Suzhou Museum (New Museum)

Founded in 1960 and originally located in the national historiclandmark, Zhong Wang Fu palace complex, Suzhou Museum has been ahighly-regarded regional museum with a number of significantChinese cultural relics. A new museum designed by world famousarchitect I.M.Pei was completed in October 2006, covering over10,700 square meter and located at the cross of Dongbei Street andQimen Road. The design of this new museum visually complements thetraditional architecture of Zhong Wang Fu. The new ... View Detail

Museum of Chinese opera

At No.1 East Maanshan Road (Maanshan Dong Lu) in Kunshan, visitors find the Kun Opera Museum in Tinglin Park. Kunshan is the cradle of Kun Opera, which is said to be the 'ancestor of all operas' in China. In 2001, the Kun Opera was included on the List of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. To promote this traditional art, the Kun Opera Museum was established in 1993. The design of the museum is mellow and exquisite. It is an archaized complex with a clear ... View Detail

Suzhou Museum Tablets

The Suzhou Steles Museum is a specialized museum in China. Located inside the Confucian Temple at Renmin Road of Suzhou City in Jiangsu Province, the museum was opened to the public on July 10, 1985. The museum boasts over 1,000 steles, of which four map steles of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) are the most famous, including the stele of the Pingjiang Map, the stele of the Astronomical Map, the stele of the Geographical Map and the stele of Song Emperor Shaoyuan. Besides, there are other ... View Detail

Suzhou Silk Museum

The entire museum design is dignified and elegant - yet unconventional - combining a sense of ancient civilization with modern style. The Suzhou Silk Museum is divided into several parts: the Introductory Hall, the Ancient Exhibit Hall, the Silkworm-Rearing Room, the Silk Weaving Workshop, the Neoteric (1840 - 1919) Exhibit Hall, and the Modern (1919 - 1949) Exhibit Hall. There are also retail stores for purchasing silk. The dominant color of Suzhou Silk Museum is white, which represents the ... View Detail

Suzhou Folk Museum

The Museum of Suzhou Folk Customs, located at an ancient residence in Suzhou, is a regional folk custom museum of China. The building of the Museum, featuring the architectural style of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), is listed as one of the major historical sites under the protection of Jiangsu Province. It was officially opened to the public in November 1986 on the occasion of 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Suzhou City. The Museum of Suzhou Folk Customs has collected 2,000 pieces of ... View Detail

Suzhou Coin Museum

Suzhou Coin Museum is located in the city of suzhou northeast street, number 204 west side.The museum established in December 1989. Suzhou coin museum building use of housing construction area of nearly 400 square meters, the main exhibition hall covers an area of 180 square metres, the museum the other new monarch to build a certain scale and its characteristics. The museum has organized the Chinese currency on display for the museum display basic, according to the currency history ... View Detail

Suzhou Embroidery Museum

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 ... View Detail

Saionji

West Garden Temple (Xiyuan Temple) covering an area of 10 mu (about 1.6 acres) in Suzhou was constructed in the Yuan Dynasty and features sacred temples and classical gardens. It is generally called of Jiezhuanglv (commandment as its banner) Temple and Fangsheng (free captive animals) Pond in the west garden. West Garden Temple is the largest temple in Suzhou City. It blends garden art and temple art. In the temple you can see the ancient trees flourish, the temple houses layer upon layer, the ... View Detail

Hanshan Temple

Cold Mountain Temple is situated five kilometers (about three miles) from Fengqiao Old Town in Suzhou . It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, a famous monk Han Shan came to take charge of the temple, hence its name. Building originally commenced during the Liang Dynasty (502-557), and was repaired again in the following dynasties. Now, covering an area of about 10,600 square meters (about three acres), it presents the architectural style of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). It includes the Grand ... View Detail

Package Temple

Baoshan Temple also naned Xianqi Temple , located in Baoshan Wu ,Meiyi Village , Xi hill . The temple was builted in Liangdatong 2 years (536) , named Fuyuan Temple early . Then changed the name become Baoshan Temple , Gaozong named Xianqi Temple . Baoshan temple is the temple's crown in Xi hill, famous the world, pity were destroyed in ten years the holocaust, rebuilt in 1995.Traffic : West of suzhou railway station , bus 69 road to the west mountain (the ticket price $4, 2 hours drive, ... View Detail