Fuzhou Museum

Fuzhou Museum

Fuzhou Museum was first established in June 1984 and officially opened to the public in 1986. From 1984 to 1996, the museum was under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou (a county-level city). In 1996, when Fuzhou merged with Linchuan County, the museum was renamed Linchuan City Museum. In October 2000, as Fuzhou was upgraded from a prefecture to a prefecture-level city, Linchuan City Museum was placed under municipal administration and renamed once again as Fuzhou Museum (a municipal-level museum). In June 2007, construction began on the new building of Fuzhou Museum, which officially opened to the public free of charge on September 1, 2010.

The new museum is located in the Cultural Square north of the city’s administrative center, adjacent to Fuzhou Library and Tang Xianzu Grand Theatre. The new building covers an area of nearly 4,000 square meters, with a total floor space of 12,663 square meters and an exhibition area of over 7,000 square meters.

Fuzhou Museum currently houses a collection of more than 2,000 cultural relics, primarily consisting of ceramics, pottery, and coins, along with bronze mirrors, calligraphy and paintings, and miscellaneous items. Among them, there are two recommended first-grade relics, 16 second-grade relics, and 519 third-grade relics. The museum consists of four permanent exhibitions—Historical Civilization Exhibition, Linchuan Culture Exhibition, War Flames in Eastern Jiangxi Exhibition, and Dinosaur Kingdom Exhibition—as well as several temporary exhibition halls. It is a comprehensive municipal-level national third-grade museum integrating cultural relic collection, exhibition display, education, academic research, and tourism.

Since the opening of the new museum, guided by the goals of “strengthening foundations, improving services, shaping image, and promoting development,” the museum staff have carried out solid and effective work in internal management, team building, function enhancement, and exhibition organization, achieving notable results. In 2010, the museum was awarded the title of Advanced Collective in the Provincial Quality Construction Year for Museums. In 2011, the Linchuan Culture Exhibition won the Provincial Top Ten Exhibition Innovation Award. In 2012, it was designated as the Third Municipal Patriotic Education Base and a Jiangxi Provincial Youth Science and Technology Education Base. The museum also partnered with local universities, establishing quality education bases for college students with Fuzhou Vocational and Technical College and Jiangxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Notably, in April 2012, Li Xiaojie, then Vice Minister of Culture and Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, visited Fuzhou Museum and spoke highly of its work. In May 2013, the museum was rated as a National Third-Grade Museum. In April 2014, it was named the Fifth Batch of Jiangxi Provincial Patriotic Education Bases. Since 2008, Fuzhou Museum has implemented a free admission policy. After the new museum opened, it has hosted 6–8 temporary exhibitions annually and welcomed over 200,000 visitors each year.

Today, Fuzhou Museum has increasingly become an important window for the public to understand the progress of Gan-Fuzhou civilization and appreciate the long-standing humanistic history of Fuzhou. It serves as a second classroom for youth in socialist moral education and science popularization, as well as a welcoming venue for citizens to visit, learn, and enjoy leisure time.

Tel: 0794-8267092

Further Reading:

· China's National Third-Grade Museum