Chongqing Museum

Chongqing Museum

Chongqing Museum: as of 2017, there are 87 museums of different levels in Chongqing, including 3 national first-class museums, namely China Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing Hongyan Revolutionary History Museum and Chongqing nature museum; 9 National third-class museums, namely exhibition hall of the former site of the provisional government of the Republic of Korea, Chongqing Three Gorges immigration Memorial Hall and Beibei District Museum Chongqing Bayu folk custom museum, marshal Nie Rongzhen exhibition hall, ancient battlefield Site Museum of fishing City, Tongliang District Museum, Comrade Liu Bocheng memorial hall, Baidi City Museum of Fengjie County.

Chongqing is a national historical and cultural city. Every piece of land between Bashan and Yushui is engraved with the footprints of Chongqing's social progress. The museum is the cultural connotation of the city, carrying the precious crystallization of Chongqing People's material civilization and spiritual civilization. There are many kinds of museums in Chongqing, including comprehensive museums recording historical legends, revolutionary memorials highlighting heroism, and special museums highlighting regional characteristics.

Some museums

Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum

Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum, formerly known as southwest Museum established in 1951, is one of the first batch of national first-class museums and the earliest Museum in Chongqing. At present, there are more than 100000 sets of cultural relics and 18000 rare ancient books, covering 23 categories of cultural relics, gradually forming a collection series characterized by "ancient human specimens, Three Gorges Cultural Relics, Bayu bronzes, Han Dynasty cultural relics, southwest ethnic cultural relics, rear Anti Japanese War cultural relics, porcelain, calligraphy and painting, guqin", etc.

Chongqing Museum of nature

Located at the foot of Jinyun Mountain in Beibei, the new Chongqing Museum of nature is composed of six exhibitions, namely "Animal Planet", "dinosaur world", "landscape city", "earth mystery", "life torrent" and "ecological home". It mainly displays the evolution of the earth, life evolution, biodiversity and Chongqing's magnificent mountains and rivers. It has a collection of more than 110000 pieces. It is the natural science museum with the largest collection in China. It is mainly characterized by various Mesozoic dinosaur fossils and a variety of vertebrate specimens in the western region.

Chongqing Hongyan Revolutionary History Museum

Chongqing Hongyan revolutionary history museum is composed of Chongqing Hongyan revolutionary memorial hall, Chongqing Geleshan revolutionary memorial hall, special Park Exhibition Hall of Chinese democratic parties and other revolutionary memorial halls. In 2012, it was rated as a national first-class Museum and a national excellent patriotism education base. The museum's collection of cultural relics, photos and materials has reached more than 100000 pieces, mainly focusing on the ideology, spirit and personality of revolutionary leaders, revolutionary sages and revolutionary martyrs. It is a window unit for Chongqing's red tourism reception.

Chongqing Baiheliang underwater Museum

Baiheliang, located in the Yangtze River in the north of Fuling City, Chongqing, is known as "the world's first ancient hydrological station". It was submerged due to the construction of the Three Gorges Project. It is the world's first underwater museum built on the original site. The whole museum is divided into two parts: ground exhibition hall and underwater visit. In addition to the exhibition units of "water of life", "foot of Yangtze River" and "forest of underwater steles" in the ground exhibition hall, the museum can also go deep into the water through a special tunnel to see the real inscription of Baiheliang.

Chongqing saner hot pot Museum

Founded in 2002, Chongqing saner hot pot museum is located in saner hot pot culture city, Jinfeng Town, Jiulongpo District. The architectural appearance of the museum is similar to "hot pot", which is full of Chongqing characteristics. From the Zhou Dynasty to modern times, the museum has a large collection of more than 600 hotpots of different types at home and abroad, as well as more than 20000 couplets, calligraphy and painting works related to hotpot. The treasure of the museum is the unique Tang Sancai hot pot.

Chongqing National Museum

Chongqing National Museum is located in Qianjiang, a Tujia and Miao inhabited area in Southeast Chongqing. It is the first National Museum in Chongqing. The museum collects 52 national historical relics, 482 ethnic relics and 345 pictures. There are history hall, residence hall, costume hall, etiquette hall, art hall, cultural relics hall, calligraphy and painting hall, etc. the exhibition hall focuses on the living habits, historical environment, cultural relics and treasures, various kinds of folk arts and crafts of Tujia and Miao Nationalities, which is a window for Chongqing ethnic minorities to exchange with foreign countries.

Yuyucheng ancient battlefield Site Museum

Located in Hechuan fishing city in the north of the main city, the Museum of ancient battlefield ruins of fishing city is reconstructed by using the Qing Dynasty architecture of Huguo temple and Zhongyi temple. There are nearly 1000 pieces of swords, porcelain, coins, metal ornaments of Song Dynasty and today's famous calligraphy and painting collections. The museum is divided into three exhibition rooms. The contents of the exhibition are based on the history of the war of resistance against Japan in the fishing city during the song and Mongolian war, and are divided into five parts: "miracles in the ancient war history", "typical military facilities", "cultural relics and Literature materials", "historical figures" and "ancient and modern chants".

Major museums

Address: No.72, Pipashan Main Street, Yuzhong District, Chongqing

Longitude: 106.55825875086

Latitude: 29.552723657632

Tel: 023-63506019

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