Yongyin Coin Museum is located in Block C2 of Nanjing Morning Light 1865 Creative Industrial Park, and it is a coin culture-themed museum under the Yongyin Culture Group. The exhibition hall takes the coin culture that spans ancient and modern times and across China and the West as its spiritual core. Through themed spatial art, intelligent guidance, and multimedia visual presentation, it creates a mysterious, wonderful, and story-filled coin world for the public. The scenic area offers free audio explanations.
The coin museum exhibition area is divided into two floors (first and fourth), with a total area of about 1600 square meters. It presents the coin culture of different historical periods through four themes: Time, Encounter, Legend, and Meeting, creating an ideal place to tell coin stories. The exhibits include nearly ten thousand pieces of ancient Chinese coins, modern Chinese machine-made coins, Chinese paper money, foreign coins, and related coin collections, which are brilliantly presented and exquisitely beautiful.
The first floor of the exhibition hall includes a pre-hall, product and interactive display areas, and other functional areas. The pre-hall displays Yap Island stone money and the essence of Chinese coins. Yap Island is home to the world’s largest currency, and Yap currency serves as evidence of early human currency valued by weight. The essence of Chinese coins area gathers twelve pieces of Chinese historical coins, including the earliest Chinese currency, the first imperial script coin, the first pair of coins, and a set of precious metal commemorative coins from Xinzhong. The interactive display area includes multifunctional creative cinemas, coin rain, mirror mazes, and other interactive areas as well as product sales areas.
The fourth floor is the main exhibition space, with three themes: Time/Invisible Creation, Encounter/Revalue, and Legend/Echo of Civilization. The entrance area features a world coin map and the imprint of civilization. Stepping over the imprint of civilization, you officially enter the theme of Time. The Time theme demonstrates the interpenetration between time and creation, interpreting the wisdom and magic of creation from the development and evolution of coins to the casting of coins. The legend of Zhang Xianzhong’s Jiangkou Sunken Silver, the Heavenly Kingdom’s Treasury, and the five major sample coins are full of legends.
Opening hours: The whole year, Monday is closed all day; from January 1st to December 31st, Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00; New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day 10:00-18:00.
Preferential policies: Children: Under 1.4 meters (inclusive) are free; above 1.4 meters (not inclusive) are half price. Students: Full-time undergraduate and below students with valid identification are half price. Elderly: 60 years old (inclusive) to 70 years old (not inclusive) with ID are half price; 70 years old (inclusive) and above are free. Military personnel: Active and retired military personnel with valid identification are free. Disabled: With valid disability identification, free. Retired cadres: With valid retirement identification, free.
Additional notes: The above information is for reference only, and the actual situation disclosed by the scenic spot on the day prevails. Service facilities: Luggage storage: Reference price: Free. Scenic spot explanation: Scenic spot audio explanation is free, and manual explanation is charged.
The Yongyin Coin Museum features restrooms located on the fourth floor of the museum.
A souvenir shop is situated on the first floor of the museum, which accepts Alipay and WeChat Pay for purchases.
Yongyin Coin Museum
Yongyin Coin Museum is located in Block C2 of Nanjing Morning Light 1865 Creative Industrial Park, and it is a […]
