Tianjin Guya Museum

Tianjin Guya Museum

The Guya Museum is located on Machang Road in Heping District, Tianjin. This museum is most distinctive. The meaning of "Guya": refined antiquity, firm will, overcoming all difficulties to achieve great success. It mainly displays modern-era 0s (these old guns have all been filled with lead and are no longer functional) and Western furniture. Here you can see old guns, American printers, telephones, coffee sets, various Western-style liquor cabinets, filing cabinets, electric fans, flashlights, sugar bowls, Western vases, Western-style sofas, and more than 1,300 other types of cultural relics.

What makes this museum most unique is that it is both a hot pot restaurant and a museum.

A pistol refers to a small 0 designed for single-handed shooting, capable of injuring enemies at close range. The so-called modern pistols, as defined by foreign weapons historians, are those invented and used after the English bourgeois revolution in the 17th century. In this article, the term "modern pistols" specifically refers to those manufactured and used in China after the First Opium War.

Due to the many flaws and fragility of modern pistols, as well as their primary ownership by military officers, very few have been preserved throughout history. Mr. Zhang Lianzhi, president of the Guangdong Weixian Group in Tianjin, spared no expense in collecting 195 modern pistols from various sources and displaying them free of charge to the public at his "Guya Museum." People from all walks of life have highly praised this effort. Feng Jicai, Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a renowned writer, referred to the Guangdong Weixian Group as an "edible museum."