Sichuan Museum

Arriving just in time for the ginkgo leaves to turn golden, a visit to the Sichuan Provincial Museum offers a unique experience. Besides the permanent exhibitions, they are setting up other temporary displays. A museum visit isn't a once-in-a-lifetime event; frequent visits are the best way to go.

The Sichuan Museum, the largest comprehensive museum in Southwest China, was founded in 1941 and is located at No. 47, 251 Huanhua South Road, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, covering a total area of ​​12,000 square meters. In 2009, the new building was completed and its name was changed from "Sichuan Museum" to "Sichuan Museum."

Our first stop in Chengdu was the Sichuan Museum. The two-hour lecture was fascinating and the mysterious Queen Mother of the West left a lasting impression. There's also a special exhibition on the first floor dedicated to the Sichuan-Chongqing Contribution to the Great Victory, which was incredibly moving!

From May 1 to August 31, 2025, the Sichuan Museum held the "Long-lasting Patterns-Special Exhibition of Auspicious Patterns on Cultural Relics of Various Ethnic Groups in Sichuan" in the temporary exhibition hall on the first floor. Auspicious patterns are the bright flowers in the treasure house of Chinese traditional culture. In Sichuan, a multi-ethnic family, people of all ethnic groups work together to build their homes with their hard-working hands, write history and create the future with their wise minds and rich imagination, and integrate all things in nature, humanities and spiritual beliefs to create countless patterns with beautiful meanings. These patterns that integrate culture, nationality and decoration vividly reflect the lifestyles, customs, religious beliefs and aesthetic tastes of the people of all ethnic groups in Sichuan with the most pure and simple artistic means, and express the delicate emotions and beautiful visions of the people of all ethnic groups in Sichuan. This exhibition brings together cultural relics from various ethnic groups in Sichuan, showing the audience how these colorful patterns have influenced and reorganized and integrated each other in the process of communication, exchange and integration among ethnic groups, forming a harmonious picture of "you are in me, I am in you", and depicting the magnificent picture of the people of all ethnic groups in Bashu using artistic language to weave the spiritual home of the Chinese nation.

Sichuan Museum holds a special exhibition of "Legendary Journey" Marco Polo and the World on the Silk Road. Exhibition name: "Legendary Journey: Marco Polo and the World on the Silk Road" Exhibition Exhibition date: December 21, 2024-April 15, 2025 Exhibition area: 1,200 square meters Exhibition line: about 220 meters Number of exhibits: 275 pieces/sets of exhibits (84 pieces/sets of cultural relics from Italy, 191 pieces/sets of Chinese cultural relics) Exhibition era: Han Dynasty to Qing Dynasty Exhibition location: Temporary Exhibition Halls 2 and 3 on the first floor of Sichuan Museum Ticket information: Adult ticket: 85 yuan/person; Discount ticket: 45 yuan/person; Parent-child ticket for one adult and one child: 120 yuan; Family ticket for two adults and one child: 200 yuan Exhibition time: 9:00-17:00 every Tuesday to Sunday (admission stops at 16:00); closed every Monday (except national statutory holidays). The exhibition brings together nearly 300 pieces (sets) of exquisite cultural relics from 40 cultural and museum institutions in Italy and China, discussing the exchange and mutual learning between Eastern and Western civilizations in history. The cultural relics are diverse in categories, including oil paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, ceramics, glass jewelry, textiles, blue and white porcelain, etc., presenting the magnificent pictures of the Eurasian continent and the Silk Road in a multi-dimensional and three-dimensional way. The manuscript (replica) of "Huan Yu Ji" from Italy, Venetian gold coins, jewelry, and the Yuan blue and white series of exhibits that wrote the glorious chapter of the Yuan Dynasty serve as a bridge.

It was my first time to visit the Sichuan Museum. There are three floors in total. There are many cultural relics worth seeing, especially the popular Sanxingdui. You can stay for a while to admire the handsome Sanxingdui. After visiting Sanxingdui, you can also go to the museum to see other cultural relics, which is also highly recommended. I look forward to more cultural relics being exhibited in the Sichuan Museum in the future.

In the green belt square on the left side of the entrance to Sichuan Botanical Garden, there are pictures of Tianfu Water Culture and the bronze statues of the Yangtze River God and the two sisters. The worship of the heaven, earth, moon, earth and rivers is a primitive and simple kind mentality of the ancient ancestors to be close to and respectful of nature, and it is also one of the most spiritual heritages in Chinese traditional culture. Worshiping rivers and rivers conveys people's desire for a better life with floods and droughts controlled by people, good weather and good harvests. In ancient China, people believed that there were four most important rivers in the world that flowed into the sea, namely the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Huai River, and the Ji River (which no longer exists today), called the "Four Rivers", and the Yangtze River was the first of the four rivers. The so-called "Jiangdu God" is the god of the Yangtze River. For more than 2,000 years, the worship of the Yangtze River God has been one of the most important national ceremonies in successive dynasties.

The temporary exhibition hall on the first floor of Sichuan Museum will exhibit "Ancient Road of Great Pass, Jingwei China-Special Exhibition of Heaven, Earth, People and Chinese Spirit on the Great Shu Road", which will be held from July 28 to November 3, 2024. The Shu Road is a grand road system artificially opened up in ancient times through the Qinba Mountains. It connects the Guanzhong Plain and the Bashu land, creating a miracle in the history of world transportation. For thousands of years, the ancestors crossed thousands of mountains and valleys, faced difficulties and dangers with fearlessness, and built a large channel for cultural integration in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins; they opened up the southwest with the merits of Jingwei, connected the Northern Silk Road, the Southern Silk Road, and even connected the Maritime Silk Road, promoting the exchange and mutual learning between Chinese civilization and world civilization. The Shu Road tells the epic story of humanistic inheritance and ecological protection along the way: wisdom as a road protector, romantic literati poetry, generous and tragic heroic aspirations, and magnificent iterative history... It not only depicts the magnificent epic of the Chinese nation's adaptation to nature and struggle for strength, but also a great witness to the historical process of the diversity and unity of Chinese civilization!