 The
Nanjing Museum is in the eastern part of Nanjing at 321 Zhongshan
Dong Lu, just inside Zhongshan Men (where visitors can mount the city
walls for free) and next to the Hilton.
Brightly
lit, spotless and spacious, the Nanjing Museum is part of a new
generation of international-standard museums rising in China. A
hall for special exhibits--often focusing on a specific non-Chinese
art form--changes monthly, adding a bonus for would-be repeat visitors.
The museum is split into two floors. The upper floor houses the
special exhibit space, landscape painting, calligraphy, jade, lacquer
ware, and a room dedicated to southern Jiangsu's specialty: silk
brocades. Downstairs are exhibits of folk art, bronzes, pottery,
porcelain, golden treasures, a one-room indoor Chinese garden, and
a small space for rotating exhibitions.
The
pride of the collection is the life-size Han Dynasty (206 BC - 221
AD) jade burial suit, located in the upper floor's jade collection.
Unearthed in the northern Jiangsu city of Xuzhou in 1970, the suit
is made up of 2,600 jade pieces held together by silver wire, weighs
400 kilograms, and stretches 1.70 meters long.
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