The "Safe National Palace Museum" project has been approved since last April. It has been a full year since then. The state has allocated 440 million yuan in two projects for engineering projects. What progress has this year made in this landmark major cultural construction project?

On the afternoon of the 26th, Shan Jixiang, president of the Palace Museum, reported to the public through the media. For example, in the hospital, a three-dimensional security sprayer was upgraded. The monitoring system found that the damage caused by the wrongdoer was able to spray, causing the “bad guys” to be invisible and easy to control.

The “Safe National Palace Museum” project was proposed by the Palace Museum in 2012 and approved by the State Council on April 16, 2013 as a major cultural construction project. The project aims to comprehensively enhance the protection of the National Palace Museum's cultural heritage, display and dissemination, and audience service capabilities, to achieve complete protection of the National Palace Museum and the sustainable development of the Palace Museum.

Its main contents include the construction of the North Palace Museum of the National Palace Museum, reconstruction of underground material warehouses, infrastructure renovation, monitoring of world cultural heritage, new system of security precautions for the National Palace Museum, earthquake prevention of cultural relics in the courtyard, restoration and protection of cultural relics in hospitals and other seven subprojects.

Over the past year, on the basis of visits to research, coordination of various ministries, and expert demonstrations, the seven sub-projects have been launched one after another, and achieved periodic results.

I. North Campus Construction

Proposal submitted to Ministry of Culture

Shan Yuxiang introduced that the project proposal has been reported to the Ministry of Culture on the Beiyuan District Project, a branch of the Forbidden City, where high expectations were placed on diversion, exhibition and restoration of cultural relics. Currently, the Ministry of Culture is further examining and coordinating with the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments. Views.

The construction of Beiyuan District aims to solve the problem that the large number of large-scale precious cultural relics such as the furniture, carpets, huge paintings, and halogen instrument plaques of the Palace Museum could not be timely and effectively protected by science due to site limitations and the space for the cultural relics displayed in the courtyard is insufficient. The art of traditional cultural relics repair also creates conditions for the evacuation of ancient building space and for the timely maintenance and repair of it, and will be given priority in the implementation of the "Safety Palace Project" subproject.

The project construction includes the restoration of cultural relics, cultural relics exhibition hall, heritage revolving warehouse, multi-disciplinary scientific research room, palace horticulture research room, science and technology protection research center, digital forbidden city cultural communication room, comprehensive supporting facilities room, spectator services In terms of housing, the total construction area is approximately 125,000 square meters.

Second, the transformation of underground warehouses

Can expand 300,000 artifacts

At present, there is a serious security risk in the Forbidden City underground repository. The project aims to eliminate potential safety hazards in the underground material warehouses, increase the storage area of ​​the underground warehouses in the underground areas, reclaim and reclaim ancient monuments, protect the ancient buildings of the National Palace Museum, expand open areas, and improve the environment of the internal affairs office.

Shan Yuxiang introduced that, at present, the underground material warehouse renovation project has obtained the consent of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics for the construction project and the project planning conditions handled by the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission. The National Development and Reform Commission agreed in principle with the project proposal.

According to the current plan, there will be a total of three floors below the ground. After the completion of the transformation, it will not only eliminate the existing hidden dangers, but also expand the capacity of 200,000 to 300,000 pieces based on the current capacity of 900,000 cultural relics. By then, the capacity of the Imperial Palace underground warehouse will reach 1.2 million pieces.

Third, the transformation of infrastructure

An area of ​​170,000 square meters

Due to historical reasons, the infrastructure in the Forbidden City is backward and the layout of the pipeline network is chaotic. According to statistics, all types of pipelines are intertwined and there are as many as 17 kinds of species. This brought great security risks to the Forbidden City and destroyed historical features.

Shan Yuxiang introduced that the renovation project is to realize safety and gap-free monitoring and eliminate potential safety hazards. It is the anti-theft, anti-vandalism and fire prevention of the Imperial Palace and strengthens the need for effective protection and management of cultural relics and cultural relics buildings. The first phase (pilot) project is located in the southwest heat area of ​​the Palace Museum and covers an area of ​​approximately 170,000 square meters.

From May to November 2013, archeological exploration was completed. On February 24, 2014, the National Development and Reform Commission agreed in principle to the project proposal. On March 28th, an expert demonstration meeting was held to study and determine the location of integrated trenches.

IV. Cultural Heritage Monitoring

Monitoring the movement of termites

Shan Yuxiang introduced that the monitoring of the world's cultural heritage is the most important project in the National Palace Museum in the past year. At present, the Forbidden City has become the only world cultural heritage that is publicly monitored every year.

According to reports, the monitoring projects that have been carried out in the past year fall into two categories: one is a new project for 2013, including the construction of audience dynamic monitoring systems, termite monitoring systems, and lightning protection monitoring systems; the other is before 2013. Projects that continue to carry out work during the year, including the collection of basic information on outdoor furnishings, and the assessment of the status of outdoor display materials and their preservation.

Shan Yuxiang introduced that the monitoring system of the Forbidden City achieved full coverage. Fine to small termites have also become targets of monitoring. In terms of pest control over the past year, more than 1,600 termite monitoring devices have been inspected and maintained in the 150,000 square meters Termite Prevention and Control Area of ​​the Forbidden City.

The National Palace Museum also carried out environmental quality monitoring to monitor the impact of different environmental quality in Beijing on cultural relics. In addition to continuously collecting meteorological and environmental monitoring data, the monitoring center also established an exhibition hall temperature and humidity monitoring system to conduct temperature and humidity monitoring at the exhibition halls of 57 palaces in 19 regions including Shenwumen, Qianqing Palace and Qianda. In addition, outdoor display monitoring, lightning protection system monitoring, and heritage building monitoring have been carried out in an orderly manner.

V. Security System

Detected bad people will spray

The theft of the Forbidden City can not help but worry about the security facilities that were once lagging behind the Forbidden City. Yesterday, Shan Yuxiang introduced that 39 security protection system renovation projects were completed in 2013, and the wireless communication intercom system has been put into use. 70% of the total construction progress of the fire protection system renovation project was completed; the construction of the seamless encryption project of the security video surveillance system was officially started in April; the emergency command platform project began to be tested in the terminal area in April; the linkage of the police situation and the upgrading of the patrol system The project entered the construction stage; the project of the transformation of the high-pressure fire-fighting water supply system of the National Palace Museum entered the deepening design stage.

Shan Yuxiang introduced that the security technology of the National Palace Museum has been upgraded. For example, in the hospital's three-dimensional security sprayer, the monitoring system found that the damage of the wrongdoer was able to spray, causing the “bad guys” to be invisible and easy to control. At present, we have selected key areas for small-scale experiments. In addition, the upgrading of the alarm device in the hospital will no longer occur when the staff ran to the police to escape the gap in the last incident. In addition, the Forbidden City will also install a full-time technology defense system for cultural relics collections, and the effect of alarming and tracking can be achieved by moving the chips through the chip. The system has now completed the feasibility report and budget preparation.

VI. Anti-seismic protection of cultural relics

Intensive cabinet assists Zhenbao Earthquake

The large number of cultural relics in the Imperial Palace and the collection of 1.8 million pieces of cultural relics against the earthquake have always been a major problem.

According to Shan Yuxiang, the Yuhuage Building of the National Palace Museum hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology Development of the Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Seismological Bureau, and the seismic protection experiment of its cultural relics opened a window to the anti-earthquake of the National Palace Museum. According to the experimental results, it also proposes a shockproof protection scheme for some underground artifacts, ground floor warehouses at Ningwai Eastern Academy, and original cultural relics of Yuhuage.

Previously, the National Palace Museum has carried out anti-shock experiments at the ceramic first-class product library, sculpture library, seal printing library, and accessories library. The test results show that the intensive cabinets and capsules can meet the expected seismic requirements. After the trial was completed, the National Palace Museum proposed specific measures to improve the earthquake resistance of the dense cabinets. At present, the winning bidder units, in conjunction with innovative technologies, have produced and successively installed intensive anti-earthquake cultural relic storage cabinets in the Treasury of the Palace Museum.

Seventh, restoration and protection of cultural relics

225 pieces of artifacts

According to Shan Yuxiang, the “Safe National Palace Museum” project has been approved by the project for one year, and 225 pieces (sets) of various types of cultural relics have been protected and restored. At the same time, two copies of paintings and calligraphy have been copied by hand and 35 techniques have been copied.

In terms of technology protection, the Forbidden City protected Shigu’s “My Car”. Complete the evaluation of the cleaning effect of Qianlong Garden's stone cultural relics. The removal test of the Korean knife corrosion product was carried out, and the technical plan for the rust removal and protection of the blade body was formulated. The material, manufacturing process, and corrosion products of the human face copper armor plate were analyzed and studied, and a protection and repair program was formulated. We have completed the research and restoration work of more than forty holes in the “Festival” size. For the needs of ancient construction maintenance, the structure and composition analysis of various types of printed wallpapers in the three buildings of Fuwangge, Yuzhuangxuan and Zhuxiang Pavilion were performed; the composition of many samples such as Qianlong Iron Sword, copper mask and copper cylinder beast head was performed. Detection and analysis provide the basis for repair work.

In the future, bid farewell to major repairs in August

At the briefing on the 26th, Shan Jixiang mentioned that he will no longer "overhaul" the Forbidden City Palace. In August of this year, visitors entering the Forbidden City can quickly pass through the ticket, and the procedure is as simple as entering the subway.

"Our protective repairs are no longer on the house to expose tiles, only 'resolve risks' to dispose of, to maximize the retention of historical information." Shan Xiaoxiang said.

In addition, he also introduced that the current Forbidden City is conducting a trial of the new "brush-brushing" system, and ticket purchasers can buy tickets for the Forbidden City with additional anti-counterfeiting information in order to effectively prevent the infringement of fake tickets.

According to reports, tickets to the Forbidden City have been plagued by fake tickets. In order to prevent such disruption of the ticketing system, Shan Xiaoxiang said that he will launch a new version of the security code in August this year. “In the past, we rely on the naked eye for the ticket inspection. In the future, this ticket with an additional security code can be identified by the machine. Not only is it fast, but the purchase time and place of purchase of each ticket can also be detected by swiping information.”