The Zhongshan China Radio Museum is the first characteristic museum in China with radios as the theme. It belongs to the Zhongshan Museum and is one of its branch museums. The Zhongshan China Radio Museum is located at 197 Sunwenzhong Road, Shiqi District, Zhongshan City. It is the first radio-themed museum in China. The museum has nearly 2,000 radios in its collection. Currently, more than 230 radios are on display, including products from the first generation of radios produced locally in China in the early 1920s to the 1980s. The collection is systematic and comprehensive and has high research value. The exhibition takes the historical spatial development as the display clue. Through display methods such as physical objects, pictures, scenes and multimedia, it shows the development history of China’s radio industry and reflects the historical changes in China’s society, politics, economy and other aspects from one side, as well as the development process of the emerging cultural communication industry with the radio industry as the background in China. The museum exhibition hall is divided into two exhibition areas on the upper and lower floors. Taking 1949 as the time demarcation, the ground floor is the exhibition area of ‘Chinese Radios Before Liberation’; the second floor is the exhibition area of ‘Chinese Radios After Liberation’; the buffer area at the entrance of the ground floor gate is the preface hall. Each main exhibition area unfolds against the background of historical eras, displaying representative radios and stating the historical background of radios in that period. Since its opening, the Zhongshan · China Radio Museum has received more than 60,000 domestic and foreign visitors annually and has become a cultural tourism highlight in Zhongshan. Most of the collections of the Zhongshan China Radio Museum are donated free of charge by Mr. Qiu Jianqiu, a citizen of Zhongshan. Since its opening, it has also received support from people from all walks of life and donated radios for the museum’s collection. At present, nearly 2,000 radios of various types from different periods have been collected. Among them, representative radios include Panda 1501, Peony 911, Red Lantern 711-2, etc. Opening hours: Open from Tuesday to Sunday all year round from 09:00 to 16:30; closed all day on Monday all year round.
Zhongshan Radio Museum
The Zhongshan China Radio Museum is the first characteristic museum in China with radios as the theme. It belongs to […]
