At the top of the four great famous embroideries in China, Suzhou embroidery has a long-standing history of about two thousand years up till now. The Suzhou Embroidery Museum with an exhibition hall of about 300 square meters has highly summarized the age-long art history of the Suzhou embroidery. From the 200 odd works on display visitors can appreciate the evolutionary process of the Suzhou embroidery art. The Hall of Having the Grain exhibits part of the real samples of the Suzhou embroidery from Western Han to Yuan Dynasty. The most precious one is the Suzhou embroidery cloth-wrapper for the sutra. The Hall of All Sides shows the Suzhou embroidery works in Ming and Qing times and the Suzhou embroidery works in modem time and present time. There are many fine works among them with the court dresses of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty as an example. Among the modern Suzhou embroidery works there are works of Shenshou-the outstanding embroidery artist of China. They possess high-degree appreciative value.

      The modern Suzhou embroidery works on display have fully foretold the brilliant future of the Suzhou embroidery art. The double-faced embroidery with different colors and different patterns etc manifest that the art of Suzhou embroidery is continuously making efforts on invention and exploration.