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Half are plane hand-painted line drafts and half are hand-made wooden models. On the exhibition wall of Suzhou Urban Construction Museum, the landmark building of the ancient city, Ruiguang Pagoda, has been "dissected". The door of the pot has been meticulously restored, so that the internal structure of this ancient pagoda with seven levels and eight sides is clearly presented in front of the audience.
A few days ago, Suzhou Urban Construction Museum opened, which is one of the few professional museums in China with the theme of "urban construction".
With the Suzhou Window as the core element, the museum builds a "time tunnel" through ancient and modern times, connecting exhibition halls such as "City History", "Modern Suzhou City", "City Growth", "City Living Room" and "City of Hundred Pavilions".
In the preface hall, the criss-crossing "Pingjiang Map" is composed of a gray word "city" with architectural models, which is the main visual symbol of the Suzhou Urban Construction Museum.
The museum is located in the historical and cultural district of Pingjiang, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, covering an area of about 1,600 square meters.
The map of Pingjiangfu (now Suzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty "Pingjiang Map" is stored in the Suzhou Inscription Museum. It is the largest and most complete ancient inscription city map in China. It reflects the parallel pattern of water and land in Suzhou and adjacent rivers and streets.
Pingjiang Road is a traditional block that inherits this characteristic.
There are many former residences of famous people scattered in the alley adjacent to Pingjiang Road.
The Pan House of Huizhou merchant Pan Linzhao's family was built in the fifty-second year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1787), with a large scale and gorgeous decoration.
Today, this Qing Dynasty wealthy business mansion has turned into a museum, reflecting the concept of "letting the ancient city innovate and develop in the process of protection".
The "City Chronicle" hall displays 5 miniature models, the Helu City built in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Ruiguang Pagoda in the Three Kingdoms Period, the Baodai Bridge in the Tang Dynasty, the Confucian Temple in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Panmen in the Yuan Dynasty are combined into a three-dimensional model. picture scroll.
Five local chronicles such as "Wu Di Ji" and "Wu Jun Zhi", and 19 electronic maps such as "Three Horizontal and Four Straight Maps of Suzhou City River" and "Suzhou City Chamber Map", which left the imprints of these ancient buildings, describe Suzhou's long history of urban construction.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Suzhou being rated as a national historical and cultural city. The "Modern Suzhou City" hall has reviewed the changes of the city in the past half century with rich photos and documents. The yellowed documents have witnessed the establishment of the ancient city protection route. .
In 1986, the first version of Suzhou's urban master plan was approved by the State Council, and the basic policy of "protecting the style of the ancient city and actively building a modern new district" was determined.
The 76-meter-high Beisi Pagoda guards the skyline of the ancient city. Outside the ancient city, the 58-meter-high development building, the 302-meter-high Eastern Gate, and the 450-meter-high International Financial Center have been built one after another.
In the "City Growth" hall, the crystal sand table model connects the tallest buildings in Suzhou in different periods with a timeline, showing the constantly refreshed city height.
The new media interactive installation in the exhibition hall allows the audience to immersely experience the vigorous vitality of contemporary Suzhou urban construction.
There is a row of yellow measuring instruments on the exhibition wall. Through the eyepieces in the black cylinders, you can see photos of urban infrastructure such as bridges, roads, and rail transit.
Press the "City Science and Education" button, and pictures of landmark buildings in the field of science and education, such as Suzhou Museum, Suzhou Culture and Art Center, and Suzhou University Binglin Library, will be played frame by frame.
See one museum and watch one hundred museums, and explore one hundred museums and know one city.
In the "City of Hundred Museums" hall, a dynamic "Suzhou City Construction Map" covers the entire three walls, and more than 100 large and small Suzhou museums are scattered on the map.
When the palm is close to the wall, the national style illustration will turn into a 360-degree three-dimensional animation.
Click on the geometric buildings with pink walls and black tiles on the map, and the new Suzhou Museum designed by the master architect I.M. Pei rises; click on 10 box-shaped buildings that are similar to cubes, and the Su Boxi Pavilion, which opened in September last year, was completed and capped .
Here, the audience can "travel" Suzhou's hundreds of museums and gardens and the former residences of celebrities, and have a panoramic view of the city's overall style.
Sun Min, Director of the Office of Suzhou Housing and Urban-rural Development Bureau, said that the design of Suzhou Urban Construction Museum fully embodies the concept of "people's cities are built by the people, and people's cities are for the people", as well as the ingenuity of city builders. Renewal and revitalization and utilization of ancient buildings and old houses have a positive effect.