Nanjing museum was originally set up in 1933, covering a space of 12.9 hectares. Due to warfare, only the construction of human culture hall was completed as planed. Now to the west of the hall, an archaized show hall has been constructed, having a floor space of 12,600 square meters and consisting of treasure hall, bronze ware hall, porcelain ware hall, painting hall, jade hall, embroidery hall, pottery hall, lacquer ware hall, folklore hall, modern arts hall and calligraphy and painting hall of celebrities. The museum has a collection of more than 420 thousand pieces, including about 2,000 rare and valued ones. Calligraphy and painting works from ancient dynasties collected by the museum exceed 30,000, including those valuable from the Song and the Yuan dynasties. Among them, Paleolithic stone wares, colored pottery wares, bronze wares of the West Zhou dynasty(11th century-711B.C.) and the Spring and Autumn period(770-476B.C.), gold beast, jade dress sewn with silver thread, gold seal of a Han dynasty(206B.C.-220A.D.) prince and other articles are all treasures, worthy of studying and appreciating.

Admission Fee: RMB 20
Bus Route: 4, 41, 23, 48, 43, 80, 83, 306