Wangye Museum

Wangye Museum is a non-state-owned museum dedicated to the collection, research and exhibition of ancient relics. It opened to public on October 21st, 2012. The museum logo is the handwriting by the great master from archaeological community, Mr. Su Bai, Professor of History and Archaeology in Peking University. The museum, seated on the third floor of Longhua Cultural Center, covers an area of 2,120 square meters and houses over 10,000 cultural relics and 40,000 specimens, mainly of which are rare and unparalleled elsewhere around the globe.

Wangye Museum has a vast collection of cultural relics dated from Warring Sates(476-211.B.C) to Qin(221-206.B.C), Han(206.B.C.-A.D.220), Tang(A.D.618-907), Song(A.D.960-1276), Yuan(A.D.1280-1368), Ming (A.D.1368-1644) and Qing(A.D.1644-1912) dynasties. Materials for creating these cultural relics include gold, silver, bronze, iron, jade, rock, lacquer, pottery, porcelain, wood and bone. Both quantitive and qualitative cultural relics are collected in terms of dynasty and material within the museum. Moreover, it is well known for its collections of great value. For instance, bone slips of Warring States, bamboo and wooden slips of Chu and Han States, inscribed pottery from Yecheng(a famous city in ancient China), bronze statues of soldiers of Shang and Zhou periods, Buddhist statues of ancient China, ceramics of Tang dynasty, white ceramics of Sui and Tang dynasties, Sogdian art, red and green painted ceramics from Song and Jin dynasties, ceramic pillow of ancient China, records of Wei Dynasty and stele of Tang Dynasty and the books of their rubbings, inscription on the tombstones of Song and Jin dynasties, remainings of cities in Central Plains area of Ancient China, stone inscription of Zoroastrianism of Song dynasty, clay sculpture and pottery model of Song and Jin dynasties, as well as remainings of Jun kiln. Considerable amounts of precious relics can also be found under each category. Wangye Museum enjoys reputation from collection community and international academia as the No.1 museum of its kind around the world for the collections of white ceramics of Sui and Tang dynasties as well as red and green painted ceramics of Song and Jin dynasties. Wangye Museum outnumbers all the other collection institutions in terms of national grade-one treasures, be it state-owned or non-state-owned institutions in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.

Wangye Museum has won widespread acclaims from over 300,000 domestic and foreign visitors since its opening in 2012. Most of the visitors are experts or scholars from major internationally known museums as well as institutions of higher learning, cultural relics and scientific research from all over the worlds. At the same time, exhibitions with elaborately chosen themes, great academic significance and various forms are held.Wangye Museum has exerted great impacts not only on cultural relics collection industry but also on international collection community. It opens a brand new page in reshaping people’s understanding toward ancient artifacts and art, enabling citizens of Shenzhen and tourists to get a closer look at the extensiveness of Chinese civilization and the rich cultural deposits of Shenzhen.