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Qingdao Olympic Sailing Museum has gradually become a new cultural landmark of Qingdao themed with Olympics. After Beijing Olympic Games, Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center has turned to a market-oriented operation and gradually become a seaside travel-leisure model base integrated with sea travel, hotel-restaurant business, tourist service at home and abroad, diverse performance and large-scale life-size sea-view performance. Currently, Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center has been titled”National Seaside Travel and Leisure Model Zone” by National Tourism Administration and it is also the first tourism brand characterized with seaside view and programs.
The Olympic Sailing Museum, located at Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center, Shandong province, was open to the public on August 9.The museum, with an exhibition area of 4,000 square meters, uses China’s century-old aspiration for the Olympics as its background. It will showcase Qingdao’s involvement alongside Beijing during the course of the 29th Olympic Games in 2008, as well as the cultural value of the Sailing Games. Several exhibits, which were contributed by various society circles, can be viewed, including a large-scale sea view sand plan, wall-type sand plans, sailing elites’ statues and sailing boats.
Olympic Sailing Museum
Buddha Statue in Shandong Provincial Museum is very typical masterpiece of Chinese Sculpture level in ancient times
Founded in 1953, the Shandong Provincial Museum is located at Wenhua West Road in south Jinan (the provincial city) near the Thousand Buddha Hill.
The museum has a collection of 140,000 historical relics, 130,000 documents of modern times, and over 8,000 natural specimens. These cultural heritage spans from Dawenkou Culture (3500- 2500BC) and Longshan Culture, bronzes from the Shang (17th century BC-11th century BC) and Zhou eras (1766-770BC), and Bamboo Slips of the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD), right through to the modern times.
The exhibits in the Museum include a number of exquisite Buddhist carvings, stone seals and tablets from the Han Dynasty, and other agricultural objects excavated from Neolithic sites in the area. There is also a calendar dating from 134BC, which is believed to be the oldest one in China.
The basic exhibitions are: Shandong’s History & Primitive Society, and Fossils of Ancient Extinct life. Exhibitions on special topics include the History of Porcelain Art, Stone Figure-Carving, etc. Besides, the Museum has held more than 50 large-scale exhibitions such as Display of Shandong’s Historical Cultural Relics.
Works published by the Museum include: Dawenkou, Florilegium of Paintings Collected, and Chinese Ancient Coins.