What are the must-visit museums in Suzhou?

Suzhou has a long history and is one of the famous tourist cities in my country. There are also many museums to visit here. It is the best place to understand the city of Suzhou. So which museums in Suzhou are worth visiting? The editor below recommends museum tour routes for everyone. Route 1

This route is very close to the Humble Administrator’s Garden, so you can also take a walk along the way. There is something special about visiting gardens in spring.

First stop: Suzhou Folk Museum

Currently, the museum displays some folk cultural relics and introduces some folk knowledge around seasonal folk customs, auspicious folk customs and child-rearing folk customs. You can learn about the festivals of watching the pond and meeting the gods; the birth of a child and the full moon ceremony.

Second stop: Suzhou Garden Museum

9:00-16:30 Closed on Mondays

962015 (Group visits need to make a reservation one day in advance)

Suzhou Garden Museum won the "Cultural Communication Award" at the Suzhou "City of 100 Museums" launch conference and the "One City, 100 Museums Suzhou" brand launch. This is the first special garden museum in China, which systematically displays the history, art, culture and inheritance of Suzhou gardens.

Third stop: Suzhou Museum

Monday to Sunday: 09:00-17:00 all day, admission closed at 16:00 Labor Day: May 1-5 October 5

October 13-October 31: 9:00-17:00 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday (no entry at 16:00); 09 on Friday and Saturday : 00-20:00, admission closed at 19:00

Closed every Monday (except national statutory holidays)

November 1st - October 12th of the following year: Every Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (no entry at 16:00)

Closed every Monday (except national statutory holidays)

0512-67575666 (open days Working hours)

Everyone is familiar with the Suzhou Museum. The museum is located at the site of the palace of the loyal king Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The new museum designed by the famous architect I.M. Pei integrates modern aesthetics and Suzhou culture. Very high value.

The museum has a rich collection of cultural relics, paintings and calligraphy, relics, etc., showing the rich historical heritage and humanistic connotation of Wudi.

The fourth stop: Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum

The Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum collects modern embroidery, sandalwood fans, tapestry silk, carved jade, wood carvings, stone carvings, and theater costumes from Suzhou. There are more than 5,000 pieces of fine arts and crafts and treasures in more than ten categories, including theatrical utensils, Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures, Ming-style furniture, ethnic musical instruments, antique bronzes, lacquer carvings, metal handicrafts and the Four Treasures of the Study. On October 15, 2019, the Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum was integrated into the Suzhou Museum. Route 2

The three museums on this route are all in one place and within walking distance. Friends who have spare energy can go shopping together in combination with route ①.

First stop: Suzhou Silk Museum

The Suzhou Silk Museum has a history hall, a modern hall, a children’s science hall, a Sangzi Garden, a silk weaving machinery showroom, and Qian Xiaoping Silk Culture Hall. There are six major exhibition areas in the art museum, of which the history museum includes six parts: the ancient hall, the sericulture residence, the weaving and dyeing workshop, the tribute weaving courtyard, the Republic of China Street and the intangible cultural heritage hall.

Second stop: Suzhou Art Museum

9:00-12:00, 12:30-17:00 (admission ends at 16:00)

Closed on Mondays (except statutory holidays)

An online real-name system is implemented to make timely reservations for visits

Suzhou Art Museum is known as the "first museum in the history of Chinese art". The new museum has 1 large exhibition hall on the first floor with an area of ??800 square meters and 6 small and medium-sized exhibition halls with an area of ??200 to 500 square meters, with an exhibition line of 463 meters, an outdoor exhibition area of ??800 square meters, and multi-functional Academic lecture hall, constant temperature and humidity warehouse, etc.

Third stop: Suzhou Hall of Fame

9:00—12:00, 12:30-17:00 (admission ends at 16:00)

< p>Closed on Mondays (except statutory holidays)

An online real-name system is implemented to make timely reservations for visits

The Suzhou Hall of Fame uses 448 Suzhou celebrities as display objects, using traditional and modern multimedia technology The combined exhibition method integrates knowledge, appreciation, education, fun and participation. Everyone can learn about Suzhou's rich historical and cultural resources here. Route 3

Although the venues appear to be relatively far apart on the map, in fact, the walk is only more than a kilometer, and you can walk from Taibo Temple to the Zodiac Stamp Museum. On the way to the museum, you can also enjoy the quaint scenery of Qili Shantang.

First stop: Taibo Temple Exhibition Hall/Wumen Calligraphy Hall

Suzhou Taibo Temple was built in the second year of Yongxing in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was dedicated by Mi Bao, the prefect of Wu County at that time. Built under the orders of the imperial court, it is the first temple in the Jiangnan region dedicated to Taibo, the founder of the development of Wudi, and is also the oldest ancestral temple in Suzhou.

Wumen Calligraphy Museum is located next to Taibo Temple, and many famous calligraphy and paintings are on display in the museum.

Second stop: Suzhou Zodiac Stamp Museum

Tuesday to Sunday 9:30-16:30, no entry at 16:00

Every Monday Closed, except for statutory holidays and special circumstances

Telephone: 0512-68660201

Suzhou Zodiac Stamp Museum is the Zodiac Stamp Branch of China Postal Stamp Museum and the first zodiac stamp museum in the world. Stamp thematic museum. The museum contains all zodiac stamps and some zodiac stamps issued by more than 100 countries and regions on five continents since 1950. It is a specialized museum for collecting, displaying and utilizing zodiac stamps, researching and spreading zodiac culture and zodiac stamp collecting.

Third stop: Suzhou Chamber of Commerce Museum

The Suzhou Chamber of Commerce Museum was the second chamber of commerce museum in the country after the China Chamber of Commerce Museum in Pingyao, Shanxi. The museum vividly introduces the ups and downs of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce since its birth, and shows the historical context of the Suzhou Private Chamber of Commerce's transformation and development through innovation. This is the 100-year exhibition of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, a concentrated display of Suzhou's modern business culture, and a microcosm of the development of Suzhou's modern history. Route 4

From the exquisite brick carvings, to the magical ancient Chinese medicine, to the art of Su embroidery with needle and thread, every museum is filled with endless surprises.

First stop: Suzhou Embroidery Museum

The exhibition hall of Suzhou Embroidery Museum covers an area of ??about 300 square meters. This highly summarizes the long history of Suzhou embroidery art. From the ** *With more than 200 works, visitors can appreciate the evolution of Su embroidery art.

Second stop: Suzhou Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Tuesday to Saturday 8:30-15:30, free and open

The Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine is located on Jingde Road "Chunhui Hall" at No. 330. "Chunhui Hall" is the former residence of Shen Shixing, the number one scholar in Suzhou during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

The basic exhibits in the museum are classified into ceramics, bronzes, miscellaneous items, ancient Chinese medicine books, statues of famous doctors, relics of famous doctors, specimens of traditional Chinese medicine, etc. The museum also casts a bronze bust of Ye Tianshi, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, and has produced multimedia navigation software for the museum, equipped with a touch computer. Through three-dimensional animation explanations, everyone can vividly and intuitively walk into traditional Chinese medicine and understand traditional Chinese medicine culture.

The third stop: Suzhou Brick Sculpture Museum

The Suzhou Brick Sculpture Museum is hidden in the long alley of Sufeng Lane, Tianguanfang, Xueshi Street. It was once the former residence of Wang Hao, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. Part of the old house. Various brick sculptures are displayed in the museum. Among them, the Su-style brick carving is the most important representative of southern brick carving art and is known as the "Show of the South". Route 5

The museum hidden in the Pingjiang Historical and Cultural District is a great place to spend a day walking around and checking in. It is a beautiful thing to walk through the long and narrow streets, climb the ancient city wall, and overlook the bustling Suzhou City.

First stop: Su Fan Museum

The Su Fan Museum has many famous fans and bamboo-carved fan bones, such as Zhang Daqian, Pu Xin_, Qian Song_ and other famous artists. There are also many styles, such as Sandalwood fan, round fan, lacquer fan, feather fan, etc. In addition, there are also display items related to fans, such as fan pendants, fan bags, fan boxes, fan-making tools, etc.

On January 16, 2020, the Suzhou Fan Museum (No. 16, in front of Weidaoguan, Pingjiang Road, Gusu District) announced the renovation of culturally protected buildings and the renovation of fire protection facilities. The construction period will be about 480 days, and the museum will be temporarily closed to the public during the renovation. open. You can come and visit again in the future.

Second stop: China Kunqu Opera Museum

9:00-16:30 (Tuesday to Sunday, closed on Monday)

0512-67271663

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The China Kun Opera Museum is the only professional art museum in the country that integrates the history, culture, and art of Kun Opera, with the purpose of display, performance, preservation, utilization, and research. Listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit).

Third stop: Suzhou Pingtan Museum

9:00—16:30 (Tuesday to Sunday, closed on Monday)

0512—67271797

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The building area of ??Suzhou Pingtan Museum is 839 square meters. The museum currently contains more than 10,000 volumes of various precious cultural relics, ancient books and historical materials on Suzhou Pingtan, which was developed on the basis of the original Suzhou Opera Research Laboratory and Pingtan Research Laboratory.

The fourth stop: Suzhou City Wall Museum

The Suzhou City Wall Museum is located in the hollow part of the southern section of the city wall in the Xiangmen section of Suzhou City. The exhibitions in the museum are divided into two floors, with a "preface hall" ", "Thousand Years of City History", "City Gate Story", "City and Outside the City"

"City Head Memory" and "City Wall Reappearance" are six exhibition halls. Here, pictures, models and some real objects are used to display the formation and development history of Suzhou's city walls in various historical periods. Route 6

First go to No. 8 Dinghui Temple Lane to grab a cup of strawberry snacks, then stroll from the Wu Zuoren Museum to the Suzhou Zhuangyuan Museum, and then spend a day on Pingjiang Road. This is the correct route. Open method.

First stop: Suzhou Number One Scholar Museum

Suzhou has always been the hometown of Number One Scholar, with 45 literary champions and 5 martial arts champions appearing in history. The Suzhou Zhuangyuan Museum takes the display of Suzhou's Zhuangyuan culture as an entry point, highlights Suzhou's urban spirit of "advocating literature", and uses the clues of "Number One Scholar" to sort out the context of Suzhou's ancient buildings and old houses.

Second stop: Wu Zuoren Museum

9:00—12:00, 12:30-17:00 (admission ends at 16:00)

The museum is closed on Mondays (except statutory holidays)

An online real-name system is implemented to make timely reservations for visits

Mr. Wu Zuoren was born in Suzhou and spent his youth in Suzhou. During his lifetime, he and Ms. Xiao Shufang paid great attention to the construction and development of their hometown, donated more than 100 paintings and calligraphy works to their hometown, and commissioned Mr. Dai Nianci to design the Wu Zuoren Art Museum.

The art museum covers an area of ??1,430 square meters, with a construction area of ??780 square meters. It has successively launched "But Adding Color to the River and Mountains - Wu Zuoren and Xiao Shufang's "Foziling Reservoir" Research Exhibition", "This Body Still Not Out of Suzhou - Wu Zuoren and Suzhou Research Exhibition (First Edition)" and other exhibitions.

Third stop: Art Museum

The Suzhou Ancient Stone Carving Art Museum has a collection of many exquisite stone carvings. The museum displays Buddhist statues and stone carving column bases from the Song Dynasty, fine stone carvings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, tomb stone carvings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, memorial arches, small stone carvings from Suzhou and other artistic fine works. These exhibits are made of various materials and categories, spanning thousands of years, and fully reflect the exquisite skills of Wudi craftsmen. Route 7

After walking through this museum route, you have just finished walking through Shiquan Street and entering the territory of Shizi Street. There is no place where you can most deeply feel the style of old Suzhou than here.

First stop: Soochow University Museum

Due to the epidemic, Soochow University Campus Appreciation Day is suspended

Opening hours will be notified later

You can enter the "Soochow University" WeChat public account to obtain visiting information in time

The former exhibition hall of the Soochow University Museum is the former Simade Gymnasium of Soochow University, and the rear exhibition hall was expanded on the former site of the Simade Swimming Pool. ***Three floors. Looking from a distance, the museum has a simple and elegant style.

The museum includes the Suzhou University Heroes Exhibition Hall, the "Soochow Stele Gallery" Exhibition Hall, the Museum Academician Exhibition Hall, the "Centennial Fragrance" Exhibition Hall, the "Art Garden Essence" Exhibition Hall, the "Blue and White World" Exhibition Hall, the Ancient Books Exhibition Hall and Cultural Relics There are multiple exhibition halls such as the integrated exhibition hall, which is enough for everyone to visit for a long time.

Second stop: Suzhou Education Museum

No entry from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00-17:00 to 16:00, closed on Mondays

Suzhou Education The museum is located in Chaiyuan, No. 44, Jukuu Lane, Gucheng District, Suzhou. There are waterside pavilions, rockeries, flowers and trees here, and the environment is very good.

The history of education in Suzhou is displayed in the museum. Here we can see from Taibo Jianwu, to Yanyan Chuanxue, Tantai Lectures, and then to the successive births of government schools, prefecture schools, and county schools. , with a history of academies, social studies, and kindergartens becoming popular, it is very suitable for parents to visit with their children.

The third stop: Subang Cuisine Museum

In the Nanyuan Hotel on Shiquan Street, there is a Subang Cuisine Museum hidden deep inside. There are rest areas and exhibit display cabinets on the left side of the hall in the museum, and the spacious entrance hall of the museum is on the right side. There is a Subang cuisine cultural experience restaurant on the second floor, which foodies must not miss. Route 8

Walk along Renmin Road and finally stroll to Daoqian Street. While checking in at the museum, you can also feel the prosperity of the city~

First stop: Suzhou Police Museum< /p>

The Suzhou Police Museum was originally the Jiangsu Procuratorate and Suzhou Prefectural Supervisor. After the Revolution of 1911, it was established as the Jiangsu High Procuratorate (Court) Detention Center. Shi Liang, one of the Seven Gentlemen, was once imprisoned. The prison was called the Seven Gentleman's prison. Also known as Suzhou Anti-Drug Museum.

Second stop: Suzhou Stele Museum

Every Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-16:00 (closed on Mondays, except statutory holidays)

This The museum implements all reservations for admission

Visitors can make reservations to visit the museum through the Cultural Suzhou Cloud Platform

The Suzhou Stele Museum is a professional museum specializing in the collection, research, display and reproduction of ancient inscriptions. The building is located in Suzhou Confucian Temple School. The basic exhibitions on display in the museum include: "Exhibition of the Four Song Dynasty Steles", "Exhibition of Confucius Culture in Dacheng Hall", "Exhibition of Suzhou Industrial and Commercial Economic Steles in the Qing Dynasty", "Exhibition of Ancient Calligraphy Steles", "Exhibition of Fan Zhongyan and Mansion in Minglun Hall" "Exhibition of Confucian Inscriptions", "Exhibition of Ancient Agricultural Economic Inscriptions", "Exhibition of Modern Calligraphy Inscriptions", "Exhibition of Deshan Academy", "Exhibition of Qingfengtang Lianshi Culture", etc.

Third stop: Yan Wen_Memorial Hall

9:00—12:00, 12:30-17:00 (no entry at 16:00)

< p>Closed on Mondays (except statutory holidays)

An online real-name system is implemented to make timed reservations for visits

Yan Wen_Memorial Hall is the original site of Suzhou Art College (Suzhou Art Museum) and is currently the only one in the country. It is one of the original school buildings of the four famous art schools of the Republic of China. The main building is the Greek-style teaching building built under the leadership of Mr. Yan Wen_, commonly known as the "Rome Building".

Historical materials on Mr. Yan Wen_’s life are displayed here all year round. In particular, the classrooms, school flags, school emblems, school magazines and other physical documents used by Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts are restored, and interviews with old alumni of Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts are screened.