After nearly a year of intense construction, the Wenchuan Earthquake Museum has been formally completed in Anren Township in Dayi County, Sichuan Province. Reporters learned that the original scheduled time of 2:28 pm on May 12 for the opening of the museum, has been moved up to May 11.
The exhibition halls of the museum are 6,000 square meters in total area, and were designed by a team led by Li Gang, a designer in the Chinese team of the multiparty design group for the Bird's Nest of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
"The goal of building an earthquake museum is to let the painful memories of those tragedies live and the national spirit that was showcased during them." According to relevant officials of the Jianchuan Museum, a total of 30 million yuan was consumed toward the construction of the Wenchuan Earthquake Museum. In designing the museum, material objects closely related to the earthquake were collected and arranged in the form of a diary so that the events that occurred everyday within a one-month period, lasting from the day on which the earthquake struck until June 12, in those disaster-hit areas would be truly recorded. Over 30 exhibition halls, including a shocking May 12 to June 12 diary hall, a hall for works of fine arts related to the earthquake, a popular science seismic hall as well as other items including material objects, photos and texts and profoundly touching reproduced scenes that appeared during the earthquake relief process.
Shown at the museum in the largest quantity are photo exhibits depicting scenes of the earthquake sites. In addition, the material objects on display in the museum that are related to the earthquake include earthquake ruins and articles for daily use that look horrible on sight, table clocks that forever record the time when the earthquake struck, an armored money truck crushed flat by rolling stones, and students' diaries, schoolbags, shoes and other articles for work and study dug out from the rubble. Reporters also saw the empty Coke can from which the "Coke Boy," Xue Xiao had drank from with his personal signature placed on it. Among dozens of thousands of material objects related to the earthquake collected for the museum, the loudspeaker Premier Wen Jiabao once used in directing the disaster relief efforts as well as the military maps he used while riding on a helicopter among other things, are extremely noticeable.
By People's Daily Online
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