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| Beijing Auto Museum has always taken the “automobile” as the carrier, the “science, technology and society” as the core, surmounted the differences of brand, region, and border to describe the progress of science and technology, rapid industrial development, constantly technological innovations and the increasingly diverse products brought by the 100 development of automobile industry to reveal the auto mobilization and hommization. The collections are the important exhibition elements of Beijing Auto Museum, for which we have meticulously conducted the search and selection work and are in an orderly advancement according to the strategy to meet the needs for opening the museum in a short term and to constantly enrich and complete the holdings of the museum in a long term. The collection of the holdings, in accordance with the exhibition display outline, took the history, the technology and the future as the main line and expanded the scope of the search and collection to such six major categories as the formation category, the literature category, the model category, the ticket & card category and miscellaneous category with 21 sub-categories. By the end of 2010, The Auto Museum had had more than 6000 pieces of various holdings accumulatively including more than 80 holding vehicles.Collected automobiles are the important part of the collections in Beijing Auto Museum, which mainly include the classic vehicles in the development process of automobiles and vehicles that have important influence on the history of automobile development. Although the holdings of the museum can't fully cover all development stages of automobiles and all models of vehicles because of the limited circumstances, these holdings try to reflect the development skeleton of the world’s automobile industry and the rules of the diversified development of the automobile society: the evolution from the ancient horse carriage, to the old steam locomotive, to the single cylinder motorcycle to the appearance of the first world recognized Benz Patent Motor Car that has changed the way human travels. From the day when Ford Model T equipped the wheels onto the world to the panorama of the automobile society, from the new energy, new power vehicles to the concept vehicles, the development of the world’s automobile industry has experienced various changes from the power revolution to the “world-change machine”, from the technology development and diversified motor models to the changes and development of industrial patterns, all can be clearly presented through the collected vehicles.As for the logos, their ingenious design, excellent fabrication, their brand value and spirit conveyed are undoubtedly a kind of collections independent of the vehicles; Those old, original, embrowned photos from Xinhua News Agency captured every important historic moments of Chinese auto industry. Those books and magazines, broken but still standing in the windows, quiet but vivid, take people back to the times that have ever experienced.The gathering of collections is also a kind of rescue protection for the culture survivals of China's automobile industry. Those collections, comprehensively reflecting the history of the auto society and the history of Chinese auto industry, cover a wide variety from home and abroad, including Red Flag series, Shanghai series, Beijing series, GIS & JIM series, Volga series and a large number of literatures and data, etc, with a certain kind of universality and seriation.Here, we selected part of collections in Beijing Auto Museum to introduce to you. You are welcome to visit the museum for exchange. |
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