Ancient Romanian Artifacts to Be on Display in the Jinsha Site Museum as its 1st Station in China

Release Time: 2017-11-02

From January 2016 to January 2017, the “Eternal City—Splendor of Ancient Rome”, a joint exhibition of the Chengdu Jinsha Museum, Tianjin Museum, Shandong Museum and Yunnan Museum will tour amongst the four. On Nov. 17, 2015, the signing ceremony was held in the 1st station—Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, on which, Ms. Maria Criscuolo, the board chairman of Triumphasia, Wang Yi, the curator of Chengdu Museum and Jinsha Site Museum, Jiang Nan, the deputy secretary of Tianjin Museum, Wang Bin, the secretary of Shandong Museum and Dai Zhongpin, the legal person and acting curator of Yunnan Museum showed up.

It is learned that the large overseas cultural relics exhibition held by Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum in cooperation with other domestic museums would stay at each station for about 80 days. It has won special supports from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Special Superintendency for Archaeological Heritage of Rome, Roman Capital Cultural Heritage Superintendency and Tuscany Archaeological Heritage Superintendency. As a program co-organized by the CP Company of Italy and Shanghai Triumphasia Co., Ltd., The exhibition brings together 233 cultural relics from nine museums--the Colosseum in Rome, the Palatino Museum, the Golden Palace, the Diocletian Baths of the National Museum of Rome, the Massimo Baths Palace of the Roman National Museum, the Roman Parliament Square Museum, the Roman Civilization Museum, the Florence Archaeological Museum and Siena Archaeological Museum. The cultural relics include marble statues, architectural components, bronze ware, gold ware, glass ware, and earthenware, etc., many of which come to China for the first time. These exquisite artifacts embody the cultural and artistic achievements during the peak and glorious time of the Roman Empire, providing a good opportunity for the audience to enjoy the heritage treasures of the Roman Empire.

    Rome is also known as the "eternal city". According to legend, in 753 BC, the Latin Romulusin built a city by the Tiber River in Rome, which opened the ancient Roman civilization. Rome entered the imperial era in the 1st century BC, after the administration of the Monarch (753 BC - 510 BC) and the Republic (509 BC - 27 BC). After centuries of conquest and expansion, Rome developed from a small city into a powerful empire crossing Europe, Asia and Africa, and in the 3rd century AD reached its peak. During the glorious period of the Roman Empire, its architectural art and urban architecture embodied the essence of Roman culture. In addition to its artistic value, they also had a special functional use and social significance, to show us the different components of ancient Roman civilization. 

Ancient Roman civilization is both distinctive and open, and it has created its own unique civilization on the basis of fully absorbing the ancient countries of Western Asia, Egypt and Greek, and with its highly developed culture, politics, economy, and military, the Rome imposed historical influence and radiation on the surrounding areas in a long period, and even affected the development of later European culture and art. When the Roman Empire dominated the West, the Qin and Han empires were also the head of the East. In the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian visited the Western Regions, and opened the prelude to the East and West cultural exchanges. The extension of the Silk Road has become a link between China and Rome, which never ended from Han, Tang to Yuan and Ming Dynasties. So far, China and Italy's international cultural exchanges have become more frequent.

In order to make the majority of Chinese audiences feel the splendor of ancient Roman civilization, the contents of the exhibition will be planned professionally by the Italian archaeological experts, and the form of the exhibition will be completed together by the Italian design team and Chinese professionals. The exhibition will not only display a large number of fine sculptures and architectural components related to the important buildings of the Roman Empire, such as the Colosseum, the Golden Palace, the Pantheon, and the Constantine Arc de Triomphe, etc., but also will design a time travel shuttling among the famous Romanian architectures by using a large number of 3D images and multimedia. By using the clues of the important events in the history of the Roman Empire, the design will connect the Roman emperors and the characters with the commemorative buildings they built. And through the display of fine cultural relics, the Roman Empire's politics, economy, military, social life are linked together, presenting the Chinese audience with a magnificent picture of the Roman Empire, showing its brilliant artistic and cultural achievements, and bringing a refreshing and new experience for the audience