During this year's May Day holiday, various cultural and historical venues in Guangzhou have integrated their collections and organized nearly a hundred exhibitions and experiential activities, attracting a large number of visitors.

As of May 2nd, which marks the fourth day of the holiday, how many of these museum activities have you engaged in?

Unusual night at the museum: midnight visit to the Guangzhou Museum

Among the many exciting museum activities during this year's May Day holiday, the Guangzhou Museum's "Midnight Visit to the Guangzhou Museum" live-streaming event stood out with its creativity, attracting 40,000 viewers to watch the midnight spectacle online.

On April 30th at 22:30, the Guangzhou Museum was still brightly lit. After its usual closing time, a host entered the museum and gently knocked on the vermilion gate of "Zhongyuan Building" on Yuexiu Mountain, waiting for the arrival of its owner, "Mr. Yao". Led by the host and "

Mr. Yao", the audience had a rare opportunity to experience a museum tour at night.

Mr. Yao took the audience to appreciate various cultural relics, including the "big-eyed chicken", the main means of transportation for early overseas Chinese immigrants from Guangdong, the carved wooden eaves showing the "North Bank Guangzhou Pearl River" from the Qing Dynasty, and the hollowed-out blue and white landscape three-legged plate from the early Qing Dynasty.

According to the curator of the Guangzhou Museum, the audience's "night tour of Guangzhou Museum" offers not only a chance to appreciate cultural relics but also a rare opportunity to learn about the cultural stories behind them. Such activities have also made the Guangzhou Museum a popular night-time tourist destination in Guangzhou.

Exhibition at the Guangzhou Maritime Museum showcases Xinjiang cultural treasures

This year's May Day holiday saw the Guangzhou Maritime Museum in the Huangpu district become a popular destination for visitors. The museum's "Westward through the Yang Pass - Xinjiang Cultural Treasures Exhibition", which opened to the public on April 29th, boasts a wide range of fascinating artifacts.

The exhibition, jointly presented by the Guangzhou Maritime Museum and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum , brings together 136 exquisite cultural relics from various regions of Xinjiang from the pre-Qin to the Song and Yuan periods (Before BC 221 – AD 1368 ). It showcases the flourishing and magnificent cultural exchanges between the Western Region and the Central Plains over the past millennium.

The exhibition is divided into three sections: "Origins of the Silk Road", "Flourishing of the Silk Road", and " Buddhist Art of the Silk Road". It presents silk and wool textiles, precious documents in multiple ethnic languages, stunning sculptures and murals, luxurious jewelry made of gold, silver, and jade, colored pottery, bronze, and other national treasures from Xinjiang. Each artifact tells the fascinating stories of the Silk Road to the audience.

One exhibit worth noting is the replica of the "Five Stars Rising in the East Favor China " embroidered armguard. According to the introduction, the armguard was discovered in a tomb at the Niya ruins in Xinjiang. The embroidery pattern uses a mountain-shaped cloud as the foundation, extending along the weft of the fabric. From the right, there are two birds, a unicorn, and a tiger, accompanied by the inscription "Five Stars Rising in the East Favor China ", with two dot patterns next to the inscription representing the two stars in the five stars.

In terms of craftsmanship, there are 220 warps and 48 wefts in each square centimeter of the brocade . The entire pattern does not have color blocks and is woven in blue, green, red, yellow, and white, with the five stars pattern represented by these five colors. This exhibit is a replica by the China National Silk Museum .

The exhibition will run until October 29th of this year.

“五一”假期在羊城探博物馆，你打卡了几个？

今年“五一”假期，广州市各文博场馆整合馆藏资源，组织开展近百项丰富多彩的展览展示体验活动，引得众多观众前来打卡。

截至5月2日，“五一”假期已过4天，这些博物馆的特色活动，你打卡了几个？

不一样的博物馆奇妙夜：午夜入潜广博

今年“五一”假期的丰富博物馆活动中，广州博物馆推出的“午夜入潜广博”直播活动别出心裁，吸引了4万人次午夜在线上围观。

4月30日22：30的广州博物馆依旧灯火通明。不同于往常的准时闭馆，这一夜，主播潜入广博，轻轻地叩响越秀山上“仲元楼”的朱红大门，等来这座大宅的主人“姚官人”。在主播和“姚官人”的带领下，观众们拥有了沉浸式夜游博物馆的难得体验。

“姚官人”带着观众，欣赏了早期粤籍华侨出洋和潮汕地区南洋贸易的主要交通工具“大眼鸡”、清代“广州珠江北岸风情图”木雕封檐板、清初青花山水镂空三足盘等。

广州博物馆相关负责人表示，观众们“夜游广博”，不仅仅是一次欣赏文物的机会，更是一次了解文物背后文化故事的难得体验。这样的活动，也让广州博物馆成为了广州夜间旅游的热门景点。

新疆文物精品展：诉说丝路的动人故事

今年“五一”假期，位于黄埔区的广州海事博物馆是个热门打卡点之一。该馆于4月29日正式对外开放的“西出阳关——新疆文物精品展”，看点多多。

该展览由广州海事博物馆携手新疆维吾尔自治区博物馆共同举办，汇聚了自先秦至宋元时期新疆各地区的136件（组）精美文物，向观众呈现西域文化与中原文明交融下千年不辍的繁盛与壮阔。

本次展览分为“丝路雏形”“丝路华章”“丝路梵音”三个章节，涵盖先秦至宋元时期新疆精美的丝绸毛纺织品、珍贵的多民族语言文字的简牍文书、美轮美奂的雕塑壁画、奢华的金银珠宝、彩陶、青铜等国家宝藏。一件件文物，向观众诉说着丝路上的动人故事。

其中，展出的“五星出东方利中国”锦护臂（复制品）特别值得一看。据介绍，“五星出东方利中国”锦护臂出自新疆尼雅墓地。此锦图案总体采用山状云作骨架，沿织锦纬向连续铺展；自右边起依次有两鸟、独角兽和虎，并伴以铭文五星出东方利中国，在铭文旁还有两个圆点纹代表五星中的两星。

在工艺上，此锦采用1:4平纹经重组织，整个图案不分色区，均以蓝、绿、红、黄、白五色织出，五星的图案也恰好由这五种色彩表示。这件展品是由中国丝绸博物馆实施复制的。

该展将展至今年10月29日。

文|羊城晚报全媒体记者 黄宙辉
图|各博物馆提供
译|刘佳慧
责编 | 王楠