The New Building of Liaoning Provincial Museum Ushered In Its Overall Opening

On August 17th, Chinese Ancient Calligraphy Exhibition, Paintings in Ancient China and Silk Tapestry and Embroidery in Ancient China were officially put into trial operation. So far, Liaoning Provincial Museum has finished it move into the new building, which marks the overall opening of the new building of Liaoning Provincial Museum after three years of trial operation.

The predecessor of the Liaoning Provincial Museum, the Northeast Museum, is the first large-scale historical art museum established by the people's political power in New China. It carries the 5,000-year Liaohe River civilization gene, and has nearly 120,000 pieces/sets of cultural relics in its collection. The new buildingof Liaoning Provincial Museumwas started in August 2011 and the civil works were completed in June 2013. It covers an area of 83,200 square meters and a building area of 100,013 square meters. It is divided into five functional areas: exhibition, audience service, cultural relic storeroom, cultural relics protection and comprehensive business. The exhibition area includes three floors and has 22 exhibition halls, which are divided into permanent exhibition halls and temporary exhibition halls. The permanent exhibitions include Ancient Liaoning and 12 cultural relic theme exhibitions. On May 16th, 2015, the new building of Liaoning Provincial Museum opened its 8 exhibition halls on first floor for its first trial run. It launched three theme exhibition halls – Tablet  Inscriptions of Ancient China, Exhibition of Ming and Qing Porcelains and Exhibition of Ming and Qing Jade. It also organized special exhibitions with a variety of contents with its 5 temporary exhibition halls. On September 22, 2017, it started its second phase of the trial run by launching Ancient Liaoning, Exhibition of Bronze Mirrors of Ancient Chinese, Exhibition of Ceramic Ware of the Liao Dynasty, Glorious Image of Buddha Exhibition of Buddha Statues, Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Currencies and Exhibition of Chinese Seals were successively in 5 theme exhibition halls. On June 23, 2018, the Manchu Customs Exhibition was officially put into trial operation. On August 17th, Chinese Ancient Calligraphy Exhibition, Paintings in Ancient China and Silk Tapestry and Embroidery in Ancient China were officially put into trial operation. So far, all 22 exhibition halls of Liaoning Provincial Museum have been opened to the audience.

The new building of Liaoning Provincial Museum ranks forefront among the provincial-level museum of China in terms ofexhibition area (24,000 square meters), the number of permanent exhibitions (13), the length of exhibition line (4,200 linear meters), cultural relics on exhibition (more than 6,200 pieces) and the percentage of cultural relics on display in total collection (5%) and exhibition rate of the choices in collection.

Chinese Ancient Calligraphy Exhibition

Paintings in Ancient China

Silk Tapestry and Embroidery in Ancient China