Guangdong Museum
Guangdong Museum
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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- Mike BChristchurch, New Zealand149 contributionsDon't take your lighter !!A good stroll around the museum. Take your passport, and sidestep any que, with free international visitor entry. They took our lighters on entry, and we were told we could get them back when leaving. Not true. There was a box of old random lighters at the gate, but not our good ones anywhere.Visited November 2023Travelled as a coupleWritten January 5, 2024
- Greg StevensSydney, Australia2,730 contributionsAwesomeFor foreigners with your passport on hand, entry is free! The museum is located on the side of Huacheng Square. The museum is well laid out, having ancient crockery and wood carving sections, prehistoric section, womens fashion history plus much more! Well worth a visit!Visited January 2024Travelled as a coupleWritten January 11, 2024
- KodoDrummerBuenos Aires, Argentina70,616 contributionsMagnificent collectionGuangdong Museum is one of the three most famous museums in China. There are many stunning pieces of art, sculptures, other artifacts. and more. I most liked thee following collections: painting, woodcarvings, porcelains, and archaeological relics. It is recognized as being a very innovative museum.Visited January 2024Travelled soloWritten March 1, 2024
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Jackson
Guangzhou, China12 contributions
Feb 2021
I live in Guangzhou for several years, and have been to the Museum several times. A beautiful architecture from outside and abundant exhibitions going on inside all year round. Travelling in Guangzhou is not so difficult except for some language problems until recently the GZ government has had an interpretation hotline(+8620960169), which can provide great service for public affairs and government services. I used several times taking taxi and asking for directions, the interpreters are quite professional.
Written February 26, 2021
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Mike B
Christchurch, New Zealand149 contributions
Nov 2023 • Couples
A good stroll around the museum. Take your passport, and sidestep any que, with free international visitor entry. They took our lighters on entry, and we were told we could get them back when leaving. Not true. There was a box of old random lighters at the gate, but not our good ones anywhere.
Written January 5, 2024
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NiHaoGZUS
Guangzhou, China6 contributions
Nov 2019
Just bring your passport and enjoy the day for free at the museum. Lots to see here. My kids love the dinosaur bone exhibit. Great place to learn about some of China and Guangdong's history. Also check the website to find which day they are closed. Went there and it was closed...
Written February 12, 2020
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KodoDrummer
Buenos Aires, Argentina70,616 contributions
May 2019 • Solo
Very nice collection of exhibits, with a concentration on Guangdong history and artifacts. On this visit, I concentrated on viewing the exhibition halls containing the following exhibits: dinosaur age collections and remains found in Guangdong, Guangdong pottery and porcelain making, Guangdong crafted purple and other inkstone, gilt woodcarving. Exhibition of Guangdong history and culture, and Chinese made luxurious and precious, elegant and decorative fans.
I visited on a Chinese National holiday. There was no admission fee. There was a queue of a few hundred people. I waited in queue for about 20 minutes to get in. Well worth the wait.
I visited on a Chinese National holiday. There was no admission fee. There was a queue of a few hundred people. I waited in queue for about 20 minutes to get in. Well worth the wait.
Written May 6, 2019
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InnaYYZ
Toronto, Canada1,496 contributions
Aug 2019
Some of the collections change, while others are relatively permanent. Great collection of local fossils and other artifacts. There is a large local minerals collection, ink stamps, dinosaur bones, and much more. Friendly, helpful staff.
Written August 18, 2019
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KodoDrummer
Buenos Aires, Argentina70,616 contributions
Apr 2017 • Friends
The museum is housed in a very artsy looking building, with exhibits on four floors. Most have at least a summary title in English, and there are many more detailed descriptions in English. I was amazed by the amount and quality of the exhibits. I spent about four hours there and took over 700 photos.
The exhibits include:
Selection of pottery and porcelain
Gilt wood Chaozhou woodcarving art exhibition – a practical and decorative folk art. In one of the exhibits they show the process of the production of Chaozhou woodcarving. There are also displays of Chaozhou wood carved household furnishings such as beds, tables, chairs, cabinets, toilet tables, and mirror stands. Other carved items include ritual vessels, pieces of art such as flowers, shrines designed with figures of people, fruit, flowers, and animals.
Purple stone exhibition of the Duan inkstone – some inkstones are very decorative with themes of scenery, flowers, waves/the sea, archaic dragon, rectangular spiral, winding branches, fruit, fish, design of monkey king, and auspicious patterns. All are in line with Chinese traditional culture passed from generation to generation. Songkeng (from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) are red-purple in colour. The stone shapes generally fall within one of three categories: regular, pictographic, and natural shaped inkstones.
Exhibition of Guangdong history and culture – Guangdong is the birthplace of the Maritime Silk Road, the original place of the modern democratic revolution, and the first place of the reform and opening-up. The exhibition includes bones of prehistoric people, bronze statues of famous warriors, government officials, and many artifacts with multi-cultural characteristics that had been found in Guangdong, exhibits on the three main sub-ethnic groups of Guangdong, two very long dragon boats, miniature statues of various Guangdong people in their daily life, exhibits on Guangdong shipbuilding, ancient coins and other currency, Chinese tea and spices, and glass, agate and crystal beads, musical instruments, various silverware, Canton clock manufacturing industry, early Canton furniture, Chinese fan industry and display, beautiful hollowed-out ivory decorative pieces, significant historical events, pre-set printing blocks, anti-Japanese war in Guangdong, and much more.
Exhibition of natural resources in Guangdong – Guangdong province is located in a subtropical area and is abundant in light, heat energy and water resources. It has abundant wildlife with 829 recognized species of wild terraneous vertebrate animals, 281 species of freshwater fish, and 7,055 species of wild vascular plants. It is the home to 1549 kinds of minerals. The exhibition includes many samples of minerals, including granite, lead powder, silver, lead-zinc ore, wollastonite, garnet, tourmaline, marble, olivine, gypsum, different types of jade, amber, many other gemstones, and so on.
Chinese medicinal hall – Over time and long-term experience, Chinese people have learned to develop medicines from things such as flowers, herbs, trees, other plants, resins, and animals. The exhibition includes displays and discussion of many of the more significant medicine contributing plants, etc., and the resultant medicines produced.
Terrestrial wild animal hall – The exhibits include wild terraneous vertebrate animal, mammalian, avifauna, crawler and amphibian related displays.
Marine animal hall – The exhibit includes mammalian, avifauna, crawler, fim, shellfish, mollusk, echinoderm and many more.
Fossil Hall (Dinosaur hall exhibition) – Fossil bones, eggs and footprints of dinosaurs. Plants and other wildlife of the approximate 80 million year dinosaur age found in the region are on display. Although all the displays are very informative, I liked this one the best. This is likely due to my personal interest, as I have been to other dinosaur museums including the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology located in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado.
Calligraphy and painting hall – The exhibits include sposters in traditional Chinese calligraphy.
Cantonese Literatis’ life and art in the Ming dynasty.
Admission fee – It is free admission to the museum, but there is a charge to see the exhibition of jade pieces. For admission, one is required to show appropriate identification, which for most tourists would be a passport.
Leaflets on exhibitions and activities are free. Audio Guide tour, interpretation tour, souvenir and books etc. are fee-based services.
Museum visiting areas include permanent, temporary exhibition halls and public service areas.
Visiting areas include permanent, temporary exhibition halls and public service areas.
Museum facilities also include a souvenir shop and restaurant.
The exhibits include:
Selection of pottery and porcelain
Gilt wood Chaozhou woodcarving art exhibition – a practical and decorative folk art. In one of the exhibits they show the process of the production of Chaozhou woodcarving. There are also displays of Chaozhou wood carved household furnishings such as beds, tables, chairs, cabinets, toilet tables, and mirror stands. Other carved items include ritual vessels, pieces of art such as flowers, shrines designed with figures of people, fruit, flowers, and animals.
Purple stone exhibition of the Duan inkstone – some inkstones are very decorative with themes of scenery, flowers, waves/the sea, archaic dragon, rectangular spiral, winding branches, fruit, fish, design of monkey king, and auspicious patterns. All are in line with Chinese traditional culture passed from generation to generation. Songkeng (from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) are red-purple in colour. The stone shapes generally fall within one of three categories: regular, pictographic, and natural shaped inkstones.
Exhibition of Guangdong history and culture – Guangdong is the birthplace of the Maritime Silk Road, the original place of the modern democratic revolution, and the first place of the reform and opening-up. The exhibition includes bones of prehistoric people, bronze statues of famous warriors, government officials, and many artifacts with multi-cultural characteristics that had been found in Guangdong, exhibits on the three main sub-ethnic groups of Guangdong, two very long dragon boats, miniature statues of various Guangdong people in their daily life, exhibits on Guangdong shipbuilding, ancient coins and other currency, Chinese tea and spices, and glass, agate and crystal beads, musical instruments, various silverware, Canton clock manufacturing industry, early Canton furniture, Chinese fan industry and display, beautiful hollowed-out ivory decorative pieces, significant historical events, pre-set printing blocks, anti-Japanese war in Guangdong, and much more.
Exhibition of natural resources in Guangdong – Guangdong province is located in a subtropical area and is abundant in light, heat energy and water resources. It has abundant wildlife with 829 recognized species of wild terraneous vertebrate animals, 281 species of freshwater fish, and 7,055 species of wild vascular plants. It is the home to 1549 kinds of minerals. The exhibition includes many samples of minerals, including granite, lead powder, silver, lead-zinc ore, wollastonite, garnet, tourmaline, marble, olivine, gypsum, different types of jade, amber, many other gemstones, and so on.
Chinese medicinal hall – Over time and long-term experience, Chinese people have learned to develop medicines from things such as flowers, herbs, trees, other plants, resins, and animals. The exhibition includes displays and discussion of many of the more significant medicine contributing plants, etc., and the resultant medicines produced.
Terrestrial wild animal hall – The exhibits include wild terraneous vertebrate animal, mammalian, avifauna, crawler and amphibian related displays.
Marine animal hall – The exhibit includes mammalian, avifauna, crawler, fim, shellfish, mollusk, echinoderm and many more.
Fossil Hall (Dinosaur hall exhibition) – Fossil bones, eggs and footprints of dinosaurs. Plants and other wildlife of the approximate 80 million year dinosaur age found in the region are on display. Although all the displays are very informative, I liked this one the best. This is likely due to my personal interest, as I have been to other dinosaur museums including the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology located in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado.
Calligraphy and painting hall – The exhibits include sposters in traditional Chinese calligraphy.
Cantonese Literatis’ life and art in the Ming dynasty.
Admission fee – It is free admission to the museum, but there is a charge to see the exhibition of jade pieces. For admission, one is required to show appropriate identification, which for most tourists would be a passport.
Leaflets on exhibitions and activities are free. Audio Guide tour, interpretation tour, souvenir and books etc. are fee-based services.
Museum visiting areas include permanent, temporary exhibition halls and public service areas.
Visiting areas include permanent, temporary exhibition halls and public service areas.
Museum facilities also include a souvenir shop and restaurant.
Written April 12, 2017
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Leslie H
Columbia35 contributions
Sept 2014 • Solo
Housed in a building that reminds me of a Borg ship from a famous sci-fi show, the Guangdong Provincial Museum is a delight. The exhibits are varied, ranging from ceramics, to local wood-carvings to geology and fossils and they are all beautifully displayed. Unlike many Chinese museums, exhibits have signs in English with one exception - the Traditional Chinese Medicine exhibit. I had an opportunity to visit on a weekday morning, so the museum was not crowded and it was easy to see everything. Entrance is free but you must show identification to get the ticket so foreign visitors should be sure to bring passports.
Written September 14, 2014
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PushExplore
Singapore, Singapore4,952 contributions
Nov 2019
The GZ Museum is really amazing. Lots of rooms and floors with some excellent exhibits. Really worth a visit if you are in the city.
Written March 1, 2020
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PushExplore
Singapore, Singapore4,952 contributions
Apr 2019 • Solo
The Guangdong Museum is quite fascinating. It not only looks gorgeous from the outside but also the interiors are a work of art. Multiple levels of stunning exhibits on display. Often you will find a lot of 'themed' exhibitions, which I'm sure you will greatly enjoy. Do check it out.
Written April 15, 2019
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andrewknight7
Hokitika, New Zealand168 contributions
Dec 2013 • Solo
A few weeks ago while having a brief stopover holiday in Guangzhou I decided to
visit the Guangdong Museum as I'm a Museum fanatic and love Musems.I'm so pleased
I went there it was so interesting.The Museum is situated in a huge building several storeys'
high in the Tianhe district of the city.Access there is easy by way of the subway system.
Entry to the Musem is free but photo id is required in order to receive your free ticket,
The layout of the Museum is unusal and I had to go to a few floors in order to find the
sections of the Museum I was most interested in.The sections from the Ming and Qing Dynasties were most fascinating.I was amazed by the remarkable condition of some of the ancient china plates and bottles.Unfortunately nearly all the exhibits I saw were labelled in Mandarin only so I would definitely recommend the services of an English speaking Chinese tour guide for Western visitors to the Museum.Fortunately an English speaking Volunteer Guide was on duty during my visit to the Museum who provided some valuable information to me on various exhibits that I found fasciinating on display in the Museum.The World War 2 section of the Museum was really superb with amazing photographs from that era on display. Flash free photography is permitted in the Museum which is a great bonus for visitors. and In the vicinity of the Museum outside local photographers take beautiful photos of tourists for really great prices.I had two beautiful photos taken for about 30 CNY or about 5 New Zealand dollars.I would recommend visitors to the Museum spending at least half a day to a full day to really enjoy this great Museum. Andrew
visit the Guangdong Museum as I'm a Museum fanatic and love Musems.I'm so pleased
I went there it was so interesting.The Museum is situated in a huge building several storeys'
high in the Tianhe district of the city.Access there is easy by way of the subway system.
Entry to the Musem is free but photo id is required in order to receive your free ticket,
The layout of the Museum is unusal and I had to go to a few floors in order to find the
sections of the Museum I was most interested in.The sections from the Ming and Qing Dynasties were most fascinating.I was amazed by the remarkable condition of some of the ancient china plates and bottles.Unfortunately nearly all the exhibits I saw were labelled in Mandarin only so I would definitely recommend the services of an English speaking Chinese tour guide for Western visitors to the Museum.Fortunately an English speaking Volunteer Guide was on duty during my visit to the Museum who provided some valuable information to me on various exhibits that I found fasciinating on display in the Museum.The World War 2 section of the Museum was really superb with amazing photographs from that era on display. Flash free photography is permitted in the Museum which is a great bonus for visitors. and In the vicinity of the Museum outside local photographers take beautiful photos of tourists for really great prices.I had two beautiful photos taken for about 30 CNY or about 5 New Zealand dollars.I would recommend visitors to the Museum spending at least half a day to a full day to really enjoy this great Museum. Andrew
Written January 22, 2014
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What metro stop do I get off to get to this museum and is the museum open on Mondays?
Written October 26, 2015
Hello,
I was there, sometime ago and there are two ways to reach the museum. One is by the APM line,which will get you nearer to the museum. The other is the regular subway line. I, can't remember, the station name, but you can easily google it.
The library is next to the museum.
Written October 29, 2015
How do I get there using public transportation?
Written April 13, 2015
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