Shenzhen Museum, Modern cultural institution in Futian District, Shenzhen, China.
Shenzhen Museum is a modern institution in Futian that presents the region's history through multiple buildings and exhibition spaces. The collections document the city's development from ancient times to today, including its relationship with the sea and urban transformation.
The museum's original building on Tongxin Road was completed and opened in November 1988, one of eight cultural facilities built in the first years of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone; it reopened in December 2020 as the Museum of Ancient Art. The Jintian Road branch opened on 25 December 2008 as part of the east wing of the Civic Center. In 2012 the museum was named a Grade One national museum, the first prefecture-level comprehensive museum in Guangdong to receive that rating.
The museum displays how local people from Cantonese and Hakka backgrounds passed down their traditions across generations. The exhibitions tell stories of people who moved from countryside to city and how their daily lives transformed in the process.
The museum is spread over four sites: the history and folk culture branch in the east wing of the Civic Center on Fuzhong Road, the ancient art branch on Tongxin Road, the reform exhibition on the fourth and fifth floors of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, and the Dongjiang guerrilla headquarters on Nanqing Street in Luohu. Check which branch you want before setting out, since they are in different districts.
The Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall, on the fourth and fifth floors of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, opened on 8 November 2018. Its displays include items from Deng Xiaoping's 1992 southern tour: the Flying Sparrow spade he used to plant a tree in Shenzhen, furniture and office goods from his hotel room, and the white Toyota van in which he toured the city.
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