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  Wuxi Museum is a local comprehensive museum of China. It was prepared in 1957 on the basis of the Exhibition of Relics Unearthed during the Capital Construction Engineering of Wuxi City. It was completed and opened to the public in August in 1958 at the Zhaozhong Memorial Hall of Huishan Mountain, moved to the new site at Heliekou and opened to the public in March 1986. The new Museum is a polygonal modern building. Zhou Peiyuan's Painting Collection Hall is inside the Museum while Zhou Huaimin's Painting Collection Hall is located at the north side of the new Museum.

  The Museum has collected over 10,000 items of collection, including ceramics, stone and jade articles, gold vessel and silverware, lacquer ware and wooden articles, carvings, painting and calligraphy, embroidery and revolutionary relics, of which over 100 items belong to Class One Collection. The relics are mainly local historic relics and painting and calligraphy.

  The basic exhibition of the Museum is the Display of Wuxi History, divided into the ancient Wuxi and the modern Wuxi. On display are over 500 items of exhibits supplemented with photos, charts, models and captions, reflecting in a concentrated way the brief history of development of Wuxi from the primitive society to the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Museum holds frequently exhibitions with its collections on various kinds of special topics such as painting and calligraphy, ceramics, coins, handicraft articles, the clay figurines of Huishan Mountain as well as the revolutionary relics and materials, over one hundred exhibitions in total since the founding of the Museum.

 


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