Shenzhen Museum

Published on January 1, 2009 by brooks | This story has been viewed 1,504 views

Shenzhen Museum is an unit which works for public good, not for it’s own benefit, spreading knowledge for the public, and carrying out patriotic education wholeheartedly. As a comprehensive museum, it has become an important cultural facility of Shenzhen, giving full play to its function of cultural relics collection, propaganda and education and scientific research. Up till now, we have more than 20,000 pieces of cultural relics, such as the specimens of paleobioligical fossils dated from 100 million years, ancient history and art treasures, showing 50,00 years of civilization of China and important historic materials about the development history of modern and contemporary Shenzhen. These precious cultural relics are the important martical foundation of Shenzhen Museum. As an education base for the youngsters, Shenzhen Museum has kept on perfecting its permanent exhibitions since the first beginning. The permanent exhibitions are Ancient of Shenzhen, Modern History of Shenzhen, Reform and Opening-up History of Shenzhen and Folk Culture of Shenzhen, full and accurate materials tell visitors the 6000 years of history of development process in Shenzhen region, which tells us how our ancestors worked, struggled, and created many wonders with their wisdom. In order to enrich children’s natural scientific knowledge, in the exhibitions of Marine Organisms and Wild Animal Specimens, Children can find out the natural resources around them from different shapes of animal specimens, which educates people to love the nature and to protect the natural environment. The beautiful and vivid shapes of specimens can make the children be like swimming in the sea, and walking in a forest, even forgetting to go home. For the sake of living up the cultural activities of Shenzhen citizens, creating a lofty atmosphere of culture, we exhibit the important cultural relics collected by Shenzhen Museum every year, and change the exhibitions in turn each year. In the other hand, we also introduce many precious ancient cultural relics and many different schools of art from home and abroad to exhibit here at irregular intervals. So, the visitors can appreciate the art treasures and the works of different schools of art in the museum, they will be brought into a hall full of elegant arts, so cultural entertainments has become citizens’ new fashion of their daily life. As a research organization of social science, Shenzhen Museum has published some monographs as following, Ancient History of Shenzhen, Modern History of Shenzhen, Initiating History of Shenzhen, History of Shenzhen Special Zone, History Tells The Future, Archaeological Finding and Research In Shenzhen, Selected These On The Tenth Anniversary of Shenzhen Museum, and the books with pictures and explanations, such as Collected Cultural Relics Cream of Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen Hakka’s Enclosed Houses. All these scientific research results have attracted great attention of academic circles home and abroad, therefore, Shenzhen Museum has become an important research organ for the study of Shenzhen history and the history of Hakka culture. Shenzhen Museum has been trusted by the citizens through the staff’s unremitting efforts, the membership of Shenzhen Museum has become a bridge to link up citizens and museum, now, more and more people join in our activity, making our work be more vigorous. Shenzhen Museum welcomes the tourists home and abroad by offering warm and excellent services, trying its best to build a good rest place with cultural style, and hoping it to become your another warm and comfortable home.

Address: East Gate of Block A (the easternmost block), Citizens’ Center, Fuzhong 3rd Road, Futian District, Shenzhen.

Opening Hours: Shenzhen museum of ancient art: 10.00 to 18.00 daily Closed every Monday Shenzhen museum old hall: 9.00 to 17.30 daily Closed every Monday Phone: Admission is free all visitors Admission is free for all visitors

Routes:

Subway: Citizens’ Center Station, Line 4 Buses: Bus No.34, No. 71, No.221, No. 373, No 398 to the stop “Citizens’ Center East” Bus No.41, No.60, No. 76, No.107, No. 123, No.232, No.234, No.236, No. 244, No 371 and No 398 to the stop “Citizens’ Center” Bus No.15, No.60, No. 76, No.123, No.235, No. 244, No 371 and No 374 to the stop “Citizens’ Center West”


If you believe that Shenzhen is a city with a mere 26 years of history, you might be wrong. The Shenzhen Musuem that opened in 2006  at Xiasha community in Futian District, shows that the city’s history can be traced back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279), roughly 800 years ago.

Ancient literature housed in the museum also shows that local residents in the community, most of whom share the same family name Huang, are descended from the Huang Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC).

“It’s common sense that Shenzhen is a city with only two decades’ history. Actually, it refers to the period when Shenzhen was named one of China’s special economic zones,” said Zhang Litong, director of the Futian District, at the museum’s opening.

With exhibits in both Chinese and English, the museum uses ancient literature, docudramas and relics to trace the history of the Huang clan, which arrived in Xiasha 800 years ago from Henan Province via Hubei, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces.

Ancestral temples and a tomb built during the Song Dynasty are preserved in the community, as evidence of the legend. Visitors can find small-scale models of the temples, tomb and ancient Hakka villages in the museum.

Tens of lifelike bronze statues around the museum recreate the life of local residents prior to 1980. Statues of human beings fishing, raising oysters and eating big basin dishes together are the most popular ones.

Prominent among those depicted in statues is the Xiasha-born Huang Yaoting, vice chief of staff during the Shanzhoutian Revolt in the Revolution of 1911. The revolution finally ended 2,000 years of imperialism in China, and Huang is respected as a patriotic hero.

Construction on the museum began in 2002, and numerous rare literature works and documents about the Huang clan were collected. Some of them were written in the Song and Qing dynasties.

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The community has invested millions of yuan on the museum, hoping that visitors could understand the local history and culture.

Opening Hours : Tue-Sun 09:00-17:00

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