Chapter 0705 – Museum Opening (I)

People who live near a newly built development in the East Third Ring Road of Beijing City are a bit strange today, hasn’t the groundbreaking ceremony of this neighborhood already been held? How today and suddenly lively up?

And look at those who have not yet capped the tall buildings, also does not seem to be completed ah!

Some curious people went over to take a look to know, dare not property completion, but in the neighborhood next to a private museum opened.

In that museum’s grand entrance, has placed dozens of flower baskets, the name of the above private, public, such as the name of the provincial cultural relics office baskets, there are quite a few.

There is also a certain travel agency, a certain museum flower baskets, also occupies a lot of places, if there are careful people, can also find a certain ministry flower baskets.

However, this is very normal in Beijing, is not intimidated by those who look at the people, and now the root of the Imperial City is specialized in running this kind of doorway, as long as you want to, who’s flower baskets can be you whole, but also the other side of the recognition of the people can not say that these people are very powerful.

Of course, Zhuang Rui does not need these people to come to the scene, there is the face of Ouyang Jun in, still afraid of inviting people?

In the museum side of the parking lot, parked dozens of cars, are this time to participate in the opening of the museum guests to open, this will come early, mostly some young people, are gathered at the door chatting.

Zhuang Rui from Hainan back has been more than ten days, this time in preparation for the opening of the museum, but he was busy, basically did not go back to live in the courtyard, sleepy on the sofa in the curator’s office to sleep for a while.

Jiang Hao is also considered to be talking, do not know how he is with the local cultural relics department consultation, in the Yu’s major tomb raiding case after the closure of a week, the Zhuang Rui asked for the bronze tripod and bronze bells sent to Beijing.

Sent along with it, there are more than two hundred pieces of bronze, which makes Zhuang Rui immediately busy, heavily paid several bronze appraisal experts in the capital, even stayed up for several nights to complete this batch of cultural relics divided into categories, write the description of the work.

And the development of display cabinets, the layout of the bronze pavilion things, but also to Zhuang Rui to busy work, although there are Huangfu cloud to help, but also a few days of time, Zhuang Rui did not close his eyes.

Huangfu cloud this period of time is not idle, was forced to eat and drink with Ouyang Jun Zhuang Rui everywhere, will be the capital large and small travel agencies have run all over, spent a lot of thought, finally the museum is included in the major travel agencies within the scope of the line.

To know, Zhuang Rui if you don’t go Mr. Ma’s kind of membership of the road, you have to deal with these travel agencies, or else the museum’s monthly expenses alone, can make Zhuang Rui lost face green.

Now the museum’s staffing, basically have been all, a curator, Zhuang Rui is naturally, executive deputy director of two, one of which is Huangfu Yun, another is a researcher invited from the Palace Museum, for the management of the museum, very experienced.

Huangfu Yun also dug up more than ten museum professional fresh graduates from the University of Beijing, almost this year’s graduating students, all to lure to, I believe that under the leadership of the deputy director, will soon be able to mature.

Together with the previously recruited security guards, there are more than ten young and beautiful female interpreters, Zhuang Rui now under the staff has dozens of people, in this way, the museum’s monthly expenses, is also a considerable amount of money.

Dozens of people’s salaries, every month to hundreds of thousands of dollars, which does not count the museum’s repair, all kinds of cultural relics maintenance costs, if you add these, a million a month can not get down.

Not that Zhuang Rui can not afford the money, but all rely on private money to support, it would be better to dedicate the museum to the country, only break-even, is the correct direction of development of private museums.

Don’t underestimate those travel agencies, Beijing City, large and small, I don’t know how many attractions rely on them to feed, although each take a group of people to travel agencies have to commission, that’s better than the empty pennies not to earn, right?

Zhuang Rui now to the travel agency pricing is, domestic adult ticket price of 50, one meter two children below free, one meter five children below 10 dollars, sixty years old and above free of charge, with a veteran’s card and active duty military card half price.

And for foreigners, it is 100 dollars a ticket, this is not to blame Zhuang Rui heart black, he did this is also to international standards.

Because Zhuang Rui a few months ago in Paris, when the Museum of Guimet, to see those foreigners is this way to sell tickets, foreign tourists 10 euros a ticket, synthesized yuan, almost more than a hundred.

Zhuang Rui the attraction of this museum to foreigners, the biggest gimmick is the Picasso works counter, do not see the wall outside the museum now, Picasso that old man’s head, occupying a whole wall.

Zhuang Rui’s understanding of this matter is to open a Chinese museum and earn foreigners’ money.

According to the idea of Huangfu Yun, this time not only the major museums in Huangchenggen, Zhuang Rui sent invitations, that is, the three or four hundred private museums in China, Zhuang Rui have sent invitations to the past, the same private museums, but also to exchange experience.

And the domestic provinces of some well-known collectors, identification experts, also received Zhuang Rui’s invitation, which is another deputy director of the idea, this group of people in the collection of high reputation, and their relationship with a good, not afraid of no one in the future door to door “exchanges” collectibles.

“Jin old brother, you’re here, first sit inside.”

Zhuang Rui looks more like a groom today than on the day of his engagement, of course, today he is wearing a pair of lapeled old-fashioned robes instead of the suit he wore during the engagement.

From eight o’clock in the morning, there were people who received the post coming to the door one after another, and by this time, Zhuang Rui already had no time to sit inside to accompany the guests, but instead, he and Huangfu Yundu came to the door to greet the friends who came to support the wedding today.

“Older brother, congratulations, congratulations! This is a congratulatory gift from me and my teacher.”

Fatty Jin handed a thick envelope to the person who wrote the congratulatory gift on the table behind Zhuang Rui, and then went forward and embraced Zhuang Rui, whispering in Zhuang Rui’s ear, “Teacher said that he wouldn’t be able to make it, but teacher is coming to take a look at your collection in the afternoon.”

This museum is the name of the museum that the master gave the autograph inscription, originally Zhuang Rui wanted to let the master as a guest to participate in the ribbon-cutting, but the old man is indifferent by nature, but let the young apprentice on behalf of his own to come.

“I go to pick up the master in the afternoon, Jin old brother, you first rest inside, turn back after the ribbon cutting at noon, let’s have a good drink.”

Zhuang Rui heart a little regret, if the master like the antique collection of titans can appear in the opening ceremony, their own this museum and can add a lot of points.

“Elder brother Zhuang, you get busy first! I’ll just go in by myself.”

Seeing Zhuang Rui sweating profusely, Fatty Jin let people put down the flower basket and then went to chat with his old friend.

To put it in a small way, today is a gathering of the capital’s collection community, if we put it in a big way, it is a grand event of the national collection community.

Zhuang Rui in order to this opening ceremony, but the cost is huge, all sent invitations to the provinces guests, as long as the determination to come, are air tickets and accommodation all-inclusive, only this one, Zhuang Rui threw out a few million.

“Aigoo, Mr. Ma, quick please, quick please drink tea inside, I reckon you have to wait a while to come!”

Just sent away fat man Jin, the capital collection of a brother arrived, the same is followed by a few people carrying flower baskets, there is no way, now on the popularity of this, and also specialize in recycling companies, and so things are done, the banner above the flower baskets a tear, you can continue to set up the store to sell.

“Zhuang old brother, today is our collection of the world’s event ah! I have long thought of bringing friends from the south and north of the sky together, have not been able to do it, did not expect to be old brother you have done it, a small congratulatory ceremony, no respect.”

Literati’s etiquette is the most, in ancient times, far away to send Cheng Yi, and wedding, funeral business opening, are to send congratulatory ceremony, Mr. Ma this congratulatory ceremony to give is not light, the whole 20,000 yuan RMB.

“Mr. Ma, let you broke the expense, how can this be good!” Zhuang Rui hastened to politely say a few words.

“Hey, Mr. Zhuang, we’re here.”

While Zhuang Rui was being polite with Mr. Ma, a group of people carried five or six flower baskets and came to the entrance of the museum, the one who walked at the front, after seeing Zhuang Rui, immediately greeted loudly.

“Hey, it’s Manager Zhang! Look, just come! What’s with the politeness!”

Zhuang Rui took a look, it turned out to be Zhengzhou Antique City’s Manager Zhang Li Zhang, behind him there was also Old Qi and others, it seems that all the people who have a head in Zhengzhou’s antique world have come.

“See what you said, your museum opening, can we not come to support the scene?”

After Zhang Li commanded people to put down the flower basket, he walked up the steps of the museum, shook hands with Zhuang Rui, turned his face and saw Mr. Ma, he couldn’t help but froze for a moment and said, “You are Mr. Ma, right?”

After seeing Mr. Ma nodded, Manager Zhang could not help but get excited, this is a titanic figure of folk treasure appreciation, and is still considered young, in addition to those older generation experts, it is going to be counted on him.

Zhang Li’s museum, is suffering from not being able to invite well-known experts to sit down to appreciate, he came to participate in the opening of Zhuang Rui Museum, is also holding the idea of recognizing a few more experts to come, did not expect that this has not yet entered the door, to see a highly reputable experts, and hastened to go up and chat with Mr. Ma.

“Monkey, invite a few people inside for tea.”

Today not only the monkey, but also Daxiong and his daughter-in-law Xiao Jing, as well as Zhao Boss’s have come to help, the museum opening, “Xuan Rui Zhai” today closed for the day.

“This is really tired.”

Zhuang Rui looked at the table, but 10 o’clock in the morning, and the museum opening ceremony time, is set at eleven thirty minutes of noon, most people have not yet arrived, and then have to work it!

Behind Zhuang Rui to remember the congratulatory gift of Xiao Jing, see that this will be no guests to come, quietly said to Zhuang Rui: “Brother Zhuang, do you know how much money has been collected?”