On May 30, the Online International Communication Event “Daka China: Understanding the Chinese Path to Modernization (in Liaoning)” interview delegation visited the World Music and Culture Museum, located in the Oriental Water City, Dalian. While admiring the beautiful scenery of the waves and seagulls, visitors experienced the charm of world music and culture.

The World Music and Culture Museum in Dalian covers an exhibition area of 3,000 square meters and is the first museum in China to integrate Chinese and Western music and culture, as well as the first non-state-owned museum in Liaoning that has been awarded a national third-level rating. Here, visitors can appreciate the miraculous works of world music and culture that have withstood the test of time, listen to the immortal classics of Chinese and foreign music masters inherited over a century, admire the century’s ingenious masterpieces of renowned artists, and feel the magical charms of music and culture.

The museum is divided into eight themed exhibition areas, including Ethnic Music and Culture, Western Music and Culture, Organs and Pianos, Music Boxes and Phonographs, Musician Records, Radios, Sound Technology Experience, and Patriotic Education. The museum houses nearly 12,000 sets of Chinese and Western music and cultural art treasures and over 300,000 classical music records. Among them, more than 500 items are globally representative cultural relics, which showcase the complete development history of world music and culture as well as sound recording and dissemination equipment.

Since its establishment, the museum has been successively awarded the National-Level Excellence Project in the Music and Culture Industry, Liaoning Provincial Cultural and Scientific Integration Demonstration Base, Liaoning Provincial Cultural Industry Demonstration Base, Dalian Outstanding Popular Science Base, and Dalian Patriotic Education Base.

According to the founder and curator of the World Music and Culture Museum, Zhang Jingxuan, the museum has conducted in-depth exchanges and cooperation with experts and professors from Central Conservatory of Music, China Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, and other institutions. These collaborations aim to combine academic knowledge of music with the museum’s collections, conduct research and discussions on related topics, and promote the inheritance and development of music and culture. Besides, the museum has actively promoted in-depth cooperation with primary, secondary, and tertiary schools by designing diverse study tour programs and patriotism-themed exhibitions, to enable more students to visit the World Music and Culture Museum and explore the magic of music.