What niche museums are recommended in Foshan?

When traveling to Foshan, the museum is the best place to learn about the city. Foshan has many popular museum attractions, but are there any niche museums worth visiting? Here are a few good places recommended by the editor. let's see!

From 2010 to 2010, the Foshan Ancient Town Historical Style Exhibition Hall had a total construction area of ??approximately 11,000 square meters, adjacent to Foshan Liang Garden and Shi'anli Ancient Residential Group, one of the four famous gardens in central Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. Through multimedia interaction, the museum is based on the historical development of Foshan's ancient town. It is divided into six thematic exhibition halls: metallurgy, traditional Chinese medicine, martial arts, folk culture, commercial culture, and ceramic treasures, fully displaying Foshan's rich historical culture and intangible characteristics. .

Visiting address|Foshan Ancient Town Historical Exhibition Hall

Opening hours|9:00-17:00 (closed at 16:30), closed every Monday and New Year's Eve.

Reservation method | Tickets are free. You need to follow the official WeChat account of Chancheng Museum in advance to make a reservation.

1. Foshan Ancient Town Historical Style Exhibition Hall

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Foshan’s iron smelting industry achieved rapid development with its convenient transportation, high-quality raw materials and advanced technology. It transformed from a farming town into an industrial and commercial town focusing on iron smelting. The National Ancient Temple is the iron speculator's guild in the context of industry segmentation. In order to promote the construction of Foshan Museum City, Chancheng District actively revitalized and utilized the cultural relics in the area, and built the Guogong Ancient Temple of the Foshan Metallurgical Industry Department in the Qing Dynasty into the Foshan Metallurgical Casting History Exhibition Hall to showcase the ups and downs of Foshan's metallurgical casting industry over the past millennium.

The National Ancient Temple Exhibition Hall now open is divided into five parts according to the order of chronological development. There are cultural relics and documents from different periods in the exhibition hall. Along the way, I sometimes stopped to watch and savor, and deeply understood the long history from "The Millennium Legend of Lingnan Fire" to "New Chapter of Modern Smelting and Casting".

Visiting address|Guogong Ancient Temple

Opening hours|9:00-17:00 (closed at 16:30), closed every Monday and New Year's Eve.

Reservation method | Tickets are free. You need to follow the official WeChat account of Chancheng Museum in advance to make a reservation.

2. Guogong Ancient Temple

Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Museum is the first trade museum in Guangdong with the theme of ceramic culture. The museum is divided into five parts: ceramic collection, pottery formation, kiln transformation, twenty-four lines of Shiwan pottery industry, and Shiwan pottery. Through the simulation of pottery scenes in the exhibition hall, the introduction of the exhibition of utensils of each dynasty, and the concentrated display of porcelain kiln categories, we can intuitively feel the continuously improving production technology of each dynasty and the constantly improving aesthetic needs of people in each dynasty.

Visiting address | Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Museum (Gaomiao Road)

Opening hours | 9:00-17:00 (closed after 16:30), Mondays except holidays Closed)

Reservation method | Free and open, please make a reservation in advance. The reservation telephone numbers are 82701218 and 82783950.

3. Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Museum

Tongqing Shiwan Doll Museum was established in 2001 and is located on the second floor of the production area of ??Meixin Ceramics Factory, covering an area of ??more than 2,000 square meters. As the first corporate museum established in the Shiwan ceramic industry, it comprehensively and systematically displays the five thousand years of development of Shiwan dolls and the ceramic treasures of Shiwan's famous ceramic masters since the Qing Dynasty.

Visiting address | No. 8 Art Pier

Opening hours | Monday to Friday 8:00-17:00, Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00.

Reservation method | Free and open, no reservation required.

4. Shiwan Doll Museum

The Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum is located in Zhaoxiang Huanggong Temple, a cultural relic protection unit in Chancheng District, Foshan City. It covers an area of ??about 3,000 square meters and is the first in China. A large Cantonese opera museum. The entire exhibition is divided into three parts: history, art, and figures, with 13 exhibition areas. There are more than 3,000 precious cultural relics such as Cantonese opera scripts, wooden fish books, posters, opera scenes, costumes, musical instruments, and earrings

From opium cigarette lanterns, the glazed tiles of the Old Summer Palace that were burned by fire, to "New Youth" and "Oriental" Magazine" and other century-old magazines. As the first campus museum in China, the Yinzhi Museum includes multiple special exhibitions (pavilions) such as ancient ceramics, ancient lamps, fossils and amber, ecological and environmental science, folk customs, and the Maritime Silk Road. It has a collection of 20 , more than 000 pieces of ancient ceramics (including specimens)

Visiting address|Foshan No. 2 Middle School-Yinzhi Museum

Opening hours|Monday to Saturday 9:10-16:30

How to make a reservation | Tickets are free, but reservation is required two days in advance. The reservation phone number is 13702424673 (Ms. Zhu)

5. Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum

The Zhixing Magic Lamp Museum has a collection of thousands of lamps, including pottery lamps, porcelain lamps, and copper lamps , glass lamps, etc. From the Warring States Period to the Republic of China, as well as unique ancient lamps collected from more than a dozen countries around the world.

When you walk into the Zhixing Ancient Lamp Museum, you will feel like you are in a time tunnel exploring lights, integrating with the primitive life of ancient humans, recalling Han culture with colorful lights and bronze crafts, and reveling in the Tang Dynasty The exquisite pottery and the wonderful creativity of fuel-saving lamps in the Song Dynasty lament the great changes brought to life by the invention of electric light and the development of science and technology.

Address|Dongpo Primary School

Opening hours|Monday to Saturday 9:00-17:00

Reservation method|Tickets are free, reservation phone number 15627266139.

6. Zhiyin Museum

The Zhixing Magic Lamp Museum has a collection of thousands of lamps, including ceramic lamps, porcelain lamps, copper lamps, glass lamps, etc. From the Warring States to the Republic of China, as well as unique ancient lamps collected from more than a dozen countries around the world.

When you walk into the Zhixing Ancient Lamp Museum, you will feel like you are in a time tunnel exploring lights, integrating with the primitive life of ancient humans, recalling Han culture with colorful lights and bronze crafts, and reveling in the Tang Dynasty The exquisite pottery and the wonderful creativity of fuel-saving lamps in the Song Dynasty lament the great changes brought to life by the invention of electric light and the development of science and technology.

Address|Dongpo Primary School

Opening hours|Monday to Saturday 9:00-17:00

Reservation method|Tickets are free, reservation phone number 15627266139.

7. Zhixing Ancient Lamp Museum

Since ancient times, literati and poets have loved wine, and there are countless poems and songs related to wine. Wine culture is a major feature of Foshan culture. The Lingnan Wine Culture Museum located in Shiwan, Foshan is currently the largest wine culture museum in Guangdong and is also a concentrated expression space of Foshan wine culture. There are more than 400 ancient pottery cellars in the ancient cellars of the Qing Dynasty, which are still used to store scarce high-end liquor. It is a large number of ceramic wine cellars in China with a history of more than 100 years.

Visiting address|Lingnan Wine Culture Museum

Opening hours|Monday to Saturday 9:00-17:00

How to make a reservation|Tickets are free. Please make a reservation in advance. The reservation phone number is 0757-82260130.

8. Zhixing Ancient Lantern Museum

The Lion Han Caizha (Foshan Lion Head) Intangible Experience Museum is hidden in the quaint alleys of Zinan Village. It is a national intangible cultural heritage Project: The traditional lion "Liu" made by Li Wei, the representative inheritor of Caizha (Foshan Lion Head). It is far different from the 3D printed lion head that once appeared on CCTV. Tradition and innovation collide here.

Here, you can experience Lion Head culture from many aspects. Walk in front of the wall covered with colorful comics and watch among the cute lion heads. When you are tired, sit down and make a unique "lion head mailbox".

Visiting address|Hanshi Caizha (Foshan Stone) Intangible Experience Center

Visiting time|10:00-17:00

Ticket price|Free

9. Lingnan Wine Culture Museum

Guangfu Family Training Museum, Foshan Renhao Museum, Zinan Village History Museum, and Renshan Museum are the Guangfu Family Training Museum’s “Benevolence” museum inherited by Zinan people. "Good" culture, learn the spirit of good people, and understand the "channel" of hometown culture. The deeds and historical materials displayed in the museum are not only spiritual food for the people of Zinan, but also help foreign tourists understand the spiritual civilization of filial piety, benevolence and kindness in Lingnan and the 300-year development history of Zinan Village.

Visiting address | Zinan Renshan Hall No. 3

Opening hours | Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 am to 12:00 noon, 14:00 pm to 17:00 pm .

Reservation method | Free and open.

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