Changsha Jiandu Museum

Introducing Changsha Jiandu Museum
Changsha Jiandu Museum is currently the world’s only modern thematic museum which collects, protects, repairs, researches and exhibits bamboo slips, as well as an important cultural attractions in Changsha.

Changsha Jiandu Museum Fast Facts
• Chinese Name: Changsha Jiandu Bowuguan 长沙简牍博物馆
• Best Time to Visit: All year around
• Recommended Visiting Hours: About 1 to 2 hours
• Things to Do: Photography, Chinese History and Culture, Bamboo Slips
• Opening Hours: 10:00-16:00 (Closed on Tuesdays)
• Entrance Fee: Free
• Address: No. 92, Baisha Road, Tianxin District, Changsha, Hunan Province

What to expect at Changsha Jiandu Museum

The Changsha Jiandu Museum covers an area of 30 acres and the main building has an area of 14,100 square meters, of which 6000 square meters is the exhibition hall and warehouse area of 3,000 square meters.

This Changsha Jiandu Museum, occupying an area of two hectares, houses more than 140,000 bamboo slips and wooden tablets dating back more than 1,700 years ago, which have been unearthed in downtown Changsha since October 1996. The slips and tablets, which were inscribed with feature, recorded in details about the political, economic, military, cultural and geographic information in the ancient Changsha prefecture which was under the rule of Kingdom WU (222 AD-280 AD), according to sources with the local government. Additional, there are also about 3500 pieces of bronze, lacquered wood, paintings, gold and silver and other collection.

Ancient Chinese wrote on either wood tablets or bamboo slips, and paper only began to be used in the late Eastern Han Period (25AD-220 AD). In the ancient Chinese, before the paper was invented paper, books, the main instrument in writing to bamboo, wood texture for the Jane’s article, and then binding thread linking, easy to read and save. People with bamboo as the material for Jane to wood as the material for correspondence. Prior to the Qin and Han, Jian Du is the most widely used form of the instrument.

How to get to Changsha Jiandu Museum
• Take bus No. 122, 130, 167, 171, 311, 402, 406, 803 or 908 and get off at Changsha Jiandu Bowuguan Station.
• Take bus No. 2, 143, 145, 358, 803, 804, or 901 and get off at Tianxinge Ximen Station.

Additional travel advice on Changsha Jiandu Museum
• The mseum issues up to 4,000 free tickets per day.
• Please do not use flash while taking photos in the museum.