Guangzhou Museums

Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province in the southern part of the People's Republic of China. A famous historical city, Guangzhou, was the capital city for three Chinese dynasties in ancient days, the Nan Yue (South Yue), the Nan Han (South Han) and the Nanming (South Ming). With virtue of being one of the 24 most famous historical cultural cities, Guangzhou became a tourist destination.

Guangzhou boasts many tourist attractions like the White Cloud Hill Scenic Spot, Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou Zoo, Six Banyan Temple and Flowery Pagoda, Dr. Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall. Guangzhou has many reasons to be visited again and again. If you are interested in people and their culture and history fascinates you, then Guangzhou Museums should top your Guangzhou itinerary.

The museums in Guangzhou are the best places to know about the country that is China, the city of Guangzhou, its history, people, art and culture. The Western Han Dynasty Nanyue King Mausoleum Museum is the oldest and largest Han tomb will amaze you with its collection of funerary objects in Lingnan Area.

Only Guangzhou gives you the opportunity to step in a museum that was built in the year 1380. The Guangzhou Museum features exhibits explaining the city's history all the way back to prehistoric times.

Some museums display an amazing collection of contemporary Chinese art. Special exhibitions often present experimental work that reflects the changing political and social environment of this developing city. The museums often serve as the meeting points of aesthetics and culture of the Orient with the West when they showcase the latest works in the field of arts from both the Asian and European countries. The Guangdong Museum of Art does just this. And, you thought museums were all about relics from the past!