Chinanews.com, Guiyang, May 18th, title: "Solo music" becomes "Crowd music", bringing private museums closer to more people
Author Zhou Yanling
"Post-90s" Guizhou girl Yang Kexin did not expect that the first meteorite found on the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang nine years ago prompted her to establish and maintain a private science "museum."
In 2012, Yang Kexin went to work in Xinjiang. In the five years to 2017, she had walked nearly 100,000 kilometers in the desert and the Gobi Desert, hunting more than 600 meteorites and weighing more than 400 kilograms. She was called a "meteorite hunter" by the industry. ".
At the same time, she was hired as a field counselor for graduate students of the Lunar and Planetary Science Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The picture shows the meteorite museum carrying out popular science activities, and students from Guiyang City visit the meteorite up close.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
In 2017, Yang Kexin brought the meteorites he hunted back to Guizhou, and spent 1.5 million yuan (RMB, the same below) to establish a meteorite science museum in Guiyang city, exhibiting meteorite samples collected over the years; there is also the Chinese Academy of Sciences moon in the museum. With meteorite samples provided by the Planetary Science Research Center.
"A museum that adapts to the new era should be both beautiful and fun." Yang Kexin said that when the museum was founded, he didn't want to use it as a "furnishing" of the city. In addition to opening to the outside world for free, he also organized various popular science activities and invited some meteorite experts to do it. Lecture.
The picture shows Yang Kexin showing the meteorite she found.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Yang Kexin said that the functions of the Meteorite Museum are as follows: First, the Center for Lunar and Planetary Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences uses the Meteorite Museum as an identification base for graduate students holding meteorite specimens; The Chinese Academy of Sciences visited some advanced scientific instruments and meteorite research processes, allowing students to get in touch with scientists at close range.
In Yang Kexin's view, the popular science museum is more intuitive than reading any literature or viewing any video materials. Such a platform can allow more people to learn about meteorites, and more children will have an interest and hobby in outer space.
The picture shows the meteorite samples displayed in the Meteorite Museum.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Statistics show that the "museum fever" is becoming a new fashion in Chinese society and culture. The number of private museums has doubled, and many private collectors have gradually moved from "single music" to "public music."
In 2019, the Chinese Museum received 1.227 billion visitors, more than 100 million more than in 2018.
The Oudonghua National Costume Museum in Kaili, Guizhou, covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters and is visited by visitors from time to time.
In the museum, the audience can not only appreciate the exquisite Chinese Miao costumes, but also experience the profoundness of Miao culture.
The picture shows the Oudonghua National Costume Museum in Kaili, Guizhou.
Photo by Long Yongming
In 2014, in order to let more people know about ethnic handicrafts, Miao embroidery crafts master Ou Donghua rented three buildings to open a museum. The more than 10,000 collections on display in the museum are all acquired by her and her family through the village for many years. Now, it is currently the private museum with the largest collection of Miao handicrafts in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province.
“Different costumes are displayed in the museum every month, allowing visitors to have a different visual experience.” Ou Donghua’s son Long Yongming said that the private museum has a long way to go, and sales are also opened to support the operation of the museum. Stores for ethnic clothing and silverware products.
The picture shows the Oudonghua National Costume Museum in Kaili, Guizhou.
Photo by Long Yongming
Long Yongming also displays the collections in the museum through pictures and short videos on many social platforms in China.
He believes that the silent Miao embroidery costumes in the glass window are related to ordinary people, which is the greatest value of a Miao costume museum.
At present, Oudonghua and his son have a clear division of labor. Oudonghua is mainly responsible for the inheritance of Miao embroidery and the development of cultural and creative products. The company has developed hundreds of cultural and creative products with ethnic characteristics and sold them both at home and abroad; and his son, Long Yongming, uses young people’s Manage and operate museums in a way of thinking.
The picture shows the Oudonghua National Costume Museum, which sells some folk costumes in addition to the collections.
Photo by Long Yongming
Both Yang Kexin and Ou Donghua hope that the museum they care for can ride on the east wind of the "museum fever" and reach more people in various novel forms.
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