Shanxi Museum Travel Guide

Scenic spot introduction:

Shanxi Museum was founded in 1919 and is the largest cultural relic collection, protection, research and exhibition center in the province. In 2005, a modern new museum was built and opened on the west bank of Fenhe River in Taiyuan City. Shanxi is a major cultural heritage province in China. There are about 400,000 items in the museum collection, which gather the essence of Shanxi's cultural relics, including the Neolithic pottery temple ruins, the Shang Dynasty Fangguo cultural relics, the Shanxi and Sanjin cultural relics of the Zhou Dynasty, the Northern Dynasties cultural relics, and stone sculptures. , Shanxi local ceramics, Jin and Yuan opera cultural relics, Ming and Qing Shanxi merchant cultural relics, etc. are quite distinctive. "The basic display "Jin Soul" consists of 7 historical topics and 5 artistic topics, showing Shanxi's unique contribution in the process of five thousand years of Chinese civilization. In addition, the Shanxi Museum Library covers an area of ​​1,000 square meters, with complete infrastructure and management The system is perfect, with a collection of more than 160,000 books and more than 110,000 ancient books, including 888 rare books and 5,043 volumes. It is a "national key protection unit for ancient books".

Attractions distribution:

Shanxi Museum has a construction area of ​​51,000 square meters and consists of the main hall and four corner auxiliary buildings. The shape of the main building is like a bucket or a tripod, with four extended wings, symbolizing harvest, abundance, stability and auspiciousness. It uses modern technology to interpret the ancient aesthetic orientation of architecture as "like a bird covering its skin, like a feather flying". The four corner auxiliary buildings are the office building, conference center, exhibition center and art center respectively. The entire building complex is like a mountain and a tower, with ups and downs and majestic atmosphere. It is one of the iconic cultural buildings in Taiyuan City.

Scenic spot features:

Photography, cultural relics exhibitions, museums