The China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing is a must-visit

The China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing (Chongqing Museum) is located at No. 236 Renmin Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing. It is a comprehensive historical and art museum featuring Bayu culture, Three Gorges culture, anti-war culture, immigrant culture, and urban culture. It was originally established as the Southwest Museum in 1951, renamed the Chongqing Museum in 1955 due to the dissolution of the Southwest Region, and approved by the General Office of the State Council in 2000 to undertake the rescue, display, and research of a large number of precious cultural relics for the Three Gorges cultural relics protection project. Museum floor distribution: 1F: Magnificent Three Gorges, Grand Three Gorges Panoramic Movie, 123 Creative Workshop, Temporary Exhibition Hall A; 2F: Chongqing: The Road of the City, Ancient Bayu, Temporary Exhibition Hall B; 3F: Bashu Han Dynasty Sculpture Art, Southwest Ethnic Folk Customs, Years of Anti-War, Coins through the Ages, Temporary Exhibition Hall C; 4F: Paintings and Calligraphy through the Ages, Porcelains through the Ages, Temporary Exhibition Hall D, Jingren Huai De - Exhibition of Socially Donated Cultural Relics. The main building of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing is majestic and profound. In addition to the front side maintaining a trinity with People's Square and the People's Great Hall, the rest of the building is constructed according to the terrain and integrates with the mountain, combining the height difference of the terrain with the enclosure and semi-enclosure of the building to present a garden landscape with a mountain and water theme. The gently changing volume seems to grow and be carved out of the mountain. During the visit, the first-floor exhibition hall introducing the Three Gorges Project was under maintenance, so only the other exhibition halls were visited, which was a bit regrettable! However, fortunately, the traditional Mawangshan style area to the south and the adjacent Chongqing People's Square and People's Great Hall, which form a 'trinity' of iconic urban buildings with it, were visited beforehand (A panoramic view of the majestic People's Square and People's Great Hall can be taken from the steps of the main entrance plaza of the Three Gorges Museum, see picture 16). Pictures 1-3: Exterior of the Chongqing Three Gorges Museum; Pictures 4-5: Interior of the Three Gorges Museum; Picture 6: Museum floor distribution map; Pictures 7-8: Chongqing Municipal People's Government on the north side of the Three Gorges Museum; Picture 9: The History Exhibition Hall of the Chinese Democratic Parties and Zhongshan Fourth Road Roundabout on the southwest side of the Three Gorges Museum; Picture 10: Ba People Sculpture on the north side of the People's Square Archway in Chongqing; Picture 11: Peach blossoms blooming in a corner of People's Square; Picture 12: View of the Three Gorges Museum and Chongqing Municipal Government from Mawangshan·Tangli; Pictures 13-14: A corner of Mawangshan·Tangli; Mawangshan·Tangli is located on the Yuzhong Peninsula, with the Three Gorges Museum to its northwest and the People's Great Hall to the north. It is a typical mountain city settlement space, also known as the Mawangshan Traditional Style Area. The name 'Mawangshan' has been in use since the Republic of China and is derived from the saddle-like shape of the land. From the 'mountain bottom' Great Hall to the 'mountain top' Mawangshan, it is only a hundred meters, but it contains a leisurely atmosphere - ancient trees reaching the sky, streets connected, filled with a sense of historical depth, and 32 historic buildings scattered throughout, making the charm of 'old Chongqing' omnipresent. This area was once the place where famous patriotic progressives such as Shen Junru, Zou Taofen, Shi Liang, Sha Ganli, Fan Changjiang, Mao Dun, Wang Bingnan, and Wang Anna lived and were active. It was also an important venue where the Southern Bureau of the CPC, led by Zhou Enlai, met with various democratic parties and patriotic progressives to discuss national affairs. Picture 15: The former residence of Shen Junru at No. 18 Mawangshan; Picture 16: Panoramic view of People's Square and the Great Hall taken from the steps of the main entrance plaza of the Three Gorges Museum.