Yiwu Museum

Yiwu Museum

Yiwu Museum is a patriotic education base.

Yiwu Museum is one of the earlier-established county-level museums in China and is a comprehensive local museum. It was put into use in 1998. The site covers an area of 8,600 square meters, with a building area of 3,500 square meters and an exhibition hall area of 1,280 square meters. The exhibitions are divided into the Yiwu Historical Relics Exhibition and temporary exhibitions. The Historical Relics Exhibition displays unearthed cultural relics from various periods ranging from the Neolithic Age to the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as historical traces of notable local figures throughout history, arranged in chronological order. Currently, the museum houses a collection of over 5,000 cultural relics, including 22 national first-class relics, 35 second-class relics, and 350 third-class relics. It is particularly noted for its Western Zhou Dynasty proto-porcelain, Yue kiln porcelain from the Han to Six Dynasties period, gold and silverware from the Song Dynasty, and Longquan kiln porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty.

Construction of the new museum began in 2003. In 2014, it was confirmed that the new Yiwu Museum and Yiwu Art Museum would be located in the block west of Shangbo Road and north of Qingbo Road. The total planned land area for the project is 55,722 square meters, with a building footprint of 15,813 square meters. The total floor area is 62,310 square meters. The green space covers 19,720 square meters, with a green coverage rate of 34.58%. The new Yiwu Museum and Yiwu Art Museum are connected via an underground passage, sharing a unified overall design while maintaining the flexibility to operate separately or together.

The new Yiwu Museum is actually a combined entity of the Yiwu Museum and the China Trade Museum, dedicated to systematically collecting cultural memories of Yiwu’s history, as well as artifacts related to the history and current development of China’s trade and commerce. It undertakes research on China’s commercial activities and effectively communicates Chinese commercial culture to the public through exhibitions and extended educational programs, serving as a window into the Yiwu Small Commodities Market and China’s commercial trade.

Further Reading:

· National Third-Class Museum of China