The world's first digital museum of Chinese-English Kunqu Opera settled in Cambridge University to demonstrate Kunqu art using VR technology

Recently, the "Global Kunqu Digital Museum" was officially opened at Cambridge University. The project was sponsored by Cambridge University's "Kang River Project - Protecting the Impending World" project team, funded by Jiangsu Arts Fund, China Kunqu Opera Museum (Suzhou) and seven Kunqu Operates.

Xu Yaoxin, party secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture, and director of the Chinese Embassy in Beijing, Xiang Xiaowei, and Stephen Cherry, deputy dean of the King's College of the Cambridge University, jointly clicked to open the Digital Museum. Mr. Shan Sheng, President of the Chinese Overseas Chinese Association for Promoting Overseas Chinese Unity, and other celebrities from abroad, Alan Macfarlane, a lifelong academician of the King’s College, Cambridge, and Mark Elliott, deputy director of the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge attended the opening ceremony.

At the opening ceremony, two young actors from the Kunming Theatre of Suzhou performed the selection of Kunqu operas for the audience. At the event, several artists were invited to paint on site and the Chinese Kunqu Opera was better promoted through the series of “Chinese Kunqu Opera in the eyes of foreign artists”. An ancient art.

In his speech, Xu Yaoxin stated that Kunqu Opera originated in Jiangsu, and later expanded from Jiangsu to the whole country and spread to the world. Jiangsu has the only “China Kunqu Museum” approved and supported by the Ministry of Culture. The “Chinese Kunqu Opera Festival” is also permanently located in Jiangsu. The “Global Kunqu Digital Museum” project has been supported by seven Kunqu national symposiums across the country and collected collections of Kunqu operas from China and Cambridge universities. The two governors of Jiangsu have sent letters to fully affirm them. The completion of the project is the result of multi-party cooperation and is a new platform for the global sharing of Kunqu art. This is another important achievement of the great golden age of the Sino-British era. A new attempt at material cultural heritage.

Stephen Cherry introduced the overall situation and major results of the 30 years of implementation of the Cambridge River King Program “Protecting the Disappearing World”. He hoped that through the "Global Kunqu Opera Digital Museum" project, it will strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China and Jiangsu in the fields of culture and arts, complement each other, and jointly make contributions to inheriting human cultural heritage.

Xiang Xiaowei expressed congratulations on the opening of the "Global Kunqu Opera Digital Museum" on behalf of the Chinese Embassy in the UK. He said that cultural exchanges are one of the three pillars of Sino-British relations. Local cultural exchanges and project cooperation are the new highlights and new forces of the Sino-British cultural exchanges in recent years. The opening of the “Global Kunqu Opera Digital Museum” is an important event for the cultural exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in 2017. We hope that this will be an opportunity to inject new impetus into cultural exchanges and cooperation between the two countries.

Mark Elliott introduced the collection of musical instruments, costumes, and props collected by Academician Lawrence Peyce, an academician at the Museum of Anthropology and Archeology, Cambridge University. He hopes to further strengthen cooperation with relevant museums in Jiangsu Province and jointly organize and research a large number of Chinese collections in the Museum of Anthropology and Archeology at the University of Cambridge.

The “Global Kunqu Opera Digital Museum” is the world’s first digital museum of Kunqu Opera in English and Chinese. This project takes Kunqu Opera as the research object, and implements an intelligent display based on the set of analytical research methods accumulated over more than 30 years by Cambridge University's "Kanghe Plan." In terms of video presentation, using VR (virtual reality) technology, users can use VR glasses to achieve the 360 ​​degree view of Kunqu Opera in theaters, theaters, and gardens. In terms of physical display, high-definition 3D technology can be used to enlarge and rotate. Multi-angle observation of Kunqu historical material; in the historical materials, the use of the latest digital scanning and repair technology, successfully repaired a group of extremely precious old generation Kunqu artists video data.

At present, the “Global Kunqu Opera Digital Museum” has collected more than 370 physical materials of Kunqu Opera, more than 100 performance and teaching videos, more than 70 research documents, and a total of more than 6TB of data. In the future, the “Global Kunqu Digital Museum” will further enrich the contents of exhibitions, strengthen cooperation research, and will actively connect with new media platforms at home and abroad, so that the results of the Kunqu Digital Museum will be applied, and the development of mobile phone-end adaptive functions will be strengthened. Enhance the influence and communication of Kunqu Digital Museum.

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