The West Lake Museum is a lake-themed special museum in China. It faces the West Lake. Most of the entire building extends underground and blends into the surrounding lakes and mountains. The museum comprehensively showcases the integrity and authenticity of the West Lake as a human cultural landscape heritage and confirms the universal value of the West Lake with abundant historical materials and physical objects. Here, you can not only see the unique combination of landscape and rich historical and cultural relics of the West Lake, but also experience the profound cultural accumulation behind the landscape from a new perspective.
Opening hours: Open from 09:00 to 17:00 on Mondays, Wednesdays to Sundays throughout the year; closed all day on Tuesdays 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. The opening hours of sub-venues in the scenic area are different. Please refer to the official website for details. West Lake Museum area: 9:00-17:00 (admission stops at 16:30); Celebrity Museum area: 8:30-16:30 (admission stops at 16:00); Official Kiln Museum area: 8:30-16:30 (admission stops at 16:00). Service facilities Parking lot: [/]. Reference price: /. Address: /. Berths: /. The museum has a small parking lot open to the public, which can only park small vehicles. The charging standard is as follows: during the day (8:00 to 20:00), 10 yuan per vehicle per hour; at night (20:00 to 8:00 the next day), 5 yuan per vehicle per time. During the National Day and Spring Festival holidays, it is 30 yuan per vehicle per hour during the day. On small holidays and during the peak tourist season (from March 15 to May 31 and from September 15 to November 30), it is 20 yuan per vehicle per hour on weekends during the day. (See the notice board at the entrance of the parking lot for details). Coaches can go to the drop-off point for coaches of the West Lake Museum at the entrance of the Qianwang Temple parking lot and stop and go immediately as required by the traffic police department. If you need to park, please go to the Wansongling parking lot. Scenic area interpretation: Free. Visiting instructions: 1. Obey the management of museum staff. 2. Do not bring pets, inflammable, explosive and other dangerous items into the museum. 3. People with disheveled clothes and improper words and deeds are refused to visit. 4. Special audiences such as the elderly, children and pregnant women should be accompanied by relatives and friends for a visit and pay attention to safety. 5. Please consciously maintain the visiting order and keep a good visiting environment. 6. Do not smoke in the museum area. 7. Do not eat, make noise, etc. in the museum area. Take good care of all kinds of facilities and visit civilizedly. Stroller rental: Provide special services such as wheelchairs, crutches, strollers, sewing kits and medicines for free. Wheelchair rental: Provide special services such as wheelchairs, crutches, strollers, sewing kits and medicines for free. Souvenir store: The West Lake Museum is a West Lake-themed museum that can comprehensively understand the West Lake from multiple perspectives such as history, nature and culture and has unique modern design elements.The West Lake Museum is imbued with the unique charm of West Lake at every turn. Our mission is to disseminate the culture of West Lake, allowing more people to understand and love it. Thus, the iW West Lake souvenir shop is inextricably linked with the museum, tucked away in a corner, quietly waiting for those who love West Lake and life. They may pass by in leisure or come here intentionally; as long as they are willing to pause for a moment, they will surely leave behind memories that are uniquely their own. Address: West Lake Museum, Floor B1, No. 89 Nanshan Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou. Phone: 0571-87798536.
