Ankang Museum

　　Ankang Museum is situated on Huanggou Road, Jiangbei, Hanbin District. Originally founded as the Ankang History Museum in 1984, it moved to its current location in 2014. As the only comprehensive museum in Ankang City, it houses a collection of over 4,000 artifacts, including nearly 1,000 classified as precious cultural relics. The collection highlights artifacts from the Ba, Shu, and Chu cultures during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, celadon ware, portrait bricks, and pottery figurines from the Han, Wei, and Northern and Southern Dynasties, as well as calligraphy and paintings by notable figures from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

　　Covering an area of 43 mu with a construction area of 14,825 square meters, Ankang Museum was designed by the Huaxia Design Institute led by Academician Zhang Jinqiu from the Northwest Architecture Design and Research Institute, a master architect in China. The main structure consists of three floors, with parts extending to six, embodying the architectural style characterized by “lofty platforms overlooking the river, transparent on all sides, and a blend of Qin and Chu aesthetics.” It stands as a key scenic building along the one-river-two-banks landscape of Ankang’s urban center.

　　The exhibition layout of Ankang Museum is composed of “three main and two auxiliary” sections: the three permanent exhibitions — “Ankang: A Gift of Nature,” “Ankang: The Source of Civilization,” and “Ankang: Building Dreams” — along with two special exhibitions, “The History of the Third Front Construction in Ankang” and “Exhibition of Fine Paintings and Calligraphic Works in the Collection.” These systematically showcase Ankang’s “unique resources, cultural history, major events, remarkable achievements, and future plans,” sketching out the city’s past, present, and future, truly serving as the “cultural ancestral hall” and “reception hall” of Ankang.