Chinese National Museum
 Entrance view of the museum |
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| place | Beijing , People's Republic of China |
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| architect | Gerkan, Marg and Partner |
| opening | March 2011 |
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Lu Zhangshen
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The Chinese National Museum ( Chinese 中國 國家 博物館 / 中国 国家 博物馆 , Pinyin Zhōngguó Guójiā Bówùguǎn ) is located in Beijing and was relocated to the immediate vicinity of Tiananmen Square . With 7.5 million visitors in 2016, the museum renovation and extension is at the forefront of the Chinese museum boom in the 21st century. The Chinese National Museum is the world's largest museum building with its 195,000 m². His collection of more than a million objects ranges from prehistoric humans and the Paleolithic Age to the First Empire and the following dynasties to industrialization and modernization.
Career
As part of the cultural measures of the Newborn Republic , a preparatory office for a planned history museum was set up on July 9, 1912. Founded in 1920 and opened in October 1926, the State Historical Museum ( 國立 歷史博物館 ) did not initially attract as many visitors because the collection was still small at the time and the nearby Forbidden City was a special attraction.
In 1949, the museum was renamed the Beijing State History Museum ( 北京 國立 歷史博物館 ) and continued to be the Chinese History Museum ( 中国 历史博物馆 ). In the meantime the exhibition “Overall Chinese History” has been designed, which has become a model of its kind nationwide. Almost at the same time, the Museum of the Chinese Revolution ( 中国 革命 博物馆 ) was redesigned, which focuses on the history of the People's Republic and the Communist Party.
In 2003 the two museums were merged.
Museum building
The National Museum was formed from two separate museums that were already housed in one building. This building was erected as one of the "Ten Great Buildings" ( 十大 建筑 ) in the style of " socialist classicism " on the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic in 1959.
The Chinese National Museum was under renovation until spring 2011. The expansion and redesign was carried out by the Hamburg architects Gerkan, Marg and Partner . With a total area of almost 195,000 m², the house is the world's largest museum building.
exhibition
The first international exhibition opened on April 1, 2011; it bears the title Art of Enlightenment and was funded with 6.6 million euros by the German Foreign Ministry. The loans come from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich . The Dresden museum director Martin Roth had prepared it for a decade.
Web links
- Official website (German)
- The Chinese National Museum
- The National Museum of China (English)
- Presentation of national culture in China: The National Museum in Beijing ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Goethe-Institut (China), December 2009
- Hanno Rauterberg: Clarification on our own behalf. In: Die Zeit , March 31, 2011 No. 14 (architectural review)
About the exhibition "The Art of Enlightenment" :
- The art of enlightenment - website of the organizers (German, English, Chinese)
- Peter von Becker : Spectacle and debacle in the world's largest museum. In: Die Zeit , March 31, 2011 No. 14 (accessed on April 2, 2011)
- The new word: Enlightenment ( East Asia Institute of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences )
Individual evidence
- ^ NN: Statistics of the museums with the most visitors in the world. In: statista.com. Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Hegenauer: You have to see these 20 museums. Welt.de, February 11, 2016, accessed on February 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Dirk Böttcher : The art of holding one's breath. Brand eins January 2012, pp. 98-101
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