Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Paintings Museum

Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Paintings Museum

The Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Paintings Museum is a national AAA-level tourist attraction.

The Tianjin Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Paintings Museum was established in September 2008, with a construction area of 3,535 square meters. It is a public welfare museum themed around the collection, research, and exhibition of Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings. The museum comprehensively and objectively reflects the historical process of the origin, prosperity, decline, rescue, protection, inheritance, and development of Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings. The museum houses over 10,000 Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings and more than 6,400 woodblocks dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Its establishment plays an important role in studying the folk customs of Tianjin and northern China, as well as in better protecting and inheriting Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings.

The exhibition halls are divided into seven sections: “Historical Transmission,” “Opera Stories,” “Ancient Blocks and Treasures,” “Ladies and Dolls,” “Secular Life,” “Daiqi Painting Workshop – Protection and Development,” and “A Collection of Chinese New Year Paintings.” Each hall is designed with physical landscapes that correspond to the themes of the New Year paintings, recreating the folk culture of the New Year and making the exhibits more vivid and three-dimensional. The Tianjin Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Paintings Museum is the largest and most professional woodblock New Year painting museum in China. After more than two years of careful construction, it was completed on July 13, 2011, and officially opened to the public on July 22, 2011. [1]

One of the highlights of the museum is that many of its collections have never been publicly displayed before, including several unique and rare pieces that showcase significant historical traces and value. Among them, the exceptionally precious hanging scroll “Great Fortune Star” is a Ming Dynasty central hanging painting of the Three Stars of Blessing, Prosperity, and Longevity, making it the oldest and largest unique piece in the museum. Another attraction is the 44 large display racks neatly arranged with over 6,400 ancient woodblocks, most of which were extensively collected from the public during a comprehensive rescue excavation of Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings in the city. Today, these treasured woodblocks are unveiled to the public in the newly built and opened Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Paintings Museum, demonstrating the city’s efforts and significant achievements in protecting national folk cultural heritage.

Address: No. 111, Sanheli, Tonglou, Hexi District

Tel: 28378718