What are the museums in Shantou?

Shantou Municipal Museum, Shantou Revolutionary History Museum, Shantou Customs Customs History Exhibition Hall, Chaozhou Opera Art Museum, Shantou Opening History and Culture Exhibition Hall

International Museum Day will be ushered in this weekend. On such days, various museums will hold various activities. There are also many museums in Shantou, Guangdong. You can start from the museum to understand a city and learn more stories. Let’s learn about the museum together!

Shantou Municipal Museum

The characteristic of this museum is that the number of precious cultural relics in the venue's collection is the largest among Shantou museums.

Shantou City Museum is a national third-level museum founded in 1960. The museum collects various historical ceramics since the Neolithic period, as well as various bronzes, jade, gold, etc. . The collection inside reaches more than 12,000 items.

Recent exhibitions:

"Bronze Road - Special Exhibition of Northern Bronze Culture in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods in Guyuan, Ningxia"

Time: May 16 to July 10th

Location: Exhibition Hall 5B on the fifth floor of Shantou Museum

In the exhibition, more than 300 cultural relics that bear witness to the smoke imprints of the northern battlefield will be displayed. They all span more than 1,700 kilometers. When you come to Shantou, you can still get a glimpse of the mysterious history among the traces left behind!

On May 18, the curator will take you to see the museum. In the "Treasures from Eastern Guangdong - Museum Collection Exhibition" and "Rivers Flow into the Sea - Shantou History Exhibition" exhibition halls on the 4th floor, VR panoramic experience, Multimedia imaging and other high technologies are waiting for your visit, and precious historical materials will take you into that time and review our history.

Address: Shantou Revolutionary History Museum at the junction of Yuemei Road and Handi Road, Jinping District

Features:

Shantou’s first revolutionary history museum< /p>

Shantou Revolutionary History Museum is the first revolutionary history special museum in Shantou. It was established in September 2014.

The museum has six units: the Eastern Expedition Memorial Hall, the August 1st Nanchang Uprising Memorial Hall, the old site of Guiyuan, the Tropic of Cancer Sign Tower, the Cai Chusheng Film History Museum and the Shantou Urban Development Exhibition Hall. The museum currently has 8 senior, middle and junior professionals, 502 pieces/sets of various cultural relics, and nearly 20,000 pieces/sets of historical materials and related pictures.

Museum Day Activities

On May 18, the museum will hold various exhibitions and activities to welcome the general audience. Such as the Eastern Expedition Exhibition at the Eastern Expeditionary Army Revolutionary Historical Relics Exhibition Hall, the "Seven Days of Red Chaoshan" exhibition at the August 1st Nanchang Uprising Memorial Hall, the Cai Chusheng Film Historical Relics Exhibition at the Cai Chusheng Film Historical Relics Museum, and the "Bravely Standing on the Tide" exhibition at the Shantou Urban Development Exhibition Hall. ——Shantou Reform and Opening Up Achievements Exhibition”.

Shantou Customs Customs History Exhibition Hall

Features:

A microcosm of the development of foreign trade in Shantou Port

In the beautiful Queshi Bay of Shantou City On the North Bank, beside the west extension road of Haibin, stands a Chao Customs Office Building, commonly known as the "Bell Tower", which was built in the early Republic of China and once served as a landmark building in Shantou City. It is now the Shantou Customs History Exhibition Hall. The Chaoguan Customs Bell Tower has experienced nearly a hundred years of vicissitudes and is the epitome of the development of Shantou Port's foreign trade.

Address: Teochew Opera Art Museum, No. 2 Waima Road, Huai'an Juwei, Haian Street, Jinping District

Features: Recalling the 400-year history of Teochew opera

The Teochew Opera Art Museum is divided into historical With three parts: art and people, the museum displays a large number of Teochew opera costumes, props, musical instruments, scripts, etc. from the historical period. Visitors can see the more than 400 years of Teochew opera history in this venue.

In the display window of the Teochew Opera Art Museum, in a corner of the museum are exquisite chairs and quilts with the words "Sing Chau Taorong Confucian Music Society Huicun".

On Museum Day, the Teochew Opera Art Museum will hold a Teochew Opera history and art exhibition, a photo exhibition of Teochew opera’s outstanding plays, Teochew opera inheritance and foreign cultural exchanges, a calligraphy and painting exhibition of the Teochew Opera Art Museum, etc. Audiences can also visit with the "Visiting Guide to Shantou Teochew Opera Art Museum" carefully written and printed by the museum.

Address: No. 6, Hudi Road, Jinping District

Shantou Historical and Cultural Exhibition Hall

Features: The museum displays the prosperity of Shantou since its opening

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If you want to understand the history and culture since the opening of the port, you must come to the Cultural Exhibition Hall of the opening of the port. The venue condenses the historical development of Shantou since the opening of the port and also displays the prosperity since the opening of the port. scene.

This museum was built in 1907 and has three and a half floors. The venue is well preserved and the overall European style.

Since 2010, the Shantou Port Cultural Exhibition Hall has been open to tourists free of charge every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday (excluding holidays). Visitors only need to bring their ID cards to get tickets for free and enter the museum. There are Staff explain.

On May 18, the museum will hold a digital platform launch ceremony for the Shantou Middle Station Exhibition Hall, a secret transportation line from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Central Soviet Area.

Address: Yongping, Jinping District Building 1, Road

In addition to the activities carried out by major museums in the city, there are more exciting museums.

For example, the Chenghai District Museum holds the "Chenghai Sages and History and Humanities Overview" exhibition, the Guishan Han Dynasty Ruins Exhibition, and the Ming and Qing Porcelain Collection Exhibition; Chaohongji Zhenbao Jewelry Museum will carry out the theme of ancient makeup Lecture - "The Ancients Loved Makeup More than You" and the launch of a new online experience "VR Wind and Rain Bridge" project, etc.