Silver Cultural Heritage · 2020

Hanyangling Museum

by Biwei Zhu

Silver A' Design Award 2020 in Cultural Heritage
CLIENT: Wilbur Design Studio
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About Hanyangling Museum

Hanyangling is a museum exhibition design dedicated to the Han Dynasty in Xi'an City. The museum covers 1600 square meters on two floors, one of which is underground. Han Dynasty pottery figurines unearthed by archaeological excavation are displayed in cabinets made in three sizes. Spotlights are added in different numbers according to the density of the relics on show. Stone is used on the walls and grey plastic on the floor to create a calm atmosphere. Multimedia interactive areas and a reproduction of an archaeological site explain the culture of the period.

About the Silver A' Design Award

Hanyangling Museum is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Hanyangling Museum is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Hanyangling Museum is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: The theme of the exhibition is clear. It is based on the first golden age created by Emperor Hanjing in the Han Dynasty in Chinese history - "the rule of Wen and jing". There are various cultural relics of Han Dynasty terracotta figures unearthed from archaeological excavation on display here. These cultural relics have exquisite shapes. Through the exhibition design of this space, we can get a proper visual presentation.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project area is 1600sqm2 in total. It is a museum with two floors, one of which is underground.
Tags: Archaeological, Museum, Exhibition, Han, Historic
Production Technology: In the space environment, stone materials are mainly used on the wall and grey plastic materials are used on the ground to create a quiet and peaceful atmosphere as a whole. According to the cultural relics to be exhibited, the exhibition cabinet has been designed into three sizes, and different numbers of professional spotlights are installed according to the density of the cultural relics on display, so as to highlight the exquisite shape of the pottery figurines of the Han Dynasty on display.
Design Challenge: This exhibition project displays thousands of exquisite exhibits, all of which are national cultural relics. While considering the space layout design, how to classify the exhibits according to the information of these exhibits and create the corresponding visual atmosphere is a serious challenge. Because it takes a long time and is very complicated. At the same time, the exhibition requires a high quality of technology, to meet the safety protection performance of cultural relics, and to control the light reflection of glass to avoid the visual interference during the exhibition.
Research: Varieties of exquisite pottery relics are displayed by distinctively visualizing techniques and using powerful technical means, like multi-media interactive areas and reproduction of archaeological sites, which provides the ancient art heritages with new vitality, thus fully reflect the material culture, political systems and spiritual features of the Han Dynasty. The new exhibition aims to bring new visual experience to visitors and to help them realize more stories behind those relics.
Inspiration: Like multi-media interactive areas and reproduction of archaeological sites, which provides the ancient art heritages with new vitality, thus fully reflect the material culture, political systems and spiritual features of the Han Dynasty. The new exhibition aims to bring new visual experience to visitors and to help them realize more stories behind those relics.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2018 and finished in July 2019 in Xi'an City.
Operation Flow: It receives a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every day, and has professional museum commentators. Here, is full of the strong Han Dynasty traditional culture atmosphere, is helpful for people to study deeply the Chinese culture. In the space, unique visual effects and strong technical backstage support, such as multimedia VR roaming, archaeological site restoration, etc., display a variety of exquisite ceramic relics, making the ancient Chinese art heritage glow with new vitality.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Hanyangling Museum,2018
Image Credits: Wilbur Images