2016年CRI Chinese-American Auto Cultural Exchanges Advanced on Museum Day

 

There's no better place to spend an educational few hours than a museum. 

And if you are a petrol head, or someone who loves anything and everything to do with cars, then the Beijing Auto¹ Museum is the place to be right now.

Their latest offering examines the relationship between people, life and the motorcar. 

Michael Furman is an American photographer who has pictures on display at the museum.

"A lot of history of the 20th century wraps around the history of automobile². The automobile greatly changed everyone's culture. Its impact to politics, wars and the oil needs and how important Middle East became because of oil and because of cars, so the impact of the automobile goes well beyond transportation."

Furman has about twenty works being shown in the exhibition, alongside images from five other US photo artists. 

But the photography of car lovers in China has not been neglected. 

Yang Rui is the Director of the Beijing Auto Museum.

"People's love of cars goes way beyond international borders. Today's event is aimed at strengthening ties between the two nations in auto culture, and also enable China to establish a dialogue on autos with the outside world." 

Yang Rui believes the photography exhibition is a good reflection of the theme of International Museum Day 2016 – 'Museums and Cultural Landscapes,' through a full display of the development of American automobile culture all the way through to modern auto life in China.

Divided into five parts, visitors to the exhibition are especially attracted to the section named "the old miracle".

This fills American photographer Michael Furman with a sense of pride and joy.

"The photographs we are showing in this exhibition, I think, present a side of American culture that Chinese people have never seen before. In my case, that cars are from all around the world, but they are very unusual, many of them are from the 1930s. And I'm sure most of people have never seen them. And when people see them, they get very excited. We think of them works of art. These cars themselves are museums, and they are very expressive³ of artistic⁴ trends of the time."

What adds the significance to this event launched on Museum Day is that it also provides China with a reference as to how to involve, share and give full play to all the factors of auto society to achieve the green, coordinated⁵ and innovative⁶ development of people, car, life and society. 

The International Council of Museums created International Museum Day in 1977.

Every year since then, museums worldwide have been invited to participate to promote the role of museums around in the world, by organizing enjoyable and free activities based around a theme for the year.

For Studio Plus, I'm Wang Lei.

1 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

2 automobile   

n.汽车，机动车

参考例句：

• He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
• The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。

3 expressive   

adj.表现的，表达…的，富于表情的

参考例句：

• Black English can be more expressive than standard English.黑人所使用的英语可能比正式英语更有表现力。
• He had a mobile,expressive,animated face.他有一张多变的，富于表情的，生动活泼的脸。

4 artistic   

adj.艺术(家)的，美术(家)的；善于艺术创作的

参考例句：

• The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
• These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。

5 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

6 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。