Culture has shaped the personality image of a region, and has become a rich soil for the export and sharing of urban spirit and life concepts.
Located in Yunzhonghe Hot Spring Tourist Resort, the "Five Museums and One Courtyard" consists of an art center and a cultural center, with a total construction area of 406.5 acres and a total construction area of 130,800 square meters. Among them, the art center is composed of the Grand Theater and the Mass Art Museum, and the cultural center is composed of the Science and Technology Museum, the Library, the Museum, the Archives and the Planning Museum. These buildings are in a group of clusters, reflecting each other, warming the city with the power of culture and art, becoming a symbol of the city's taste and a cultural landmark, not only providing citizens with a cultural feast, but also quietly changing their way of life, and gradually building a vibrant civic cultural consumption circle.
The cultural center has a total construction area of 57,800 square meters and is divided into the west and east pavilions. The west pavilion is composed of a science and technology museum and a library, with a total construction area of 27,000 square meters, including a science and technology museum of 12,000 square meters and a library of 15,000 square meters, while the east exhibition hall is composed of a planning hall, a museum and an archive, with a total construction area of 30,800 square meters, including a planning hall of 8,000 square meters, a museum of 12,000 square meters and an archive of 8,800 square meters.
The art center has a total construction area of 73,000 square meters, including the Grand Theater and the Mass Art Museum. The Grand Theatre has a main theatre with 1,214 seats and a small theatre with 529 seats. The total construction area of the mass art museum is 6,858 square meters.
Xinzhou City Museum
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See the traces of time
The collection of all things, the knowledge of the museum. Wandering in the Xinzhou Museum, and the cultural relics intersect, as if through time and space, and history back and forth zero distance touch. Here, one can listen to the harmonious dialogue between the city's ancient culture and modern civilization.
Officially opened to the public in 2021, the Xinzhou Museum has a collection of more than 6,000 pieces of various collections, making it a local comprehensive museum.
According to the historical and cultural background of Xinzhou and the characteristics of the cultural relics in the collection, in terms of basic displays, there are mainly two basic exhibitions: "The Key to the Lock of Northern Shanxi Province - Xinzhou History and Culture Exhibition" and "Iron-blooded Heroic Soul - Xinzhou Revolutionary History Exhibition". Among them, "The Key to Northern Shanxi - Xinzhou History and Culture Exhibition" shows the historical development of Xinzhou from the Paleolithic Age to the Ming and Qing dynasties, major historical events, important historical figures, etc., and presents the important position of Xinzhou in Shanxi and even the whole country to the audience through rich and exquisite exhibits; "Iron-blooded Heroic Soul - Xinzhou Revolutionary History Exhibition" mainly shows the heroic deeds of countless heroic sons and daughters of Xinzhou in modern history who threw their heads and shed their blood for national independence and people's liberation.
In addition, the Xinzhou Museum also organized "Xiongguan Mandao Glory and Common-Jin Shang History and Culture Special Exhibition", "Welcoming the New Journey of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China - Shanxi Province Peasant Painting Excellent Works Exhibition", "Ideal Country-Chinese Impressions in Western Copper Engravings in the Nineteenth Century", "Xiongqi Goose Protecting the Country and Protecting the People - Jin King Li Keyong Special Exhibition", "Striving for a New Chapter of Cohesion Spectrum - 2023 Shanxi Province Mass Cultural Activities Paper-cutting Competition Exhibition", "A Joyful - Zhang Qiming's Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition", "Hat" Beautiful as a Flower Childhood Memories - Jin Style Children's Hat Special Exhibition" 7 temporary exhibitions, organized more than 100 various social education activities.
By the end of 2023, the Xinzhou Museum has received a total of about 260,000 visitors.
Xinzhou City Library
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Meet the best version of yourself
The best moment of life is a walk through a book. Reading is the best way to the world. Where you can't reach, words carry you through; The life you can't experience, books take you to feel......
Xinzhou City Library is a comprehensive public library integrating collection sorting and traditional services, digital services and remote services, which has become an important city card and "landmark" building in our city while enriching the spiritual world of the people.
There are 199,837 books in the library. It is open to the public free of charge throughout the year, with a total of 23 open areas, and the service hours are from 8:30 to 18:30 every Tuesday to Sunday. In terms of functional area division, the negative floor is a comprehensive service area, with a dense library, a lecture hall, a training room, a video room, and a tutor and family style hall; On the first floor, there is a general information desk, a children's literature lending room, a reading room for the elderly, a reading room for the visually impaired, a literature and book lending area, a 24-hour urban study room, an exhibition hall, a government open information access point and a volunteer service station. On the second floor, there is a social science book lending room, a newspaper and periodical reading room, and an art space; On the third floor, there is a natural science book lending room, an urban bookstore, a special collection literature reading room, a self-study area, a red book house, and an electronic reading room. The fourth floor is an office area.
The library has a rich collection of books, advanced equipment and complete functions. There are e-book borrowing machines, self-service card machines, self-service borrowing and returning machines, self-service book sterilization machines, self-service inquiry machines, calligraphy experience machines, reading kiosks, waterfalls, miniature libraries, children's learning machines, children's reading machines, self-service borrowing and returning cabinets for reading books, newspaper reading machines, "People's Daily" reading machines, etc. The free and open services include literature information inquiry, borrowing, newspaper and periodical reading, digital resource access, and public space facilities such as reading rooms and self-study rooms are open to the public.
In order to promote national reading, Xinzhou Library has carefully created many activity brands such as "Xiurong Forum", "Xin Xiaotu" and "Reader Plan", and at the same time carried out various services for special groups and minors.
Xinzhou Municipal Archives
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Feel the pulse of development
A file, a memory; A file, a legacy; A file, a history. In recent years, the city has further strengthened the function of preserving history, continuously increased the development and utilization of archives, and innovated and practiced in educating people and serving the people, so as to make archives "live" and culture "hot".
The new Xinzhou Municipal Archives is located on the bank of the Yunzhong River and will be put into use in 2021, including four areas: collection and archives warehouse, business function room, external service room and basic office space. The new library has installed the most advanced intelligent archives dense racks, archives warehouse environmental control equipment and large-scale archives disinfection equipment, etc., and has completed the digitization of 130,000 volumes (pieces) of paper archives in the collection.
Walking into the warehouse of the Municipal Archives and History Museum, rows of file cabinets are neatly arranged, protecting all kinds of archives. At present, the library has archives of the Republic of China, revolutionary historical archives, Xinzhou municipal party and government organs, mass organizations, social organizations, famous figures in Xinzhou, and genealogy of historical records after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and more than 195,000 volumes (pieces) and 25,000 volumes of materials in 126 complete cases; the whole map of Xiurong Academy (drawn in 1904), the archives of the Xinkou Campaign, the southward transfer order of the older generation of revolutionaries, the election votes of the Jin-Cha-Ji border region, the delivery of materials to resist US aggression and aid Korea, commemorative medals, and tickets of various historical periods; The archives of the Xinzhou Division of the National "Second Youth Association", intangible cultural heritage archives, people's livelihood archives, celebrity archives, southbound cadre archives, old movie poster archives and other local characteristic archives; The activities of the party and state leaders in Xinzhou, the original appearance of the old city of Xinzhou, the application of Wutai Mountain as a World Heritage Site, and other important events and major activities in various historical periods of Xinzhou.
Xinzhou Municipal Archives has always highlighted the people-centered idea, focused on improving the service level, and constantly optimized all aspects of access and utilization, so as to provide high-quality, efficient and satisfactory file checking services for the public. We will make every effort to promote the "stock digitization" and "incremental electronicization" of archives, which has greatly shortened the time limit for file search; It has signed a cross-library utilization service agreement for people's livelihood archives and a strategic cooperation agreement for urban archives in the Yellow River Basin with 59 prefecture-level city (prefecture and league) archives in 9 provinces (autonomous regions) in the Yellow River Basin, realizing the "remote file search and cross-library service" of people's livelihood archives; Integrate all kinds of people's livelihood archives resources, so that the management of people's livelihood archives is becoming more standardized, the use of people's livelihood archives is more sufficient, and the results of archives work can benefit people's livelihood more.
Xinzhou Art Center
"Grand Theatre · Mass Art Museum"
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Enjoy a feast of art
In the north of Xinzhou City, there is such a magnificent building, which is not only a cultural venue, but also a building full of artistic charm and a building full of vitality. Its existence makes the city full of culture and makes the city more beautiful. This is the Xinzhou Art Center.
With a total floor area of about 73,000 square meters, Xinzhou Art Center is an ideal venue for various performances, concerts and cultural events. Here, you can watch a variety of different types of performances, whether it's theater, dance, or concerts.
Since its opening, the Grand Theatre has undertaken wonderful performances brought by many well-known musicians, artists and performance groups at home and abroad. From classical concerts to modern dance dramas, from folk opera to international theatre, various art forms come together here, bringing an unprecedented artistic experience to the audience. Up to now, the total number of performances at the Grand Theatre has reached more than 40, with an average attendance rate of 82%.
"Now you don't have to go to Taiyuan, and you can enjoy high-end performances at your doorstep, which was difficult to achieve before." Mr. Wang, from Yuanping City, likes to come to the Xinzhou Grand Theater with his friends to watch his favorite performances in his spare time. Walking into the Xinzhou Grand Theater, listening to a concert, watching a stage play, meeting with culture and art, and sharing a wonderful time, it has gradually become a travel choice for Xinzhou citizens and surrounding urban and rural residents.
Xinzhou Grand Theater attracts more and more people with the unique charm of art. It is believed that the Xinzhou Grand Theater will bring more wonderful artistic feasts to people.
Source: Xinzhou Daily