Hunan Museum
A fresh new Hunan Museum, Hunan's largest historical museum of fine arts portraying the old culture, has opened after five years of excellent expansion. The Hunan Museum, one of the eight national museums co-constructed by the central and local governments, reopened to the public on November 29, 2017, giving people better access to learn about Hunan's civilization growth and enjoy the profound cultural mystery.
Hunan Museum is divided into five levels and one underground basement, with two permanent exhibitions (Mawangdui and Hunanese) and four themed exhibitions (bronze, pottery, calligraphy and paintings, and crafts) to showcase exceptional human cultural heritages. The Multi-function Hall is at the top, while the visitor cafeteria and roof garden area are on the fourth floor. On the third floor, there is a themed exhibition as well as the Changsha Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tombs Exhibition. Three old tombs from the West Han Dynasty were discovered between 1972 and 1974, with a highly complicated tomb structure and over 3000 burial objects, including silks, manuscripts, silk paintings, lacquer, pottery, seals, Chinese herbal medicines, and other items, making it one of the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century.
On the second level, next to the Education Center, the Hunanese Exhibition is a particular local history and cultural investigation of natural living and civilization process. It is divided into five sections. Home, Where Do I (Hunan) Come From - Huzhua Mountain Ruins, Wealth of Lake Dongting, Trace of Everyday Life - Minfang Lei Urn-shaped Bronze Wine-Vessel, a national treasure reunited with fragments purchased from overseas in 2014, and Spirit of Hunan showcasing Tan Sitong's heptachord On the first level, there are two temporary exhibition galleries on the left and centre fronts, Mawangdui Tombs Exhibition and academic theater, book store, VR experience area, and bookstore.
Location: No.50 Dongfeng Rd, Kaifu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province
Website: www.hnmuseum.com/en
