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Sanwan Park & China Grand Canal Museum 运河三湾Yùnhé Sānwān
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Yangzhou, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yangzhou
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Sanwan Park & China Grand Canal Museum
In 1597 Yangzhou's prefect Guo Guangfu replaced a straight stretch of the canal, nearly 200 m long, with a 1.8 km course of three bends to raise the water level and slow the current; after 2014 factories and wharves were cleared from its banks, which reopened in 2017 as a wetland park. Its centrepiece is the China Grand Canal Museum, opened in June 2021 in a ship-shaped building designed by Zhang Jinqiu, with the Dayun Pagoda beside it. The galleries cover the whole canal, from a 25.7 m section of riverbed lifted from the Zhouqiao site on the Bian canal to a restored Qing passenger boat and a recreated canal-town street.
How to get to Sanwan Park & China Grand Canal Museum
On the old canal about 3 km south of Yangzhou's old city centre; several city bus routes stop at the museum. The museum is closed on Mondays except public holidays.
Nearby
- Slender West Lake 瘦西湖 under 10 km
A ribbon of willow-fringed water lined with the pavilions of Qing salt merchants
Also within 20 km: Crane Mosque 仙鹤寺 (under 10 km), Xiaopangu Garden 小盘谷 (under 10 km), He Garden 何园 (under 10 km), Jia Salt Merchant Residence & Erfen Mingyue Lou 贾氏盐商住宅 (under 10 km), Lu Salt Merchant Residence (China Huaiyang Cuisine Museum) 卢氏盐商住宅 (under 10 km), Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou Memorial Hall 扬州八怪纪念馆 (under 10 km).
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