Wengniute Banner Museum

Wengniute Banner Museum

The Wengniute Banner Museum is located at the intersection of Qingquan Road and Binshui Street in Wudan Town, Wengniute Banner, bordering Qingquan Road to the east and Binshui Street to the north. It consists of an exhibition hall area, cultural relics storage area, visitor service area, and administrative office area, making it a multifunctional modern history museum that integrates collection, research, and display. Its predecessor was the Cultural Relics Group under the Cultural Center. In June 1984, it was separated from the Cultural Center to establish the Wengniute Banner Cultural Relics Management Station, which officially opened to the public in 1996. In August 2000, it was renamed the Wengniute Banner Museum and is now managed under the Wengniute Banner Culture, Tourism, Sports, and Radio & Television Bureau. The construction project of the new Wengniute Banner Museum began in October 2011, was completed in November 2013, and officially opened to the public for free on April 16, 2014. The museum has four cultural relics exhibition halls. The first-floor exhibition “The Dragon Appears in the Fields” is divided into two sections: “Light of Civilization” and “Grassland Bronze,” primarily showcasing cultural relics from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages in the Wengniute region, highlighting that Wengniute Banner is one of the earliest regions where Chinese civilization emerged and occupies an important place in the history of northern grassland culture. The second-floor exhibition “Legacy of the Khitans” is divided into four sections: “Origins of the Khitan People,” “Treasures of the Liao Dynasty,” “Khitan Customs,” and “Yongzhou Ancient City,” narrating the history of the Liao Dynasty and the splendid culture created by the Khitan people. The third-floor exhibition “The World Under Felt Tents” is divided into three sections: “The Yuan Empire,” “Ming and Qing Dynasties,” and “Ethnic Folk Customs,” mainly displaying cultural relics from the Yuan to Qing dynasties in the Wengniute region as well as modern ethnic folk exhibitions, telling how the Wengniute Banner area contributed to the development and integration of northern ethnic groups and to the formation of a unified multi-ethnic nation and social progress on the northern grasslands since the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. The fourth floor is a temporary exhibition hall. The museum currently houses a total of 6,455 cultural relics, including 21 national first-grade relics, 95 second-grade relics, and 155 third-grade relics.

Further Reading:

· National Third-Grade Museum of China