These Exhibitions in Ningbo Were Selected
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- Published: Monday, 19 June 2023 14:42
These Exhibitions in Ningbo Were Selected as the “Top Ten Fine Products” of the Province
On June 8th, the Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau announced the list of the 17th (2022) Top Ten Exhibition Projects of Museums in the Province. Ningbo Museum's “Confluence - Special Exhibition for the 1200th Anniversary of the Founding of Ningbo” and Zhou Yao Insect Museum's “One Butterfly and One World - Mr. Zhou Yao's Permanent Exhibition of Scientific Life and Insect World” were selected as the provincial “Top Ten Fine Works” of the year.
In addition, the “Yimu Ran Song-style Wood Culture Exhibition” jointly organized by Hangzhou Museum of Arts and Crafts and Ningbo Tianyige Museum (Baoguo Temple Museum of Ancient Architecture) was also selected into the list of top ten boutique projects.
An exhibition that expresses the most distinctive history of the city
On June 5, at the final evaluation promotion meeting held in Hangzhou, Zhang Liang, president of Ningbo Museum, introduced the characteristics of the “Confluence” exhibition to the judges.
Zhang Liang said that the exhibition lasted from December 2021 to April 2022, and was a planned commemorative special exhibition launched on the occasion of the 1,200th anniversary of the founding of Ningbo, which was hailed as the most distinctive exhibition to express Ningbo's urban history in recent years.
From the perspective of framework, the exhibition extracts the characteristics of the port city of “the convergence of rivers and seas and the benefit of the world” from Ningbo culture, and focuses on the concept of “convergence” to tell the integration and convergence of people, logistics, information and cultural flows in the thousand-year-old port city.
Since 1955, a large number of empirical materials obtained by urban archaeology in Ningbo in the past 70 years have become the main source of exhibits. The Southern Song Dynasty's Baoqing Four Ming Zhi pioneered the division of Fucheng into four “quadrants” of northeast, southeast, northwest and southwest, which constituted the logical structure of the exhibition. Zhang Liang said that today's audience needs to explore, relax and experience when entering the museum. In order to unify the form and content, the entire exhibition hall plan “applied” the map of Ningbo's old city, and the cultural heritage in the four quadrants was displayed in the four areas of the exhibition hall. The exhibition also focuses on the contrast between ancient and modern, through the comparison of ancient government offices and modern image maps, and the comparison of ancient place names and modern place names, “helping the audience to construct the coordinates of ancient information in today's cities, and use the identity of space to eliminate the mystery of history”.
In the exhibition, Ningbo Museum also jointly developed a model of ancient ships of the Tang and Song Dynasties with Wuhan University of Technology, reflecting the world-leading shipbuilding technology of Ningbo in the Tang and Song Dynasties. When introducing the Tianning Pagoda, the lengthy text description was replaced by an evolutionary animation, which enhanced the expression effect of the exhibition.
The permanent exhibition of Zhou Yao Insect Museum was selected as “Top Ten”
The Zhou Yao Insect Museum, which officially opened on July 28, 2022, can be said to be the most difficult museum to book in our city.
According to Zhu Haiyan, curator and curator of the Zhou Yao Insect Museum, the museum is a characteristic museum that integrates celebrity memorial halls and natural science museums, and is also the largest insect museum in Asia named after an individual.
As an ecological insect science thematic museum, the museum's permanent exhibitions fully integrate the spirit of scientists, entomology and pedagogy, striving for small but beautiful, specialized and refined.
The exhibition is divided into two parts, “Entomological Titan” and “Insect World”, respectively, introducing the life experience of internationally renowned entomologist Zhou Yao and the wonderful insect world, and capturing the audience's attention with the exhibition form of combining dynamic and static. Among them, the “entomology” part uses a large number of poems, exhibits, photos, sculptures and other scene-like placements, combined with lighting projection, giving people a bright and relaxed look. “Insect World” adopts physical objects plus models, pictures and video materials, multimedia interaction and other methods to let the audience further understand the survival of insects. The museum also has China's first leaf-cutting ant ecological display device, showing the scene of ant ecological cycle, and obtained a utility model patent.
Since its opening, Zhou Yao Insect Museum has held more than 130 educational activities, and the museum's wonderful night, nature study camp, calligraphy and painting competition, museum into schools, into the community, various volunteer science popularization activities, insect creative clothing show exhibitions and other activities have been widely praised, and won the title of “National Science Education Base” in the year of opening.
Zhu Haiyan said that the museum's more than 2,000 audience surveys have obtained 99.5% satisfaction, and “the only thing that is not satisfied is to complain that the appointment is not available”, which won the smile of the jury.
In addition, the “Yimu Ran Song-style Woodwork Culture Exhibition”, which was selected as one of the top ten annual exhibitions in the province, started from the display of wood and tools, “disassembled” the essentials of Song-style woodwork of Baoguo Temple into several units for analysis, showed the audience the essence of Song-style woodwork, and sang the “Tale of Two Cities” of Hangzhou Yong and Song Yun
