02/09/2010 Museum of Haikou City, Hainan is open for free visits
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Haikou City Museum open for free visits in the period up to February 18, 2011. Museum of Haikou City is the largest museum of Hainan Island and holds enormous wealth of National Chinese art - bronzes, paintings, calligraphy, porcelain, applied products. Museum of Haikou City is an outstanding example of traditional national architecture. It combines skill and thoughtful alternation of spacious grounds, and the greatness of the state rooms, and amazing rhythms tiled roofs with curved corners and spacious interiors of houses with carved ceilings. Many are stored in a museum of precious monuments of art and culture are a major global rarity. The museum pottery and porcelain, paintings and calligraphy, bronzes, representing different historical styles of Chinese art that existed on the island of Hainan. Prominently in the museum is occupied classic examples of ancient bronze. The high artistic level, technical excellence, unique fantasy symbolic patterns and forms of ancient bronze set of Hainan in the number of the highest achievements of world art. Bronzes, collected in the Museum of Haykou City include ritual vessels, weapons, items of horse harness, musical instruments. The results of archaeological excavations in the Hainan Province of last decades, sometimes startling his surprise, concentrated in certain halls of the museum. In a separate room is a art gallery, where exhibits antique painting - silk and paper scrolls outstanding Chinese artists of different eras, who lived on the Hainan Island. Significant place in the museum devoted sculpture of different ages (II millennium BC - XX centuries). Monuments to give an idea about ancient burial rituals of Hainan Island, including the sculptural figures support the deceased servants and soldiers, it acquaint visitors with a statue of Buddhist temples, cave monastery on the Hainan Island. The museum also housed the exhibition of ceramics and porcelain, created throughout the history of Hainan Island, are presented and other products of arts and crafts: lacquers, carvings from the root of bamboo, wood and bone, sculpture, household items. Special sections devoted to fabrics and embroideries, from the second millennium BC until the twentieth century, embroidery designs of the Ming and Qing periods. Tour in the Museum of Haikou City may take more than one day. Thousands of people come here from all the cities in Hainan Province, to join the great cultural treasures of the past. Scientific staff and administration of the Museum of Haikou City spends an enormous and ongoing work on the restoration, ordering and replenishment of items, improving exposure and organizing exhibitions. The museum is open every day until 18.00. Get to the museum you can own, without the aid of guides, address of museum listed in the Chinese language in the photo above-just show it to any taxi driver in the Haikou. From the Sanya City to the Haikou City can be reached by high speed train, travel time is 82 minutes. Here you can see the timetable of high-speed trains:
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=555List of self-guided tours in the Hainan Island can be found here:
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