Chengdu Museum

成都博物馆
Entrance to the museum
Former name	Chengdu Topographical Museum
Established	1984
Location	1 Xiaohe Street, Qingyang District, Chengdu, China
Coordinates	30°39′50″N 104°02′41″E / 30.66375°N 104.04459°E / 30.66375; 104.04459
Type	City museum
Collections	Historical artifacts, puppetry, wood carvings
Collection size	c.200,000
Founder	Chengdu Topographical Museum Preparatory Committee
Director	Li Jieren (from 1958)
Architect	Sutherland Hussey Harris
Website	cdmuseum.com (in Chinese)

Chengdu Museum (Chinese: 成都博物馆, aka Chengdu Museum New Hall from 2016) is a large city museum in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.^[1]

The museum is located on the west side of Tianfu Square, close to the Jincheng Art Palace, Sichuan Art Museum, Sichuan Provincial Library, and Sichuan Science and Technology Museum.^[2]

History

On 15 September 1958, the Chengdu Municipal Government, under the direction of the Ministry of Culture to prepare for the formation of a museum, established the Chengdu Topographical Museum Preparatory Committee, located at Daci Temple.^[3][4] The deputy mayor, the writer Li Jieren, was the director of the committee.^[2] The committee eventually led to the opening of Chengdu Museum in 1984, housed at Daci Temple.

In 2007, the architects Sutherland Hussey Harris, together with Pansolution, based in Beijing, won the first prize in an international competition to design a new city museum for Chengdu.^[5] The museum building was completed in 2016 with a floor area of 65,000 m² and named Chengdu Museum New Hall.

Collections

The museum has six floors displaying historic artifacts.^[6] It has exhibitions of puppetry, shadow puppets, and wood carvings.^[7] The museum is the largest comprehensive museum in Chengdu with nearly 200,000 objects in its collections, covering a time period from the Neolithic period to that of the Republic of China.^[1]