Museums in China

By theme

How China’s museums split across the six broad themes. Museums catalogued simply as “a museum”, with no narrower type recorded, fall under General.

A sample of museums

A selection of 60 of China’s 898 museums, alphabetically. Open the map to explore them all by location.

"Years of Music" Audio Museum · 9.18 Historical Museum · A.C. Embassy Hotel · A4 Art Museum · Aihui History Museum · Aksu Museum · Ancestral Hall of Jia Gong (Fangshan) · Ancestral Temple for Wen Tianxiang · Ancient Pottery Culture Museum · Andingmen Exhibition Hall of Beijing Old Objects · Anhui Art Museum · Anhui Province Paleontologic Fossil Museum · Anyuan Miners' Strike Memorial Hall · Ar Horqin Museum · Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong · Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University · Aura Gallery · Badashanren Memorial Hall · Bai Yihua Martyrs Memorial Hall · Baiheliang Underwater Museum · Baisha Naxi Embroidery Institute · Baoji Bronze Ware Museum · Beichuan Earthquake Museum · Beijing Air and Space Museum · Beijing Anhui Guild Hall · Beijing Auto Museum · Beijing Changping District Museum · Beijing Daqi Museum for Radios and Movie Projectors · Beijing Imperial Art Museum · Beijing Jiaozhuanghu Tunnel Warfare Site Memorial Hall · Beijing Jintai Art Museum · Beijing Kongzhu Museum · Beijing Lu Xun Museum · Beijing Ming City Wall Ruins Park · Beijing Muming Tang Ancient Porcelain Museum · Beijing Opera Museum · Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall · Beijing Police Museum · Beijing Songtangzhai Folk Sculpture Museum · Beijing Teaching Botanical Garden · Beijing Telecommunications Museum · Beijing Vintage Car Museum · Beijing Water Supply Museum · Beijing Yuxiandu Imperial Cuisine Museum · Beilun Museum · Bingtuan Museum · Boxes Art Museum of Songshan Lake · Burma Road History Museum · C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum · CAA Art Museum · CAFA Art Museum · Cai Yuanpei's Former Residence · Canton Custom House · Cantonese Opera Art Museum · Capital Museum · Central Conservation Section Resource Centre · Changchun Confucius Temple · Changchun Local Chronicles Museum · Changchun World Sculpture Park · Changji Dinosaur Museum