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Yanbian Museum 延边博物馆Yánbiān Bówùguǎn
4A scenic area · Yanbian, Jilin
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yanbian
- Region
- Jilin
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Yanbian Museum
Yanbian Museum is the main museum of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, a national second-class museum with about 15,000 items, in a new building opened in 2012 on a site of more than 20,000 m² on Changbai West Road. Its core displays cover finds from the prefecture, the folk customs of the ethnic Korean (Chaoxian) community and the history of the community's revolutionary struggle, and they include a copy of the mural and stele from the Bohai Princess Zhenxiao's tomb. The folk-customs exhibition received an excellence award in a national top-ten museum exhibitions selection in 2013.
How to get to Yanbian Museum
On Changbai West Road in the west of Yanji, about 7 km west-south-west of the city centre and 2 km south-south-east of Yanji West railway station. Closed on Mondays except public holidays.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Yanji Maoershan Dinosaur Culture Tourism Area 延吉帽儿山恐龙文化旅游区 (under 10 km), Former Yanji Border Affairs Bureau 延吉边务督办公署旧址 (under 10 km), Liangtian Baishi Holiday Park 良田百世 (10 km), Piyanshan Cultural Tourism Scenic Area 琵岩山 (10 km), Piyanshan Hot Spring Village 琵岩山温泉古村落 (20 km).
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