Cultural China Tour | Barrier-free exhibitions: Digital and physical integration becomes a standard feature of museums
The 10th China Museum and Related Products and Technology Expo closed in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia on Aug 26.
It is understood that digital twins, virtual reality, nake-eye 3D, these representative technologies in the era of digital intelligence, have almost become the standard equipment of major museums. Among them, multi-scene, cross-time and space virtual reality immersive exploration is the most popular experience project.
A number of museums have introduced barrier-free experience projects for the visually impaired and the hearing-impaired. Special jigsaw puzzle toys designed for visually impaired children can feel the color and shape of cultural relics through plastic pieces of different shapes. In response to the needs of the elderly, the lighting and size of the exhibition hall have been adjusted for aging, and the construction of barrier-free exhibition has been steadily promoted.
What is the exhibition that gathers nearly 400 museums
China Museum and Related Products and Technology Expo, referred to as "Bo Expo", is the largest museum professional exhibition in Asia. Here you can not only feel the latest development and changes in the museum industry, but also 394 museums in China have brought their own carefully selected cultural products.
The expo is held in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, and the exhibition center is located on the grasslands of the Daoleghuan River beside the Great Green Mountains. The 394 museums from across China are crammed into a few pavilions, and the highlight is dense. I visited three museums in total, giving me the feeling of "walking 80,000 miles a day while surveying the sky and watching 1,000 rivers from afar". Nanjing Museum is replicating the Song Dynasty hair-flower costume, elegant and inimitable. Two steps to Egypt, the Shanghai museum really did not let go of this batch of Egyptian cultural relics to "business trip", all made cultural creation.
Palace Museum, Shaanxi History Museum, Guobo, Subo, Sanxingdui, Grand Canal, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Press and Publication, Imperial Decree Museum, Bamboo and Bamboo Museum... What you expect, what you don't expect they come, they all come. The pavilions came with elaborate "big seals", and everywhere there was the sound of clicking and stamping.
Which museum does not have to bring the most representative cultural creation to the "Expo"? Long eyes plush bronze, here you can see more than a dozen, Ningxia Tan sheep, Qinghai Tibetan antelope, Tsingtao beer, Qing Palace bonsai, the great poet Li Bai, the Grand Canal granary... Everything can be made into a plush toy. Gansu Provincial Museum has set up a creative brand called "Ronghua Museum". Frozen pear lily, Tianshui cherry and the flying sky of Dunhuang have all been "Ronghua".
On the "Expo", there are 237 national museums at the first, second and third levels. The collections of these museums are not only cultural relics, but also animals and all kinds of things. What they collect, preserve, study, and exhibit is the evidence of all human beings and their environment. A museum is a mirror, reflecting the different angles of The Times.