Qinghai Museum Travel Guide

It is said that if you want to understand a city, you must first go to the museum of the city you are visiting. Only then can you truly understand the city's customs, customs and cultural heritage accumulated over thousands of years. Most of the museums in Qinghai are in Xining. Xining is a city with a relatively diverse mix of ethnic cultures, which has given rise to Tibetan medicine culture, religious culture, etc. The rich and colorful culture also makes this city mysterious.

Qinghai Provincial Museum

The Qinghai Provincial Museum was renovated from the private residence "Xinlu" of the former Qinghai local warlord Ma Bufang. It is one of Xining's landmark buildings and a treasure of the town. It is a "gilt bronze statue of Guanyin", and there are also Zhang Daqian's calligraphy works in the museum. Next door to the museum is the Qinghai Art Museum. There are painting and art exhibitions on the first and third floors, which are also free to visit.

After visiting these two museums, you can go to the "Bao Hulu Northwest Traditional Snacks" in Xinning Plaza next door to drink a bowl of improved modern health-preserving eight-treasure milk tea, a large cup of health-preserving milk tea containing longan, wolfberry, red dates and roses. Excellent taste.

Tickets: Free admission with ID card

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (9:30-16:30 in summer (closed on Mondays in winter)

Address: No. 58, Xiguan Street, Xining City

Tibetan Medicine Culture Museum

The Tibetan Medicine Culture Museum is two museums in one. The Tibetan Medicine Museum and the Tibetan Culture Museum are the only museums in the world. It is the only comprehensive museum that integrates the collection, protection, display and research of Tibetan culture. It has many exhibition halls with rich content, allowing people to gain a general understanding of Tibetan medicine, Tibetan history and culture, astronomy, calendar and Tang Dynasty in a few hours. The basic content of the card is really amazing.

The most amazing thing about the entire museum is that it was completed by more than 400 top artists from ethnic minorities, which took more than 20 years and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. It is recorded that the 618-meter Thangka (a religious scroll painting framed with colored satin and hung for worship) - "China Tibetan Culture and Art Painted Grand View" is said to have an estimated value of 7.7 billion RMB. Since photography is not allowed in this museum, you can only use your eyes. Record the wonders of thangkali with your heart.

Tibetan medicine, one of the four major traditional medicines in the world, has a history of four to five thousand years. The craniotomy and perforation operation was successfully completed 4,000 years ago in the fifth century AD. It is really amazing that it can treat cataracts.

ps: The Tibetan hospital in the museum provides free outpatient consultations. Tibetan medicine, which relies on religious development, pays attention to medical ethics and does not prescribe medicine at random.

< p>Tickets: Free entry to Thangka Hall 60rmb (half price for students (explanation fee 100rmb)

Opening hours: 9:00-18:00 (peak season 9:00-17:00 (low season)

< p>Address: No. 36, Jing'er Road, Biotechnology Industrial Park, Xining

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Natural Museum

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Natural Museum on the east side of the Tibetan Culture Museum is currently the largest in the country The Natural History Museum comprehensively displays the geology, ecology, flora and fauna of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. There are a large number of wild animal and plant specimen models on display. If you want to learn about the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, come here.

Ticket: 60rmb

< p>Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (closed on Mondays

Address: No. 21, Jinger Road, Chengbei District, Xining City

Qinghai Tibetan Culture Museum

The Qinghai Tibetan Culture Museum is located in Huangzhong County, not far from Kumbum Monastery. It is divided into two floors: Hall 1 and Hall 2. The first floor guides us through the historical process of the Tibetan nation. The second floor shows us Buddha and gods, as well as masks, thangkas, texts and epics, costumes and songs and dances, the three unique arts of Kumbum Temple, Tibetan opera and other cultural and artistic forms. Hall 2 focuses on the unique cosmology and life and death of Tibetan Buddhism. View. It is particularly worth mentioning that the movie "The Road to Enlightenment" played in Hall 2 is an interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism's view of life and death, and it is also a philosophical interpretation of the meaning of life.

< p>Opening hours: 9:00-17:00

Address: Yingbin Road, Huangzhong County, Xining City

Huangzhong County Museum

Huangzhong County The museum is located in Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province, about one kilometer away from the famous Ta'er Temple in Qinghai. The construction area is more than 1100 square meters.

Most of the exhibits are cultural relics unearthed in the county. Among the important exhibits are the Kayo culture painted pottery unearthed from Kayo Village in the county, silk fabrics and glazes unearthed from Han tombs, and metals selected for exhibition from the collection of Kumbum Monastery. and ceramics, as well as sculptures of various textures such as bamboo, wood, jade and ivory. The museum has more than 8,000 items in its collection, featuring the county's ethnic and religious cultural relics.

Tickets: Free

Opening hours: 8:00-17:00 (closed on Mondays

Address: No. 3, Heping Road, Huangzhong County, Xining City< /p>