Chengdu Museum

Chengdu Museum is the largest comprehensive museum in Chengdu, with a history of more than 50 years. 2009, the foundation stone was laid for the new Chengdu Museum; in June 2016, the new Chengdu Museum was completed and opened. The museum is located on the west side of Tianfu Square in Chengdu, adjacent to the Sichuan Provincial Library, Sichuan Museum of Art, and Sichuan Science and Technology Museum, covering an area of about 17 acres, with a total floor area of 65,000 square metres, and the internal space is divided into the public activity area, exhibition area, cultural relics storage area, office area, etc. The main building is divided into the South Building and the North Building, which is the largest comprehensive museum in Chengdu. The main building is divided into the south building and the north building: the south building is mainly for the administrative area on the ground, the underground for the academic lecture hall (multi-function hall); the north building is mainly for the exhibition area, the floor for the hall, the screening hall, the exhibition hall, the ground floor of the basement for the second, the third exhibition hall, the ground floor of the floor to the third floor of the Chengdu history and culture exhibition of ancient times, the fourth floor of the chapter of the recent chapter and the folk section, the fifth floor of the exhibition of the Chinese shadow puppets, a total exhibition area of 14,000 square metres, exhibition line length of 1500 metres. The total exhibition area is 14,000 square metres and the length of the exhibition line is 1,500 metres.

The permanent exhibitions of Chengdu Museum include ‘Flowering Jin Guan City - Chengdu History and Culture Exhibition’ and ‘Shadow Dance - Puppetry - Chinese Shadow Puppet Exhibition’, and will continue to launch high-level exhibitions and special exhibitions. The Chengdu Museum strives to disseminate Chengdu's history and culture to the public through the collection, protection, research and display of cultural relics, and endeavours to provide diversified public cultural services for the city.