Danfeng County Museum

　　Danfeng County Museum is housed within Boatmen’s Guild Hall No. 1 at Danjiang Community, Danfeng County. It was founded in January 1987 and officially opened to the public in November 1987. The museum is under the administration of the Danfeng County Culture, Cultural Relics, Tourism, and Sports Bureau. It covers an area of 5,420 square meters, with exhibition halls spanning over 200 square meters and office space of 180 square meters. Both the exhibition halls and offices are housed in brick-and-wood structures built in the style of the Qing Dynasty.

　　The Danfeng County Museum is based in the Boatmen’s Guild Hall. From March to December 1988, the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau allocated special funds for the comprehensive restoration of the guild hall’s opera stage, main hall, and auxiliary buildings. After the renovation, the site was officially opened to the public. The Boatmen’s Guild Hall currently retains one opera stage and one main hall. The opera stage architecture incorporates the essence of both northern and southern Chinese styles, featuring the solemn and dignified design of northern architecture as well as the delicate and refined characteristics of southern architecture. The main hall houses nine large clay sculptures. In April 1992, it was listed as a Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit of Shaanxi Province.

　　The museum currently houses a collection of 1,069 artifacts, including bronzeware, pottery, ironware, and stone carvings. Among these, there are five second-grade cultural relics and forty third-grade cultural relics. The museum’s collection is guided by the principle of studying the history and culture of Danfeng County, gathering scattered cultural relics from across the county. The artifacts span a wide range of historical periods, from stone tools unearthed at Yangshao culture sites of the Neolithic Age, to Qin bricks, Han tiles, bronzeware, blue-and-white porcelain from the Qing Dynasty, as well as revolutionary relics from the Liberation War period—with Han Dynasty pottery being the most numerous.

　　Leveraging its collection, the museum has organized various popular exhibitions over the years, such as “Wine Exhibition,” “Folk Handicrafts Exhibition,” “Revolutionary Relics Exhibition,” and “Folk Collected Cultural Relics Exhibition.” Danfeng County Museum serves as a patriotic education base for local youth.