Chinese Grand Canal Museum is situated in the Gongchen bridge district in the northern part of Hangzhou .It extends from Jinhua Road in the east to Zhoushan Road in the south ,neighbouring the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the west .To the north ,it is the Gongshu district government .Besides,on the west side of the museum locates the ancient Gongchen bridge.The museum covers an area of 42,910m2(including the Canal Culture Square),in which the building area reaches 10,700m2.The general orientation of the architectural style is :traditional but not restore ancient ways. The buildings unfold around the Canal Culture Squre as fan-shaped,combining with the flat and slope design ,adopting Chinese ancient traditional architecture figures in the detailed aspect.After abstracting and simplifying,through distinctive opend structure style ,artully making the canal,bridges,ships and port as vivid exhibits according to its advantageous location.
The museum is mainly based on the first fool while second floor and the basement are also in use.The first floor is the section for museum's routine exhibition ,with four halls in all and an exhibition corridor .The second floor is mainly used as reference rooms,audiovisual rooms,offices and semi-scenery exhibition hall.
The exhibition area of Chinese Grand Canal Museum can be divided into five halls, That is:
Introductory Hall -Canals on the Earth ;Chinese Grand Canal
The First Hall-The Cutting and Vicissitudes of Canal
The Second Hall-The Formation of Hydrographic Net
The Third Hall-Cities alongside the Canal
The fourth Hall-Canal Culture
These exhibition halls display and introduce the abundant natural and humanistic landscape of Grand Canal by using pictures ,material objectives and models.
Chinese Grand Canal Museum is not only an ordinary and common-meant museum.On the one hand ,it is a large-sized museum which reflects and shows the Grand Canal's natural peculiarities and humanistic quintessences from omnidirection and multi-visual angles;On the other hand ,it is not only a center for the collection of relics ,documentary and materials of Grand Canal,but also the research and exhibition center of Canal Culture.Meanwhile,combining the function of Canal Culture Squre ,the museum is also a central pivot for Canal tourism and a comprehensive service center for tourists.So Chinese Grand Canal Museum can be described as a comprehensive canal culture center with multi-functions and multi-characters. |
