Which fan museums are there abroad?

1. UK: fan Museum. The British fan Museum was built in 1721 and is located in the historic Greenwich, England. The London fan Museum has a large collection of fans. It is the world's first fan-themed museum and the most comprehensive museum in the world. The British fan Museum not only displays the native British fan art and fan culture, but also brings together many fans from other countries and nations in the world. There are more than 3,500 fan collections from the 11th century AD to today. Here, one can see upright lacquered wood fans from the Qianlong period in China, palm-sized bamboo fans in the Amazon, and round cloth lace fans in India.

In the British fan Museum, there are the most precious finished fan products in the world, as well as fan parts such as fan blades and fan bones, many of which are extremely rare and exquisite. The fan Museum introduces the specifications, materials and practical uses of each fan display, as well as their social background and historical status. It can also be found that in the history of human development, fans have formed various unique category designs due to different purposes, such as ceremonial utensils, fashion accessories, status symbol commemorative gifts, and even advertising gifts. The use of fans has changed with the changes of the times. A considerable part of the ancient fans were ceremonial fans used for ceremonies, or just aesthetic fans used as accessories. For example, the Xiangbo fan of the ancient Chinese court was a ceremonial utensil.

The British fan Museum has two exquisite pavilions in the early Georgian style, providing permanent and temporary display services to the outside world. On the first floor of the museum is a permanent fan exhibit, showing the public the history of the development of fans from ancient times to the present, showing the different types and sources of fans, showing the production methods and materials of fans, such as tortoiseshells and bead shells for making fan bones, etc. British fan Museum The second floor is the main pavilion, which hosts another temporary seasonal exhibition. The organizer sets exhibition themes related to fans according to different cultural backgrounds such as history, society and economy. This kind of short-term exhibition is held four times a year. During the exhibition, not only the museum's own collections, but also fans collected by the outside world will be displayed as needed. The combination of the two will complete a successful exhibition.

2. United States: Hand fan Museum. The American Hand Museum is located in Healdsburg, California, USA. It is the first and only hand fan-themed museum in the United States. The word "hand fan" is rarely used in Chinese, which can be used as a translation word corresponding to the English phrase "HandFam", which means small hand-held fans such as fan.com/Products/Foldingfan/ target=_blank class=infotextkey>Folding fans and round fans, and excludes long-handled large fans, so As a guard of honor, the lu book fan is not collected in the hand fan museum.

This hand fan museum is like a jewelry box. Although the appearance is small, the value inside is huge. Hand fans from all over the world gather here and bring culture and art from all over the world to Northern California. The American Hand fan Museum has a collection of Shui Jiu's collections, and also holds periodic rotating exhibitions. The exhibition uses the medium of hand fans to teach people about history, art, geography and other knowledge. Much of the work of the American Hand fan Museum is both educational and fun - bringing joy to participants of all ages The American Hand fan Museum was established to provide the public with a place for cultural learning and education.

3. France: fan Museum. The French fan Museum is located on the Strasbourg Avenue in Paris. This is a private fan museum established in 1993. The French fan Museum not only collects and displays all kinds of fans from the 18th century to today, but also includes tools and workbenches for making fans, as well as various materials used in fan making, such as pearls, ivory, shell bones, etc. The showroom is the Pigt Studio called "Beautiful Century". Originally built by two fan manufacturers in 1893, Hervey Haggert acquired the showroom in 1990. The decoration of the showroom shows Henry II World-era style: a huge fireplace, three chandeliers, walnut furniture, irises embroidered with gold thread on the blue walls, etc.

4. Germany: German fan Museum. The German fan Museum opened to the public in 1996 and is co-managed by Güntergrass Barisch and his wife Marie Louise. This is the only dedicated fan museum in Germany, located in Bielefeld, a city in Germany, in the heart of the old town. The design of the German fan Museum is exquisite and compact, and different types of exhibitions are held in the museum, which well shows the development of fans in the past five centuries.

5. Han Garden: fan Museum. The Korean fan Museum, also known as "Yunlin Origin", opened in Gwangju Metropolitan City in 2008 and is the only fan museum in Korea. The Korean fan Museum covers an area of ​​9,900 square meters and uses more than 300 kinds of wild flowers and water stones to build a beautiful natural ecological space. The fan Museum exhibits more than 700 domestic and foreign fan works, including not only ancient traditional fans, but also new and modern fans. In addition to the fan exhibition hall, there is also a natural learning space that reflects Korea's great rivers and mountains with potted plants, and a tea ceremony culture etiquette hall where you can taste tea in a traditional Hanok. Visitors come here to fully immerse themselves in the experience of various traditional cultures centered on fans.