China National Silk Museum, Large textile museum in Xihu, China

The China National Silk Museum stands on Yuhuangshan Road near West Lake in Hangzhou, covering 50,000 square metres with 8,000 square metres of buildings. Its permanent galleries include "The Story of Chinese Silk", with a relics hall and a costume hall showing dress from the Warring States period to the Republic, and "Sericulture and Silk Craftsmanship in China". A 2015–2016 rebuild by Tongji University's architectural design institute brought exhibition space to 10,000 square metres.

The museum opened in 1992 to gather knowledge about silk production and protect it for the future. It has since become a major center for studying textiles and traditional Chinese craftsmanship techniques.

The museum's Hanfu Festival, held annually since 2018, takes a different Chinese dynasty as its theme each year; in 2019 it received an award from the Chinese Museum Association as one of the country's most innovative museum events. The permanent galleries also present sericulture and silk craftsmanship, including mulberry cultivation, silkworm rearing, reeling, weaving, dyeing and embroidery, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.

The museum stands at 73-1 Yuhuangshan Road, near Nanshan Road and West Lake, and buses 12, 42, 271 and Tourist Line 3 stop at the Silk Museum stop. It has been free to enter since 2004. The 2015–2016 rebuilding brought exhibition space to 10,000 square metres, so plan a route through the galleries rather than trying to cover them all at once.

The museum's director, Zhao Feng, specialises in Silk Road textiles and leads a national project on the Dunhuang finds, published so far in three volumes covering UK, French and Russian collections. In 2015 he founded the International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles and was its first president.