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Guanzhong Folk Art Museum 关中民俗艺术博物院Guānzhōng Mínsú Yìshù Bówùyuàn
4A scenic area · Xi'an, Shaanxi
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Xi'an
- Region
- Shaanxi
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Guanzhong Folk Art Museum
A privately funded museum at the foot of South Wutai Mountain, built by the collector Wang Yongchao, to which some 40 Ming and Qing courtyard houses from across the Guanzhong plain were moved and re-erected. Besides the houses it shows stone, wood and brick carving, folk crafts and customs, and more than 8,600 carved stone hitching posts set out in rows.
How to get to Guanzhong Folk Art Museum
At Wutai in Chang'an District about 26 km south of the Bell Tower, under an hour by road and close to the South Wutai Mountain gate.
Nearby
- Datang Everbright City 大唐不夜城 20 km
A lantern-lit, Tang-themed avenue of street performers, sculptures and evening crowds - Big Wild Goose Pagoda 大雁塔 20 km
A Tang-dynasty pagoda built for scriptures a monk carried home from India - Shaanxi History Museum 陕西历史博物馆 20 km
Tang gold and silver, original tomb murals and finds from Shaanxi's Zhou, Qin and Han past - Small Wild Goose Pagoda 小雁塔 20 km
A slender Tang brick pagoda, cracked by earthquakes, in the grounds of the Xi'an Museum - Xi'an City Wall 西安城墙 20 km
Cycle all 14 km of a Ming city wall, high above Xi'an's rooftops
Also within 20 km: South Wutai Mountain 南五台 (under 10 km), Shengshou Temple Pagoda, Nanwutai 圣寿寺塔 (under 10 km), Erlong Pagoda 二龙塔 (under 10 km), Cuihua Mountain 翠华山 (under 10 km), Xingjiao Temple 兴教寺 (under 10 km), Qinling Wildlife Park 秦岭野生动物园 (10 km).
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