Nanjing Museum

(Image source: www.nju.gov.cn)

Served as the Kuomintang's Preparatory Office of National Central Museum (founded by Mr. Cai Yuanpei in 1933), it is now a large comprehensive history and art museum, which covers a total area of over 70,000 square meters, including two imposing ancient Liao-style palaces. It has a collection of 420,000 pieces of relics of many kinds, more than 2,000 pieces of which are of national treasures, especially the relics of archaeological excavations, ethnic minorities, foreign countries, royal court, Qing Dynasty literature and of surrender rites of Japanese troops in the Second World War as well.

Address: No.321, Zhongshan Rd (East), Xuanwu District

Tel: 0086-025-84807923

Website: http://www.njmuseum.com/en/html/default.html

Open hours: 9:00-16:30(Closed every Monday)

Ticket price: Free

Traffic: Metro Line 2/Minggugong Station or Bus 5,34,201,201/Zhongshanmen Stop