Yangzhou Museum. Yangzhou Museum is the biggest museum in Yangzhou, an ancient city in Jiangsu Province of China.
It is located in front of the Mingyue Lake on Yangzhou West Wenchang Road, about 4 km west of downtown Yangzhou and Slender West Lake. Yangzhou Museum is housed in a modern building, covering an area of 50,000 square metres.
It shares its lobby with the adjacent China Block Printing Museum; together the two museums are commonly known as the Yangzhou Double Museum. The museum was formerly located in the 1500-year-old Tianning Temple.
The museum has had a number of different homes in its history; recently, the museum moved to a new building to accommodate its growing collections. The museum has seven exhibition halls, including Yangzhou history exhibition hall, Ancient Chinese sculpture art museum, Paintings and calligraphy of Yangzhou eight strange men hall, Collection of dynasty paintings and calligraphy in Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty hall, China national treasure hall, Jianyang printing museum and Yangzhou jianyang printing hall.
Exhibits date from the neolithic age down to late Qing dynasty. It features in the relics of Han dynasty, Tang dynasty, Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty.
It is located in front of the Mingyue Lake on Yangzhou West Wenchang Road, about 4 km west of downtown Yangzhou and Slender West Lake. Yangzhou Museum is housed in a modern building, covering an area of 50,000 square metres.
It shares its lobby with the adjacent China Block Printing Museum; together the two museums are commonly known as the Yangzhou Double Museum. The museum was formerly located in the 1500-year-old Tianning Temple.
The museum has had a number of different homes in its history; recently, the museum moved to a new building to accommodate its growing collections. The museum has seven exhibition halls, including Yangzhou history exhibition hall, Ancient Chinese sculpture art museum, Paintings and calligraphy of Yangzhou eight strange men hall, Collection of dynasty paintings and calligraphy in Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty hall, China national treasure hall, Jianyang printing museum and Yangzhou jianyang printing hall.
Exhibits date from the neolithic age down to late Qing dynasty. It features in the relics of Han dynasty, Tang dynasty, Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty.
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