Sanxingdui Museum

🏛️ Architectural Aesthetics: A Temporal Dialogue Between Ancient Shu Civilization and Modern Design
The new Sanxingdui Museum, designed under the direction of Liu Yi, draws inspiration from the "stacking of three stars." Its spiral curved exterior walls and earthen mounds form the iconic "Eye of Ancient Shu." The contrast between the glass curtain walls and bronze sunshades integrates the mysterious aura of Sanxingdui into modern architectural language. The sloped earthen roof design allows the building to blend into nature, while the transparent glass display cases inside and giant artifact models (such as the several-meter-long reconstructed city wall) create a strong sense of grandeur.

🔍 Treasures of the Museum: A Millennium-Old Civilization Code at a Glance
Bronze Sacred Tree (Sacred Tree No. 1)
The world's largest single bronze artifact: standing 3.96 meters tall, with three layers of nine branches adorned with nine divine birds and a bronze dragon, echoing the myth of the Fusang Tree in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, reflecting the ancient Shu people's cosmology of "unity between heaven and humanity."
Stunning details: The dragon-shaped decoration at the tree's tip subtly corresponds to astronomical calendars, earning it the title of the ancient Shu people's "space telescope" by scholars.
Bronze Standing Figure
The king of bronze statues worldwide: 2.62 meters tall, wearing a tall crown, hands clasped around a hollow center, with intricate clothing patterns, believed to represent the high priest or ruler of the ancient Shu Kingdom.
Unsolved mystery: Did the figure hold ivory, jade cong, or a mysterious ritual object? This remains a hot topic in archaeology.
Gold Mask and Golden Scepter
0.2-millimeter ultra-thin gold foil: applied to a wooden human head and trembling with breath, a technique predating the Central Plains by a thousand years.
The mystery of the golden scepter: 1.43 meters long, decorated with fish, birds, and arrow patterns, believed to symbolize ancient Shu royal authority, challenging the "Central Plains civilization center" theory.
Bronze Eyes-Forward Mask
"Thousand-mile eyes" and "wind-following ears": eyes protruding 16 centimeters, ears extended, possibly related to the legend of Cancong with forward-facing eyes, reflecting the ancient Shu people's worship of supernatural powers.
🎨 Exhibition Logic: From Archaeological Site to Civilization Panorama
The new museum connects the ancient Shu civilization through three major exhibition areas:

Century of Pursuit: Following a century of archaeological history, it showcases major discoveries from the first find in 1929 to the new pit excavations in 2022, including archaeologists' manuscripts and excavation site photos.
Majestic Royal Capital: Reconstructs the layout of the ancient Shu capital through models and multimedia presentations of the natural environment, handicraft techniques (such as bronze mold casting), and power structures.
Heaven, Earth, People, and Gods: Focuses on sacrificial practices and belief systems, arranging artifacts like the bronze sacred tree and eyes-forward masks according to ritual scenes, complemented by AR technology to restore the ancient Shu people's "heaven-communicating" ceremonies.