Guangdong Museum

Located on the previous site of Sun Yet-sen University on Wenming Road in Guangzhou, the Guangdong Museum is a provincial-class integrated museum, consisting of the Museum Exhibition Hall, the site of the First National Congress of Kuomintang, and the Luxun Museum. Construction of the museum began in 1957 and was completed 1959.

The museum features a huge collection of 124,000 regional artifacts, including pottery, calligraphic and painting works, ink slabs, golden wood carvings and many other excavated artifacts. The collection includes 300 Grade 1 artifacts and a few national treasures, such as the Ink Dragon Drawing by Chen Long in the Song Dynasty, a Monkey King ink slab from the Qing Dynasty, and a white glaze Sakyamuni figurine dating back to the first year of the reign of Emperor Xi Ning of the Northern Song Dynasty (1068 A.D.), all of which are the only ones in China.

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 Central Yuexiu station, or take Bus No.541, 125, 12, 65, 101, 104, 106, 183, 215 or 227 and get off the Wenming Road station; alternatively, take Metro Line 1 and get off at the Peasant Movement Institute station.

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