[2024 Beijing Attraction] Travel Guide for Tsinghua University Art Museum (Updated Oct)
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Address:
Tsinghua University Art Museum, 1 Tsinghua Park, Haidian District, Beijing
Opening times:
Open today at 09:00-17:00Opening Soon
Recommended sightseeing time:
1-2 hours
Phone:
010-62781012
Tsinghua Art Museum｜Bronze Grandeur of A Minor State
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Theme: Bronze Grandeur of A Minor State - Four Bronzewares of the Early Western Zhou Dynasty
The newly opened exhibition in September has many China’s national first-class cultural relics. The relics on display are very beautiful and worth seeing!
The exhibition of Tsinghua Art Museum has always been very high-level. Friends who want to see it can watch it together with the exhibition on the first and second floors.
Note ⚠️: Non-students need to buy separate tickets to enter this exhibition, which is separate from the general art exhibition. Swipe your ID card or ticket before entering the exhibition.
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Visit the art museum.
Tsinghua University Art Museum is located in Tsinghua University, Beijing. It was built in 2016, with a total construction area of 30,000 square meters and an exhibition hall of 9,000 square meters. It is a comprehensive art museum. The exhibits involve multiple categories such as painting, sculpture, calligraphy, dyeing and weaving, ceramics, furniture, and bronze ware. There are more than 20,000 exhibits. Recently, there are celebrity painting exhibitions and "Small Country Giant" (Suizhou, Hubei) special exhibitions of bronze ware in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, which are worth seeing.
Address: Inside Tsinghua University, No. 1 Tsinghua Yuan, Haidian District, Beijing
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Tsinghua University Art Museum
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📅Travel Tips:
🏨Accommodation Tips: Find accommodation near the subway
💗Other Tips: Closed on Mondays, admission fee required, but it's worth it!
There are general exhibition tickets and special exhibition tickets, and the special exhibition ticket includes the general exhibition ticket;
There is a special passage for entering the school at the museum exit, which needs to be booked separately.
Tsinghua University Art Museum (Tsinghua University Art Museum) is a national first-class museum[1] located in Tsinghua University, No. 1 Tsinghua Park, Haidian District, Beijing. It has a total construction area of 30,000 square meters and an exhibition hall of 9,000 square meters. It is a comprehensive art museum of Tsinghua University.[9][12]
In the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), the National Studies Department of the Tsinghua School Research Institute and the History Department jointly organized the Archaeology Exhibition Room. In the 37th year of the Republic of China (1948), the National Tsinghua University established the Museum of Cultural Relics and planned to establish the Department of Art. In 1950, the Tsinghua University Museum of Cultural Relics was established. In November 2015, the Tsinghua University Art Museum was completed. On March 9, 2016, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics officially approved the filing of the Tsinghua University Art Museum. On April 24 of the same year, the Tsinghua University Art Museum held a completion ceremony.[6] In December 2021, the official website of the Tsinghua University Art Museum showed that the Tsinghua University Art Museum has a collection of 22,915 pieces.[8]
On March 30, 2022, the Tsinghua University Art Museum was rated as the first batch of national science and education bases by the China Association for Science and Technology.
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Emergence—From Qi Baishi to Huang Yongyu
At the third floor of the Tsinghua University Art Museum, a special exhibition named 'Emergence—From Qi Baishi to Huang Yongyu' is being held. In this exhibition, visitors can appreciate numerous works on animal themes by Mr. Qi Baishi and Mr. Huang Yongyu, as well as works on animal themes by other famous artists.
In 2024, it will be the 160th anniversary of Mr. Qi Baishi's birth and the 100th anniversary of Mr. Huang Yongyu's birth. Both artists are from Hunan, born sixty years apart. To commemorate and pay tribute to them, the Tsinghua University Art Museum has specially launched the grand exhibition 'Emergence—From Qi Baishi to Huang Yongyu.' 'Emergence' focuses on animal themes, aiming to capture the artistic images created by Mr. Qi Baishi and Mr. Huang Yongyu, and to honor their evergreen artistic lives and immortal artistic spirits. Therefore, the positioning of 'From Qi Baishi to Huang Yongyu' is not focused on the development history of art, nor on the research perspectives of art history, but is based on a commemorative theme selection.
The exhibition hall mainly features the artworks of Mr. Qi Baishi and Mr. Huang Yongyu, gathering classic works from more than 20 ancient and modern masters such as Ren Bonian, Xu Gu, Wang Mengbai, Xu Beihong, Zhu Danian, and Wu Guanzhong. It also selects representative works from 15 contemporary artists including Pang Jun, Jin Yucheng, Wei Xiaoming, Xu Lei, Zhao Bandi, and Zhou Chunya. The museum's collection covers a wide range of fine arts including painting, sculpture, embroidery, ceramics, and metalwork.
Exhibition location: Third floor of the Tsinghua University Art Museum
Opening hours: 9:00—17:00
(Entry stops at 16:00) Closed on Mondays
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Adapting Forms to Function—The Tsinghua Collection of Furniture
A very distinctive exhibition on the fourth floor of the Tsinghua University Art Museum is worth a visit, which is the 'Adapting Forms to Function—The Tsinghua Collection of Furniture' exhibition.
The history of the development of ancient Chinese furniture is very long. Seating and storage furniture appeared during the pre-Qin period, and lacquered wood furniture from the Han dynasty was already exquisite. Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, tall furniture became popular with the 'sitting with feet down' lifestyle. After development during the Tang and Song periods, by the Ming and Qing dynasties, furniture craftsmanship became even more skilled and refined, with more scientific and reasonable structural designs. Chinese classical furniture entered its golden age, giving birth to the world-renowned 'Ming-style furniture'.
Ming-style furniture refers to furniture from the Ming to the early Qing dynasty that has a unified style characteristic of the era. This style of furniture can be divided into six categories according to its function: seating, sleeping, supporting, storing, shelving, and screen furniture. In terms of materials, it includes hardwood, lacquered wood, and miscellaneous wood furniture used daily by common people. In terms of production areas, the main ones are Suzhou, Yangzhou, Beijing, Huizhou, Shanxi, etc., among which the hardwood furniture produced in the Jiangnan area centered on Suzhou is particularly representative. In the formation of Ming-style furniture style, scholars played an important role. As stated in 'The Record of Long Objects', 'Tables and couches have their measures, utensils have their forms, placements are fixed, valuing precision and convenience, simplicity and cutting, cleverness and naturalness', which represents their general requirements for furniture. In terms of materials, Ming-style furniture is often made of wood that is hard, with fine texture, and glossy color, fully utilizing the inherent grain and color of the wood. Structurally, Ming-style furniture mainly imitates early architectural woodwork, with a frame structure as the mainstay, and the connections between parts rely mainly on mortise and tenon, with very few nails used. In terms of dimensions, craftsmen could arrange the height, width, and breadth reasonably according to the purpose of the furniture, and many designs are even in line with modern ergonomics.
The Ming-style furniture in the Tsinghua University Art Museum's collection comes from the old collection of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, which was purchased in the early 1950s under the care of the older generation of arts and crafts educators such as Zhang Ding, Pang Xunqin, Lei Kuiyuan, Chen Shuliang, and Xu Zhenpeng. Art educators such as Luo Wuyi, Hu Wenyen, and Chen Zengbi, who were older generation experts in Ming-style furniture research, used it for teaching and research, and it still remains a precious material for students to learn about classical furniture today. Currently, there are 41 sets of Ming-style furniture in the exhibition hall, mainly made of high-quality hardwoods such as huanghuali and zitan, among which the Ming ju wood low official's hat chair, Ming huanghuali square qin table, Ming huanghuali low qiaotou table, and huanghuali round chair are all rare masterpieces of Ming-style furniture.
Exhibition location: Fourth floor of Tsinghua University Art Museum
Opening hours: 9:00—17:00
Closed on Mondays
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Theme Exhibition: Seeing and Being Seen
Weekend study tours are crowded, it is recommended to avoid the morning hours.
Even with a museum ticket, you cannot enter the campus.
Take the subway to Tsinghua East Road West Exit C.
Enter through Tsinghua East Gate 4.
The souvenir shop has nice items, worth a visit.
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The Essence of Ancient Civilization in Shandong - A Journey to the East
In the golden autumn of 2023, under the guidance of the National Cultural Heritage Administration and the People's Government of Shandong Province, and seizing the opportunity of strategic cooperation between the province and universities, Tsinghua University and the Shandong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism co-hosted an unprecedented special exhibition at the Tsinghua University Art Museum titled 'The Rites Journey to the East: The Essence of Ancient Civilization in Shandong' - With nearly 400 sets of exquisite cultural relics as clues, the exhibition explores the origins, inheritance, and development of the Chinese concept of 'rites', uncovers ancient wisdom, interprets China to the world, and highlights the significant role of Shandong as the birthplace of 'Eastern Civilization' in the historical process of Chinese civilization development.
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The most beautiful early autumn in September, go to Tsinghua Art Museum for an exhibition appointment
☑️"Song of the Road: Tie Yang Art Exhibition"
September 10, 2023 - December 10, 2023
Third floor exhibition hall of Tsinghua University Art Museum
Creating a strong rhythm of color with oil painting: sometimes it shows a texture, as if you can touch the life.
☑️"Frozen Rhythm: International Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition"
July 12, 2023 - October 15, 2023
7th and 8th exhibition halls on the fourth floor of Tsinghua University Art Museum
Ceramic artists regard the mud in their hands as a medium for self-expression, like using oil paint and ink, after being reforged by fire, they form artistic works with different styles and unique styles.
☑️"Boundless - Yan Zhenduo Art Exhibition"
June 10, 2023 - October 15, 2023
First floor exhibition hall of Tsinghua University Art Museum
The exhibition is themed "Boundless", presenting nearly seventy years of creative works, including ink, oil painting, rock color and other types, covering styles such as realism, expression, abstraction.
Implement flow restriction appointment visit (tickets do not include entering the campus)
Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (stop entering the museum at 16:30)
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The Northern Dynasty is known for its Eastern smile
In the 1st century AD, Buddhist art originated in the South Asian subcontinent, incorporating elements from ancient Greek, Persian, and Central Asian civilizations. Buddhism spread along the northern and southern routes, spreading northward along the Silk Road to Afghanistan, Central Asia, Kashmir, western China, and the Central Plains. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589), Buddhist art underwent a transformation into a Chinese style and continued to influence the Korean Peninsula and Japan, forming an East Asian system of Buddhist statue style.
The early Buddhist statues of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) inevitably carried foreign characteristics, but by the 4th century, the facial features of the early Buddhist statues had begun to be sinicized. By the late Northern Wei Dynasty (the second half of the 5th century - the beginning of the 6th century), the Buddhist statues had been completely sinicized. In 534 AD, the Northern Wei Dynasty split into the Eastern Wei (534-550) and the Western Wei (535-556), which were later replaced by the Northern Qi (550-577) and the Northern Zhou (557-581). In 581 AD, the Sui Dynasty unified the north. The period from the late Northern Wei to the early Sui was a time of extreme social turmoil. The rulers, for the sake of governance, and the people, for the sake of spiritual comfort, was also a period of great prosperity for Buddhism and Buddhist statue art. The Buddhist statues found in several areas of Shandong are unique in the history of ancient Chinese art, especially the artistic achievements of hundreds of statues found in the Longxing Temple in Qingzhou, most of which have charming smiles.
According to the records of Zhang Yanyuan's 'Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties', Cao Zhongda, who was known as 'the most skilled in the Northern Qi', came from the Western Regions. His painted Buddhist statues were 'unrivaled in his time', forming the artistic style of the 'Cao family style', which was on par with the 'Wu family style' of Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty. Its characteristic is the 'Cao's clothes coming out of the water' shown in the Buddhist statues unearthed from the Longxing Temple in Qingzhou - the various parts of the body of the Buddhist statue (head, shoulders, torso, arms and legs) become organic, interconnected muscular structures, standing freely, with the chest, waist, and buttocks forming a subtle 'reverse posture', and clear, natural clothing lines, as if coming out of the water. This artistic achievement clearly reflects the development of the technique of three-dimensional objects in northern Buddhist art from the late Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and lays a solid foundation for the development of future modeling art. The Buddhist statue art of the Northern Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties in Shandong also influenced the Korean Peninsula across the sea, and indirectly influenced the 'official spread' of Buddhism to Japan through the Korean Peninsula in the 6th century.
The exhibits in this unit mainly include representative Buddhist statues from the Northern Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties unearthed from the Longxing Temple in Qingzhou and the Longhua Temple in Boxing, as well as sporadically discovered Buddhist statues from other regions, and some religious artifacts and secular statues.
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The Buddha statues of the Northern Qi Dynasty in Qingzhou Museum
The Buddhist statues of the early Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) inevitably carried foreign characteristics, but in the 4th century, the facial features of the early Buddha statues began to be sinicized. By the late Northern Wei Dynasty (the second half of the 5th century-the beginning of the 6th century), the Buddhist statues had been completely sinicized with refined bones and wide belts. In 534 AD, the Northern Wei Dynasty split into the Eastern Wei (534-550) and the Western Wei (535-556), which were later replaced by the Northern Qi (550-577) and the Northern Zhou (557-581). In 581 AD, the Sui Dynasty unified the north. From the late Northern Wei Dynasty to the early Sui Dynasty, it was a time of extreme social turmoil. The rulers, out of the need for governance, and the public, out of the need for spiritual comfort, was also a period of great prosperity of Buddhism and Buddhist statue art. The Buddhist statues found in many areas of Shandong have a unique place in the history of ancient Chinese art. Among them, the artistic achievements of hundreds of Buddha statues with charming smiles found in the cellar of Longxing Temple in Qingzhou are the best.