The Confucius Museum is a museum built to commemorate Confucius, centrally display Confucius’ ideological doctrines, and spread and promote traditional culture represented by Confucian culture. It is located at 100 Kongzi Avenue, Qufu City, Shandong Province. The main hall is based on Han-style architecture and is a large-scale modern museum with distinct themes and comprehensiveness. Construction began in early 2013 and officially opened on September 6, 2019.
The collections of the Confucius Museum mainly come from the old collections accumulated by the Confucius Mansion over thousands of years in history. Its profound cultural support is the long and splendid history of Confucius’ hometown. The Confucius Museum is an extension of the ‘Three Confucian’ cultural heritage. It has a rich collection, with 700,000 pieces of various cultural relics in its collection. The world-famous collections include 300,000 pieces of private document archives of the Confucius Mansion from the Ming Dynasty until 1948, more than 40,000 rare ancient books since the Song Dynasty, more than 8,000 pieces of clothing and accessories from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and a large number of ritual musical instruments related to sacrificing to Confucius. The exhibition area of various exhibitions in the Confucius Museum totals 17,000 square meters. The upward exhibition hall is the basic exhibition of ‘The Great Confucius’, which consists of an introductory hall and five parts. The introductory hall provides a general introduction to Confucius through multimedia projection. The contents of the five parts are Confucius’ era, Confucius’ life, Confucius’ wisdom, Confucius and Chinese civilization, and Confucius and world civilization. The downward exhibition hall is the basic exhibition of ‘Passing on Poetry and Etiquette’, which is divided into three units: Hundred Generations of Blessings, Confucius Mansion Archives, and the Remaining Customs of Qufu. In addition, there is a special exhibition hall for temporary exhibitions. The exhibition takes cultural relics and artistic scenes as carriers, uses high technology as a means, and takes serving the public, especially young students, as the main goal, highlighting interactive experience and perception.Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday all year round, 09:00 – 17:00; closed all day on Monday all year round; open from 09:00 to 17:00 on the Dragon Boat Festival.
