{"id":8050,"date":"2016-09-29T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T11:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:47:00","slug":"talking-museums-in-china-chronicle-of-the-tour-of-the-museu-nacional1__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/talking-museums-in-china-chronicle-of-the-tour-of-the-museu-nacional1__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking museums in China: chronicle of the tour of the Museu Nacional\/1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an unexpected way, both because of the lack of warning and due to the fact of being so far away, the Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya has been invited this September to go on a tour of three Chinese cities \u2212Chengdu<\/a>, Shanghai and Wuhan<\/a>\u2212 to speak about museums and digital.<\/p>\n

In two posts I will share a chronicle about the tour \u2013 the exhibition, the talks, the visits, and also I\u2019ll try to give a glimpse about what I was able to take away from the museums there. I cannot pretend in so few days to have got to know enough about such an immense reality, with more than 4,000 museums in the country, but I will dare to try to describe some of the characteristics.<\/p>\n

The first stop was in the city of Chengdu. Coinciding with the major Biennial MPT-Expo<\/a>, the Chinese Museums Association<\/a> organised a programme of talk and via Museums and the Web<\/a> the museum was invited to participate along with experts from the MCA<\/a> (Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago and the American Alliance of Museums<\/a>. The second visit took place in Shanghai, in which, pivoting around the presentation of the project of the new Museum of Shanghai University, the university, with the support of the Wonders group, organised a museum conference. And the last stop was in Wuhan, where its university<\/a> organised a workshop fundamentally aimed at its master\u2019s degree students to share experience of the Chinese and western museums.\u00a0 As well as giving talks, we had the occasion to meet with directors of various museums, which made the whole experience very enriching.<\/p>\n

The Museums and Technology Expo, Chengdu<\/h3>\n

The exhibition MPT-Expo<\/a>, the Chinese Museums and Relevant Products and Technology Exhibition, held its seventh edition this year. It is an immense showcase for the museums of the country and of the companies that provide services to museums and heritage. It could be compared with the fair Museum Expressions in Paris, today called Museum Connections<\/a>, or the MUTEC,<\/a> the International Trade Fair for Museum and Exhibition Technology which is held in Leipzig, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The expo receives an affluence of around 80,000 visitors throughout its four days. You can see cutting-edge technology in mobile, in 3D, in image research, in virtual reality, robots as museum guides, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Virtual reality iMuseum<\/em> developed by Multispace and Robot-guide of museums<\/h6>\n

Some characteristics of the Chinese museums<\/h3>\n

Of what I was able to catch, some of the main features would be:<\/p>\n