Pinghu Museum

Pinghu Museum

Pinghu Museum is a science education base and a patriotic education base.

Established in 1958, Pinghu Museum is a comprehensive regional museum integrating functions such as collection, exhibition, education, research, cultural relics protection, and archaeological excavation. It also serves as a patriotic education base of Jiaxing City, a social science popularization demonstration base of Pinghu City, and a science education base of Pinghu City.

The current museum building was constructed in 1999, located at No. 372 Xinhua South Road, Danghu Subdistrict, Pinghu City, covering an area of 5 mu with a construction area of 4,900 square meters. The museum boasts a rich collection of cultural relics, including nearly 10,000 items across 17 categories such as pottery, porcelain, jade, calligraphy, paintings, bronzeware, and stoneware. Among them, there are 1,842 national precious relics classified as first-, second-, and third-grade. Representative relics that witness Pinghu’s millennia-long history include a red pottery trumpet-shaped dou from the Majiabang Culture, a carved-pattern ribbed jar from the Songze Culture, a Liangzhu Culture jade cong, a Tang Dynasty gilded bronze Buddha head, and a Ming Dynasty “Lotus Sutra” scroll inscribed with Zheng He’s name in gold ink by Yuan Jing. The museum also houses a large number of high-quality calligraphy and painting works from the Ming and Qing dynasties and modern times, such as Wen Zhengming’s running script seven-character poem axis, Hua Yan’s figure portrait scroll, Zhang Daqian’s landscape scroll, and works by masters of the late Qing “Shanghai School” such as Wu Changshuo, Zhao Zhiqian, and Ren Yi. This constitutes another major highlight of Pinghu Museum.

The museum has two permanent exhibitions — “Exhibition of Historical Relics” and “Exhibition of Collected Calligraphy and Paintings” — as well as a temporary exhibition hall. Through these fixed displays and special exhibitions, the museum showcases its diverse local collections and introduces select external cultural relics, fully leveraging its role in public education.

Pinghu Museum is also responsible for field cultural relics surveys, rescue archaeological excavations, and the protection and management of immovable cultural heritage. Currently, there are three national key cultural relics protection units, three provincial-level protected units, 27 county (city)-level protected units, and 64 cultural relics protection sites.

Since January 1, 2004, the museum has been open to the public free of charge year-round. It serves as an ideal venue for patriotic and local cultural education.