Where is the Guangxi Museum of Ethnology?

After six years of preparation, the museum was completed in December 2008 and officially opened to the public free of charge in May 2009, as a generous gift to the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The museum is located in the Qingxiu Mountain Scenic Area in Nanning City, adjacent to the beautiful Yongjiang River. The museum covers an area of ??130 acres and consists of the main building and the Guangxi Traditional Residential Cultural Ecological Exhibition Park. The main building area is 29,370 square meters. The shape of the main building is based on the bronze drum with rich regional and ethnic characteristics of Guangxi. The entire building is like a Kunpeng with spread wings, flying among the green mountains and green waters.

The museum has six permanent exhibitions. Among them, the large-scale theme exhibition "Colorful Eight Guigui-Guangxi National Culture Exhibition" has an exhibition area of ??about 4,000 square meters and displays more than 1,800 national cultural relics and other physical materials. , the exhibition comprehensively and vividly displays the rich, profound and unique charm of the twelve living ethnic groups in Guangxi through five parts: "Prologue Hall" and "Homeland", "Neon Clothing and Feathered Clothes", "Ingenuity and Charm", and "Harmonious Movement". Culture; the special exhibition of national cultural relics "Drums Across Time and Space - Bronze Drum Culture", the exhibition hall covers an area of ??861 square meters, and nearly 70 actual bronze drums are on display. The three parts show the most representative bronze drum cultural resources in Guangxi; the "Zhuang Culture Exhibition" mainly introduces the history and culture of the Zhuang people in China. On the basis of a comprehensive and systematic display of the Zhuang people, it focuses on highlighting the characteristics of the Zhuang people in Guangxi. Characteristics, it vividly demonstrates the outstanding achievements and great civilization created by the Zhuang people in the long history; the "Colorful China-Chinese National Culture Exhibition" richly demonstrates the broad, profound, integrated and diverse China created by 55 ethnic minorities and the Han nationality. Culture; "Colorful World - World Ethnic Culture Exhibition" mainly focuses on physical objects from all continents, countries and ethnic groups. Through a dazzling and open display method, the audience can discover, experience and seek information about the societies of all ethnic groups in the world in the exhibition. , economy, culture, customs, religious beliefs, etc.; "Yesterday Reappears - Exhibition of Centenary-Old Objects" focuses on the collection of old objects from the 20th century that the museum has been collecting from the public since 2011. The objects in the exhibition are all from ordinary people. The objects around us may seem ordinary, but they contain profound meanings. They have witnessed the magnificent national rejuvenation, carried the ever-changing social changes, and recorded the processes of different historical periods. In addition, the exhibition area also has two temporary exhibition halls, which introduce excellent theme cultural exhibitions all year round to meet the growing cultural needs of the people.

The museum currently collects more than 30,000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics, including more than 3,000 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics above grade three, covering national costumes, silverware, production equipment, religious beliefs, Folk crafts, brocade embroidery, etc. are mainly made of bronze, bamboo and wood, textiles and silver ornaments. The collection has distinctive characteristics and typical national characteristics. They truly record the production methods of various ethnic groups in specific natural and historical environments. They are important physical materials for comprehensively understanding and studying the evolution of the production methods of various ethnic groups. The museum's cultural relics warehouse covers an area of ??about 1,500 square meters. It is divided into four zones according to the materials of the cultural relics in the collection. Heavy-duty shelves and rail-type dense cabinets are used in the warehouse, and the temperature environment achieves 24-hour constant temperature and humidity.

The museum attaches great importance to scientific research and talent training, with a diverse talent structure. Scientific research work takes the research and protection of traditional national culture and national cultural relics as the main direction, and encourages the integrated development of multiple disciplines. In the "1+10" construction project of the Guangxi Ethnic Ecological Museum, the overall driving mechanism of the characteristic "1+10" Ethnic Ecological Museum, with the Guangxi Ethnological Museum as the leader and ten ecological museums distributed across Guangxi as workstations, has provided a good foundation for the Guangxi Ethnic Ecological Museum. The rescue, protection, utilization, research and development of traditional culture create a broader space. In the past ten years, the "1+10" project of the Guangxi Ethnic Ecological Museum has played an important role in protecting cultural heritage and promoting the development of the ecological museum community. It has achieved good social and economic benefits and has been widely recognized. It is known as an ecological museum. "Guangxi model".

The Guangxi Museum of Ethnology is a cultural business card of Guangxi and an important cultural window and display platform in Guangxi. Since its free opening, it has received an average of nearly 700,000 visitors per year and the number has increased year by year. In terms of cultural communication, Has outstanding advantages.

The museum gives full play to its educational and entertainment functions, provides the public with multi-faceted public cultural education and experience, and often holds colorful and culturally rich traditional ethnic festivals and a series of themed educational activities. The museum has received strong social response and is a museum It is the best place to integrate cultural display, patriotism education, ethnic education and people to enjoy cultural achievements and economic development achievements.

Free opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday (9:30~16:30)

Address: No. 11, Qinghuan Road, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Tel: 2024599/2024322