Lu Xun (1881-1936) was a great revolutionary, thinker and writer in China's modern history.

Set in the Tower Bell on the campus of Sun Yet-sun University, the Lu Xun Museum was built in 1957 and opened in 1959. On January 18, 1927, with the recommendation of the CPC Guangdong District Committee and at the invitation of Sun Yet-sen University, Lu Xun left Xiamen for Guangzhou, where became Chairman of the Chinese Language Department and Dean of Studies at Sun Yet-sen University. He first lived in the Bell Tower at the university and moved to the White Cloud House on Baiyun Road on March 29.

The Lu Xun Museum contains the restored bedroom and study occupied by Lu Xun during his teaching career at the university, as well as the restored conference room for university affairs. The exhibits in the rooms are actual objects from that time. The museum also has a section displaying Lu Xun's biographical facts and nearly 10,000 exhibits, including Lu Xun's manuscripts, historic objects, photos and documents. A computer retrieval system for the Complete Works by Lu Xun is also in place at the museum.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 2 per person
Address: No.215 Wenming Road, Guangzhou City
Opening Hour: 9:00-17:00
Traffic: Take Bus No.543, 236, 184, 80, 54, 40, 11 or 50 and get off at the Yuexiu central station, or take Bus No.541, 125, 12, 65, 101, 104, 106, 183, 215 or 227 and get off at the Wenming Road station; alternatively, take Metro Line 1 and get off at the Peasant Movement Institute station.

The Guangzhou Monetary and Finance Museum is Guangdong's first museum devoted to the collection and research of currencies. It was opened in September 1995 and currently holds a collection of more than 20,000 pieces of real currencies and over 10,000 pieces of replicas.

The Museum consists of two exhibition halls, one for Chinese currencies and the other for foreign currencies. The Chinese currency exhibition hall include 10 sections displaying China's ancient currencies, China's early modern currencies, currencies from revolutionary bases, Renminbi currencies, gold and silver commemorative coins, Guangdong currencies, anti-currency counterfeiting knowledge, securities, and devices for detecting counterfeit currencies. The foreign currency exhibition hall showcases currencies from more than 190 countries and regions around the world.

Admission fee: RMB 20 for adults, RMB 5 for students, half-price concession for groups and senior citizens.
Address: In the library of Guangdong University of Finance, Yingfu Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City
Traffic: Take Bus No.39 and get off at the Guangdong University of Finance station.

The Guangzhou Art Museum is China's only large-scale modernized art museum that features multiple prominent artists, thematic exhibitions, and exchange shows.

Permanent exhibitions halls at the museum include the hall for Chinese paintings from past dynasties, the hall for the Chinese calligraphy from past dynasties, the Foshan pottery hall, the thematic exhibition hall, and the sculpture display area. The first group of exhibits on display includes 1,027 artistic objects and 1,289 material objects in various categories, such as Chinese paintings, oil paintings, watercolors, gouaches, prints, charcoal drawings, sketches and sculptures, as well as more than 10,000 pieces of tablet inscriptions, rubbings, thang-ka and brassware. With a vast collection of exquisite objects, the museum ranks among China's top art museums.

The Guangzhou Art Museum was designed under the supervision of Mo Bozhi, a leading architect and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. It is a building complex that blends Lingnan architecture with gardening and incorporates contemporary characteristics, featuring rich lines, towering structures, elaborate landscaping and exquisite decoration.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 20 per person
Address: No.13 Luhu Road, Guangzhou City
Traffic: Take Bus No.10, 63, 297, 808 or 883 and get off at the Hengfu Road station, take Bus No.109, 110, 111 or 184 and get off at the Hengzhigang station, take Bus No.190, 544 or 546 and get off at the Mijing Road station, take Bus No.522, 560 or 561 and get off at Guangshi Hotel station, or take Metro Line 2 and get off at the Yuexiu Station.

The Guangzhou Fine Arts Museum is located east of the Zhenhai Tower in Yuexiu Hill. Its principal structure is a palace-style building in imitation of the Wenhua Hall in the Imperial Palace in Beijing, featuring grey bricks, green tiles, upturned eaves and secluded chambers. The tower was previously occupied by the Zhongyuan Library. In February 1957, the Guangzhou Museum of Fine Arts was built and opened to the public. Currently, it has a more than 300 square meter exhibition hall and an over 100 square meter eminent artists' gallery.

Outside the exhibition hall and in front of the square stands a circular stele corridor on Wuxin Mound, which was built in 1987 and features 118 stone inscriptions by celebrated calligraphers from the Jin to Qing Dynasty. In 1998, the stele corridor was extended to the eastern end of the museum compound and stone inscriptions from the Sea and Mountain Immortal Hall in the late Qing Dynasty were showcased.

The museum's collection includes more than 10,000 works of fine arts, including Chinese paintings, oil paintings, prints, watercolors, gouaches, comic trips, and sculptures.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 2 per person
Address: Inside the Yuexiu Park on Zhenhai Road, Guangzhou City
Opening Hour: 9:00-16:00
Traffic: Take Bus No.24, 63, 103, 104, 109, 110, 122 or 211 and get off at the Yuexiu Park station, or take Bus No.6, 10, 33, 36, 66, 184, 190, 191, 219 or 544 and get off at the Xiaobei Huaquan station; alternatively, take Metro Line 2 and get off at the Yuexiu Park station.

The Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum is a thematic museum presenting Guangdong's revolutionary history over the past century.

The premises of the present museum housed the former Guangdong Consultative Council in the late Qing Dynasty; they were also an important revolutionary site during the Great Revolution Period.

In 1957, the Guangzhou Municipal People's Committee made the decision to build the Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum on this site. The museum's permanent exhibition aims to illustrate the history of Guangdong people's revolutionary struggle over the past century from the outbreak of the Opium War to the founding of the People's Republic of China. In order to give a full presentation of the evolution of Guangzhou's modern history, in July 1996, the Guangzhou Modern History Museum was established on the premises of the Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum, with the two museums housed under the same roof. The Guangzhou Modern History Museum focuses on presenting the historical conditions of Guangzhou between 1840 and 1949 in various aspects, including politics, economy, health, education, culture, and folk customs.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 5 per person
Traffic: Take Bus No.221 and get off at the Martyrs' Cemetery station; alternatively, take Bus No.293, 283, 284, 224 or 204 and get off at the Dongfeng Hotel station.