What Museums Are There in Zhengzhou and Which Ones Are Fun

There are many fun places to visit outdoors in Zhengzhou, but there will always be a time when it rains. If you are traveling to Zhengzhou and it happens to rain, you can choose to visit a museum. So, what museums are there in Zhengzhou? Let’s take a look!

1、 Henan Provincial Museum

The Henan Provincial Museum was founded in 1927, one of the earliest museums established in China. It is also one of the first batch of museums to be included in the central and local co-construction of national-level museums. The Henan Provincial Museum has a collection of over 170,000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics, especially the prehistoric relics, Shang and Zhou bronzes, ceramics from all dynasties, jade articles and stone carvings are the most distinctive. There are areas such as the Primitive Society Exhibition Hall, the Xia Shang Exhibition Hall, the Western Zhou Exhibition Hall, the Eastern Zhou Exhibition Hall, the Han Dynasty Exhibition Hall, the Han and Jin Dynasty Exhibition Hall, the Sui and Tang Dynasty Exhibition Hall and the Song and Yuan Dynasty Exhibition Hall.

Ticket price: Free

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (stop booking 1 hour before closing), closed every Monday (except national holidays).

Address: No. 8, Agriculture Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City.

Notes:

According to the reservation platform of the Henan Provincial Museum: To do a good job in epidemic prevention and control and ensure your health and safety, visitors from medium and high-risk areas and visitors with a history of travel in medium and high-risk areas within 14 days will not be received for the time being. All personnel entering the museum are required to wear masks throughout the process, show their health code and itinerary code to the staff, and cooperate with temperature measurement. Visitors from outside Zhengzhou need to have a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 72 hours to enter the museum.

2、 Zhengzhou Art Museum – Ruida Hall

The museum regularly exhibits Chinese and foreign art and calligraphy works. It also hosts various touring art exhibitions every year. Recent exhibitions:

“The Second Season of the Yellow River Culture Aesthetic Research Theme Exhibition” series

Time: December 28, 2021 – March 31, 2022

“Golden Tiger Presents Auspiciousness, Green City Spring New” Zhengzhou Spring Festival Calligraphy Exhibition of Famous Masters

Opening time: January 28, 2022 – March 31, 2022

Ticket price: Free

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (stop entering at 16:30)

Address: No. 83, Ruida Road, Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou City

Notes:

According to the automatic reply of the official WeChat account of the Zhengzhou Art Museum:

1. Visitors must make an online appointment on the platform and enter the museum in a limited flow. If you are unable to arrive on time, please cancel the order in time in “Personal Center – My Orders” to give other users the opportunity to enter the museum.

2. Epidemic prevention and control is everyone’s responsibility. After successful reservation, visitors need to have their body temperature measured, scan their health code and itinerary code. Visitors from outside Zhengzhou City (including those who have recently visited other provinces in Zhengzhou) need to provide a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 72 hours to enter the museum. Once inside the museum, you must wear a mask at all times and keep a distance of 1.5 meters or more from others while queuing.

3. During the epidemic period, due to crowd control, the museum can only enter through online appointment and does not accept on-site registration.

4. After successful online appointment, you can enter the museum from the South Gate of the new Art Museum building or the main entrance of the Ruida building with the appointment code or the successful appointment SMS.

5. Children entering the museum must be accompanied by their parents. Each adult can only bring 2 children (over 60 years old or under 14 years old).

3、 Zhengzhou Museum – Wenhan Street Building

The new building of Zhengzhou Museum is a national extra-large museum. The exterior design follows the concept of “the center of China, the crown of Huaxia”. Looking at the museum from a distance, it is like “a yellow dragon gathering treasures, a world of abundant objects”, highlighting Zhengzhou’s profound cultural heritage and vibrant contemporary atmosphere. The museum has 21 exhibition halls, planning 20 exhibitions, divided into basic exhibitions, special exhibitions and temporary exhibitions.

Ticket price: Free

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (stop booking at 15:50, stop entering at 16:00), closed every Tuesday (except national holidays).

Address: No. 9, Wenhan Street, Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou City.

Notes:

1. According to the epidemic prevention and control requirements of Zhengzhou City, Zhengzhou Museum implements a reservation system for visits. Please make an online reservation in advance to avoid delaying your normal visit.

2. Visitors must cooperate with temperature measurement, wear masks throughout the process, and enter the venue with a reservation code, personal health code, and communication itinerary code. Visitors from outside the province who come (return) to Zhengzhou need to have a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours. Visitors from high- and medium-risk areas and visitors with a history of travel in high- and medium-risk areas within 14 days are not accepted.

4、 Zhengzhou Museum – Songshan Road Building

A local comprehensive museum, rated as a “national first-class museum”, its predecessor was the Zhengzhou City Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall established in August 1928. It is committed to historical research, cultural relic protection, exhibition, and social education in Zhengzhou area. It has received a large number of visitors, and is a national patriotic education base, an important window to display Zhengzhou’s long history and brilliant culture.

Ticket price: Free

Opening hours: Summer: 9:00-17:30 (stop entering at 17:00); Winter: 9:00-17:00 (stop entering at 16:30), closed every Tuesday (except national holidays).

Address: No. 168, South Songshan Road, Zhengzhou City.

Notes:

1. According to the epidemic prevention and control requirements of Zhengzhou City, Zhengzhou Museum implements a reservation system for visits. Please make an online reservation in advance and bring your original valid second-generation ID card for your visit.

2. Visitors must cooperate with temperature measurement, wear masks throughout the process, and enter the venue with a reservation code, personal health code, and communication itinerary code. Visitors from outside the province who come (return) to Zhengzhou need to have a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours. Visitors from high- and medium-risk areas and visitors with a history of travel in high- and medium-risk areas within 14 days are not accepted.

5、 Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum

The Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum was listed as a national third-class museum in 2018. Its exterior wall is inlaid with porcelain fragments from the Lushan Duandian kiln in the Tang and Song Dynasties, as well as thousands of ceramics from the Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum. It mainly focuses on ancient ceramics (with the Yuan Dynasty as the lower limit). The collection includes many fine and unique ceramic pieces from all dynasties in the Central Plains region. The exhibits are extremely rich and magnificent, surpassing many national first-class museums.

Ticket price: Free

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (stop entering at 16:30), closed every Monday (except legal holidays)

Address: No. 36, Shunhe Road, Shui District, Zhengzhou City (West of the South Gate of Zijingshan Park)

Ticket reservation: Make a reservation in the background of the official WeChat public account of Zhengzhou Elephant Ceramics Museum.

Notes:

1. Group tours are not accepted for the time being.

2. Visitors need to show their original ID card and cooperate with “temperature measurement + code presentation” before entering the museum.

3. You must wear a mask at all times, and please keep a distance (1.5 meters) while watching the exhibition.

4. Visitors with abnormal body temperature (≥37.3℃) or cough or other abnormalities will be refused entry.

5. Visitors with a history of travel in key epidemic areas at home and abroad and who have not been quarantined for 14 days will be refused reservation!

6、 Henan Natural History Museum

Formerly the Provincial Geological Museum, the museum covers an area of 5,800 square meters and has an exhibition area of 4,100 square meters. The building is novel and unique, with a unique style. The museum has an Earth Hall, a Dinosaur Hall, a Biological Evolution Hall, an Ancient Elephant Hall, a Mineral Resources Hall, a Geological Environment Hall, a Mineral Hall, a 4D Motion Picture Theater (Multifunctional Hall) and an Earthquake and Tsunami Experience Theater. There is a mineral forest, a science square, dinosaur sculptures, etc. outside the museum. Here, you can enjoy the natural wonders created by the earth’s movements.

Ticket price: Free

Opening hours: 9:00～16:30 (stop entering after 16:00), open from Tuesday to Sunday.

Address: No. 18, Jinshui East Road, Zhengdong New District, Zhengzhou City, 100 meters north of the intersection of Jinshui East Road and Agriculture South Road.

Notes:

1. In order to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control at the museum and meet the needs of visitors to the greatest extent, in accordance with relevant regulations, the Henan Natural History Museum implements a network reservation (real-name system) and instant traffic control for visitors, and when the number of people in the exhibition hall reaches the peak value set, the museum will suspend admission. Please wait patiently for those who have made an appointment. After the number of people in the museum drops below the peak value, they will be allowed to enter the museum in batches with intervals.

2. According to the epidemic prevention and control requirements of Zhengzhou City, visitors entering the museum must wear masks throughout the process, cooperate with temperature measurement, scan and show their itinerary code, health code, and reservation code in the health inspection area of the museum for verification. Visitors from outside Zhengzhou need to have a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 72 hours, and after confirmation by the staff, they can enter the museum through security checks.