Open the online display platform of the Digital Bronze Museum, the famous bronze cultural relics such as He Zun, Houmuwu Ding, Fuhao Owl Zun and other bronze cultural relics are presented one by one: clear photos of cultural relics, inscription rubbings, etc., so that the audience can enjoy the collection through mobile phones. Details of precious bronze artifacts in museums around the world.
On the website page, accurate cultural relic information such as the age, type data, and unearthed time, the historical allusions behind the relics such as King Wu's destruction of the business, and King Goujian of Yue are clear at a glance. With the video introduction, the splendor of bronze ware can be seen in a square inch. fundus.
Tongling area is one of the areas where copper was discovered and used earlier by the Chinese nation, and is known as the "Bronze Capital of China".
The Digital Copper Museum, which officially opened in May 2020, relies on the Tongling City Museum. It is a copper-themed special museum, including online and offline parts.
There is a digital copper museum network display platform and a copper digital resource library online, and a digital experience hall and an interactive experience area for young people offline.
The museum adopts the model of "Internet + Museum", and comprehensively uses various modern digital technologies such as the Internet, big data, 3D laser, and 720° panoramic view to collect and sort out the digital resources of copper cultural relics from domestic and foreign collection institutions. Digital images and information on bronze artifacts.
On the online display platform of the Digital Bronze Museum, the audience can not only see the local bronze cultural relics in Tongling, but also the fine bronzes unearthed in other places in China.
Wang Jie, director of Tongling Museum, said: "Our museum focuses on bronze ware and copper culture, not limited to its own collections. The museum conducts digital resource sharing of bronze cultural relics. It features Chinese bronzes lost overseas.”
According to statistics from the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics and data released by UNESCO, various overseas collection institutions have collected more than 10 million Chinese cultural relics.
What important Chinese bronzes are collected abroad?
Where are they?
How did these bronzes end up in foreign countries?
The "Draining Overseas Chinese Bronzes" column of the Digital Bronze Museum may give the answer.
Here, the audience can intuitively understand the main distribution of these lost overseas Chinese bronzes on the world map, the main collection institutions and the stories behind them through the online platform - one of the treasures of the Izumiya Museum in Japan. , was once an ancient bronze ware from the Qing Dynasty that came out of the Boxer Incident. The whole piece was cast into a scene of a tiger with a huge mouth holding a person in the arms. Japanese experts have the "tiger desire to eat man" and "tiger is right" for its shape. Different interpretations of "The person in the breastfeeding breast"; the Duanfang copper forbidden vessel in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States is a group of 14 Western Zhou Dynasty wine vessels. It is the first time that the "forbidden" object, which is only recorded in ancient books, has appeared in the world since the foundation of epigraphy.
Get in touch with foreign institutions that collect Chinese bronze cultural relics, introduce the construction goals and significance of the Digital Bronze Museum to them by phone, letter, etc., and invite them to visit Tongling... In order to achieve the sharing of digital resources for lost overseas bronzes, the Digital Bronze Museum A lot of work has been done.
In March 2019, Wilson Keith, director of the Asian Department of the Freer Art Museum, Zhang Jingmin, assistant, and Tang Jigen, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology, were invited to Tongling to discuss the construction of a digital copper museum. matter.
After unremitting efforts, the Digital Bronze Museum finally obtained the authorization to display the three-dimensional models of cultural relics such as the Shang Dynasty bronze elephant statue, the Western Zhou Fangyi, and the Han Dynasty gold and silver Boshan furnace collected by the Freer Art Museum.
With the advancement and development of science and technology, cultural relic resources no longer only refer to their physical form, but also include digital information of cultural relics.
In the sharing of digital information resources of museum collections, although there is still a lack of unified legislative norms and management standards, there are objective difficulties such as inconsistent collection and integration of collection information resources of various cultural and museum institutions, and inconsistent intellectual property management. Inter-library, cross-international sharing has become the general trend.
"Through the further opening and improvement of digital resources of online cultural blogs, richer digital cultural content can be provided, so that the value of cultural relics can be brought into full play, and the profound historical culture can be interpreted by more people." Prospects for the sharing of collection resources , Wang Jie is full of expectations.
Huang Jingwei