Shantou Museum is a comprehensive museum. The museum is located in Zhongshan Park with an elegant and quiet environment. Established in 1960, it is the main collection, publicity and education institution and scientific research institution for cultural relics and specimens in Chaoshan area. It is also an important patriotic education base and youth education service base in Shantou. It collects nearly 10,000 pieces of various cultural relics such as ceramics, calligraphy and paintings, gold lacquer wood carvings, inkstone seals and ancient coins from the Neolithic Age. Some of them are even national treasure-level cultural relics. For example, the purple clay ornaments ‘Offerings of Melons and Fruits for All Living Beings’ made by Chen Mingyuan during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, of which there are only two sets remaining in China; the rare painting treasure ‘Wild Geese and Magpies on Reeds’ by Lin Liang, a famous Guangdong painter in the Ming Dynasty; ‘Copybook of Yu Yongxing’s Running Script in the Style of Chu River South by Fang Yizhi in the Ming Dynasty’; the exquisite gold lacquer through-carved wood carving ‘Gold Lacquer Through-carved Phoenix Window with Figures and Calves’ of Chaozhou in the Qing Dynasty with resplendent decoration and fine carving; the exquisitely carved jade brush holder ‘Jade Brush Holder with Landscape Figures’ of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty with smooth texture and the ‘Green Jade Mountain with Travelers in Songshan’ of the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. These precious cultural relics have made Shantou Museum enjoy a certain reputation in China.
Opening hours: Open from Tuesday to Sunday throughout the year, 09:00 – 17:00; closed all day on Monday throughout the year. Closed on Mondays (open for half an hour longer on statutory holidays. Opening hours: 9:00 – 17:30).Shantou Museum
Shantou Museum is a comprehensive museum. The museum is located in Zhongshan Park with an elegant an[...]
