Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum, also known as Chongqing Museum, is one of the first national first-class museums, a national museum jointly built by the central and local governments, and a fully funded institution at the department level. The Three Gorges Museum has a unique shape, convenient transportation, and a superior location.
; It is located on Renmin Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, close to the Chongqing People's Auditorium.
In September 2000, the General Office of the State Council approved the establishment of Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum (Chongqing Museum). The museum is open to the public free of charge and closed on Mondays.
Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum covers an area of 50,000 square meters, a construction area of 71,700 square meters, and an exhibition hall area of 31,000 square meters.
Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum, formerly known as the Southwest Museum established in March 1951, was renamed Chongqing Museum in June 1955. The new museum was officially opened to the public on June 18, 2005.
The museum consists of five venues: the main hall, Chongqing Baiheliang Underwater Museum, Chongqing Song Qingling Memorial Hall, Tushan Kiln Site, and Chongqing Three Gorges Cultural Relics Science and Technology Protection Center. Together with the adjacent Chongqing People's Square and the People's Auditorium, it forms a "three-in-one" urban landmark building complex.
The exhibition consists of 4 basic exhibitions, 6 thematic exhibitions, 1 360-degree full-circle movie, 1 half-view painting exhibition, 1 audience practice center and 3 temporary exhibitions.
The museum currently has more than 115,000 pieces/sets of cultural relics and more than 18,000 rare ancient books, covering 23 categories of cultural relics, forming a series of special collections such as "ancient human specimens, Three Gorges cultural relics, Bayu bronzes, Han Dynasty cultural relics, southwestern ethnic cultural relics, anti-Japanese war cultural relics in the rear area, porcelain, calligraphy and painting, and guqin". 25
On November 18, 2020, it was elected as the "New Landmark of the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor". In November 2022, it was selected into the first batch of supplementary certification list of national popular science education bases from 2021 to 2025.
In January 2023, it was selected into the list of top 100 popular museums in China in 2022.
In May 2023, it was included in the 10 national-level tourist routes with the Yangtze River theme and the Yangtze River Civilization Origin Journey by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.