Wuhan China Stone Museum

Wuhan China Stone Museum

The Wuhan China Stone Museum is a national AAA-level tourist attraction.

The Wuhan China Stone Museum is located at No. 61 Cuiwei Road, Hanyang District, Wuhan, covering an area of 6,700 square meters with a construction area of 7,800 square meters. Adjacent to the ancient Guiyuan Temple, it lies to the north of the ancient Guqin Platform and to the west of Moshui Lake. With beautiful scenery and an elegant environment, it is a foreign-related tourist attraction, a provincial-level civilized unit, as well as a science education base for young people and a patriotic education base. It has received millions of domestic and international visitors. The architecture of the museum features a typical Ming and Qing style, focusing on the collection and exhibition of various types of stones. It serves as an urban garden-style art exhibition venue aimed at enriching public scientific knowledge and cultural life. The museum houses tens of thousands of stone specimens, with over 3,000 items on permanent display.

Mission

The Wuhan China Stone Museum is dedicated to promoting Chinese stone culture. It integrates stone exhibitions, stone exchanges, and the commercialization of stones, providing a favorable environment and research platform for stone enthusiasts from around the world to exchange skills, discuss theories, trade stones, and engage in economic and trade cooperation.

Collections

The museum is divided into eight exhibition halls, showcasing a wide variety of domestic and international stones, including pictographic stones, abstract stones, texture stones, scenic stones, character stones, extraterrestrial stones, garden stones, and paleontological fossils, as well as mineral crystals—totaling more than ten categories. Among them, an 11-ton crystal stone holds the record as the largest of its kind in Asia. The museum also houses outstanding specimens from dozens of varieties such as Shenlong Green Stone, Three Gorges Stone, Colored Pottery Stone, Dafu Stone, and Grape Agate. Fossils such as Confucius Birds, large ichthyosaurs, nothosaurs, Platybelodon, and Psittacosaurus are rare treasures in China’s stone collecting circles. The museum leads the country in terms of the quantity, diversity, and quality of its collections.

Source: Official Website of the People's Government of Hubei Province