The Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou is a comprehensive cultural venue built to commemorate Tang Xianzu, one of the world’s hundred great cultural figures and a master of Ming‑dynasty drama in China. It is also one of Jiangxi Province’s ten major memorial halls dedicated to historical luminaries.

Learning Updates | Our museum actively participated in the “Becoming a Competent Cultural Heritage Professional” classroom session and the “Local Museum Curatorial Exchange” symposium.


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2023-07-01

 

 



To further explore pathways for achieving high-quality development of museums in the new era, on June 26, two renowned experts—Xiong He Shui, deputy director of the Nanchang New Fourth Army Headquarters Site Museum, and Zhou Guangming, editor of the journal “Southern Cultural Relics”—visited Fuzhou. They delivered a lecture titled “Becoming a Competent Cultural Heritage Professional” and participated in a symposium on “Curatorial Exchange among Local Museums,” respectively. More than 40 representatives from the Municipal Museum, the Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall, the Wang Anshi Memorial Hall, and the Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Center attended the event.

 

At the seminar, Director Xiong, focusing on the theme “How to Become a Competent Cultural‑Relics Professional,” offered suggestions and recommendations on cultivating professionalism, competence, and critical thinking. He emphasized that cultural‑relics professionals must remain committed to lifelong learning, broaden their knowledge base, enhance their practical skills and innovative capacity, continuously develop content that highlights their institution’s unique strengths, and leverage the advantages of integrated media to expand their outreach.
 


 

       Teacher Zhou engaged in a seminar on “Curatorial Exchange among Local Museums.” He argued that curating at local museums should prioritize the study of regional culture. Museums serve as vital spaces for place-based education and ought to mount more exhibitions that illuminate local history and culture, for people are shaped by their environment, with the natural geographic landscape serving as the foundational context. Teacher Zhou also emphasized the importance of conducting scholarly historiographical analyses based on museum collections and of strengthening the development of academic resource databases.

 


 

After the session, participants engaged in in-depth discussions with the two experts on a range of development-related challenges. This seminar deepened everyone’s understanding and appreciation of cultural heritage work, further energized their professional enthusiasm, and will play a positive role in advancing our institution’s future growth.