張之洞與武漢博物館坐落於武漢市漢陽區，建築面積7200多平方米，其中展覽可用面積約6200多平方米。博物館建築主體於2014年建造完成，由著名建築師丹尼爾·李伯斯金擔綱建築設計。2016年萬科集團委託北京直徑敘事負責總體策展與展覽設計，前後耗時近三年。
The Museum of Zhang Zhidong in Wuhan is located in Hanyang District, Wuhan city, with a building area of more than 7200 square meters, of which the exhibition area is about 6200 square meters. The main architectural structure was completed in 2014 and designed by renowned architect Daniel Liebeskind. In 2016, Vanke entrusted Diameter Narrative Design Studio with curation and exhibition design, which took nearly three years.
▼張之洞與武漢博物館建築外景，exterior view of the Museum of Zhang Zhidong in Wuhan ©直徑敘事工作室
在武漢大大小小的博物館裡，擠滿了有關張之洞的資料與訴說。在這片土地上重新建立一座有關張之洞的博物館，似乎顯得累贅且多餘。如何重新敘述這個已經被無數人講述過的歷史議題？至少，再多上一堂評論張之洞功過是非的“歷史課”，是既無價值也無必要的。直徑敘事在張之洞與武漢博物館的內部展覽設計之中，開啟了一套全新的敘事視角。
There have been so many materials about Zhang Zhidong in several museums of Wuhan. It appears that another museum of Zhang Zhidong is cumbersome and redundant on this land. How to retell a historical issue that has been told by countless people? At the very least, one more “history lesson” on Zhang Zhidong’s merits is neither worthwhile nor necessary. By the design of the internal exhibition of the Museum of Zhang Zhidong in Wuhan, the Diameter Narrative Design Studio opens a new set of narrative perspectives.
▼入口處的張之洞銅像與生平年表，the bronze statue of Zhang Zhidong and his life chronology ©直徑敘事工作室
立足現在的立場上回看歷史，我們仍可以看到張之洞在武漢時期的業績一直延續至今。他所在的那段武漢的歲月，經歷著城市的現代化更新與鉅變；而在這段波瀾壯闊的歷史中起到關鍵作用的張之洞本身，又是作為一個社會先行者的孤獨個人。張之洞與武漢，一個人的沉浮起落，和一座城市的日新月異，兩條線互相交錯著，將武漢今日的容貌推到了每一個人的眼前。
▼開闊的三層中庭空間，the open atrium on the third floor ©直徑敘事工作室
▼中庭空間局部，歷史學家看張之洞，partial view of the atrium, insights toward Zhang Zhidong from historians ©直徑敘事工作室
▼中庭空間局部，地圖：張之洞在武漢，partial view of the atrium, the map: Zhang Zhidong was in Wuhan ©直徑敘事工作室
▼中庭空間局部，張之洞的著作展示，partial view of the atrium with the exhibition of Zhang Zhidong’s work ©直徑敘事工作室
Looking back at history from the present standpoint, we can still see that Zhang Zhidong’s performance in Wuhan has been continued to this day. The process of urban modernization and transformation occurred to Wuhan in the period that Zhang lived there. Zhang Zhidong, who plays a key role in this magnificent history, was feeling alone as a social pioneer at the same time. The interlacement and fusion of Zhang’s personal experience and urban modern transformation brought up the present appearance of Wuhan.
▼張之洞圖書館，the library of Zhang Zhidong ©直徑敘事工作室
▼張之洞的智庫，the think tank of Zhang Zhidong ©直徑敘事工作室
▼通向四層的樓梯空間，採用三角形燈光設計，the staircase leading to 4F with the triangular lighting design ©直徑敘事工作室
走入博物館的每一個觀眾，都被裹挾進入了這個如同劇場般的空間。觀眾們被邀請進入了一個紛繁複雜的敘事場域，他們時而變成城市的監管人縱覽武漢的全貌，時而化身獄卒觀看鐵欄之中的變遷。時而是求知若渴的新時代學子，時而又站上高臺，成為張之洞本人，體味著一個改革者的孤獨與無奈。交叉的體驗和視角的變動，使得一種隱藏在歷史背後的真實被逐漸勾勒了出來。這不是來自歷史權威或設計團隊的指定或斷言，而是觀眾自己在身份的切換之中不斷體悟到的一種共建的真實性。
▼張之洞對武漢的影響——從傳統城市格局到現代武漢三鎮的演變，Zhang Zhidong’s contribution to Wuhan – evolution of Wuhan: from antique urban pattern to modern city pattern ©直徑敘事工作室
▼張之洞對城市公共基礎設施的貢獻——武漢近代城市公共設施與公共管理的發端，Zhang Zhidong’s contribution to the establishment of urban public infrastructure – inception: municipal construction and public management in modern Wuhan ©直徑敘事工作室
▼張之洞對武漢的影響——全方位激活武漢近代工商業，Zhang Zhidong’s contribution to Wuhan – the comprehensive modern industry and commerce in Wuhan ©直徑敘事工作室
▼張之洞對武漢的影響——近代企業體制探索：漢冶萍公司及其他官辦企業的變遷，Zhang Zhidong’s contribution to Wuhan – searching for modern enterprise systems: Han-Ye-Pin Co. & Other government-run companies’ evolution ©直徑敘事工作室
▼張之洞對武漢的影響——因近代工業體系而生的新漢陽，Zhang Zhidong’s contribution to Wuhan – new Hanyang born of the modern industrial system ©直徑敘事工作室
▼張之洞對武漢的影響——興辦近代軍事工業與軍制革新，Zhang Zhidong’s contribution to Wuhan – developing the modern military industry and facilitating the reform of the military system ©直徑敘事工作室
▼近代武漢的獄政改革（觀看），參觀者化身獄卒觀看鐵欄之中的變遷，prison reform in modern Wuhan (watching mode), visitors act as jailers to watch the changes inside the bars ©直徑敘事工作室
▼近代武漢的獄政改革（內部），interior view of the renovating the prison system ©直徑敘事工作室
▼對張之洞的評價，the insights toward Zhang Zhidong ©直徑敘事工作室
Every visitor to the museum is dragged into the theater-like space. Audiences are invited into a complex narrative field, sometimes as city watchmen to survey the city, sometimes as jailers to watch the changes inside the bars. Sometimes they become the new era students thirst for knowledge, and sometimes they stand on the platform, becoming Zhang Zhidong himself to taste a reformist’s loneliness and helplessness. The overlapping experience and the changes of perspective outline the truth hidden behind the history gradually, which is not a designation or assertion from the historical authority or the design team, but a co-authoring authenticity that the audience constantly perceives by the identity switch.
▼張之洞對教育的影響——立體化的社會教育體系，Zhang Zhidong’s contribution to the education in Wuhan – building up the three-dimensional social education system ©直徑敘事工作室
▼張之洞對教育的影響——中西結合的近代學堂教育，Zhang Zhidong’s contribution to the education in Wuhan – modern education system combining Chinese and Western ©直徑敘事工作室
▼張之洞對文化的影響——近代武漢報刊業與城市公共文化，Zhang Zhidong’s contribution to the culture in Wuhan – the press and public culture in modern Wuhan ©直徑敘事工作室
而當觀眾結束思考，抬眼望向落地窗外的真實而安靜的漢陽鐵廠時，興許他們會忽然意識到，武漢這座城市，才是張之洞與武漢博物館最大的展項；理解這座城市時間痕跡的鑰匙，都藏身於剛才所看到的一個個裝置、視角和感觸之中。觀眾注視著張之洞奮力推動而一步步走來的武漢，注視著每一個與自己相關的今日景觀，他自身便成為了時空縱橫軸線上認知的原點。
When the audiences finish thinking and look up to the real and quiet Hanyang Iron Works outside the floor-to-ceiling window, they may suddenly realize that Wuhan is exactly the biggest exhibition project of the Museum of Zhang Zhidong in Wuhan. The key to understanding the traces of time of this city is hidden in the devices, perspectives and feelings just experienced. The audience turn out to be the very origin of cognition on the space-time axis, to watch the history of Wuhan and Zhang Zhidong, also the nowadays landscape related to themselves.
▼武漢現代交通、郵政與通訊體系的肇始，the beginning of modern transportation system, post system and communication system ©直徑敘事工作室
▼近代都市職業人群的產生，the emergence of modern urban professional crowd ©直徑敘事工作室
今日的博物館並非只是一個“展覽”的場所。在這種觀念的統合之下，即便是本不利於展示的空間佈局（如建築的角落、傾斜的坡面），都成為了敘事語言的精巧訴說，塑造了非同一般的空間敘事體驗。在直徑敘事巧妙的設計之下，這座張之洞與武漢博物館依託著武漢之城的歷史，化身成為了一個敘事的獨特語境和思維的遊戲空間。
Today, museums are not just an “exhibition” place. Under the integration of this concept, even the spatial layout that is not conducive to the display (such as the corners of the building and oblique plane) has become the exquisite narrative language, shaping an extraordinary spatial narrative experience. Based on the history of Wuhan city, the Museum of Zhang Zhidong in Wuhan has become a unique game space and narrative context of thinking.
▼傾斜的坡面展示空間——一個改革者的孤獨（展示視角），the exhibition space on the oblique plane – a lonely reformer (display perspective) ©直徑敘事工作室
▼一個改革者的孤獨（體驗視角），a lonely reformer (experience perspective) ©直徑敘事工作室
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