The whole museum was seperated into parts,each section is introducing different cultural group,different things like animals,insects etc. They were all amazing and discussing each idea in details.But the most interesting section to me was the one about musical instruments.
Here is some photos I took in that section:
The reason why I'm into this section more is because I love instruments and especially the ones that are made of wood. So when I went to this section I was like oh my god haha.
The whole sections included many kinds of instruments,but the ones that I digged more were the chinese ones which are shown at the photos above.
They displayed quite a few of chinese instruments,they are included: trumpet, sanxian, yueqin, lo, sheng, sana, pili and yangqin. Most of them are made out of wood, copper , brass, bamboo. Some of them even made of snakeskin and gut.This makes them look really causal to me,unlike the instruments that are in golden or made by metal. And obviously people use them for making music and melody.
I found these objects really attractive because I'm a big fan of things which are made of wood and look old. In the old days, the people who could play these instruments (especially the last photo) are mostly girls and the ones who are well eduacted.It was because in the old china, familes who were poor, they made their son or daughter to work which means they had no time on instruments or any other hobbies, and they didnt have the right to do or say anything for themselves, they just had to do whatever their parents told them to.
The objects are displayed in a glass box and I reckon it's a really boring way to do it. The lighting of the whole room was pretty dark as well and it was silent. If I had a chance to organise this room again, I would at least put some music on because it is a section about instruments, how could it be without music! right?! Other then that, I reckon for each section should provide photos or videos of people playing them.For example, the chinese section should provide videos of chinese ladies playing either of the instruments, from that people not only understand how the instruments ,but how the chinese people from the old days dress and they could know about more about the cultural as well.
Thanks Bernard, this is an excellent post! I had no idea that as a pop art fanatic you would also have a passion for old wooden instruments! You are truly multi-faceted! That's great!
ReplyDeleteThe way you could make this post even better would be to do some further research on Chinese instruments, and/or interactive displays. It would be great if you could find some images of instruments like that being played. But I really like your ideas! You should become an exhibition designer!
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