China Silk Museum Opens Global Tour: Digital And Physical Combination Delivers Silk Culture

On October 24, the reporter learned from the China Silk Museum that the "International Silk Global showcase" project launched by the museum was launched in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The project plans to build a new international exhibition mode of "touring with U disk" to tell the story of Chinese silk culture. It is reported that the "Guosi Global showcase" will also be exhibited in Uzbekistan, Spain and other places this year.

Activity site. Picture provided by China Silk Museum

Located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, the China Silk Museum is the world's largest silk museum. The museum has always focused on the two main lines of "Silk Archaeological History" and "Silk Road Culture", taking into account the collection, protection, research, display, inheritance and innovation of textile and clothing cultural heritage at all times and at home and abroad.

The "National Silk Global Exhibition Cabinet" launched this time aims to establish a set of exhibition organization form with a standardized structure of "digital display+representative exhibits", create a standardized silk culture exhibition that can be displayed in museums, universities, overseas Chinese cultural centers, public spaces and other places around the world, and display the gold card of Chinese traditional culture - silk to the outside world.

Ji Xiaofen, the curator of the China Silk Museum, said that in terms of digital display, the project will be based on the series of classic exhibitions of Chinese silk and Silk Road culture accumulated by the China Silk Museum for many years and high-quality special temporary exhibitions, and cooperate with the interactive exhibition of Chinese traditional sericulture and silk weaving intangible cultural heritage and other related contents, At the same time, the exhibition content can be expanded and upgraded iteratively in combination with the characteristics of international cooperation tour units.

In terms of physical exhibits, the project focuses on representative Chinese clothing and costumes, traditional patterns and patterns, innovative designed works of art, etc., supplemented by characteristic cultural relics collections of international cooperation tour units.

She said that compared with the traditional outreach, the "Guosi Global showcase" has significant advantages such as standardization, easy deployment, easy maintenance, low cost and mobility.

"We hope to build a new model of international cultural exchange and cooperation, and create a lasting, stable and dynamic" circle of friends "of China Silk Road around the world, with exhibition as the entry point, linking with global cultural and museum institutions.". Ji Xiaofen said that she hopes to use the project to tell the story of Chinese silk culture, carry forward the spirit of the Silk Road, and better show the world a credible, lovely and respectable image of China.

(Source: China News Network)