【新唐人2011年4月7日讯】位于天安门广场的“国家博物馆”，经过3年多的改扩建工程之后，重新开馆，展示了大量的文物，但有关十年文革的历史却只“浓缩”到只有一张图片以及3行简单的文字介绍。学者们表示，博物馆对历史的阐释，只体现出中共希望民众看到的那一面。
“国家博物馆”的改扩建工程，历时3年多、耗资25亿元人民币。官方表示，改扩建的目地是建造一个全球最大单一的博物馆，用作见证中国崛起的历史。
但根据部分西方媒体的观察，中共拒绝面对本身的历史，却似乎是一个亘古不变的传统。《华尔街日报》说，与其说中国国家历史博物馆是一个经过精心考据、发掘或具有创意的结晶品，倒不如说，这是中国共产党对中国历史拥有绝对阐释权的一个像征。
据《华尔街日报》的调查，多个参与扩建的人士都表示，由于政治的介入，许多改建的计划遭到了否决。这些计划包括：展出中共领导下出现的灾难，客观评估文革十年等等。而中共当局却要求博物馆聚焦“党的光辉历史”。
这就难怪，在这个面积几近20万平方米的博物馆，包含了49个面积介于800至2000平方米之间的展厅里面，有关10年文革的历史，仅仅只有一张图片以及3行简单的文字予以介绍。
而对1840年以后的中国近、现代史，国家博物馆推出了《复兴之路》基本陈列，展馆跨两层，除了表现鸦片战争以来，中国人为了实现民族复兴，而进行的上下求索。此外，还大力宣传了中共党史，以及中共在近代史中的地位。但对大跃进，文革，六四天安门事件等，则是寥寥带过或是只字不提。
《法国国际广播电台》报导，香港科技大学教授洪长泰说，中国的博物馆很少提及历史，“博物馆只反映中国共产党的形象，以及党希望人民所看到的一面”。
而大陆学者杨继绳指出，中共对历史真相拥有阐释权，它担心一旦出现真相的另一个版本，它的合法性就会遭到削弱。杨继绳是《新华社》退休的高级记者，他在2008年5月出版的《墓碑》，主要描写中国六十年代大跃进时期，人民饱受饥荒的真相。但这本书在中国大陆被禁。
新唐人记者尚燕、王明宇综合报导。
National Museum of China Rewrites Past
The National Museum of China has just opened
on Tiananmen Square after 3 years of renovation.
Among the extensive exhibitions, a single photograph
and three lines of text are the only reference
to the 10-year Cultural Revolution. Scholars say,
“The party wants to determine historical truth.”
China spent more than a decade and RMB2.5 billion
to remake the National Museum into a monument
to its rising power. It is designed to be
the world’s largest museum under one roof.
According to Western media it has become tradition
for China not to confront its own history.
Wall Street Journal (WSJ) calls the museum,
“Less the product of extensive research,
discovery or creativity, than the most prominent
symbol of the Communist Party’s efforts to
control the narrative of history
and suppress alternative points of view.”
According to WSJ, a number of people involved
had many of their reconstruction ideas rejected.
Proposals for exhibitions reflecting disasters
of the Communist rule were rejected.
Instead, officials decided the focus should be
on the “brilliant achievements” of the party.
It is of no surprise that a single photograph
and three lines of text are the only reference
to the 10-year Cultural Revolution
in the 2-million-square-foot museum.
“The Road to Rejuvenation” exhibit, which recounts
the history of China from the First Opium War, 1839
to the present day, is filled with party propaganda,
with little mention of events such as the Cultural
Revolution and the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
“A public museum in China is seldom about the past,”
said Hung Chang-tai, a professor at the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology.
“It is about the current image of the party
and how the party wants itself to be seen.”
“The party wants to determine historical truth,”
said Yang Jisheng, a historian whose landmark book
on the Great Leap Forward famine is banned in China.
“It worries that if competing versions are allowed,
then its legitimacy will be called into question.”
NTD reporters Shang Yan and Wang Mingyu
