In order to implement the Global Civilization Initiative brought up by General Secretary Xi Jinping, promote cultural exchanges and mutual learning, enrich Chengdu citizens’ spiritual and cultural life and enhance global influence and reputation of Chengdu, our Jinsha Site Museum, in collaboration with 14 Peruvian museums, including the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru and the Inca Museum, organizes this exhibition with 168 pieces/sets relics. The exhibition comprehensively shows the development of the Inca empire, social life, artistic achievements and cultural heritage, leading the audience to get close to the brilliant and mysterious Inca civilization and share the beauty of world civilization.

In order to implement the instruction of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the 39th Collective Study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee that “we should have a deeper understanding of the history of Chinese civilization development over the past 5,000 years, take the study of the Chinese civilization development to an in-depth level, and enhance historical self-awareness and cultural confidence,” as well as to prepare for the 31st Summer Universiade, which is to be held in July 2023 in Chengdu, and showcase the Chinese unique spiritual qualities and developmental patterns, the “Golden Light Shines Miles Away: Bronze Civilization in Southwest China” will be presented at the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu this Saturday (May 27th). The exhibition brings together 294 pieces /sets of cultural relics represented by bronzes from the Pre-Qin to Qin Han periods. The exhibits are from 32 cultural and exposition units in Southwest China, making the exhibition the largest of bronze civilization in Southwest China with the largest scale, the largest number of exhibits and the highest grade of cultural relics at present.

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection is a celebration of beautiful craftsmanship, renowned for its masterpieces in gold and silver as well as its micromosaics. Founded in the United States and gifted to the United Kingdom, it has been safeguarded by the Victoria & Albert Museum since 2008. This is the first time that highlights of the entire Collection have been presented as an international touring exhibition.

In this exhibition, with a focus on the origin of seashells in ancient Sichuan, a total of more than 1200 pieces (sets) of shellfish specimens and relevant relics from collections of 5 museums are exhibited: Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea, Sichuan Museum, Sichuan Provincial Museum, Archeology Research Institute, and Sanxingdui Museum. The exhibition aims to introduce topics like the lifestyles and habitats of shellfish and their specie characteristics by explaining them in popular science. Moreover, with a comparative display of shellfish and related artifacts from different ages and regions, the exhibition enlightens the audience about their influence on human history. 

Year of the Tiger's Blessings

Picture Exhibition of the Chinese Zodiac Tiger Artifacts

Located at the crossroad of three continents, Syria is a birthplace of the oldest civilizations in the world and an outdoor museum that houses footprints of three civilizations. From Phoenicians and Assyrians to ancient Babylon and Egypt to later Persian, Roman, Arab, and Ottoman empires, all these civilizations have left rich and diverse cultural heritage properties in Syria. As the capital of the Umayyad Dynasty, Damascus celebrated its heydays, enabling Syria to become a shining pearl in the treasure house of world civilizations.

Inspired by the ancient Shu culture, prominent artisit Mr. Xv Liaoyuan have created several artworks which will be displayed at Jinsha Site Museum from Dec. 15th, 2021 to Jan. 15th, 2022. Moreover, the torch for Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games will be presented as well.

Based on the living scenes of the people in the Tang Dynasty's capital Chang'an, the exhibition Treasures of the Tang Dynasty from Shaanxi selected 120 exquisite artifacts and recreated the advanced material life and splendid culture of that period. In the meantime, it is also held to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of Chinese archaeology.

Posters, as visual arts, arrange and combine images, colors, lines and words together. It enriches the feeling for beauty within the limited space, and represents the thinking and practice for cultural relics and social responsibilities.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the exhibition of 300 posters from 2019 to 2021 carefully selected by museums and art galleries around China will begin on May 18th International Museum Day. Visitors will witness how museums and art galleries develop and flourish in the new era of China and how they pass on humanism, aesthetic appreciation and public values. These well-designed posters, beautiful and meaningful, will be the key to help visitors to understand the museums and art galleries.

The exhibition Jewels of Resplendence-Treasures from the Himalayas  will showcase 233 pieces/sets of  exquisite artifacts from the Himalayan regions. It will meet the public on Feb. 1st, 2021. You will enjoy the unique regional customs and spiritual world. 

Ancient Indian grotto art was introduced to China around the 3rd century AD and repeatedly reached its prime in the northern parts of China. While the art declined in northern China during the late Tang Dynasty, it remained actively practiced along the Yangtze River, especially in Sichuan and Chongqing.

Sichuan and Chongqing are geographically close to each other and share the same cultural origins. They boast the largest amount of grottoes in China. Featured with distinctive national, secular, and daily features, Dazu Rock Carvings is the epitome of Chinese grotto art. In 1999, Dazu Rock Carvings was included in the World Heritage List, marking the last milestone of the grotto art in human history. This exhibition showcases the unique charm of the art and the achievements of cultural heritage protection and inheritance.

The latest special exhibition of Jinsha, titled Jinsha as Poem-Poetry on the Theme of Ancient Shu, has opened on May 1, with a purpose to highlight more than 30 poems written for Jinsha by people from all walks of the society. These poems are written by poets who gazed at the museum the whole night, shovel-toting archaeologists with a romantic heart, spirited students from primary schools, and contributors via the internet who love the Jinsha culture... Behind each poem is a whisper of innermost feelings to Jinsha by Chengdu citizens.

On the morning of December 26, the exhibition Tinkling Treasures: Royal Ceremony and Court Life in the Qing Dynasty organized by Chengdu Jiasha Site Museum and The Palace Museum was opened in Jinsha Site Museum. With 123 sets (158 pieces) of gold and jade treasures used by royal in Qing Dynasty, which are collected by The Palace Museum, this exhibition tells the ceremonies and customs of the royal sacrifice, birthday congratulation, marriage and Spring Festival celebration in the palace of Qing Dynasty to represent the luxury and vivid palace life. It is learnt that the exhibition will last through April 5, 2020（now postponed to June 14th）.

Upon entering the exhibition hall, you seem to enter the palace where the luxury of gold and jades overwhelms you. The colors extracted from the palace walls, palace dresses and palace utensils, such as sapphire blue, red and purple, bright red and rose red, lay the thick and heavy dominant hues of the exhibition hall and also clearly divide it into four exhibition sectors including sacrifice, birth congratulation, marriage and Spring Festival as well.

During this exhibition which is a cross-year exhibition of Jinsha Site Museum, Jinsha will also hold the 2020 Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival to make the audiences experience the peculiar Qing Dynasty Palace culture through the active-state display such as the festoon lanterns and the flower fair.

Paper-cutting is a common art in both China and the West. This exhibition will showcase the Danish paper-cutting created by artist Karen Bit Vejle and works infused with Jinsha element. We hope to facilitate the open-dialogue of Sino-Danish civilization and shorten the distance between the two different cultures through this display. Moreover, we intend to inspire the public about the nowaday values of cultural heritage. 

The exhibition is located at the meditation area on the ground floor of the Exhibition Hall. It will last until Nov. 24th.

The Exhibition Exploring the tales of two cities: Beijing & Chengdu opened in Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum on Sept. 29th. It is the first time Jinsha holds an education-oriented exhibition, which tells the thousand-years transformation of the two cities with visual display boards and interactive programs. The exhibition will last through Nov. 30th.

Zhongshan （Chinese "中山"）was a small state that existed during the Warring States period, which managed to survive for almost 120 years despite its small size.

In the special exhibition Discovery. Zhongshan State, we have selected 132 pieces/sets of artifacts found in the ruins of the Zhongshan state. Audience will learn the story of how Zhongshan grew from a small state to a strong one which stood next to the 7 most powerful states in the Warring period. The exhibition is divided into four parts: the Origin, War, State, and Communication.

The exhibition wiill last until Oct 27th.

The ivory, softy and smooth like the flawless jade, is the perfect material to be engraved and it’s hardly shattered. Hence, it was widely used by people since the Neolithic Age. Besides, in Chinese, the character ‘elephant’ is the homophonic word of the character ‘propitious, which also bestows the ivory products a propitious implication in traditional Chinese culture, that is, ‘bringing the good fortune and warding off the evil to relieve the uneasiness and bring peace and tranquilization’.

On April 16, 2019, ‘The Auspicious Art— Ivory Carving in Ming and Qing Dynasties’ will open up in Jinsha Site Museum. Many ancient ivory products and valuable ivory sculptures of Ming and Qing dynasties will be displayed. They come from six state-owned collecting entities including the Sichuan Museum, Chengdu Cultural Relic and Archeology Research institution, Dongguan Museum, and Chen Clan Ancestral Hall. They vividly show the magnificent and wonderful Chinese arts and crafts. Besides, the exhibition also corporates with International Fund for Animal Welfare. Through multimedia and interactive display, they also focus on elephant conservation, which is also a global issue, to implement the ecological civilization construction while carrying forward the culture and memory.

Such splendid and glorious artistic ivory cravings have witnessed the lights and shadows of thousands of years. Just like plucking the dawn blossoms at dusk, they leave the intoxicating beauty of art and crafts for the offspring. What’s more, this exhibition also reminds us to treasure the material carriers of this kind of art— the ivory and the elephant. The last part of this exhibition——‘Living with the Elephants’, specifically gives the account of related contents including the history and current conditions of elephant conservation, and the prohibition of elephant, reminding the audiences to focus on the destiny of elephants when appreciating this kind of Chinese intangible cultural heritage, and to object the meaningless chasing of the material of ivory itself.  

The exhibition will last until June 23rd.

As one of the representative civilizations of Central America, the Maya civilization was born in the 10th century B.C. and flourished in the lowlands of southeastern Mexico, northern Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras before the arrival of Europeans in the region in the sixteenth century. This mysterious and unique civilization is called the “Ancient Maya”.

Ancient Maya peoples were extraordinarily creative. Magnificent cities, majestic pyramids, hieroglyphic writing system, advanced mathematics, as well as the precise calendar all displayed the high achievements of Maya civilization in the fields of art, architecture, astronomy, mathematics and so on, leaving precious cultural legacies for the world. The Maya also regarded the cosmos, the sun, the rain, the lightning and all things growing on the earth as the existence of supernatural forces. With the help of various murals, stone carvings, ceramics and other works of art, the Maya made the supernatural forces expressive and visualized, and then portrayed a world in which everything had a life, leaving behind a true record of their own lives, but also presenting a distinctive spiritual world.

By showcasing 214 works from LACMA’s collection of the Art of the Ancient Americas, we will start a dream journey to glimpse the splendid supernatural world in ancient Maya art.

Gold has been regarded as a symbol of wealth and power since ancient times. On the basis of absorbing the cultural elements from other countries, and through the innovation and development during various periods, China’s goldware has gradually integrated with the features of various ethnic groups and regions, and finally formed a unique gold culture.

In order to welcome the second China Archaeology Forum to be held in Chengdu in October 2018, Jinsha Site Museum will hold the exhibition of Golden Memory: A Special Exhibition of China’s Unearthed Gold Vessels Before the 14th Century, in collaboration with 40 archaeological and cultural institutions from 19 provinces and cities, which will present the history of China in bright gold. This exhibition will meet the audience on September 21, displaying more than 350 pieces (sets) of fine goldware unearthed from pre-Qin period to Yuan dynasty (2100 BC – 1368 AD). It will show the origin, development, innovation and prosperity of China’s gold artifacts, and highlight their exquisite manufacturing process.

Exhibition time: 6/9/2018-8/19/2018

Over recent years, there have been many important archaeological discoveries in Chengdu, which help people better understand the ancient Shu civilization and the city's history. 

The exhibition Important Archaeological Finds and Unearthed Cultural Relics highlights the cultural relics including the centuries-old boat-coffins unearthed from Shangye Street in downtown Chengdu and archaeological excavations from Laoguanshan Han Dynasty Tomb in the city's northern suburbs. Moreover, the exhibits are enriched with behind-the-scene stories about the repair and restoration of these archaeological findings.

The exhibition of the year at Jinsha Site Museum, Pompeii: the Infinite Life lasted from February 9 to May 3. On display were 120 pieces (sets) of Pompeii relics from the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy.

The exhibition included six parts, namely Pompeii Landscape, Pompeii on the Mediterranean, Public and Private Daily Life, Finding Pompeii, Pompeii and Vesuvius, Pompeii Story – A History of Awakening. Human body sculptures speaking romance and freedom, white marble lavatories, exquisite mural paintings, and various craftwork were displayed in the exhibition hall. Walking through the spaces, the audience could feel as if they were in an ancient Roman city built two thousand years ago. Every brick and stone, street and scene, all were the perfect embodiment of the Roman engineering techniques and lifestyles.

The exhibition of A Galaxy of Jades at Jinsha: Exhibition of Jade Culture during the Xia-Shang Periods was held at Jinsha Site Museum on September 24, 2017. Exhibiting 250 pieces (sets) of exquisite jade ware of the Xia-Shang periods unearthed from around the country, it was the first centralized and the largest-scale display in China of unearthed jade ware from the Xia-Shang periods. At the same time, the “International Symposium on Jade Culture during the Xia-Shang Periods” was held, and the academic monograph Jinsha Jade Work I － a study on unearthed jade tablets from the Jinsha Site was published. Experts of jade culture from home and abroad were joined together to review the latest academic achievements and findings of Xia-Shang jade wares. 

The year 2017 marked the 10th anniversary of the opening of Jinsha Site Museum, therefore, this special exhibition as well as the relevant academic activities will take Jinsha Site as a starting point, and trace the exquisite history of ancient Shu, exhibiting the inclusiveness and openness of Chengdu.

The mild jade has always been likened to virtue by superior men. As Chinese civilization evolves, Chinese jade culture has been constantly injected with new connotations. During the more than eight-thousand-year history of jade culture, ancient jades first appeared as vessels to communicate with the spiritual world and then served as ceremonial artifacts to worship heaven. Jade changed from serving gods, then kings, and finally the common households. Chinese people have vested their unique bearing into the utilization, appreciation, and admiration of jades.

In the long history of jade culture, the Xia-Shang periods are undoubtedly a great milestone, as jade wares of that time, characterized by their wide distribution, fusion-style designs and exquisite workmanship, formed the second peak of Chinese jade culture. From the central plains to the northwest, from the lower reaches of the Yellow River to the Yangtze River basin, Xia-Shang jade wares are like the stars in the sky, shining brightly with the essence of that era.

On June 1, 2017, the children’s exhibition of All Things Have a Soul: Marvelous Zoo of Animal Style Artworks was held at Jinsha Site Museum. One hundred and fifty animal-shaped cultural relics collected by Jinsha Site Museum and Guangdong Museum were on display, showing the harmonious relationship between human beings and animals. It has been reported that this was the first children’s exhibition held at Jinsha Site Museum.

According to different animal habitats, the exhibition was divided into four areas, namely the sky, the water, the land, and the domestic place.  Moreover, a special fifth area of “Animal World of Ancient Shu” was added. Different from animals in real life, the relics displayed in this area depicted many mythical creatures that existed only in legends.

Ms. Yang Jianhua, one of the curators of this exhibition, said, “Since Jinsha Site Museum started to hold temporary exhibitions in 2012, it has been focusing on exhibitions of historical or archaeological themes, or a special type of relics such as goldware or bronze ware. This one will explore a new perspective by emphasizing the relationship between humans and animals.

On Jan 23, 2017, the opening ceremony of the special exhibition Ancient Egypt: World of Pharaohs and Gods, sponsored by Jinsha Site Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), was held outside the temporary exhibition hall.

Following two world-civilizations-series exhibitions Dancing with Gods: African Exquisite Carving Art and Eternal City-Splendor of Ancient Rome, this one will display 155 pieces (sets) cultural relics of ancient Egyptian culture collected by ROM. These artifacts relate to many interesting topics such as life and death concepts, pharaohs, military affairs, religious beliefs and etc.

The exhibition will last through May 4, 2017.

The exhibition titled the "Story of Jiuliandun Tomb - Special Exhibition of Ancient Chu State Relics of Hubei Province" officially opened at Jinsha Site Museum on August 20, 2016. In history, Shu State culture and Chu State culture had maintained close relationship and frequent exchanges. Legend has it that Kaiming, the fifth-generation King of Shu State was a native of the Jingchu region which was the reason he made earnest efforts to introduce Chu State culture into the Shu State and further strengthened the contact between the two. 

This special exhibition is a "Feast of Chu State Culture" presented to Chengdu citizens by Jinsha Site Museum cooperating with Hubei Provincial Museum. The exhibition, lasting till October 30, will display 142 pieces of exquisite cultural relics unearthed from the Jiuliandun Ancient Tombs of the Warring States Period, which was dubbed as one of the six major archaeological discoveries in China in 2002.

The "Story of Jiuliandun Tomb - Special Exhibition of Ancient Chu State Relics of Hubei Province" jointly presented by Jinsha Site Museum and Hubei Provincial Museum will be officially opened on August 20, 2016. As a national archaeological discovery of 2002, the chariot pit discovered at the Tomb No.1 &2 of Jiuliandun are one of the largest, best preserved and most spectacular Chu tombs ever excavated in China. Over 5000 pieces/sets of cultural relics, including bronze sacrificial vessels, weapons, lacquer wares, and jade wares were unearthed from the two tombs. 

142 pieces of cultural relics are selected for this exhibition, including the bronze chimes, bronze Chinese cauldron, lacquered square pot, lacquered wooden cup, and jade pendants. 

On April 26, 2016, the exhibition titled “Vigorous Art on Ancient Pottery—Co-exhibition of Prehistoric Painted Pottery of the Yellow River Basin”, scheduled for 3 months, opened to the public at Jinsha Site Museum. 

The exhibition includes national treasures such as the pointed-bottom bottle with spiral patterns, the painted pottery plate with dragon design, and the eggshell black pottery cup. These exhibits present a full picture of the prehistoric development of colored pottery in China, embody the exchanges of prehistoric civilizations, and offer us a chance to meet the prehistoric people and engage in spiritual dialogue with them.

The painted pottery is the most colorful artwork among the diverse types of prehistoric pottery in China. The complex or simple patterns on the pottery vessels not only show the unique temporal and regional styles, but also represent different aesthetics, beliefs and customs. The spread of painted pottery and the wave of prehistoric art it brought was a great cultural fusion in the history of China which marked a firmer cultural identity. The prehistoric painted pottery in China emerged in approximately 5,000 BC and developed for nearly 4,000 years. The Yellow River Basin is the area with the most concentrated and distinctive discoveries of painted pottery, and has witnessed the birth of the three centers of painted pottery culture, i.e. Yangshao Culture, Dawenkou Culture and Majiayao Culture.

The exhibition titled “The Eternal City - Splendor of Ancient Rome” opened on January 26, 2016 at Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu and featured 233 pieces (sets) of exhibits from 7 heavyweight museums, which include the world-renowned Roman Colosseum, Palatino Museum, Golden Palace, The Baths of Diocletian of the National Roman Museum, the Massimo Palace of the National Roman Museum, the National Archaeological Museum of Florence and the Archaeological Museum of Siena, under the administration of the Special Superintendence for the Archaeological Heritage of Rome, the Superintendence for the Archaeological Heritage of Tuscany, and the Superintendence for State Museums of Tuscany Region of Italy.

This exhibition is a large-scale special exhibition of overseas cultural relics jointly introduced by four well-known domestic museums including Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, Tianjin Museum, Shandong Museum, and Yunnan Provincial Museum. The exhibition also includes a tour of the four museums with Jinsha as the first stop. Many pieces of cultural relics in this exhibition are displayed for the first time in China. The heaviest one is about 1500 kg, the highest one is nearly 2 meters, and the most precious one is estimated at more than 7 million yuan with the total insurance valuation reaching nearly 100 million yuan.

On October 17, 2015, Trois siècles d'élégance: Manufacture de Sèvres 1740-2015, co-organized by Jinsha Site Museum, Sèvres, City of Ceramics and Limoges in Limoges and Galerie Dumonteil, kicked off at Jinsha Site Museum with Consulate General of the Republic of France in Chengdu, Deputy Counsellor of Cultural and Educational Cooperation of French Embassy in China and leaders of Chengdu city government, as well as cultural luminaries from all walks of life presented. The exhibition walked the audience through the long-standing manufacturer and its relation with Chinese culture. The exhibition will continue until December 17, 2015.

Over a hundred delicate porcelains produced by Manufacture de Sèvres over the span of three centuries are displayed in four sections, all telling the fascinating stories of the sophisticated French ceramic craft.

From July 7 to October 7, 2015, the unique and innovative educational archaeology exhibition Ba, An Ancient Kingdom Lost for Thousands of Years will be officially making its entrance in Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, uncovering the secret territory erased from the history records——the Kingdom of Ba—— to the citizens of Chengdu, especially youth on summer vacation.

The exhibition, co-organized by Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, Shanxi Museum, and Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, is a highlight of the series activities of “See You in Museums—Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries” on China Cultural Heritage Day. As one of the national top ten new archaeological discoveries of 2010, this exhibition is also the first official meeting of the archaeological results of Western Zhou cemetery at Dahekou, Shanxi with people in Sichuan.

A vassal state as it was, the Kingdom of Ba never left a trace on the historical record, and the territory and size of the kingdom were also nowhere to be found. Although the culture of West Zhou left its mark on the kingdom, the independent spiritual and material culture of its own remained unshaken with even highly detail-oriented sacrificial offerings, weddings, funerals, marriages, and eating customs.

Africa, a byword for the mysteries-and-fantasies-filled wonderland, boasts a variety of landform, abounds in animal and plant resources, and breeds the long-standing ancient civilization and the unique regional culture. In the traditional black African civilization in sub-Saharan Africa, the carving culture stands out as the fruit of the wisdom and wild imagination of African people. It presents distinctive humanistic characteristics, glittering like a bright pearl in the river of world civilization, and inspiring constantly the development of western modern art.

190 sculptures from sub-Saharan Africa from the 17th to the 19th centuries are selected into this exhibition, including exquisitely crafted daily necessities, statues of gods with different postures, various kinds of sacrificial masks, and witchcraft objects for communicating with all spirits. 

This exhibition will continue until May 3, 2015.

To mark the upcoming 38th International Museum Day, “Imperial Treasures: Exhibition on Cultural Relics of the Ming Dynasty Tomb of Jiangxi Province”, co-hosted by Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum and Jiangxi Provincial Museum, opened at Jinsha on May 15, 2014.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jiangxi has made remarkable achievements in archaeological work. A large number of precious cultural relics with excellent workmanship have been unearthed in the tombs of Seigneur Ning and Yi, including magnificent goldware, delicate jade ware, vivid pottery figurines and intricate clothes.

A total of 137 cultural relics are on display in this exhibition until August 20.

On the morning of January 20, 2014, “Chinese Nuo Opera • Nuo Mask Art Exhibition”, jointly presented by Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, Guizhou Ethnic Cultural Palace and Beijing Ethnic Cultural Palace, officially opened to the public at the Jinsha Site Museum. The exhibition runs until April 17.

This exhibition tells what a Nuo Opera is, where it comes from, different types of Nuo Opera performances, various Nuo masks, their designs, colors, and crafts. It is a large-scale assembly of Nuo related artifacts as well as an unprecedented thematic exhibition of Nuo Opera culture in China. 

The exhibition features more than 400 valuable cultural relics related to the Nuo culture, including props such as swords, seals and ox horns, Nuo costumes, and Nuo masks from several Chinese ethnic groups.

“Nuo” (傩) is a strange word for many. Generally speaking, it refers to the sacrificial rites that people perform to expel the pestilent evil spirit in a specific season. Nowadays, China is among the countries with the most diverse forms of Nuo Operas.

A large number of paper documents have remained in thousands of years of Chinese history. To protect ancient classics and pass on cultural heritage, the Western Sichuan Document Restoration Center and Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum jointly organized Excellent Workmanship in Restoration: Exhibition on Repaired Paper Documents. It opened at Jinsha Site Museum on November 20, 2013, and lasted 10 days.

At the opening ceremony, the professional staff of the Western Sichuan Document Restoration Center collectively brought to the audience their original poem recitation with music. The Persistence of Restorers expressed their continuous pursuit in protecting cultural heritage, and the sense of responsibility to pass on the ancient documents to future generations.

For the coming eighth Chinese Cultural Heritage Day, the Exhibition on Cultural Relics of the Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tombs, jointly presented by Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum and Hunan Provincial Museum, opened at Jinsha Site Museum on June 5, 2013, and the exhibition will run until September 5 this year.

At the opening ceremony, actors wearing traditional Han costumes played musical instruments, performed a sword dance, and saluted in traditional manners. A wonderful Han costume show was presented to the public.

The exhibition includes 120 pieces/sets of precious cultural relics unearthed from three Han dynasty tombs in the Mawangdui site(Han Dynasty: 202 BC - 8 AD), supplemented by relics unearthed from other parts of Hunan. 

To show the archaeological discovery in the Yalong River area of Sichuan Province to the public, and to provide a platform to present this distinctive regional bronze culture, Jinsha Site Museum and Liangshan Regional Museum (of Sichuan) jointly held The Mystery of Southern Sichuan: Exhibition on Archaeological Discovery of the Yalong River Area. The exhibition opened at Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum on August 1, 2012, and will last until October 30, 2012.

The exhibition features more than 400 artifacts from the Yalong River Area, including numerous weapons, rarely-seen religious instruments, unique musical instruments, ornaments as well as production and living implements.

Time: January 18 - May 13, 2012

Place: Temporary Exhibition Hall

Jointly presented by the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, the exhibition brings together 60 years of archaeological achievements from Yinxu (the capital site of the late Shang dynasty in pre-Qin China) in Anyang, Henan province, with a total of 136 pieces (groups) of cultural relics. 

The exhibits mainly include fine bronze and jade artifacts unearthed from Fvhao tomb, who is the consort of King Wuding in Shang dynasty  (1600 BC - 1046 BC), supplemented by cultural relics unearthed from other parts of Anyang; it tells how different utensils and ritual artifacts were systematically used by the royal families in the late Shang period. Visitors will learn a comprehensive picture of the marvelous history of the late Shang dynasty.