During the May 18 International Museum Day, the Beijing Regional Museum launched more than 100 exhibition activities
Many museums including the first museum extend their opening hours today
May 18th is International Museum Day.
The Beijing Regional Museum has launched more than 100 exhibition activities.
In addition, on the evening of May 18, the Capital Museum, China Film Museum, Beijing Taxation Museum and other museums in the Beijing area extended their opening hours.
The Beijing News reported that May 18 is the International Museum Day.
According to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Heritage, the theme of this year's event is "The Future of Museums: Restoration and Reshaping".
During the International Museum Day, the Beijing Regional Museum launched more than 100 exhibition activities, covering the four levels of "Red Inheritance, Service for the People, Social Education, and Academic Exchange".
In addition, on the day of International Museum Day on May 18, many museums in Beijing launched delayed opening activities.
Among them, the delayed opening time of Beijing Cultural Exchange Hall is from 17:00 to 20:00, and Beijing Music Exhibition will be held.
Dazhong Temple Ancient Bell Museum is delayed, Beijing Liaojin City Wall Museum is delayed to 19:00, Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum is delayed to 19:30, and Beijing Taxation Museum is delayed to 18:30. The content is a permanent exhibition.
In addition, the China Film Museum will hold night movie screenings on May 18 and Saturday and Sunday of this week until 21:00.
The extended opening hours of the Guo Shoujing Memorial Hall in Beijing are from 17:00 to 20:00 for charity lectures.
The highlight is in the Capital Museum. The extended opening hours are from 19:00 to 21:00, and a museum night will be held.
■ On-site
"Mao Zedong's Handwriting" etc. entered the Xiangshan Revolutionary Memorial Hall in Tibet
On the morning of May 17, the 2021 International Museum Day theme event was held at the Xiangshan Revolutionary Memorial Hall, which included two links: donations of books and historical materials and cultural lectures.
Among them, the People's Liberation Army Publishing House and Beijing Publishing Group respectively donated precious books and historical materials to the Xiangshan Revolutionary Memorial Hall, including nearly 400 books such as "Manuscripts of Mao Zedong", "Xinghuo Liaoyuan", "War History of the Chinese People's Liberation Army", and "Everyone's Little Book".
The "Manuscripts of Mao Zedong" donated this time is a collection of six parts, including "self-written poems", "inscriptions", "letter letters", "manuscripts", "annotated notes" and "ancient poems". There are more than 1,400 precious handwritings and more than 2,300 pictures from historical periods.
The donated "Sparkling Plains" were published in 1979, 2009 and 2019 respectively. This is a red classic with the title of Mao Zedong inscribed during his lifetime, and is known as the Eastern epic of the Chinese Revolutionary War.
Party and state leaders such as Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping wrote prefaces, inscriptions, revised the manuscripts, or wrote the manuscripts in person, and collected manuscripts from more than 530 founding generals and leaders at or above the provincial and ministerial level. It is also the first comprehensive A series of large-scale memoirs reviewing the battle history of the Chinese revolution.
These books not only enriched the collection of historical materials, but also provided new and lively teaching materials for the development of party history learning and education.
The Forbidden City launches a special exhibition to make the cultural relics on the stamps "live"
From May 18, the "National Business Card Forbidden Treasure-Special Exhibition of Forbidden City Theme Stamps" is open to the public in the Zhaigong Exhibition Hall of the Palace Museum. This is also one of the more than 100 exhibitions launched by the Beijing Regional Museum on International Museum Day.
For the first time in the exhibition, the Forbidden City-themed stamps issued by the People's Republic of China and the corresponding Forbidden City cultural relics are presented together, allowing visitors to get the feeling of "cultural relics come alive, stamps come alive".
A total of 56 sets of 1732 stamps (including 1590 sets of Forbidden City theme stamps), 54 precious exhibits such as stamp manuscripts, 13 first day covers were jointly issued; 25 National Palace Museum cultural relics on display in conjunction with the stamps, covering paintings, calligraphy, jade, and enamel Ware, bronze ware, porcelain, furniture and many other categories.
The exhibition is divided into four units: "The Country is Beautiful", "Beautiful", "Great Existing Treasure", and "Ten Thousand Miles of Mail".
Among them, "Jiangshan Du Jiao" selected the symbolic and magnificent mountains and rivers themed stamps "Yangtze River", "Great Wall", "Huangshan" and "Yellow River", corresponding to the cultural relics of the Palace Museum, "Four Scenic Landscapes", "Five Mountains" and "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". The image shows the vitality of the motherland.
The special exhibition of the Forbidden City-themed stamps will last until July 18, and tickets will not be sold separately.
In accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, the exhibition will be admitted by appointment, and an appointment will be made to receive 3,000 spectators every day until the quota is full.
Beijing News reporter Zhang Chang Luo Xiaojing