[2025 Guyuan Attraction] Travel Guide for The Guyuan Museum of Ningxia (Updated Mar)

On the day after National Day, we entered the gate of Guyuan Museum in Ningxia. This hall, which has won the honor of National AAAA Scenic Spot and National First-Class Museum, is a valuable window to fully display the historical and cultural accumulation of Guyuan for thousands of years, and provides an important way for the world to have a deep understanding of Guyuan. Guyuan, as a bright pearl on the Silk Road, played a pivotal role in history. The museum has a collection of more than 10,000 cultural relics, including more than 100 national first-class cultural relics, and even 3 national treasure-level cultural relics. Among the collections, the northern bronze wares of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Silk Road cultural relics of the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties are particularly eye-catching. It is worth mentioning that the lacquer coffin paintings of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the gilded silver pot and the convex nail glass bowl of the Northern Zhou Dynasty are all national art treasures. In addition, the gold ring inlaid with gemstones, the iron knife with a ring head, the Persian silver coin, the Roman gold coin, and the murals in the tombs of the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties are all precious cultural relics introduced from Central Asia and West Asia to China, witnessing the exchange and integration of ancient civilizations. As an important window for historical and cultural exhibitions, Guyuan Museum fully and multi-anglely displays the rich connotation of Guyuan's unique regional history and culture, attracting countless Chinese and foreign tourists to come and see its style.

Ningxia Guyuan Museum is a comprehensive provincial museum mainly collecting ethnic historical relics, located in Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Here is a detailed introduction to Ningxia Guyuan Museum: I. Basic Information Guyuan Museum was established in 1983 and officially opened to the public in September 1988. It covers an area of 28,000 square meters and a building area of 11,000 square meters. The exhibition building is a four-cornered spire pagoda-style Tang-style building. Guyuan Museum is a national patriotism education demonstration base, a national AAAA tourist attraction, a national primary and secondary school research and practice education base, and was rated as a national first-class museum in 2008, and was awarded the title of "National Civilized Unit" in 2009. II. Collection of Cultural Relics Guyuan Museum has multiple fixed exhibition halls and a rich collection of cultural relics. As of September 2019, the collection of cultural relics has reached more than 24,000 pieces (sets), including 123 pieces (sets) of national first-class cultural relics, 2008 pieces (sets) of second-class cultural relics, and 3816 pieces (sets) of third-class cultural relics, and 3 pieces of national treasure-level cultural relics. The types of cultural relics are diverse, including bronze, stone carvings, ceramics, murals, gold and silverware, etc. These cultural relics witness the long history and splendid culture of Guyuan and even Ningxia. III. Exhibitions and Activities Guyuan Museum not only displays rich historical relics, but also often holds various temporary exhibitions and theme activities, such as calligraphy and painting art exhibitions, zodiac cultural relics picture joint exhibitions, etc., to provide audiences with diversified cultural experiences. The museum also pays attention to cooperation with schools and communities, carries out red-themed research and study activities, inherits the red gene, and promotes the revolutionary spirit. IV. Service Facilities All exhibitions in Guyuan Museum are free and open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 to 17:00 (stop admission at 16:30), and closed on Monday (except for statutory holidays). The museum is equipped with interpretation services, public rest areas and other facilities to provide visitors with convenient and comfortable visiting environment. In summary, Ningxia Guyuan Museum is a comprehensive museum integrating collection, display, research, and education. It is an important window to understand the history and culture of Ningxia and even the northwest region.

✔️Ningxia is niche, Guyuan is also niche, and Guyuan Museum is even more niche. This four-cornered pagoda-style imitation Tang structure building standing in the city center is a solid national first-class museum. 🌟Special highlights: Guyuan has been a transportation hub and strategic location from the Central Plains to the Hexi Corridor, and the north and south of the desert since ancient times. The collection is characterized by northern bronze ware from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods and Silk Road relics from the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang periods. 🤳Main attractions: 1️⃣. The existing exhibitions include the basic display 'Thousand Years of Guyuan, Silk Road Chapter', which organically combines the history of Guyuan with the Silk Road theme, as well as 'Invisible General Han Liancheng', 'Ancient Tomb Museum', 'Stone Carving Museum' and temporary exhibitions. 2️⃣. Northern Wei lacquer coffin paintings, Northern Zhou gilded silver pots, and convex glass bowls are national treasures. Gem-set gold rings, ring-headed iron knives, Persian silver coins, and Roman gold coins are all foreign goods introduced from Central and West Asia. 3️⃣. The Stone Carving Museum is a corridor-style antique building, displaying 32 inscriptions such as the Song Dynasty Dongshan Village City Repair Record, the Qing Dynasty Wu Dacheng's Three Passes Road Monument, Dong Fuxiang's Hometown Monument, and the Exemption from Buying Grain Monument. They are highly artistic and can be touched at close range. 🎫Tickets: Free admission, because it's niche, on-site appointments are no problem. 🚏Address: No. 133 Xicheng Road, Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City. Parking is available in the museum, free of charge, but there are few parking spaces, so go early.

Although it ranks last in the economy of the whole region, the museum's heritage is unparalleled in the region The collections are most characterized by the northern bronze wares of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods and the Silk Road relics of the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang periods, which have a certain influence at home and abroad. This can also be seen from the setting of the exhibition hall. The Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are all concentrated in one exhibition hall, which shows that there is really nothing to display The Northern Wei lacquer coffin painting, Northern Zhou gilded silver pot, and convex nail glass bowl are the three treasures of the museum. However, they are handled rather perfunctorily. Except for the gilded silver pot, which is genuine, the other two are using replicas. The lacquer coffin painting is even using a rather deceptive kind of replica. It seems that the only genuine gilded silver pot was put out this year, and it seems to be on a business trip all year round. It is a national treasure that has a lot of social engagements Overall, the more distinctive exhibits are some foreign products introduced from Central and West Asia, which are also the physical basis for the exchange of Chinese and Western cultures In addition to this, what impresses people are some non-mainstream stone carvings in the courtyard, such as a pair of stone lions at the door, which look very old and strange, especially the thing in their mouths that is hard to understand. After checking, it should be something like a ribbon. It seems that these are a pair of meritorious lions A very good prefecture-level city museum, worth a visit, don't make too many demands on the level of exhibition, and also make sure to come when the national treasure is not on a business trip

Traveling in Guyuan, the most impressive thing is a place called Laoxiangzi. Because the guide brought us to the place when it was raining heavily, I couldnt think of an old village in the rain. Nowadays, the old alley has developed into a folk village. Before coming to the old alley, you can hardly believe that in such a Longde County, there will be such an old village with mountains and waters, pleasant environment and full of stories!