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American blind writer Helen Keller wrote in the book "If I Give Me Three Days of Light", if I have three days of Light, she would choose to go to the museum one day: "On this day, I will take a hurry to the world of the past and present. I want to see the wonders of human progress, the ever-changing thousands of years, how can so many eras be compressed into one day? Of course, it is through the museum."
The museum condenses human wisdom, stores witnesses of human civilization, and is a place where the masses and cultural relics face each other. In museums, human civilization is highly concentrated. In 1753, the British Museum was built at , and the history of the public museum began. Two and a half centuries later, in 2007, the International Museum Association revised the definition of "museum" to put the realization of educational functions first. The importance of museum educational functions has gradually been accepted by the public and plays an increasingly important role.
Why do people have such great enthusiasm for visiting museums?
To answer this confusion, in the first issue of 2018, we launched a special cover report on the British Museum, thus opening up our series of reports on world-renowned museums. Following this year's "Understanding the British Museum - Thinking about the Whole World in a Building", in 2019, we launched "Understanding the Metropolitan Museum - How We Get Close to Art". The albums of the two world-class museums have received enthusiastic responses from readers. The magazines of the issue were not only sold out, but were later printed several times. This proves from another aspect that more and more people are interested and concerned about the topic of museums. In 2020, we launched "Understanding Louvre - Why We Are Fascinated by Art". So far, our "Museum Series" weekly magazine has collected three copies.
British Museum
was founded in 1753 and has more than 8 million pieces of collection. It is the oldest and most magnificent encyclopedia-style museum in the world.
In the lobby of the British Museum, a line of verses by the British poet Tennyson is engraved:
"Let your feet stand in the middle of knowledge for thousands of years to come."
This is the intellectual ambition of in the era of enlightenment. Europeans in the 18th and 19th century crazily collected fossils, vases, and inscriptions, and archaeology all over the world. They cataloged, classified and compared objects in order to re-order them. These objects cover 2 million years of human history and the civilizations of seven continents. The scope of time and space is so wide that you can naturally watch and think about the entire world when walking in such an encyclopedia.
Here, you can also see ancient Greek pottery, ancient Egyptian reliefs and contemporary Iranian artist dialogue with Spanish artist Goya installations to jointly tell the theme of "war and aesthetics"; you can see South Asian Shiva sculptures from Berlin Museum , Orthodox utensils from the Hermitage of St. Petersburg and Zoroastrian, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism exhibits from the World Museum Network, narrating the commonality of religious beliefs.
Metropolitan Museum
was founded in 1866 when a group of Americans initiated the establishment of a national art museum in Paris. It has 365,000 collections.
In fact, today I still feel the power of money at all times when I look at art in the metropolis. Almost every exhibition hall and every curator's title is engraved with the name of the patron, J.P. Morgan , Benjamin Altman, Arthur Sekler, etc. Any name you take is a wealthy business tycoon and a generous art patron. So, as former director of the Metropolitan Museum Tom Campbell said, “The story of the Metropolitan Museum is a typical American story, a story of ambition, civic responsibility, and generous dedication.”
The Metropolitan Museum has a mission to collect “the greatest artistic achievements of mankind across all cultures and time.”Encyclopedia-style art collections spanning 5,000 years can open up countless dialogues, including some of the most important issues in modern society, such as religion, war, capitalism, feminism, gender mobility, etc.
The utensils here are not displayed in anthropological or archaeological ways, but are displayed in accordance with works of art. These objects, which were regarded as "primitive" in the past, are looked at with a new perspective through the re-imagination and narrative of modern art, become works of art with a sense of formality and spiritual power, and also become the source of inspiration for New York artists. From here, we can better understand the modern art museum that is close to it; on the contrary, modern art also allows us to connect ancient and different regions of the world, making them understandable common beauty for mankind.
Louvre
1789 After the French Revolution, the Louvre became a public museum in 1793. Art treasures from all over the country were gathered in the Louvre, opened to the general public, and gradually participated in the lives of the public, as well as the construction of some basic important values, such as freedom, equality, and fraternity.
This glass pyramid, which has now become the Louvre check-in site, was first built to shock traditionalists and even criticized them, believing that it completely destroyed the classical beauty of the Louvre. But today it is the most popular landmark in Paris.
What impact did the glass pyramid have on the Louvre?
In terms of numbers, before the pyramid was completed in 1989, the annual visits to the Louvre were around 2 million, and the data in 2018 was 10 million, making it the most visited museum in the world.
Spiritually speaking, in the words of former French Minister of Culture Jack Lang, “it lit up the Louvre”.
Compared with the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum, the biggest feature of the Louvre is its relationship with power. This was once a center of power, and it was power that brought the resources of various artistic treasures to the palace of a country, which was extremely rare around the world.
There are many well-known art treasures here, such as the most representative three treasures of the Louvre: " Broken Arm Venus ", " Goddess of Victory ", and "Mona Lisa". According to a survey by the Louvre, about 80% of tourists come here to take a look at the Mona Lisa.
The artworks in the museum express not only art and aesthetics, but also the truth of human life for millions of years, and an cognitive upgrade of human society. This year, we selected representative pictures from the three issues of the Museum Weekly and produced a museum calendar.
calendar is a monthly calendar, one page per month, each page is equipped with museum collections or architectural pictures.
"Nymph and Scorpion" in the Louvre
White marble creates Nymph's graceful and shy face and elegant and graceful figure. A big poisonous scorpion is carved between the legs. What does this symbolize?
relief on the triangular lintel of the British Museum's main entrance
The gable wall (triangular lintel) of the British Museum is one of the iconic sculptures in London. It is visited and photographed by more than 7 million people every year, but only a few people are serious about seeing him up close. The theme revealed by the entire sculpture is the process of civilization. Is this set of sculptures the purpose of the British Museum at its beginning, which is to preserve and interpret human history?
The entrance to the main entrance of the Metropolitan Museum is facing a magnificent staircase. Turn left is the European Painting Museum, and turn right is the huge Asian Art Museum.
Between the first and second floors of the British Museum, Buddha statues in the 6th century, Southern and Northern Dynasties,
0 The story of the British Museum is a typical British story. In the Enlightenment era, the British people understood the intellectual ambitions of the world. With global colonization and trade, they built museums. There are many precious Chinese cultural relics in the museum.
The light yellow wall is the background, and the purple flowers add bright colors to the picture. The entire cover is elegant and generous.
light gray support back panel, with Sanlian Life Weekly's iconic logo in the lower right corner.
is also equipped with a cherry infrared packaging box.It is more festive to buy it at the end of the year and give it to your relatives and friends.
The museum is a treasure trove of knowledge facing the world, which allows all the world's studious and curious people to come here, discover their own history, retrieve historical evidence without written records, and let surviving items tell stories. The year spent with the museum can review history and feel the process of human civilization; it also reminds us to cherish the present and live every day with our heart.
2021's door is slowly opening to you, and there are more unknowns waiting for you to discover!
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