Xiamen Museum
厦门市博物馆
Address: No 95 Tiyu Lu, Culture and Art Center, Siming district, Xiamen
Opening hours: 9 am-5:30 pm (last entry 5 pm)
Closed Mondays (except for national holidays)
General admission: Free
Tel: 0592-5371607
Xiamen Museum is an important regional comprehensive museum in Southeast China's Fujian province, dedicated to the collection, protection, research and exhibition of precious cultural heritage in southeastern China, especially in Fujian and Taiwan.
Xiamen Museum currently houses over 60,000 cultural relics. The focus is on ancient ceramics, calligraphy and painting, jade artifacts, stone carvings, folk artifacts and international friendship gifts, which are the most distinctive features of the collection.
Xiamen Museum was established in 1983 and officially opened to the public in 1988. The original location of the old museum was Bagua Building on Gulangyu Island.
Currently, the museum consists of the Zheng Chenggong's Memorial Hall, the Xiamen Special Economic Zone Memorial Hall, the former site of the Prison Break in Xiamen, the Chen's Ancestral Temple and the former residence of Chen Shengyuan, while serving as Xiamen Cultural Relics Protection Center.
Among the permanent exhibitions of the museum, highlights include the Exhibition on Xiamen History, the Ancient Stone Sculpture of Fujian and Taiwan, the Folk Exhibition of Fujian and Taiwan, the Masterpieces of the Museum and so on.
Additionally, Xiamen Museum emphasizes enhancing inter-museum exchanges and regularly hosts various temporary exhibition events.