By the end of 2020, among the 204 national first-class museums in the country, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has 3: the Inner Mongolia Museum, the Ordos Museum (Ordos Museum, Ordos Bronze Museum, Ordos Revolution Museum) and Chifeng Museum.
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Inner Mongolia Museum
The Inner Mongolia Museum is located in Xinhua East Street, Xincheng District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, the former Inner Mongolia Museum, as a key project for the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the autonomous region in 1957, is the only autonomous region-level comprehensive museum in the region, and is also one of the earliest museums established in ethnic minority areas in the country.
In 2008, the Inner Mongolia Museum was renamed the Inner Mongolia Museum. The main building area of the museum is 64,000 square meters, the exhibition area is 15,000 square meters, and the total number of cultural relics in the collection exceeds 150,000, including more than 5,600 precious cultural relics (sets) and 650 national first-class cultural relics (sets), which are national first-class museums.
The exhibition hall of the new museum covers an area of 15,000 square meters, and the square outside the museum is decorated with the "Baoding of National Unity" donated by the State Council to the autonomous region.
Based on the rich resource advantages of the autonomous region such as paleontological fossils, living organisms, historical relics and ethnic cultural relics, the Inner Mongolia Museum runs through all basic displays and thematic displays with the theme of "grassland culture", forming a "series of grassland culture exhibitions", which are distributed in the exhibition halls of the museum on three floors, counting 14 exhibitions.
Among them, the four basic exhibitions on the second floor of the museum introduce the place where grassland culture was generated, the scenery blends and comes to life; the four basic exhibitions on the third floor show the vertical development line of grassland culture from ancient to modern to modern in the form of plate beads, which is concise and vivid and easy to understand; the six thematic displays on the fourth floor present the six wonderful features of grassland culture in a focused way, fresh and solemn, elegant and popular.
Read more: Museum Vol.032 | Inner Mongolia Museum
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Ordos Museum
Ordos Museum is a comprehensive museum, located in Kangbashi New District, Ordos City, is a large-scale comprehensive museum in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, with the goal of protecting and inheriting the history and culture of Ordos region, integrating cultural relics collection, collection, research, display, education and service.
Ordos Museum is the second national first-class museum in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region after the Inner Mongolia Museum. The museum building was designed by Ma Yansong, a Chinese-American, and is shaped by the red arsenic sandstone unique to the Ordos region, symbolizing the perseverance of the Ordos people.
The Predecessor of Ordos Museum is the YikezhaoMeng Cultural Relics Workstation established in 1963, the building was built in 2006 and officially opened to the public on May 18, 2012. The building area is more than 41,000 square meters, with 7 professional exhibition halls. The museum has a collection of 18,681 pieces (sets) of cultural relics, including 936 precious cultural relics (sets).
There are four basic exhibitions in the museum: "Farming Nomadism, Collision and Fusion - Ordos Ancient History Exhibition", "Ordos Paleontological Fossil Exhibition", "Ordos Mongolian History and Culture Exhibition", "100 Years of Light and Shadow • WitnessIng Ordos - Urban Memory Collection Exhibition", which comprehensively display the history and culture of Ordos.
The museum is composed of the Ordos Museum, the Ordos Bronze Museum and the Ordos Revolutionary History Museum. Among them, the Ordos Museum is a national first-class museum, and the Ordos Bronze Museum is a national second-level museum.
Founded in 1963, the Ordos Bronze Museum is a thematic museum that collects, displays and studies "Ordos Bronzes". In 2021, the Ordos Museum, the Ordos Bronze Museum, and the Ordos Revolutionary History Museum combined strongly and complemented each other's advantages to establish the Ordos City Museum.
Ordos Revolutionary History Museum, founded in September 2011, is located at No. 4 Dalat North Road, Dongsheng District, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Its predecessor was the Office Building of the Administrative Office of Yikezhao League, which was built in 1954, from 2001 to 2007, the building was the office building of the Ordos Municipal People's Government, the building was three-storey, with an area of 4073 square meters, and the overall plan was "L" shaped.
The building is the only surviving and well-preserved typical building in Ordos City in the 1950s, is the fourth batch of autonomous region-level key cultural relics protection units, and is the only red museum in Inner Mongolia built on the site of the former administrative office of the League.
Read more: Museum Vol.033 | Ordos Museum
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Chifeng Museum
Chifeng Museum is a national first-class historical museum, which was founded in 1987. In 1958, the first regional-level cultural relics unit "Zhaowuda League Cultural Relics Workstation" was established in Chifeng District. In 1987, on the basis of the Chifeng City Cultural Relics Workstation, the Chifeng Museum was established, which is the first large-scale museum in the history of Chifeng.
Located in the new district of Chifeng City, Chifeng Museum was completed and used in 2010, with a construction area of 11,000 square meters, a height of 27 meters, and an exhibition area of 4,000 square meters, which is a multi-functional modern museum integrating collection, research and display. The new museum complex adopts the ancient architectural style of the Liao Dynasty, with green tiles and white walls, which not only has the characteristics of ancient Chinese architecture in the late Tang Dynasty, but also reflects the Architectural Style of khitan in detail.
There are more than 80,000 cultural relics (groups) in the museum's collection, 80% of which are the results of archaeological excavations, and some of which are collections and donations. The collection includes: ceramics, bronzes, lacquered wood, jade, stone, bone, mussels, iron, gold and silver, silk fabrics, leather goods, murals, calligraphy and painting, jewelry, etc. Among them, there are 135 first-class cultural relics (groups), 376 second-class cultural relics (groups), and 879 third-class cultural relics (groups).
The cultural relics in the collection of Hongshan Culture Gouyun-shaped Jade Pendant, Hongshan Culture Stone Carved Figure, Zhao Baogou Culture Phoenix-shaped Pottery Cup, Xiajiadian Lower Cultural Painted Pottery Mane, Western Han Dynasty Wang Mang Cast Money Pottery Fan, Liao Dynasty Sancai Mandarin Duck Pot, Qing Dynasty Golden Silk Nan Wood Urn Urn, Qing Dynasty Golden Character "Kangyur Jing" and other cultural relics are all fine collections, with important historical, artistic and academic research value.
Chifeng Museum has a total of 4 basic exhibition halls. The first exhibition hall mainly displays several types of cultures from the Neolithic era in the Chifeng area. The second exhibition hall shows the bronze culture of the northern grassland represented by the lower culture of Xiajiadian and the upper culture of Xiajiadian. The third exhibition hall shows the steppe civilization created by the Liao Empire established by the Khitan people. The fourth exhibition hall shows the Mongolian folk culture with strong ethnic customs and local characteristics created by the northern ethnic groups with the Mongolian ethnic group as the main body since the Jin Dynasty and the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty on the land of Chifeng.
Read more: Museum Vol.034 | Chifeng Museum