Hefei Zimuyuan Museum
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The Hefei Zumuyuan Museum (Chinese: 合肥子木园博物馆) is a private museum located in Anhui Province, China. The museum is dedicated to the history of China and the museum also features exhibits on old computers.
History
The collection of artifacts and preparation of exhibits for the museum began in 2006.[1] The museum was opened on May 18, 2008.[2] In 2010, the museum was able to enter the top institutions with collections in Anhui Province. In 2011, the museum was designated as the first batch of Hefei volunteer service bases by the Hefei Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Volunteer Association. In 2012, the museum was designated as the fourth "Hefei Patriotism Education Base" by the municipal government and the City People's Party Committee.[3] In 2020, the museum collaborated with Tsinghua University Science Museum to launch the exhibition "Magic Calculations - History Exhibition of Computing Instruments", which featured various artifacts such as the Thomas Calculator made in 1866 of French origin and the Ordner Calculator made in 1866 of Russian origin.[4]
Colletions
The museum has collections of furniture made during the Ming and Qing dynasties, among the furniture that the museum exhibits are a Huanghuali Wine Table, a Namnu Revolving Table, and mahogany folding screens. The museum also has collections of coins issued during different Chinese dynasties, among the coins in the museum are the Song dynasty silver jing and the silver yuanbao of the Qing dynasty, as well as the coins of Sun Yat-sen. The museum also has Buddha carvings. In addition, the museum has collections of Chinese porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties.[2]
The museum contains a collection of computers produced in China and in other countries, such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Italy. Among one of the computers in the museum is a crank computer made of steel used in the development of the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" project, one of China's first nuclear and space projects. The museum also features one of the first commercial computers introduced in the 1980s during the late Qing dynasty.[5] One of the computers in the museum belonged to the Qiao family, who lived in Taiyuan and owned one of the most important trading houses in that city during the period of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the family had bought the computer to make foreign currency transactions. In 1919, Yan Xishan, a warlord, occupied the city and took over the Qiao family's trading house and computer to establish the Shanxi Provincial Central Bank. During the Japanese invasion of China, a group of Japanese seized the computer. In August 1945, after the surrender of Japan, the bank was renamed by the Kuomintang. In 1949, the computer was moved to the Shanxi branch of the People's Bank of China. After this happened, the computer was placed in the cultural relics market, where Mrs. and Mr. Liya bought it, then donated it to the museum.[6]
Gallery
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JapanReferences
"合肥子木园博物馆简介" [Introduction to the Hefei Zimuyuan Museum] (2019-03-21) (in Chinese) - HF365
- "合肥子木园博物馆" [Hefei Zimuyuan Museum] (2013-12-10) (in Chinese) - TW Businessman Affairs
- "合肥子木园博物馆" [Hefei Zimuyuan Museum] (2019) (in Chinese) - HFW.cc
- Zheran, Wang ; Hongwei, Si (2020-12-23) "回望人类千年计算史：运筹·机巧·掣电" [Looking back at the millennium computing history of mankind: operational research, ingenuity, and power] (in Chinese) - The Paper
- "全国首家旧式计算机博物馆 藏品贯穿300年历史" [The first old computer museum in the country with collections running through 300 years of history] (in Chinese) - KK News
- Ling, Chen "安徽首家旧式计算机博物馆开馆 来看电脑的“爷爷们”"[Anhui's first old computer museum opens for "grandparents" who came to see computers] (in Chinese) - Ah.Ifeng
