Guangzhou Museum
Guangzhou Museum is a comprehensive type of local history museum, situated in Guangzhou Zhenhai Tower Hill. Locations Zhenhai Tower built Yu Mingchao Hongwu 10 years (1380), dating back over 600 years of history. 28 meters tall, 31 meters wide, 16 meters deep, red walls and green tiles, majestic, Guangzhou is a famous ancient buildings. Five sub-floor, closed layer by layer reduction, deemed like towers, known as five-storey building. Front confrontation one pair up to 2 meters of red sand rock lion, is carved in the Ming Dynasty. This building was destroyed five five construction, original brick and wood, while in 1928 rebuilt the interior has been changed to the reinforced concrete structure. CASTLE overlooking the water beads Yunshan, Pinnacle peaks, Guangzhou beauty, vivid, known as "the first building south of the Five Ridges." "Zhenhai floors" and "Yuexiu floors" are one of the Qing Dynasty and modern Yangcheng Eight.
Guangzhou Museum was built in 1929, was called "Guangzhou Museum." The initial founder, displays and artifacts are relatively simple, and soon closed because of the war. 1950 Guangzhou Municipal Government decided to build the Guangzhou People's Museum, and later organized a team of professional archeology, archaeological excavations and artifacts collected work. Currently fifty thousand cultural relics collection for the study of the development of Guangzhou's political, economic, cultural and foreign trade transportation, and urban construction, providing a very valuable historical information.
In the west side of Zhenhai Tower, built in 1964, it has Beilang and artillery base. Twenty-three parties stand Beilang ancient inscriptions, of which four engravings on drum inscriptions, the original carved in 770 BC (2760 years ago), is the oldest existing inscriptions in China. Cannon seat placed there Chong Zhen years to cast Guangzhou city defense artillery, as well as purchased from the German Krupp casting steel cannon Opium War. 1986 year of construction of the eastern side of the thematic showrooms, organizes thematic exhibitions of various temporary or monumental.
Guangzhou Museum collection of more than 60,000 pieces (sets), divided bronzes, ceramics, paintings, jade, wood lacquer, silk printing and dyeing, national technology, foreign technology, more than 10 categories, with ancient relics archaeological excavations of Tibet main and unique. Among them wrong gold inscription weighing 48 words Spring "Luan book Fou" Qin tomb unearthed copper Ge Wangzheng Annals "Fourteen years is a state workers", the East Han Tomb unearthed pottery vessels, Tonghudilou the Yuan Dynasty, the Opium War horses monument during the festival, Chinese Alliance membership card, to commemorate the liberation teapot, Sun Yat-sen handwritten "aiming at the sky" banners to as precious.
Five-story pavilion distribution: a schematic diagram of the first floor, Guangzhou and Guangzhou geographic model ancient city; the second floor, unearthed Neolithic, Qin Han, Three Kingdoms Northern and Southern Dynasties - Historic (4000 BC AD 589); and the third floor, display Sui, Tang, Song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties historical relics; the fourth floor, display and Qing dynasties, especially the historical relics of the Qing Dynasty; the fifth floor, after the Opium War exhibition that modern Chinese cultural relics of historical data, indicating that Guangzhou hotbed of bourgeois democratic revolution.
People affiliated with the Guangzhou Museum Sanyuanli anti-British struggle and Second Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Site Memorial headquarters two branches.
Scenic Area Address: Yuexiu Park North Jiefang Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, No. 988
Bus routes: Take 21,24,101,103,105,108,109,110,113,124,180,182,186,211,244a, 244 short-term, 244,256,265,273,284,519, 528,543 bus to.