China News Service, Suzhou, July 3 (Reporter Zhong Sheng) On the 3rd, the curators of the three museums along the Grand Canal in Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum, Suzhou Museum and Wu Culture Museum appeared at the Jiangsu Book Fair at the same time, telling the story together. The museum is born out of "luck", and how the museum is based in China and communicates "things".

　　The China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou just celebrated its "first birthday" last month.

As a small and young museum with the theme of the canal, the collection of the China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou is not yet rich, but Zheng Jing, the director of the museum, believes: "There are not many collections and efforts to build a museum that the public likes to see, the difference between the two is There is no conflict between them.”

　　Using LED sky curtains and dripping water, etc., to display the rising and falling of the sun, the rotation of the four seasons, and the moonlight and wind along the canal; the exhibition hall is turned into an "escaping room" game, and you can explore the canal and understand the canal during play... By boldly adopting novel The way of presentation, in less than a year, Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum has become a popular Internet celebrity museum.

　　Wu Culture Museum is also located on the shore of the canal. It is only one year older than Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum in terms of "museum age", and it is already well-known in the Yangtze River Delta region.

In 2021, a report called "the most humanistic flow report" was swiped on the Internet: after several tourists from Shanghai listened to a lecture on architecture in the Song and Yuan Dynasties at the Wu Culture Museum, they searched "as per the map". these historic buildings.

After the release of the flow report, the Wu Cultural Museum and its high-quality lectures were unexpectedly popular.

The three curators share the stories of their respective museums.

Photo by Zhong Sheng

　　Chen Zenglu, director of the Wu Culture Museum, said that in recent years, the great cultural development in China has also brought the construction of the museum into a period of rapid development.

Different thematic pavilions and regional pavilions emerge in an endless stream, and the corresponding energy levels and levels have been greatly improved, which has greatly enriched the categories of Chinese museums.

But at the same time, we can't stick to one acre of land, and we should expand our horizons, base ourselves on the local area, and look at the world.

Recently, the Wu Culture Museum held the "Look of Civilization - An Exhibition of Ancient Cultural Relics from the Eurasian Continent".

Through the representative cultural relics of various historical civilizations on the Eurasian continent, the exchanges and integration of various civilizations are displayed.

　　The newest west hall of Suzhou Museum was completed less than a year ago. Xie Xiaoting, deputy director of the museum, introduced that compared with the main hall of Suzhou Museum, which is located in the old city and backed by the Humble Administrator's Garden, the newly built west hall is positioned as "Suzhou". People see the world" cultural display and experience center.

The first phase of the International Cooperation Pavilion in the museum is cooperating with the British Museum for a four-year exhibition on the history of world civilizations.

　　Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum chose to use the canal culture as a link, and set up a special exhibition of "world-renowned canals and canal cities".

The first group selected two exotic canal cities, Venice, Italy and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, appreciating their differences and being surprised by each other's similarities.

The Grand Canal connects the north and the south with its channels, and the museum connects the east and the west with its exhibitions.

While establishing a foothold in China, while seeking common ground while reserving differences, we will fasten the cultural bond between China and foreign countries.

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