The Ningbo Gang Museum is located in Zhenhai District, Ningbo City. It is at the southern end of the Hangzhou Bay Sea-Crossing Bridge and the end of the Zhoushan Linking Islands Bridge. Covering an area of 70 mu and with a construction area of 24,000 square meters, it is a key cultural construction project of Ningbo during the ’11th Five-Year Plan’. It was completed and opened on October 22, 2009. As an urban humanities museum, the Ningbo Gang Museum takes chronology as the context, historical facts as the clue, and figures as the highlights. It systematically displays the epic of the arduous struggle and success of the Ningbo Gang from the late Ming Dynasty to the present. This is to carry forward the financial wisdom culture and nostalgia of the Ningbo Gang. By creating an ’emotional landmark and spiritual home’, it advocates the humanistic theme of seeking roots and paying homage to ancestors and being cautious in the end and tracing back to the source. The architecture of the Ningbo Gang Museum fully highlights the cultural character of the Ningbo Gang adhering to tradition while being pioneering and innovative. The architectural design of the museum is presided over by He Jingtang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the designer of the China Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The exhibition inside the museum is rich in connotation, novel in means, and has a strong humanistic atmosphere. The museum’s exhibition design won the ‘Nomination for Best Exhibition Space Design Award’ in the 2010 Asia-Pacific Interior Design Biennial Grand Prix; and the ‘Best Content Design Award’ in the 2010 Zhejiang Province Exhibition Excellence Selection. Opening hours: Open from Tuesday to Sunday throughout the year from 09:00 to 17:00; closed all day on Monday throughout the year; open from 09:00 to 17:00 on New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day. Service facilities: WIFI: Account: nbbbbwg; Password: nbbbbwg12345. Luggage storage. Scenic area explanation: · Implement free explanations. · Accept reservations for group visits from units. For individual tourists to form a group for a visit, there need to be more than 10 people. · Visiting groups need to reserve the visiting time, number of people, and contact information more than three days in advance. · Group reservation phone number: 0574—56800600. · After confirming the successful reservation, please organize the visit according to the specified time. Failure to do so within the time limit will result in the reservation being invalid. Thank you for your cooperation! As an urban humanities-themed museum, the Ningbo Gang Museum inherits and spreads the excellent urban spirit and culture of Ningbo. Relying on the ‘Cultural Tracing’ Ningbo Gang Humanities Propaganda Team, it conducts humanities propaganda activities at the grassroots level once a month. The Ningbo Gang Museum implements reservations for humanities propaganda activities to facilitate reasonable arrangement of propaganda sessions. · Public welfare propaganda activities do not charge any fees. · A reservation for 50 to 300 people is more suitable. · Reservations for the propaganda time, number of people, and contact information need to be made more than one month in advance. Audio guide rental: Supported languages: Chinese, English, Japanese. Wheelchair rental. Mother and baby room. Address: The museum is equipped with a mother and baby room, a clinic, a coffee bar, a book bar, and a cultural and creative store.
