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 AD), all of which are the only ones in china.
Guangdong Museum
Address: 215 Wenming Road, Guangzhou (510110)
Exhibition: Guangdong history, Maritime Silk Route on the South Sea, Chaozhou wood
carving art, Guangdong’s valuable and rare animals, Mingyuan House of the
Qing-Dynasty Examination Hall, and site of the former astronomical
observatory at Sun Yet-sen University
Scale: Site area – 43,000m2
Opening Hours: 9:00-17:00; closed on Mondays
Admission: RMB 15 for adults; RMB 8 per person for adult groups; RMB 4 for students;
RMB 4 for family tickets (maximum three persons); discounts for available for
students, teachers, persons with disability, families, and group visitors.
Tel: (8620) 83838432
Fax: (8620) 83858600
Website: http://www.gdmuseum.com
E-mail: gdmoffice@21cn.com
Transportation: 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.