather clothing research professionals, and a professional museum for fashion designers to create inspiration. It will also become a popular science garden for consumers and leather clothing enthusiasts to learn about leather clothing cultural knowledge. The Leather Museum is a private non-profit public welfare museum. The purpose of building the museum is not only to showcase the struggle and development of Yingda over the past decade, and to highlight the leading position of Yingda in China's leather clothing industry, but more importantly to save and protect the cultural treasures of leather clothing, enrich the cultural heritage of Chinese clothing, promote national spirit, and promote exchanges and development with clothing companies around the world. It can be said that the establishment of the Leather Museum in Tianjin not only fills the gap in this regard in Tianjin and even China, but is also an important measure for Tianjin to move towards a world-class city and an international fashion capital. Yingda has the ambition of "creating a century-old brand" and the development goal of "Yingda of the world". The Leather Museum integrates Chinese and Western clothing culture, which will be an important step for Yingda to move towards the hall of international mainstream clothing brands.
Chinese Medicine Culture Museum
Anguo, formerly known as Qizhou, is located in the central plain of Hebei Province. Due to its developed pharmaceutical industry, it is known as the "Medicine Capital" and "The World's No. 1 Pharmaceutical Market". The traditional pharmaceutical industry, which is blessed by nature, originated in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and prospered in the Qing Dynasty. It has lasted for more than a thousand years. In the history of the development of Chinese medicine culture, this place has formed a distinctive Chinese medicine culture with its profound cultural heritage, and has become a famous Chinese and foreign distribution center for Chinese medicinal materials that radiates throughout the country and neighboring countries and regions. The construction of the museum aims to carry forward the glorious tradition of the motherland's Chinese medicine culture, build a modern new medicine capital, and make the cause of Chinese medicine make greater contributions to the benefit of mankind.