Beilun Museum

Beilun Museum

Beilun Museum is located at No. 37 Zhonghe Road, Xinqi Subdistrict, Beilun District, Ningbo City, situated to the east of Haichen Park. It covers a land area of 350 square meters and a building area of 1,000 square meters. The museum was completed and opened on March 12, 1996.

The museum officially opened to the public on April 1, 1996, and began offering free admission to the entire society on April 1, 2004. In April 2008, a new image project was launched, involving partial renovation and redecoration of the building, as well as a complete overhaul of the basic exhibitions. The current exhibition area spans 450 square meters, fully enclosed, combining modern techniques such as sound, light, and electricity with traditional display methods, showcasing a total of over 700 cultural relics. The first floor houses the lobby; the second floor features exhibits on Ancient Beilun, Modern Beilun, and Contemporary Beilun; the third floor contains the Beilun Folk Culture Exhibition Hall (which also serves as a temporary exhibition space). The Ancient Beilun section uses artifacts unearthed from the region to present its long history and culture through themes such as “The Dawn of Civilization,” “The Prosperity of Clan Settlements,” and “Pioneering the Coastal Frontier.” The Modern Beilun section traces Beilun’s revolutionary traditions through historical relics related to battles against Japanese pirates, the British, and the French. The Contemporary Beilun section focuses on the theme “The Vast Eastern Port, the Vanguard of Reform and Opening Up,” highlighting the region's remarkable achievements in development and opening with a focus on current progress. The Beilun Folk Culture Exhibition Hall recreates the industrious, brave, simple, and honest production and daily life customs of the local people using folk relics and other physical materials in the collection. The museum houses a collection of 1,494 sets of precious cultural relics unearthed in or passed down within Beilun District, most of which are ceramics, along with a small number of jade articles, gold and silverware, bronzes, wooden items, paintings, and calligraphy. Among these, highlights include a Eastern Han Dynasty inkstone slab, a grinding stone, a Sui Dynasty jar with a flared mouth, a Five Dynasties lotus-pattern cosmetic box, a Northern Song Dynasty Yue kiln carved cosmetic box, a Yuan Dynasty bronze weighing weight, and a figure painting by Qing Dynasty artist Yao Xie.

Beilun Museum is the first newly built district-level (county-level) comprehensive museum in the Ningbo area. It is a National Third-Class Museum, a Zhejiang Provincial Civilized Museum, and an patriotic education base recognized in the fifth batch of Zhejiang Province and the second batch of Ningbo City. Since its opening, the museum has independently organized or hosted 36 temporary exhibitions and also established a mobile museum. To date, it has welcomed over 325,000 visitors, achieving significant social impact. Starting in April 2008, through the implementation of the Beilun Museum New Image Project, the museum has successfully established a positive public image.

Location: No. 37 Zhonghe Road, Beilun District, Ningbo City

Admission: Free

Opening Hours: (Closed on Saturdays, open on holidays) Winter: 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM; Summer: 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM, 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Direct Bus Access: Take bus routes 703, 703-4, 710, 711, 720, 753, 781, 783, 397, 270, 787, or 788 to Zhonghe Road Station, or take bus route 716 to Haichenyuan Station.

Enquiry Phone: (0574) 86782012