Chengdu Museum ( zh, 成都博物馆, aka Chengdu Museum New Hall from 2016) is a large city museum in

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. The museum is located on the west side of Tianfu Square, close to the

Jincheng Art Palace Jincheng is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Shanxi province, China, bordering Henan province to the south and southeast. It is an industrial city in an area where coal mining is an important industry. The entire city has a population ...

Sichuan Art Museum Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

Sichuan Provincial Library The Sichuan Provincial Library (), also known as the Sichuan Library, is a Chengdu-based comprehensive provincial-level public library, located at Tianfu Square. It was formed on 20 October 1912, then named the Sichuan Province-established Library ...

, and

Sichuan Science and Technology Museum Sichuan Science and Technology Museum () is a museum about science and technology in Sichuan. It was the Sichuan Provincial Exhibition Hall (SCPEH) until 2006. The museum includes airplanes, flying saucers, 3D movies, robots and interactive model ...

History

On 15 September 1958, the Chengdu Municipal Government, under the direction of the Ministry of Culture to prepare for the formation of a museum, established the Chengdu Topographical Museum Preparatory Committee, located at

Daci Temple Daci Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Chengdu, Sichuan. History Wei and Jin dynasties The original temple dates back to the 3rd century. According to ''Wu Deng Hui Yuan'' (), in the Wei and Jin dynasties, Indian Buddhist monk Baozhang ...

. The deputy mayor, the writer

Li Jieren Li Jieren (; June 20, 1891 – December 24, 1962) was a Chinese writer and translator. A native of Chengdu, his works are celebrated for their local flavor and realistic portrayal of Sichuan during the late Qing period. Life Born Li Jiaxiang ...

, was the director of the committee. The committee eventually led to the opening of Chengdu Museum in 1984, housed at Daci Temple. In 2007, the architects Sutherland Hussey Harris, together with Pansolution, based in

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

, won the first prize in an international competition to design a new city museum for Chengdu. The museum building was completed in 2016 with a floor area of 65,000 m² and named Chengdu Museum New Hall.

Collections

The museum has six floors displaying historic artifacts. It has exhibitions of

puppetry Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a perform ...

shadow puppet Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim. The cut-ou ...

s, and

wood carving Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation ...

s. The museum is the largest comprehensive museum in Chengdu with nearly 200,000 objects in its collections, covering a time period from the

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

period to that of the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

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Museum website
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