Tongling Museum

The new building of the Tongling Museum symbolizes the ancient Chinese cosmology of ’round sky and square earth’, with a square-shaped venue embedding an ancient bronze-colored circular building. The museum consists of four floors, with exhibitions themed around copper culture, supplemented by ceramic exhibitions, two temporary exhibition halls, and a bronze mirror exhibition hall.
The first floor of the museum serves as the office area. The second floor is the ceramic exhibition hall, displaying ceramics unearthed locally in Tongling from the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. The third and fourth floors are the main exhibition halls for copper culture, with exhibits arranged in chronological order, including bronze wares such as jue, jia, yi, ding, he, yan, zun, sword, arrowheads, and bronze mirrors from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Tang and Song periods.

Tongling is named after copper and prospered due to the mining and smelting of copper ores. Inside the museum, visitors can learn about Tongling’s 3000-year history of copper mining and smelting. The museum features distinctive exhibits such as some of China’s earliest pyritic copper smelting relics, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Western Zhou ice copper ingots, and Han and Tang large-scale smelting slag. The museum’s temporary exhibition halls frequently change their displays, and specific exhibition and event dates can be inquired by calling the museum.

Due to the establishment of the new Tongling Museum, the old museum located at No. 477 Xueyuan Road, Tongguan District, Tongling City, has been transformed into the Tongling Good People Hall and no longer serves as a museum. All exhibits have been moved to the new venue.

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Opening hours are all year round from Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM; the museum is closed all day on Mondays, except for national holidays. Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays are open as usual. The museum is closed on Mondays (except for national holidays) and not open to the public.

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