Cultural connections gain fresh life By CHEN YINGQUN | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-04-27 09:55 Share CLOSE Art lovers admire a Venus statue in the Louvre Abu Dhabi in December 2017. The artwork exemplifies the UAE s position at the crossroads of East and West. KAMRAN JEBREILI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
With touring exhibitions, museums play role in deepening mutual understanding
Editor s note: People-to-people exchanges are deepening the connections between countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative. This column celebrates the efforts of those working toward a shared future.
When Maryam Mohsin Hassan Abdalla visited Gansu Provincial Museum in 2016, she was impressed by its exotic charm and mixture of Eastern and Western cultures.
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Artifact exhibition in Chengdu marks enduring charms of Silk Road By Lin Qi | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-28 09:47 Share CLOSE A Buddhist statue dated between the second and third centuries AD on show. [Photo/Courtesy of Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum]
The Lasting Charm of Cultural Relics, an ongoing exhibition at Sichuan Museum, in Chengdu, examines the long-standing influence of the exchanges between different civilizations in the East and the West which were boosted by the ancient Silk Road.
The exhibition through March 20 uses nearly 300 artifacts to reflect the diversity and dynamics of these cultures. The objects on display are largely from the collection of Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum, which was built by Ikuo Hirayama, the late Japanese painter and collector of antiquities related to the Silk Road. There are also collections from Sichuan Museum, Shaanxi History Museum in Xi an and Gansu Provincial Museum
Chinese museum housing ancient bamboo, wood slips to open to public in 2021 (Xinhua) 09:42, December 21, 2020 LANZHOU, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) A Chinese museum that houses bamboo and wooden slips dating back some 2,000 years is expected to open to the public in 2021. The main structure of the Gansu Jiandu Museum was completed over the weekend in Lanzhou, the capital city of northwest China s Gansu Province. Jiandu in Chinese refers to the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese wrote with brush and ink before paper was invented. The museum s predecessor was a slip sorting and research office set up in the 1970s in the Gansu Provincial Museum. It was turned into a specialized museum in 2012 exclusively for academic study and relics preservation. The museum was scheduled to open to the public for the first time at the end of 2021.
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LANZHOU, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) A Chinese museum that houses bamboo and wooden slips dating back some 2,000 years is expected to open to the public in 2021.
The main structure of the Gansu Jiandu Museum was completed over the weekend in Lanzhou, the capital city of northwest China s Gansu Province. Jiandu in Chinese refers to the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese wrote with brush and ink before paper was invented.
The museum s predecessor was a slip sorting and research office set up in the 1970s in the Gansu Provincial Museum. It was turned into a specialized museum in 2012 exclusively for academic study and relics preservation. The museum was scheduled to open to the public for the first time at the end of 2021.