Wuzhong District Museum (WDM,吴中博物馆) is to give a press briefing and a live-streamed guided tour to mark its opening on 28th,June. The long-awaited new museum in Suzhou will be officially unveiled!
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Situated at No.9 Tantai Street, Wuzhong District (吴中区澹台街9号), WDM covers a floorage of 18,600 sq.m in total and an area of 8,500 sq. m in total.
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The building designers drew their inspiration from the streets, lanes and yards in Suzhou. If you look down from a height, you will find different parts of the museum are connected in a distinctive way that makes the museum look like the Chinese character “吴” (Wu).
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The whole museum has three floors above the ground and one under. The first floor is used for temporary exhibition and education center. The main exhibition hall is on the second floor and the workspace on the third.
A wide atrium is set up at the center of the exhibition area to connect different halls as a typical Chinese yard does.
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On one side of the central yard, there is an extra large French window where tourists can have a full view of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and Baodai Bridge from afar.
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In front of the entrance to the main exhibition hall on the second floor, there is a set of beautiful garden sceneries in miniature, which is a good reminder of the quaint and elegant Suzhou yards.
The permanent exhibitions on the second floor are primarily composed of “Wuzhong in History” (考古探吴中) and “Wuzhong in Culture” (风雅颂吴中).
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The “Wuzhong in History” part introduces the origin, development and characteristics of the Wu Culture from the perspective of archaeology.
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The “Wuzhong in Culture” part is made up of three parallel exhibitions: Wu Feng (吴风), Wu Ya (吴雅), Wu Song (吴颂). It provides a multiple-angle and all-round interpretation of the Wu Culture through presenting the specialties and cultural relics in the Wu region as well as the inheritance of the Wu Culture.
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WDM boasts a collection of over 6,800 sets of cultural relics (nearly 10,000 pieces), 55 of which are the first-class items, 66 the second-class and 177 the third-class. More than 1,000 pieces of cultural relics will be on display in the permanent main exhibition hall.
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Also equipped with lecture hall, temporary exhibition hall and rest area, WDM will hold exhibitions, lectures, events and a variety of courses at regular intervals.
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WDM’s visitor reservation system will go live right after tomorrow’s news briefing and online tour; the new museum will be officially opened to the public starting July 1.
Go and find out about the Wu Culture at Wuzhong District Museum!
