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In the 1980s, a collection of cultural relics was accidentally discovered in a hoard in Xuyi, Jiangsu Province. Among them was a vivid gold beast covering on a bronze ewer. The gold beast is 17.5 cm long, 16 cm wide and 10.2 cm high and could date back to the Western Han Dynasty at the latest. Its whole body is decorated with circular markings. It contains 99% gold and weighs 9,100 grams, which is the heaviest ancient gold ware unearthed in China.Through seamless collaboration with the exhibition designer,Relicase fabricated Automatic Diagonal open freestanding Display Case for the Most Valuable Treasures in The NanJing Museum.

Relicasehttps://www.relicase.com/ fabricated Automatic Diagonal open freestanding Display Case protect the Most Valuable Treasures in NanJing Museum.

It’s an Award-winning museum display case. The awards was initiated by Chinese Cultural Relics, Collaborative platform for industrialization and application of relic conservation equipment, and China Association for Preservation Technology of Cultural Relics. More than 80 projects applied since the nomination began in May, 2020. Only 20 of them was shortlisted after pre-elimination.

open freestanding case achieves maximal opening by DOUBLE-LEAF ACCESS technique. When driven by automatic motors, the opposing units formed by adjacent glass leaves separate in the diagonal directions, leaving one opening on the front and another in the back. 

Museum of Grand Canal (China) https://www.relicase.com/news-case_detail-id-360.html opened to the public on June 16th,2021. Relicase is honored to provide museum showcases for this major project in 2021.

This museum is summoned to commemorate the Grand Canal (China), the largest artificial river in the world. The Grand Canal (China) was designated as an UNESCO World Heritage site in 2014 for its longest navigable distance,  widest service periods and richest cultural value. The museum building anchors like a sailing vessel along the canal bank in Yangzhou city.

Yangzhou city, where the Museum of Grand Canal (China) locates is a key port along the canal. Yet the exhibits in the museum came from all around the canal. Visitors are introduced to histories and cultures of the whole grand canal in various aspects and at multiple time spans. The building area covers about 80000 square meters, consisting of an oriental style tower and a museum complex. The museum building is divided into 14 exhibition areas to serve the duties of relics conservation, research and exhibition, leisure and experiencing.

The exhibition objects include ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, stele inscriptions, ceramics, and metal ware.      

Relicase was assigned to design and fabricate display cases for several exhibition halls in this museum. To name a few: “Grand Canal(China), World Heritage site”,”Art epic”,”Forbidden City and Grand Canal”,”Emperor Yang of Sui and Grand Canal”.

It is hard to pick a star exhibit from the 10000+ objects. Each exhibit is unique and revoking, telling his intriguing story about the Grand Canal.

Take the largest exhibit in the museum for example. A 25.7-meter long, 8-meter high section of sediment of the ancient Bian River from the Kaifeng Bridge Site was moved into the exhibition hall. The overwhelming object stands up like a wall. Layers of sediment reveal a continuous history of the canal.

 Right: The section of ancient Bian River

The Wooden Warriors Guard Team of King Luhuang is a notable spot in the “Grand Canal(China), World Heritage site” hall.

Warrior figurines are lined up within a 9m(L）*3m（W）*2.5m（H）display case. Relicase made the case transparent and spacious, gives audience a clear view of the amazing arrays of wooden figurine guard team. 

5 sided freestanding case enclosing the River Guardian Sword.  7.7 meters long, slide open.

“The epic scroll of the Grand Canal of China” is the essential exhibit of the “Arts epic” hall. This scroll is a collaboration of 18 artists from along the canal, depicting stories and sceneries at the river sides . The 135 meter long, 3 meter tall scroll is cleverly displayed within wall cases. Wall cases are especially optimal for exhibiting large scrolls. Fitted along the hall walls, they leave space for center pieces while illustrating background narrative to the exhibition. 

Display cases can be either consecutive or scattered, as well as reallocated freely

 

“Forbidden city and Grand Canal” hall

“Emperor Yang of Sui and Grand Canal” hall

 Demountable case in special exhibition hall

Museum of Grand Canal becomes landmark of Yangzhou soon after its establishment. The opening of the museum brings Grand Canal back to the spotlight and greatly boosts studies and appreciations of the histories and cultures around the canal. The museum is also shortlisted for the world-class museum construction campaign in China. Relicase is really honored to be part of this event. 

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Henan Museum is famous for its rich collections of prehistoric relics, bronze vessels from Shang and Zhou period, ceramics and jade wares from several periods. More than 5000 pieces of its collections are rated first class or second class national relics. Among them, 9 national treasures stand out as star exhibits. Relicase was honored to convey perfect protection for those relics with our museum display cases.

Star exhibit No.1

Square ewer with design of lotus and crane

  Spring and Autumn Period（ 770-476B.C. ）

Unearthed at Xinzheng,Henan in 1923

This ewer, excavated in 1923, belonged to the King of the Zheng State . The vivid crane on its top, which is spreading its wings ready for flight contrasts sharply to the traditional over elaborate decorations on its body. It reflects a completely new artistic idea in late Spring and Autumn Period.

Star exhibit No.2

Bronze rectangular Ding with animal mask motif

Shang Dynasty （ 16th century-11st century B.C. ）

Unearthed at Zhengzhou,Henan in 1974

This Ding is the earliest large rectangular Ding discovered in China so far. It is of great importance for the study of the social system and casting technique of the Shang Dynasty.

Star exhibit No.3

"Fuhao" Owl-shaped bronze Zun, wine container

Late Shang Dynasty

Unearthed at Anyang,Henan in 1976

The Zun was excavated at the Fuhao tomb of the Yin ruins. Fuhao was the wife of King Wuding of the Shang Dynasty. When her tomb was excavated in 1976, as many as 468 pieces of bronze ware were discovered. They give convincing evidence of the highly developed bronze civilization of the Shang Dynasty.

Star Exhibit No.4

Bronze Jin with cloud design

Spring and Autumn Period （ 770-476B.C. ）

Unearthed at Xichuan,Henan in 1978

Jin is a table for wine vessels. Its body has several layers of cloud-shaped relief decorations supported by bronze stalks of various sizes, with twelve dragon-shaped animals climbing around and another twelve staying at the bottom as legs of the Jin. Of all the bronze objects cast by using the lost wax casting technique unearthed in China, this one is the earliest. The exquisite and complex craftsmanship of this Jin reached an amazingly high level.

Star exhibit No.5

The Jiahu Bone Flute

Peiligang Culture（circa 7000--5000BCE）

Unearthed at Jiahu Site, Wuyang, Henan province in 1987

This flute is made from the wing bone of a bird from the crane family. It is shaped like a long pipe, with a series of seven holes drilled in a straight line down one side. It is believed to be the ancestor of China’s wind instruments.

Star exhibit No.6

Mural painting of four animals in clouds

Western Han Dynasty   

Unearthed from the tomb of the King Lianggongwang in 1987.

壁画长5.14米，宽3.27米，面积16.8平方米，后经考古专家通过科技手段对壁画进行原样切割移至河南博物院。《四神云气图》位于墓室顶部，中部一条７米长巨龙飞腾，东朱雀，西白虎，四周由怪兽、灵芝及云气纹图案装饰。壁画总面积达30平方米，比敦煌壁画还要早600多年，历史艺术价值极高，是中国目前所见时代最早、画面最大、级别最高、保存最为完整的壁画。

Star exhibit No.7

Iron sword with jade handle

Western Han Dynasty   

Unearthed from the tomb of Guo Ji, Sanmenxia, Henan in 1990.

This sword consists of an iron blade and a jade handle. Studies show that the iron blade was even carburized. It is the earliest artificially cast iron object in China so far. The discovery of this sword advances 200 years to the history of China’s artificial irony smelting.  

Star exhibit No.8

Gold slip for absolving sin

Tang Dynasty ( A.D.770)

Unearthed at Dengfeng,Henan in 1982

This gold slip for absolving sin was discovered in the northern side of Junji Peak of Mount Songshan in Dengfeng County, Henan Province in 1982. It was given to her entourage by Empress Wu Zetian who was the only female Empire in China as a written message for absolving sin when she visited Mount Songshan in AD 700.

Star exhibit No.9

Sky blue glaze Ru Kiln vase with incised and applied decoration

Northern Song Dynasty 

Unearthed at Qingliangsi, Baofeng county, Henan in 1987. 

The Ru Kiln ranks the first among the five most famous Imperial kilns, or the official kilns in the Northern Song Dynasty. Each Ru Imperial kiln porcelain is a rare treasure. The Ru kiln porcelains handed down are absolutely rare around the world --- not more than 150 pieces in total. Among which, only five pieces of sky blue ones are registered. This one is the sole sky blue, incised swan-neck vase in the world. It is the sole object acquired by excavation; the most rare in the world; and without equal.

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Holburne Museum, United Kingdom , Relicase designed a long and spectacular showcase, with the help of illumination, give the best display effect. We selected material and design the appearance based on exhibits character when design. This small and exquisite museum holds the collection of the 18th-century collector Sir William Holburne.

The city's first public art gallery, the Grade I listed building,^[1] is home to fine and decorative arts built around the collection of Sir William Holburne. Artists in the collection include Gainsborough, Guardi, Stubbs, Ramsay and Zoffany.

The museum also provides a programme of temporary exhibitions, music performances, creative workshops, family events, talks and lectures. There is a bookshop and a café that opens out onto Sydney Gardens. The museum reopened in May 2011 after restoration and an extension designed by Eric Parry Architects, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The Holburne Museum is located in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Bath, Somerset, England. The museum reopened in May 2011 after restoration. The new building includes purpose-built spaces for temporary exhibitions, collections stores, teaching space, cafe, and visitor facilities. There is a bookshop and a cafe that opens out onto Sydney Gardens.

Upstairs you can experience themes of eighteenth-century culture through porcelain, paintings, and sculpture. In the impressive former ballroom, silver and china are laid out as though for a banquet, sparkling under a crystal chandelier, while glamorous members of seventeenth and eighteenth-century society look down from the walls. Just across the hallway, you’ll find the impressive collections of Sir William Holburne.

Museum display cases are invented to meet the needs of museums. The evolution of them inevitably goes with the development of museums. In this essay, we will discuss the Evolution of museum display cases  in four phases.

Phase I Conceiving period (3rd Century BC - 14th Century AD)

The temple of the Muses in the erudite garden of Alexandria, built in the 3rd century BC in the port city of Alexandria, Egypt, is the earliest museum in the West. The museum has special halls, research rooms, and exhibits related to astronomy, medicine, culture and art. It has to be some sort of museum display cases in this temple, but we are unable to restore them after all these years.

In the medieval, churches, monasteries, and missionary schools became major collectors of antiquities and religious artifacts. They took the role of museums, collecting and displaying objects. Museum showcases made in this period took serious consideration of structures of religious buildings, allowing easy access during display. Fig. 1-1 is an example of this type as in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Fig.1-1 St.Peter’s Basilica established in 14th century

Phase II Formation period (14th Century - 1680s)

During the Renaissance, collection of relics extended from religious groups to the wealthy. The development of navigation brought numerous exotic treasures and relics back to Europe, greatly boosted royal collection and private collection alike. Display cases were thus in great demand. The prototype of museum display cases was then introduced to collectors. Vitrines were divided in to several tiers so as to display more exhibits vertically. Besides display, function of storage was also integrated in this new type of showcases. However, since the collections still remained private, security measures were still missing in showcases of this period. Typical showcases of this time can be found in Fig.1-2 as in Royal Palace of Madrid

Fig.1-2 Royal Palace of Madrid

Phase III Early development of museum display cases (18th century-1950s)

The French Revolution in the 18th century opened the Louvre to the public. This marked the publization of museums. With the aid of Industrial Revolution, public museums witnessed a rapid growth. Uprising museums were founded here and there, inside and outside of Europe, in rising capitalist countries. Museum showcases developed in various regions bore distinct signature of the local culture. For instance, museum showcases in British Museum were made of wooden frames with glass panels in the form of traditional European furniture, which delivered air of classical and elegant. While in Metropolitan Museum of Art, showcases took the form of large scale glass fitted in simple structures, a typical look of contemporary style. Showcases in Edo-Tokyo Museum combined both. Transparent glass top plus dark plinth, a perfect marriage between chic and composed. Museums can also be classified into three categories by nature: art museums, history museums and science museums. Each category had its favourite display cases. Wall cases are commonly used in history museums to display series of artifacts in time line. As illustrated in Fig.1-5 British Museum. Freestanding cases are often seen in art museums to exhibit bespoke pieces. As shown in Fig.1-6 Metropolitan Museum of Art. Science museums usually held large scale specimen, thus required colossal showcases. As can be seen in Fig.1-7 National Museum of Natural History, U.S.A. The transformation from private collection to public display placed new security challenge on museum display cases.

Fig.1-3 Vitrines in Natural History Museum, Vienna

Fig.1-5 British Museum

Fig.1-6 Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fig.1-7 National Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.

Phase IV Rapid development of museum display cases (1950s-now)

The end World War II ushered in a new era of development featuring peace and development. With the rapid development of scientific and technological innovation, museums draw on mass high-tech achievements for their management, exhibition and research works. Museum display cases took advantage of the innovation as well. The design concept evolved from enabling visitors to appreciate exhibits conveniently to helping people visit exhibitions comfortably. Safety measures have upgraded from general securities to scientific protections. Recently, showcases even broke through the boundary of physical limits to virtual ones.

Fig.1-8  Museum display cases in 1950s Mutter Museum, Philadelphia

Museum display cases in recent Denver Art Museum 

Fig. 1-9 display cases in National Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.

Fig.1-10 Showcase in Museo de Orsay 

Fig.1-11 “Your heart” virtual display cases in Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

For museums, regardless of which type of Museum, he needed acertain display device will exhibit to the audience,all glass museum display case is a very high quality device。In 2006, relicase Collaborating with famous French interior designer Wilmotte Associés SA ； we was tasked with designing the permanent all glass museum display case for these treasures in Museum of Islamic Art, Doha 。

all glass museum display case range allows for complete all-round visibility.The slim frame on the top element creates an almost invisible all-round viewing for objects in a dramatic setting. Customization of sizes is possible with considerations for internal lighting which is mounted within the frame glass top. Accessories such as hanging rails and graphic backdrops can be incorporated as add-ons later. The case system comes with a concealed drawer for passive silica gel / absorb at the bottom of the case.

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Bolghar (Tatar: Болгар, Chuvash: Пăлхар) was intermittently capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 8th to the 15th centuries, along with Bilyar and Nur-Suvar. It was situated on the bank of the Volga River, about 30 km downstream from its confluence with the Kama River and some 130 km from modern Kazan in what is now Spassky District. West of it lies a small modern town, since 1991 known as Bolgar. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee inscribed Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex (ancient Bolghar hill fort) to the World Heritage List in 2014.[1]

After the museum showcase project to Museum of Islamic Art, Doha,relicase is honored to win museum showcase project for Bolgar Quran Museum

Our team fabricated and installed Freestanding standing display case in the shape of a crystal tent to protect the largest printed Koran in Quran Museum of the historical and archaeologi of Bolgar in 2018.

The largest printed Koran measures 2 m (6 ft 6.74 in) high, 1.52 m (4 ft 11.84 in) wide and 0.17 m (6.69 in) thick. The original Medina Koran, created by ARC Group s.r.l. (Italy) under the guidance of Nedjan Brataševec (Slovenia), Andrej Cernatič (Slovenia) and Mauro Loce (Italy), was presented by the Republican Foundation for the Revival of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia) to the Kul-Sharif mosque, Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, on 17 November 2011.

Learn More about ：Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex,Quran Museum

A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.

One of the goals of museums is to popularize witnesses of human history (the collections). To achieve this goal, collections are subject to exposure to the public. Therefore, museums introduced display cases to display exhibits in safely enclosed spaces.

Definition of Museum Display Cases

Museum display case refers to cabinet specially designed to store and display exhibits for the sake of research, education and appreciation. Distinct from ordinary  cabinets, museum display cases carry the important mission of display and protection. Each time a museum is established or renovated, large quantity of museum display cases will be manufactured. Museum display cases greatly boosted the development of museum industry.

Features of museum display cases

I. Professional

The objects museum display case serves are non-renewable and of great value of history, art and sciences. It is essential to meet protection requirements of these delicate invaluables. Thus the design and making of museum display cases demand comprehensive knowledge and techniques in protecting objects of various natures and in diverse needs.

II. Multidisciplinary

The design and making of museum display cases is a comprehensive process which involves multiple disciplines. For instance, museum display case is part of museum interior, and thus closely connected to museology. In another aspect, in selection of materials applicable to production of museum display cases, material science is adopted. Considering the objects museum display case is supposed to protect, study of cultural relics and indoors environment are associated. Last but not least, the display function of museum display cases is deeply embedded in ergonomics and aesthetics.

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桌面展示柜是展示小型文物的理想平台，具有易于接近的打开机制，高安全性和精确的微气候控制。它们也是近距离监视的理想选择，并且被博物馆，图书馆和档案馆广泛用于显示书籍和卷轴。顶部的透明玻璃罩可以通过气弹簧或电动执行器打开。

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Freestanding display cases specially designed and custom made according to particular shapes and dimensions designated by a client, they are optimal for creating bespoke exhibition under varied circumstances.

Freestanding display cases often come in the form of a tall cubic glass hood standing on robust steel plinth, which allows objects to be viewed from all perspectives. Therefore they are the best choice for displaying center pieces of an exhibition. There are plenty of accessing, lighting, locking, and environmental control options for you to create your unique showcase. Freestanding cases are adaptable to any location in a hall, and thus are most favourable pieces of many museums. Standard configuration of freestanding cases are steel plinth with powder coated cladding, aluminum alloy extrusion frame, ultra-clear laminated glass glazing, manually hinge open door, LED lighting, with mechanical cam locks. Settings are open to change according to your need.