| Zhenjiang Museum | | Zhenjiang Museum is located at the east foot of Yuntai Mountain, occupying an area of 10,000 square meters. It was built in 1890 with a floor space of 3,000 square meters. It was built in the best in China's medium-sized and small cities. As a museum of local history, it has a rich collection of 30,000 pieces of cultural relics, more than 90,000 classic works and more than 4,000 pieces of old paintings and calligraphic works. On display in its eleven exhibition rooms are cultural relics ranging from the Neolithic Age to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are primitive porcelain ware, geometric stamped pottery pieces, bronze ware dating from the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century-770 B.C) and the Spring and Autumn Period (770-221 B.C.), celadon of the Six Dynasties (222-589), silver and gold ware of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and famous porcelain ware, silk fabrics and arts and crafts of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Among the treasured cultural relics are a duck-shaped bronze wine vessels of the Western Zhou Dynasty, gilded silver wine vessel of the Tang Dynasty and a baby-shaped celadon pillow of the Song Dynasty. The Museum often holds various kinds of specialized cultural relics exhibitions. Some exhibitions are displayed abroad. In the Museum there is a gift shop selling replicas of relics from the museum, tourist souvenirs, arts and crafts, the four treasures of the study--writing brush, ink stick, ink slab and paper, calligraphic work, paintings and pictures of the stored relics. | | | (2002-6-13 10:41:06) |
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