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China National Silk Museum 中国丝绸博物馆Zhōngguó Sīchóu Bówùguǎn
4A scenic area · Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hangzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About China National Silk Museum
A national museum of silk and textiles south of West Lake at the foot of Yuhuang Hill, opened in 1992 and rebuilt and enlarged in 2015–16. Its galleries trace Chinese silk and dress from Neolithic finds to the 20th century, with a weaving workshop, displays on sericulture and silk crafts (on UNESCO's intangible heritage list since 2009) and a textile conservation gallery, and it has held a Chinese costume festival every year since 2018.
How to get to China National Silk Museum
On Yuhuangshan Road about 1 km south of Leifeng Pagoda, by bus or taxi from the lakeshore.
Nearby
- West Lake 西湖 under 10 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like - Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 under 10 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings
Also within 20 km: Southern Hills Carvings (Ciyunling, Yanxia Cave, Tianlong Temple) 西湖南山造像 (under 10 km), Leifeng Pagoda 雷峰塔 (under 10 km), Zhejiang Art Museum 浙江美术馆 (under 10 km), Yuhuangshan South Fund Town 玉皇山南基金小镇 (under 10 km), Southern Song Guan Kiln Museum 南宋官窑博物馆 (under 10 km), Fantian Temple Dharani Pillars 梵天寺经幢 (under 10 km).
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