Liaoning Provincial Museum One-Day Tour Strategy

Liaoning Provincial Museum is a comprehensive museum with many different exhibition halls. It is a good place to take children for a tour. The collection is rich and it is the most worth-seeing provincial museum in the three northeastern provinces. So what exhibitions are worth visiting at the Liaoning Provincial Museum?

1. One-day Tour Strategy

Ancient Liaoning

280,000 years ago, Liaoning land began to thrive. The main exhibits are “Cave Years”, “Jinniushan Site”, “Miaohoushan Site”, “Pigeon Hole Site”, “Chahai Site”, “Xinle Site”, “Houwa Site”, “Ancient Country Civilization”, etc. You can focus on seeing ceremonial jade, dragon totems, Red Mountain goddess heads, painted pottery, jade ornaments, jade pendants, burial culture, etc.

If you look carefully and take pictures, one exhibition hall will take about 30 minutes.

China Currency Exhibition

There are over 2,400 exhibits, from the early Shang Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, divided into coins of different dynasties, ancient Chinese gold and silver coins, banknotes of different dynasties, ancient coin casting technology, overseas coins, etc. You can see the evolution process and historical overview of ancient Chinese currency. Money-loving friends should get some good fortune haha.

Manchu Folk Custom Exhibition

The Manchus living in the White Mountains and Black Waters, their descendants are mainly distributed in the three northeastern provinces. Qing Palace themed TV series will show us their customs. Every exhibit reflects the grace, appearance and charm of a nation, and is a vivid side of exploring and understanding the ancient civilization and lifestyle of the Manchus. The daily life, clothing and headwear, marriage ceremonies, festive customs, ancestral worship ceremonies, dance art, etc. in the exhibition hall will make us feel very close. It is recommended to watch “Empresses in the Palace” again before going.

Buddhist Image Exhibition

The Buddhist images collected are mainly stone sculptures and gilded bronze statues. Stone sculptures are mainly from the Northern Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties, and gilt bronze statues are from the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Qing Dynasty. The statues can be divided into two styles, Han and Tibetan, and they are artistic treasures in China’s cultural treasury. The Northern Dynasties are elegant and graceful, the Sui and Tang Dynasties are elegant and dignified, the Song Dynasty is realistic and natural, the Ming and Qing Dynasties are simple and secular, Tibetan Buddhist images are widely themed and unique in style, gradually shifting towards the Central Plains style from the Yuan Dynasty, which also reflects the political and cultural origins at that time.

You can make an appointment one day in advance on the Liaoning Provincial Museum’s WeChat official account. Bring your ID card to enter. Friendly reminder: it is closed on Mondays. It is recommended that you reserve half a day to visit properly.

2. Museum Introduction

Liaoning Provincial Museum is the first museum established in New China, and is renowned both at home and abroad for its rich collection and distinctive features. The total number of cultural relics in the collection is 112,000 (sets), among which the most distinctive and influential are the “Cao E’s Eulogy”, “Tang Dynasty Copy of Wang Xizhi’s One-Family Calligraphy”, Zhang Xu’s “Four Poems in Cursive Script”, “Ladies with Flowers in their Hair”, “Guoguo Madam’s Spring Outing”, the Northern Song Dynasty Huizong’s “Cursive Script Thousand Character Essay”, “Auspicious Cranes”, as well as Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan calligraphy and painting masterpieces, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing tapestry embroidery, Red Mountain Culture jadeware, Shang and Zhou Dynasty buried bronzeware, Liao Dynasty ceramics, stone inscriptions of all dynasties, Ming and Qing woodcuts.

The museum is equipped with a variety of facilities for conducting in-house education and outreach activities. These include a multi-functional hall, an academic lecture hall, an extracurricular education base for minors, and other service facilities including a parking lot, barrier-free access for the disabled, an audience service inquiry desk, touch screen guided tour, art shop, creative space, etc., to meet the needs of the audience in an all-round way.

3. Service Facilities

Luggage Storage: Bag storage is available, with a luggage storage area provided.

Scenic Area Explanation: Timed Explanation Service: Liaoning Provincial Museum offers free timed explanation services, where museum professional explainers provide a detailed introduction to the exhibition for the audience. The timed explanation service times are: 9:30/10:30/13:30/14:30.

Explanation Device Rental: Audio Guided Tour Service: This digital audio guided tour service includes images and audio explanations of selected exhibits in the Liaoning Provincial Museum permanent exhibitions (audio guided tours for the Ancient Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition, the Ancient Chinese Painting Exhibition, and the Ancient Chinese Tapestry Embroidery Exhibition are currently under production), with Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean language versions. To use this service, simply provide your valid ID card and it is free to rent. The rental desk is located at the museum’s first floor lobby information desk.

Baby Carriage Rental: Free baby carriages are provided.

Disabled Access: Barrier-free access for the disabled.