Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum

10 Permanent Exhibitions

Among the 10 permanent exhibitions, there are four basic exhibitions. “Marvelous Three Gorges”exhibits the history, culture and humanistic spirit of the Three Gorges with abundant cultural relics and datum. “Ancient Ba–Yu” exhibits the cultural relics from the Stone Age and Bronze Age, showing the ancient civilization of Chongqing by tracing back to the culture root 3000 years ago. “Chongqing: Journey to Urbanization”shows important people and events in 20th century which had a great impact to Chongqing’s opportunity and development, including the change of the city, how it becomes the commercial center, and the rising of its industry, etc. “Anti-Japanese War Period”reflects the great efforts made by Chongqing city and Chongqing people during the war time. As for the rest 6 exhibitions, each of them is specialized in exhibiting one kind of cultural relics, including Cultural Relics Donated by Mr. Li Chuli, Calligraphies and Paintings of Previous Dynasties, Chinaware of Previous Dynasties, Coins of Previous Dynasties, Sculpture Arts of Han Dynasty, and Southwester China Folk Customs.

Three Gorges Circular-screen Movie

The Three Gorges Circular-screen Movie is free to public and tourists can watch it at the first floor. The movie was shot and produced by CCTV and Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio. By using high-tech movie means, the aerial video reflects the natural scenery and culture customs of Three Gorges before the reservoir was impounded. It’s a permanent memorial to the Three Gorges landscape before the Three Gorges project. The movie will last about 22 minutes, and it will be played three times a day. The show time is 11:30, 14:30 and 15:30. This is the great chance to see the panoramic view of Three Gorges from various angles.

Three Temporary Exhibition Halls

There are three temporary exhibition halls in the museum. They are mainly used to hold domestic and international cultural communication activities or exhibitions, and at the same time, arrange themed exhibitions when there are important anniversaries, major festivals and significant ceremonies.

Tourist Practice Center

The museum also provide tourist practice center to communicate with its visitors. In this practice center, teenagers can participate in the stimulated archaeological activities of Three Gorges, and experience the exploration and excavation process. While in the interaction of calligraphy and painting, visitors can learn how to appreciate the calligraphy and painting under the guidance of an expert, and visitors can also learn to mount a picture. As for the porcelain, visitors can duplicate it with the guidance of the staffs in the museum. All these interaction activities are designed to help visitors acquire related knowledge and skills in a more relaxing way.

Chongqing People’s Assembly Hall faces Three Gorges Museum across Renmin Road. The hall is composed of Chongqing People’s Square and a group of imposing archaized ethnic buildings, which has attracted many tourists to take selfies and group photos.

Walking from Three Gorges Museum to Chongqing People’s Assembly Hall needs only 5 minutes around. If you are going to visit the museum, you are highly suggested to have a short visit to the People’s Assembly Hall too. Its huge and distinctive greenish glazed dome, scarlet columns and elaborately carved pillars and other structural elements will never let you down.

Address: No 173, Renmin Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing (重庆市渝中区人民路173号，重庆人民大礼堂)

Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum is located at the Yuzhong District, which is the city center of Chongqing, and tourists can reach the museum easily by taxi, rail transit lines and public buses. Tourists can take rail transit line 2 to Zengjiayan stop and walk about 500m to get to the museum, or they can take rail transit line 3 and get off at Niujiaotuo stop, and then walk about 1km to the museum. For the public bus, the museum can be reached by bus No.132, 145, 181, 261, 262, 265, 421, 829, 862, 886, 881, 152, 215, etc.

By Flight: the museum is about 25km from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, and tourists can take rail transit line 3 from the airport, and then get off at Niujiaotuo, and then walk about ten minutes to the museum. This will take about 1.5 hours. You can also take taxi or private car to there, and this will take about 1 hour.

By Train: the museum is very close to Chongqing Railway Station, and the direct distance between them is about 1.3km. It’s suggested to take a taxi to from the railway station, and it will only cost you several minutes to get there. And the taxi fee is about 10 yuan.

• Ciqikou Ancient Town: 15km/about 30 minutes' driving
• Dazu Rock Carving: 100km/about 2 hours' driving
• Wulong Karst Landscape: 200km/about 3-4 hours' driving
• Liziba Station: 3km/about 10 minutes' driving
• Chaotianmen Dock: 5km/about 15 minutes' driving
• Jiefangbei: 5km/about 15 minutes' driving
• Grand Theater: 5km/about 15 minutes' driving
• Hongya Cave: 3km/about 15 minutes' driving
• Goose Neck Park (E'ling Park): 4km/about 10 minutes' driving
• Landmark Riverside Park: 12km/about 20 minutes' driving

Tourists usually visit Three Gorges Museum in the morning of their One-day Chongqing tour to avoid the crowds in the afternoon. After the museum visit, they will have their lunch and then go to Liziba Station on Line 2 to appreciate amazing house-crossing metro trains up close. Before the night falls on that day, they will travel up to E‘ling Park to have a panorama view of Chongqing city. And the rest hours of the day are for them to discover the splendid Chongqing Night View at Hongya Cave and have authentic hot pot meals there.

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Tourist Idea: Most visitors travel Chongqing City before boarding their downstream Yangtze River cruise ship at night (18:00-21:00). If you are going to have such a tour too, remember to leave yourself enough time to catch your ship at Chaotianmen Dock. And please notice that dinner on the embarkation night is not included in your Yangtze River cruise tour. Treat yourself something you like to eat before boarding your ship.

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