Ningbo to celebrate International Museum Day
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:35
May 18, 2013 is the 37th International Museum Day, themed on "Museums（memory +creativity）=social change". Several museums like Ningbo Museum and Baoguo Temple Ancient Architecture Museum will host rich and colorful theme activities.
From May 18, 2013, Ningbo Museum will host the first Beautiful Museum Culture Festival. The festival will last until June 8, the 8th China Heritage Day. During the festival, a series of special exhibitions will open, including "Buddha's Grace Reappears for All", the Buddhist statue exhibition at Longxing Temple in Qingzhou of Shandong Province, "Rare Articles for Calligraphy", the Ming and Qing Stationery Utensils of Men of Letters in the South of the Changjiang River and so on. On May 18, Ningbo Museum will invite Gong Yingyan, doctorial tutor and Professor of History in Ningbo University, to give a lecture on "Ningbo and Maritime Silk Road". On June 7, Xu Jie, a specialist in Suzhou Museum, will give a lecture titled "Appreciation of the Rare Articles for Calligraphy". Besides those activities, a list of other activities will be organized, including a series of lectures on Ningbo as the "Historical and Cultural Introduction", "Walking Museum for Schools", "Charity Bazaar -- for Children", and some activities for the young and activities for museum volunteers, etc..
What's more, before or after May 18, for the first time, Baoguo Temple Ancient Architecture Museum is to open its updated exhibition themed on "Antique Buildings for Marvelous Jiangnan Sightseeing". At the same time, it will host an Exhibition of Photography Works of Zhang Ke's in his Self-driving Journey in Yunnan, Tibet and Sinkiang, titled "Excursion on Mount Everest, the World's Third Pole". From May 17 to May 26, Tianyi Pavilion Museum will open an art exhibition of Wang Qun and Zhang Xinrong's Works of Bamboo Weaving and Carving, themed on "the Story of Bamboo". At the opening ceremony that day, Tianyi Pavilion Museum will have a interactive show of bamboo weaving handicraft. On the afternoon of May 18, at Longshan Square, Yuyao will hold the opening ceremony of the art exhibition themed on "Appreciation of the Ming and the Qing Style Architecture and Woodcarving Works", one of the series activities on the 2013 International Museum Day and the 2013 China's Cultural Heritage Day in Yuyao. Besides those activities, Yinzhou Art Museum of Ceramics will conduct an activity named "Museums and School Campus".
