Hengyang Museum, Museum in Shigu District, Hengyang, China

Hengyang Museum occupies a 4,500-square-metre building at 28 Minghan Road, south of Xihu Park in Shigu District. It holds five permanent exhibition halls: bronzes, ceramic treasures, crafts, paintings and calligraphy by Hunan figures, and Huxiang culture. Its collection numbers over 20,000 objects, from Neolithic pottery to Ming and Qing paintings.

Founded in June 1973 as the Wang Chuanshan Memorial Hall in Yueping Park, the museum moved in 1992 to 28 Minghan Road, south of Xihu Park. Its collection grew around bronzes from the Shang and Zhou periods, Ming and Qing painting and calligraphy, Hengshan kiln painted porcelain and Ming textiles. In 2005 it was designated a national key museum.

The exhibition halls display everyday objects and crafts from different dynasties that show how local communities lived in this region. Visitors can see ancient pottery and tools that remain part of the area's heritage.

The museum stands at 28 Minghan Road in Shigu District, just south of Xihu Park, in a 4,500-square-metre building with five permanent exhibition halls. Admission has been free since 1 October 2008. Allow time for the bronze and ceramics galleries, which hold the bulk of the 20,000-plus objects.

The museum's best-known piece is a Spring and Autumn period bronze you with animal motifs, unearthed in Hengyang and chosen for the 1990 Asian Games exhibition of Chinese cultural relics in Beijing and again for the 2008 Olympic display. A second national treasure is a bronze ox-shaped zun.