Chapter 17: Empty Museum
What does it feel like to become rich overnight? Although she was only the director of the museum and not the landlord, Jia Wenyan, who had obtained the management rights, could not suppress her inner excitement.
The art gallery is 5,000 square meters in size, the size of a football field. For Jia Wenyan, a college student who has not yet officially graduated, this is a life she could never have imagined.
And the most important thing is that the existence of this art museum will not affect her Yongan Workshop.
The museum was converted from an art gallery, and the original site of the museum was fully upgraded to a large workshop. Jia Wenyan felt that she had reached the peak of her life.
She couldn't wait to see her new museum, but the restoration of cultural relics at the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, the renovation of the workshop and the cleaning of the museum all took time.
No matter how curious Jia Wenyan was, she could only complete her work at the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum first.
However, a week later, when she had completed the first phase of the chariot figurines and was preparing to find someone to transport them to the museum for the final stage of restoration.
Xue Di: "Miss, long time no see!"
"Fuck, why are you here?"
Jia Wenyan glanced at Shi Guang who was standing beside her. Shi Guang hurried forward to explain:
"They found out where the new museum was from the workshop renovation team, and then they immediately approached the director and rented a storefront on the first floor of the museum."
Wow, it drove directly from opposite the museum into my museum.
Jia Wenyan was speechless as she looked at the Xue Di employees who were hanging up the signs.
Perhaps to match the style of the museum, Xue Di was very sensible and did not choose her usual red color, but instead prepared an antique wooden-style plaque, just like the limited green skin when it collaborated with the post office.
Such sincerity made Jia Wenyan very satisfied, but...
"You shouldn't be allowed to bring drinks into the museum, right? It's open here..."
Shi Guang: "Yes, normally the museum allows the beverages from the milk tea shop to be brought in, but this time they prepared a brand new bottled milk tea packaging specifically for the museum."
Jia Wenyan: "Bottled milk tea?"
"Yes, that's it."
Shi Guang said as he took out a hard mineral water bottle from the side.
"This is the milk tea bottle that Mibingxuecheng specially prepared for this museum collaboration. If this hard bottle is used, it can meet the museum's regulations on take-out beverages."
Jia Wenyan: "What about the price?"
"It's one yuan more expensive than the average price of other stores. But they also launched a reusable sealed thermos cup for milk tea. After tourists spend ten yuan to buy it, they can buy milk tea at the same price as other stores."
Jia Wenyan: "That price is quite reasonable."
"Yes, and they promised to set up a special milk tea shop ticket checkpoint on the east side of the cafe to be used for unified ticket checking when bringing customers into the museum from inside and outside the store. This will avoid wasting time at the main entrance of the museum due to ticket checking for milk tea."
"Dean Zhen thinks their plan is good, but they have a request outside of the partnership?"
"What request?"
Shi Guang: "They want you, the curator, to help design a limited-edition skin in the museum style."
"They will use this museum skin on the packaging of milk tea bottles and thermos cups. They said it would be best if the prints can be linked to the exhibits in our museum."
"Okay, I got it. Leave the bottle and cup to me. I'll have time to think about it later."
After bidding farewell to time, Jia Wenyan turned around and went straight to her director's office.
The museum is divided into five floors. Unlike a traditional curator's office, Jia Wenyan's office on the top floor of the museum is more like a temporary private workshop. Except for the lack of large craft tools such as kilns, it can basically meet Jia Wenyan's daily work needs.
But this is just the beginning. What Jia Wenyan cares most about in the entire museum are the empty glass display cases.
They were exhibition equipment that were bundled and sold at low prices after the art museum evacuated.
These glass display cabinets of different sizes can just meet the future production needs of the Yong'an Museum.
Even the chariot and terracotta warrior set that she had just restored could find a suitable glass partition here.
At that moment, she was so excited that she lay down in the middle of the museum hall.
The skylight glass on the roof lowers the light along the empty space in the middle layer. The warm sunlight makes Jia Wenyan unable to help but start to enjoy the sunbath while planning the future layout of the museum.
However, it didn't take long for her mood to plummet as her thinking progressed. Although the new location of the Yong'an Museum was good, the problem was how long it would take her to fill up such a large museum.
The art museum covering an area of 5,000 square meters in the suburbs was not particularly large after the parking lot was included, but even so it was a five-story building, which was not something she could afford on her own.
The expansion of exhibits, recruitment of personnel and costs, all of these must be completed as soon as possible.
These were completely beyond the scope of what she, a college student who had not yet graduated, could handle. As soon as she thought of this, she hurried to contact Dean Zhen. However, before she could dial Dean Zhen's number, a completely unfamiliar voice sounded behind her.
"Hello, may I ask if you are Jia Wenyan, Miss Jia, right?"
Jia Wenyan’s OS: Oh shit.
Jia Wenyan: "It's me, who are you?"
Jia Wenyan, who was suddenly called, quickly jumped up from the ground with a somersault.
"Excuse me, who are you?"
Jia Wenyan looked coldly at the young man in front of her who was wearing a light grey casual suit. She swore that if the other party came to her to rent a house like Mi Bingxuecheng did, she would make him get out at the first possible moment.
She didn't want her famous social death scene to become a laughing stock among the museum's residents.
She looked at the man with a scrutinizing look in her eyes, and the other party immediately handed over his business card and said:
"Hello, I am Zhen Shuwang, the person in charge of Zhenxin Animation,"
"Zhenxin Animation, what are you doing here as an animation guy...wait, your last name is Zhen...what's your relationship with Dean Zhen?"
Jia Wenyan was stunned when she saw the business card. Although it was not uncommon to have the same surname in Donghuang, the surname Zhen was obviously a rare surname. In addition, the name was in the museum that Dean Zhen had just purchased. So...
"Yes, you guessed it right. I am the grandson of President Zhen. President Zhen rented the fifth floor of the Yong'an Museum except your office to us, Zhenxin Animation."
"I am here to discuss with you the access of staff, as well as the soundproofing of the office area as soon as possible before the museum opens."
"Oh, please wait a moment. I just came back from the archaeological site and haven't had time to communicate with Dean Zhen about the specific information."
Zhen Shuwang: "Please do as you wish."
"Hello, is this the dean? My name is Xiao Jia. Just now your grandson came to the museum and told me that you rented the fifth floor of the museum to their company?"
"Well, that's what happened. I originally promised my grandson to invest in him to make an animated film, but when I bought the art museum, I had a bit of a cash crunch, so I temporarily stopped the investment."
"I thought that since the museum would not be able to be fully occupied in the short term, I would give them the fifth floor to save some rent for their company's original location. You can talk to them about giving them the fourth floor as the museum's office area."
Jia Wenyan: "I understand."
"Oh, by the way, if the museum needs any copywriting promotion or peripheral production projects in the future, you can just give it to them at a low price. Their animation production cycle is long, and we can just use our own resources to save costs on weekdays."
"Oh, by the way, I have asked him to bring all the security guards and cleaners from his company here. If there are not enough people, I will arrange them later. You should hurry up and gather the cultural relics needed for the promotional exhibition as soon as possible."
"I understand, but Dean, even so, we still have three floors of space. If we don't set up the exhibits as soon as possible, the daily operating costs of such a large museum will be high."
"I had prepared a fairly feasible plan before I came here."
"What plan?" Jia Wenyan turned around and looked in the direction of Zhen Shuwang, while speaking on the phone beside her ear:
"Okay, let's do this for now. Xiao Jia, you talk to Shu Wang first, and I'll go and help you with the staffing issue."
Zhen Yuandao hung up the phone after he finished speaking.
Jia Wenyan was annoyed at the dean's efficient but unreliable working style.
Shu Wang: "I'm sorry, but my grandfather gets really angry when it comes to cultural relics."
"It's okay. It's because of my museum that your funding chain has been affected."
"By the way, did you find a way to solve the problem of the exhibits in a short time?"
"Yes, let's find a place to talk first?"
As they talked about this, they looked around the museum which was empty except for the exhibition stands, and then tacitly turned their eyes to the "Snow Emperor" which had not yet officially opened.
Jia Wenyan: "Okay, I admit that this coffee shop opened by the milk tea shop is sometimes quite useful."
...After a while...
Jia Wenyan took a big sip of the lemonade without any extra sugar. The sourness and coolness of the lemon gradually made her mind clear.
"So you want to turn the third floor of the museum into an installation similar to a comic exhibition?"
She took a quick look at the tablet the other party handed over, then circled a few of the key points with a stylus.
Zhen Shuwang: "Yes, but considering the atmosphere of the museum itself, I did not plan to turn the third floor into a real comic exhibition, but to use the form of a two-dimensional museum for exhibition."
"I have seen the "Cultural Relics Family" that Director Jia previously announced on D Station. I think you should have done some research on this aspect."
"We can use cartoon images in the style of cultural relics to install on the third floor of the museum. We can also use these cartoon images to preview the cultural relics you want to reproduce or make in the future."
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