The Grand Canal Museum is a cylindrical building with a radius of about 40 meters, an area of about 5,000 square meters on the first floor, two floors underground and four floors above ground.After entering the gate of the museum, the first thing is a large room about 30 meters long and 15 meters wide, which is the isolation area of the museum.On both sides of this isolation area, there are stairwells and elevators, but the stairwells and elevators here can only go down and not up, and they are guarded, and there are two fully enclosed stainless steel fences between them and the isolation area.At the other end of the hall on the first floor, directly opposite the main entrance, there are also stairwells and elevators, and after visiting the first floor, visitors can go up the stairwell from that side or take the elevator upstairs to continue their tour, and once the tour is complete, they can go down from these two stairwells in the quarantine area and go straight out through the exit.There are 10 large code lockers against the walls of this quarantine area, and visitors are not allowed to bring anything like packages when entering the museum, which need to be stored in these lockers.On the other side of the quarantine area, there are fifteen security gates, each with a uniformed security guard holding a metal detector on each side of the gate.Visitors who want to enter the museum must pass through one of the 15 security gates and then pass through a security check before they can enter the museum.After exiting the security gate in the quarantine area, there is a huge welcome wall with the words "Drink you from the Grand Canal Museum" written in large gold letters.In front of this welcome wall is an isolated area with a radius of about five meters, and the perimeter of this area is separated by a stainless steel fence, in which stand four armed police soldiers with loaded guns and four large and two small bulletproof glass cabinets.Among the two large bulletproof glass cabinets on both sides, there are two "gold and silver mountains" with gold and silver!
These two gold and silver mountains were built by Yang Jing with those gold ingots and silver ingots in Mu Tianbo's treasures, which are pyramid-shaped, about two meters high, and exude the unique and moving brilliance of gold and silver under the illumination of spotlights.And in the two bulletproof glass cases between the two gold and silver mountains, there is a jade seal and four fossilized skulls.What the four armed policemen protected was not the two gold and silver mountains, but the jade seal of the country and the skull of the Pekingese.The area in front of the welcome wall is large enough and is the entrance to the museum, so that visitors who enter will see the two gold and silver mountains at first glance, as well as the jade seal of the country and the four Peking skull flowers and stones placed together.Just the two gold and silver mountains that enter the door are enough to make people marvel, this is the Ming Dynasty gold ingots and silver ingots, the value of gold and silver itself is not to mention, just this heavy history, it is enough to make the value of these two gold and silver mountains increase greatly.As for the heirloom jade seal and the Peking skull flower stone, not to mention, that is the most attractive treasure of the town.So, even if the area between the welcome wall and the security gate is large enough, it is still the most visited place.If it weren't for the dozens of security guards to maintain order, I'm afraid this place would have been chaotic a long time ago.However, there are enough security guards here, and under the guidance of the security guards, many reluctant tourists can only slowly divert to other exhibition halls.The four floors of the Grand Canal Museum are divided into ten exhibition halls, namely the Western Art Hall, the Miscellaneous Hall, the Jade Hall, the Furniture Hall, the Inscription Hall, the Calligraphy Hall, the Ancient Painting Hall, the Ceramics Hall, the Literature Hall, and the Gold and Silver Hall.The first floor involves entrances and exits as well as office areas, so there is only one Western art gallery on the first floor, while the other nine galleries are spread over the second, third, and fourth floors, with three sitting galleries on the first floor.The Western Art Hall is self-evident, and it is natural to place the treasures that Yang Jing obtained from several treasures abroad, as well as the antique artworks that Old Mike has bought from all over the world over the years.The reason why this exhibition hall is arranged on the first floor is because of the large number of exhibits, and the other is that none of the exhibits on display in this exhibition hall are not high-quality.The status of the three bronze sculptures is naturally self-evident; Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Cézanne, Ingres, Rusborn, Rembrandt, Monet, Repin and a series of other masters who are familiar to even Orientals are absolutely eye-catching; And Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Hugo and a series of original manuscripts of Western writers, put them on display, which can make people's hearts beat faster; There is also the set of golden imperial armor of King Philip V of Spain, the golden mask and golden scepter of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the scepter that Catherine the Great held when he ascended the throne, the Fabergé eggs of the Chinese zodiac that have almost never been heard of, and those gold coins worth tens or even millions of dollars with a single gold coin are all existences that can make people's eyes stare out.Even if these things are placed in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum or the British Museum, they are definitely the treasures of the museum, so that all the Chinese people who see these treasures breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts.At that time, the Westerners relied on the strength of the ships and guns to rob tens of millions of treasures in our China, and then the descendants of these robbers put these looted treasures in major museums in a grand manner, which made the Chinese people so sad.If you want to come back, protest will not have any effect at all.Who the hell can not be angry!
But now, those treasures that are enough to be regarded as national treasures by Westerners are so grandly placed in this Grand Canal Museum, you can imagine what kind of mood those foreigners will feel when they see it.Among the tourists who came to visit today, there were many blond-haired and blue-eyed crooked nuts, and when they looked at the excited and frustrated expressions of these crooked nuts, the surrounding Chinese tourists felt relieved.In addition to the more than 30 female receptionists in the Western art hall, there are also interpretive nameplates in front of these exhibits on display, such as the nameplate in front of Leonardo da Vinci's "Lida and the Swan" oil painting, which not only tells the visitors that this painting is a favorite painting of Leonardo da Vinci's life, but also says that this painting has been missing for hundreds of years, and the "Lida and the Swan" is now in the Uffizi Museum in Florence, Italy, which is just a later imitation.But even that imitation is priceless, not to mention the original Da Vinci painting, its value is definitely not below the painting "Mona Lisa's Smile", after all, this painting is Leonardo da Vinci's favorite painting.Tourists in China may not know the value of this painting, but thanks to the explosion of information, domestic tourists are well aware of Leonardo da Vinci's status in the Western art world.The value of this kind of genuine painting of a character at the level of a handle is absolutely remarkable.Among the tourists who came to visit today, there were many foreign cultural relics experts, and their eyes almost popped out when they saw this painting.Whether it is the authenticity of the painting is unknown to them is unknown, but the artistic conception of this painting can be felt by any expert of them, and there is an oil painting next to it that has never been heard of, and the nameplate says that this painting is also the original work of Leonardo da Vinci.The result is now recognized that Leonardo da Vinci painted 22 paintings and 2 frescoes in his lifetime, but these are preserved works and imitations of the originals.But whether Leonardo da Vinci had any other paintings, no one knows.And if this oil painting, titled "Portrait of a Sculptor", is really the original work created by Leonardo da Vinci, then its archaeological value is really difficult to measure.And similar to this unheard of "Portrait of a Sculptor", there are many more in this gallery, such as Raphael's two oil paintings, which have never been heard of before.Raphael was a prolific painter, and in his short life of thirty-seven years, he created more than 300 paintings, most of which were lost, and only 114 paintings survive.The two paintings on display here have never been heard of before, and if they are really Raphael's original paintings, then their value is incalculable.There are many more cases like this in this exhibition hall, and those dozen or so oil paintings have already stunned these foreign experts, and when they see those three bronze sculptures, they are almost completely stupid.It is estimated that these foreign experts originally just wanted to take a look at the most precious treasure of the town in China, but they did not expect to see so many treasures in this small museum, which is not large.That's right, for foreigners, except for heavy weapons such as the heirloom jade seal and the Peking skull flower stone, there are not many things in Huaxia that can arouse his interest.But here they see a treasure that they can't even see in the Western world.For them, the antique artworks of the Western world are the most precious, and this small museum has so many unheard of antique artworks on display at once, these foreign experts are not like crazy?
So, they didn't even bother to visit the exhibits upstairs, so they hurriedly found a female receptionist who specialized in narrating and asked to meet with the curator of the museum.When foreign friends have requests, the receptionist will naturally not refuse, so in the office, Yang Jing and Wang Jiazan met more than a dozen blonde and blue-eyed foreigners.These foreigners are very smart, they are all experts in the industry, and they naturally know that since these exhibits can be displayed here, the origin is naturally no problem.At the very least, the exhibits weren't stolen goods, because even they hadn't heard of the exhibits, and no museum or private collector in the Western world had called the police to say they had lost anything.So, they just want to know if these unheard of exhibits are authentic.For this kind of problem, Yang Jing has long been prepared."
If you want to know if these exhibits are genuine, you can ask experts from your respective countries to come and identify them, and I personally welcome experts from all over the world to identify these treasures.But what I can tell you is that these treasures are real!
”As soon as these words came out, the more than a dozen foreign experts immediately took out their mobile phones and started calling, because photography was forbidden in the museum, so Yang Jing also took out the high-definition photos taken in advance for them to take them, and then sent them back to their country.Yang Jing also wants to take this opportunity to make the Grand Canal Museum famous all over the world!