A Visit to Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum with Google

Release Time: 2017-11-01

    A piece of News on Oct. 24, 2013 said that currently Google Arts & Culture was planning to attract more Chinese museums. Following Hunan Provincial Museum and Beijing Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum joined it scamp. Days before, users of Google had visited the Museum through its Street Scene.     

    By clicking the “Visit of Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum with Google” on the homepage, users could place themselves in a real environment of the Museum. It is learned that the project now is charged by the Google Cultural Institute. By comparison, uses could study the collections in the Museum and share it to Google+, Sina, Microblog and other social media. 

    From the picture below, it could be seen that the floor layouts of the Museum are allocated on the left side while the right side shows the Museum in details. Users may amplify or reduce the picture, or select any floor they want to visit. Besides, key collections are marked with a small black spot ahead for more information. Users may directly view the works from the pictures. 

About Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum 

    Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan, China is a key and the first archaeological discovery of ancient Shu civilization in the 21st century. The site, nearly 5km2, was then proved to be the capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom-the civilization center at the upper streams of the Yangtze River from 12th Century to 7th Century B.C. (about 3200-2900 years ago). Along with its discovery, masses of ivories, goldware and silverware were unearthed. The discovery of Jinsha Site is of great significance to the development history of ancient Shu civilization, especially research on the sudden disappearance of Sanxingdui civilization. It marked the beginning of Chengdu history and backdated it 3,000 years.