Idled about wuxi

The new building of the Museum of Wuxi (Province of the Jiangsu, to the East of China) covering 6.9 hectars has been inaugurated Wednesday October 1st with an exemption from payment of one week during the days off of the gold week.

Situated to the south of the famous Lake Taihu, this new building welcomes, besides the Museum of Wuxi, two other collections museales that is the permanent exhibition on the Revolution in Wuxi and the Gallery of the science. The fact to associate to the Gallery of the science allows the Museum to present the history of the region by extensively more elaborate audiovisual means.

ancient funeral garment Of the visitors admires an ancient funeral garment composed of plates made of jade intertwined with the rope of money.

Open originally in 1958, the Museum of Wuxi has a collection of more than 30 000 pieces of which about hundred being part of the national cultural Heritage of Category I (equivalent of the French national Treasures). He is also specialized in the paintings and Chinese traditional calligraphy:  the region having benefitted from a cultural impetus importing since the 13rd century, it remained today one of the richest in the domain of the traditional culture.

This opening is accompanied by a free exhibition of Chinese seals of Li Lanqing, former Prime minister attaches in retirement.