Exchange between Chengdu Museum, the Vice Governor of Friesland, the Netherlands and Princesseh of National Ceramics Museum

Release Time: 2017-11-02

    On Dec. 9, 2015, a cultural exchange was carried out in the lecture hall of the Jinsha Site Museum, by and between the Chengdu Museum, the Vice Governor Klaas Kielstra of Friesland, the Netherlands and Princessehof National Ceramics Museum, on which, a delegation of 5 including the curator Kris Callens of Princessehof National Ceramics Museum, and Wang Yi, the curator of the Chengdu Museum, and Zhu Zhangyi, the vice curator of the Jinsha Site Museum, and some representatives of the Netherlands Consulate General in Chongqing and the Netherlands Trade Promotion Commission, Chengdu Representative Office showed up.

    The two sides first carried out a brief self introduction. In 2001, Friesland and Sichuan officially concluded friendly inter-provincial relations. The Princessehof National Ceramics Museum is the first porcelain museum in the Netherlands famous for its diversified collection of Asian, European and modern porcelain. The museum tops the Netherlands for the most abundant varieties of collection. 2017 is its 100th anniversary that the curator Kris Callens welcomes the relevant cultural units and museums in Chengdu a visit to the Netherlands for the celebration, and looks forward to the exhibitions of Chengdu Museum, Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum in the Netherlands by cooperation with the Netherlands Museum. 

    Wang Yi also expressed his wish to deepen the communication with the Netherlands museums in the future. Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum has been opened for eight years and successfully accumulated a lot of experience in cultural relics protection, museum operations. Taking into account the new Chengdu Museum and Qiongyao Site Museum are still in preparation for the future, cooperation on museum staff training, academic exchanges, protection and display, international exhibition and other aspects would be expected. 

    The meeting was a discussion on the preliminary cooperation between the Chengdu Museum and the museums in Friesland, the Netherlands. Vice Governor Klaas Kielstra said that the Netherlands Ministry of Culture strongly supported the cultural exchange between the Netherlands and China. The Netherlands Consulate will endeavor to promote the cooperation between the Chengdu Museum and the Netherlands museums to form a more substantive promotion plan.