Museums

Nanjing Brocade Museum

Visitors can observe professionals working on wooden looms making the finest brocade on earth.        

Stone City Modern Art Creation Gallery

Exhibition of modern Chinese art.

Nanjing Drug Art Museum

Perhaps best summed up as social experiments with local and foreign artists, Nanjing Drug Art Museum is one of the last few remaining private art galleries in the city. A creation of local artist and entrepreneur Peter Huang, Drug...

Nanjing Aquarium

The aquarium (also known as "Underwater World") boast a variety of 200 different types of marine animals and a total of more than 10,000 creatures. Nanjing Aquarium features an array of aquariums and live performances by dolphins and sea...

Zheng He Treasure Shipyard

For those who have checked out the Zheng He exhibit at Jinghai Temple, the Treasure Shipyard might be a good afternoon trip. Near where the Qinhuai River meets the Yangtze in the north of the city, the Treasure Shipyard...

Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum

I've heard that Auschwitz in Poland has been preserved intact as a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of people who died there; and that thought conjures images of a dirty, realistic reminder of past atrocities that is a...

Nanjing Science Museum

Hands-on fun and learning for kids. IMAX Cinema.

Nanjing Folk Museum

Once the residence of a wealthy merchant family, now visitors can study traditional Chinese architecture, including intricately designed windows and black tile roofs plus its well known, so-called "99 and a half rooms", due to ancient government policies regarding...

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