Jinsha Site Museum Opened, the Sun Bird Showed Up

Release Time: 2017-10-24

    Sichuan Online News (by Zhang Qin) This morning (Apr. 16), the Jinsha Site Museum, which cost RMB 389 million and took 6 years to build, opened. More than 1,000 rare treasures such as the Sun Bird, gold mask and jade artifacts were unveiled to the public. The museum opens from 8: 00 to 18: 00. The admission fee is RMB 80 per person.

    Jinsha Site was founded in the early of 2001. It is inferred that Jinsha Site is the capital of ancient Shu Kingdom existed between the late Shang Dynasty and Western Zhou Dynasty 3,000 years ago. Jinsha Site Museum reproduces the brilliant civilization of that Kingdom. At 10: 30, the first group of visitors entered the museum to see the sacrificial rites of ancient Shu Kingdom in the Exhibition Hall and to see watch the evacuation process closely in the Hall of Relics to know the appearance, development and evolvement of ancient Shu Kingdom. It is reported that the museum will change the relics on display from time to time so that all of the representative treasures unearthed in Jinsha Site will be exhibited.

Apr. 16, 2007