It is another cultural landmark in Nanjing. On December 28, Nanjing City Wall Museum was completed and opened for the trial run, offering visitors a new place to learn about the history of Nanjing.
The angular and modern glass structure is the largest city-wall-themed museum in China, reflecting the history and wonders of the 650-year-old city wall. It is not only a new cultural landmark, but also a display of the Ming and Qing city walls declared as a world cultural heritage.
The museum covers an area of 6881.4 square meters, with the building itself an exhibit worth seeing. Walking into the museum is a sense of history and profoundness. When preparing for the construction of the City Wall Museum, more than 2,500 cultural relics were collected, with the largest made in the Lichuan kiln in Jiangxi Province, a representative of the early brick kilns in the Ming Dynasty.
More than 700 city bricks are arranged in the space with dark background of about 4 meters high. They are like books on a neat circle of bookshelves. When you are here, you cannot help to be overwhelmed by such a scene, where you can intuitively feel the Ming Dynasty. The craftsmanship of brickmaking is exquisite, while the city’s construction is magnificent.
To revitalize history and increase interaction, the museum uses multimedia immersive images in a virtual “a Day in the Nanjing City” to “tour” the audience back to time to the Ming Dynasty, where you can experience the beauty of the quadruple city walls. Meanwhile, the large-scale sand table showing a full view of the Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty also allows visitors to appreciate closely and intuitively feel the charm of the Nanjing city wall. Besides, the “City Wall Memory” section contains the memories of the ancient city wall from more than a hundred experts, citizens, tourists, and others, enriched with modern technology.
