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Weifang Museum
潍坊市博物馆

Address: 6616, East Dongfeng Street, Weifeng, Shandong province
Websites:
www.wfsbwg.com/English/about/?48.html (En)
www.wfsbwg.com (Cn)
Hours:
9:00 - 17:00 (Summer, no entry after 16:30)
9:00 - 16:30 (Winter, no entry after 16:00)
Closed Mondays (except for national holidays)
E-mail: wfsm2016@126.com
General admission: Free (passport required for entry)

[Photo/ wfsbwg.com]

Weifang Museum houses nearly 80,000 cultural relics in 33 varieties including fossils, pottery, porcelain, bronze, jade, coin,  artifacts made of bamboo, wood, ivory, and horn, painting and calligraphy, rubbing and stone tablets, rare books, inscription, statues, embroidery, seals and tallies, folk costumes and ornaments. There are also cultural relics from modern and contemporary periods.

Visitors to the museum can have a close look at the archidiskodon fossils from about 200,000 years ago, the iron Buddhist statue of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and the paintings of Zheng Banqiao, a renowned painter from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

The museum has several permanent exhibitions about the history of the city of Weifang, painting and calligraphy works, folk customs and arts, and stone inscriptions and carvings.

Last Updated: Dec 04, 2018

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