Top Recommended Museums to Visit in Chengdu and Sichuan

Museums are usually great places to learn about a city’s culture, history and facts. The ancient relics, artifacts, historical documents make it easy and clear for you to get brief, correct, interesting and knowledgeable information. There are hundreds of different museum with different themes in the “Abundant Land” Sichuan.

Museum visiting is much recommended for students as the rare chance to learn deep about Sichuan out of book, and discover something educational, incredible and useful. Following are Top 7 greatest museums for you to explore culture of Chengdu and Sichuan.

TOP 1: Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum 三星堆博物馆

Situated in Guanghan city about 50 km north from Chengdu city center (Tianfu Square), Sanxingdui (Three-star Piles Museum) is world-know for more than 4000 relics unearthed in 1929 from Sanxingdui Site that was the ancient capital 3000-5000 years ago. Honored as the “Origin of Yangtze Civilization”, Sanxingdui Museum is listed as one of the “Top 50 Appealing Attractions in China for Foreign People”. There are two exhibition halls and the second hall mainly shows different bronzes of ancient Sichuan, such as the Gold Mask, large bronze heads, exotic bronze threes, masks,, sacrificial altar, birds, human figures, etc. Ready to be shocked by the outstanding skills and amazing arts of ancient people.

Type: Historical Site Museum, National Archaeological Site Part, National 4A Scenic Spot.

Best Seasons: All year round

Recommended Visiting Time: 2 hours

Opening Hours: 8:30-17:00

Tickets: RMB 72/person

Address: SNo.133 Xi’an Road, Guanghan City, Deyang City, Sichuan

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TOP 2: Jinsha Site Museum 金沙遗址博物馆

Located in west of Chengdu, Jinsha Site Museum is built on the original location of Jinsha Site that is found in 2001 and the first important archaeological discovery found in early 21 century in China. Plentiful unearthed relics of gold, jade, bronze, stone, ivory are exhibiting in 2 main exhibition halls to show the historical culture of Chinese ancestors in ancient Shu Kingdom about 2900-3200 years ago. Inside Jinsha Site Museum, you can see the Golden Sun Bird and Golden Mask related to Sanxingdui Culture, and the former is the city logo of Chengdu.

Type: Historical Site Museum, National First-Class Museum, National Archaeological Site Part, National 4A Scenic Spot.

Best Seasons: All Seasons

Recommended Visiting Time: 2-3 hours

Opening Hours: 8:00-20:00 (May-October); 8:00-18:30 (November -April); closes on every Monday

Tickets: RMB 70/person (sale time: 8:00-19:00 from May-October; 8:00-17:30 during November - April)

Address: No.2, Jinsha Site Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu, Sichuan

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TOP 3: Sichuan Museum 四川博物院

Sichuan Museum is a first-class national museum which is located next to Du Fu Thatched Cottage and Huanhuaxi Park in Chengdu. It is a large comprehensive museum with 14 exhibition halls, displaying more than 320,000 pieces of historical relics about ancient Sichuan, including calligraphy and paintings, ceramics, bronzes, ethnic cultural relics, Tibetan Buddhism relics, stone carvings, pottery of Han Dynasty, etc. The must-visit part is the exhibition of Zhang Daqian’s (Chang Dai-chien) paintings on the second floor. Bring your passport for free entry, if you visit Du Fu Thached Cottage and want to explore cultural attractions nearby.

Type: Comprehensive Museum, historical & Cultural site

Best Seasons: All Seasons

Recommended Visiting Time: 2-3 hours

Opening Hours: 9:00-21:00 in summer; 09:00-20:00 in winter (Tuesday ~ Sunday, closes on every Monday)

Tickets: Free

Address: No. 251, South Huanhua Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu, Sichuan

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TOP 4: Chengdu Shu Brocade and Embroidery Museum 成都蜀锦织绣博物馆

Chengdu Shu Brocade and Embroidery Museum, also called Shu Brocade Institution, is the only professional place in China to show all the processes of Shu brocade hand-weaving and the history and the culture of Shu brocade and embroidery. Items are annotated in English for better understanding. After touring the alive weaving and different sorts of fancy artworks, you may buy some Shu Brocade and Embroidery gits from the small shop with good quality and reasonable price.

Type: Museum for brocade and embroidery

Best Seasons: All seasons

Recommended Visiting Time: 1-2 hours

Opening Hours: 9:00-17:30

Tickets: Free

Address: No. 2 Caotang Eastern Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu, Sichuan

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TOP 5: Sichuan Cuisine Museum 川菜博物馆

Sichuan Cuisine Museum (Chuancais Museum) is the first museum to display a regional cooking culture in the world where you can learn Sichuan cuisine culture by viewing antiques and relics and using utensil, as well as cook the typical Sichuan dishes on your own to satisfy your taste buds. It will be great fun to play with Chuancais and taste many types of Chengdu local snacks there.

Type: Specialty Museums

Best Seasons: All year round

Popular Activities: Cooking Class to make Sichuan Cuisine

Recommended Visiting Time: about half a day

Opening Hours: 09:00-18:00

Address: No.8 Ronghua North Street, Gucheng Village, Pidu District, Chengdu, Sichuan

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TOP 6: Chengdu Museum (New Building) 成都博物馆

Located in the west side of Tianfu Square, Chengdu Museum (New Building - Chengdu China Shadow Puppets Museum) is a huge 5-storey building collected more than 200,000 exhibits, ranging from the the Neolithic Age to the the Republican period of China. Here you can see regular city relics and unique regional folk exhibitions of shadow puppets, puppetry, wooden carvings. Special international exhibitions will be held in Chengdu Museum irregularly.

Type: City Museum

Best Seasons: All year round

Recommended Visiting Time: 2-3 hours

Opening Hours: 09:00 - 20:30 (May - October); 09:00 - 20:00 (November - April); closes on every Monday

Ticket: Free

Address: No.1 Xiaohe Street, Qingyang District, Chengdu, Sichuan

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TOP 7: Wuhou Temple 成都武侯祠

Wuhou Temple (Chengdu Wuhou Shrine) is a first-class national museum featuring the Three Kingdoms Culture of Sichuan. It is a unique and the only shrine where Emperor’s tomb integrated with his prime minister’s shrine in one temple. A visit of Wuhou Temple helps you get more history about ancient Sichuan and the previous ancestors taking victory by wisdom and affected history of Sichuan.

Type: Museum, Cultural & Historical Site

Best Seasons: All year round

Recommended Visiting Time: 2-3 hours

Opening Hours: 8:00-18:30 (November - April); 8:00-20:00 (May - October)

Ticket: 50 RMB/person

Address: No.231 Wuhou Temple Street, Chengdu, Sichuan

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How to Plan Your Chengdu Tour

Your Chengdu travel itinerary can be short or long, in different themes and budgets according to your plan. Whether you visit Chengdu for a short layover or pay a special visit, you need at least 1 day to see the lovely Giant Pandas and visit major must-visit spots in downtown. If time allows, you’re advised to spend a leisure tea time in People’s Park, satisfy tastebuds in Jinli Ancient Street, watch an amazing face-changing Sichuan Opera show. Side trips to Leshan Giant Buddha, Mount Emei and Jiuzhaigou Valley are highly recommended for you to seek more magnificent natural and cultural wonders in Sichuan, if you have more time.

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