Zhenjiang Museum (former British Consulate in Zhenjiang)

The former British Consulate is in the museum, and the British garden-style architecture makes the museum uniquely British. There are nearly 30,000 pieces/sets of cultural relics in the collection, including bronzes, celadon porcelain, gold and silver wares, silk dresses, paintings and calligraphy, imperial porcelain and other cultural relics of various dynasties in China since the Neolithic Age.

The featured cultural relics in Zhenjiang Museum mainly include: bronzes of Wu Country (about 12th century BC-473 BC). At present, more than 80% of bronzes of Wu Country unearthed are in Zhenjiang. Additionally, the celadon porcelains of the Six Dynasties (222-589) are discovered. Among the celadon porcelains of the Six Dynasties unearthed by now, Zhenjiang has a large number of them and many are the finest ones. Gold and silver wares in Tang Dynasty (618-907) are also found. There are thousands of gold and silver wares in Tang Dynasty in the collection, accounting for more than half of the unearthed pieces in southern China. At the same time, there is a batch of silverware in Song and Yuan cellars, which become a series and are rarely seen. A batch of well-preserved clothes, silk fabrics and student certificates from Song Dynasty are rare in China. Meanwhile, the works of Jingjiang Painting School from Ming and Qing Dynasties are featured with local cultures. Finally, imperial porcelain from Qing Dynasty (1636-1912), many of them being large artifacts, are of high quality and all priceless. Among these 30,000 cultural relics, there are 82 pieces (sets) of first-grade cultural relics, 326 pieces (sets) of second-grade cultural relics and 4,299 pieces (sets) of third-grade cultural relics.