Museums

Heilongjiang Science and Technology Museum

Heilongjiang Science and Technology Museum, located in the Sun Island Scenic Area of Harbin, is a modern, popular and multifaceted science museum. Taking up 50,000 square meters, the museum houses 12 exhibition sites focusing on machinery, energy, materials, aerospace, mathematics, mechanics, the environment, sound and light, electricity and magnetism, information technology, firefighting, children’s science and life in the Xing'anling region. Some 400 exhibits are on display to help popularize science.

There are also temporary exhibition halls, lecture halls, laboratories and libraries where visitors can enjoy special exhibitions, attend talks given by experts, conduct experiments and explore the library. A tourist reception center, souvenir store, cafeteria and medical room are among the other facilities available to visitors. Sundials, ChangZheng-2F rockets, windmills and other technological products are featured in a garden area that also hosts demonstrations designed to help people learn more about science and technology. The museum has received more than 9 million visitors since it opened in 2003 and was selected as a national 4A scenic site in 2007.

Address: Sun Island, Songbei district, Harbin, Heilongjiang province
Tel: +86-451-88190966
Ticket price: 24 yuan ($3.35)

Museum of Heilongjiang Province

The Museum of Heilongjiang Province is installed in a former Russian department store, a Baroque-style building constructed in 1906. It was officially established in August 1954 with the integration of Songjiang province into Heilongjiang province.

The Museum boasts more than 110,000 artifacts, the most celebrated of which are Neolithic jade wares unearthed from the Xiaonanshan tomb complex, gilt bronze and gold Buddhist sculptures dating from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and unearthed from the Bohai kingdom’s capital city (in today’s Ning’an county), and delicate silk fabrics and accessories unearthed from the tombs of the State of Qi in the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115-1234). The museum is also home to specimens and fossils of both ancient and modern creatures, including the flat-head hadrosaurs of the late Cretaceous Period some 65 million years ago and the colossal skeletons of the woolly rhinoceros (coelodonta antiquitatis) and mammoths dating to the Quaternary Period 20,000 years ago. It also holds 25,765 insect specimens.

Address: 64 Hongjun Street, Nangang district, Harbin, Heilongjiang province
Hours: 9:00 - 16:30 (1 April - 7 October, last ticket: 15:30); 9:00 - 16:00 (8 October - 31 March, last ticket: 15:00); Closed on Mondays (except for national holidays)
Admission fee: Free (passport required for entry)

Heilongjiang Museum of Ethnography

Heilongjiang Museum of Ethnography, founded in 1985, is the first provincial professional museum of nationalities in China. It is also the largest and best preserved Confucius temple in Northeast China. In 1996, it was made a state key cultural relic protection unit by the State Council.

Covering an area of 23,000 sq m and a building area of 5,674 sq m, the museum mainly focuses on the research, collection and display of the Hezhe, Elunchun, Korean, Xibe, Ewenki, Manchu, Mongolian, Daur, Hui and Kirgiz nationalities, although at present only eight ethnic groups are on display.

Address: 25 Wenmiao Street, Harbin, Heilongjiang province
Tel: +86-451-82538606, 82540093
Hours: 8:30-16:30 (no entry after 16:00); Closed on Wednesdays (except for national holidays)
Admission fee: Free

Daqing Museum

Daqing Museum was officially opened to the public in November 2011. It is a comprehensive museum integrating ancient environments, animals and humans. Mammoth fossils, together with those from the Songhuajiang River, are the treasures of the museum. The museum also has the most intact wolf fossil and the last hyena fossil in China.

The total building area of the exhibition hall covers 18,700 sq m, while the hall itself covers 12,000 sq m. The museum holds more than 100,000 fossils and 43 species. It fills in the blanks of mammal fossil collections during the Quaternary Period in Northeast China, as well as being one of the museums with the most complete species, the largest quantity and the best quality professional collections of mammoth and coelodonta fauna fossils in the country and even the world.

Address: 2 Wenyuan Street , Longfeng district, Daqing, Heilongjiang province
Tel: +86-459-4617331, 4617332
Hours: 9:00-16:30 (no entry after 16:00); Closed on Tuesdays (except for national holidays)
Admission fee: Free (passport required for entry)

Memorial Museum for "Iron Man" Wang of Daqing

The Memorial Museum for "Iron Man" Wang of Daqing was built in 1971 in honor of Wang Jinxi, a national hero, for his contributions to the country’s petroleum industry. The museum covers a total area of 54,000 sq m, including 30,000 sq m of green space and 1,240 sq m of main building area. On the square in front of the main building of the Memorial Hall, between the two lawns, stands a large granite sculpture of Wang Jinxi holding a brake handle. It is the largest stone figure in Northeast China.

In the Memorial Hall, there is a unique commemorative opportunity: visitors can wear oil industry work clothes from the agricultural cultivation period, including the helmet, walk onto the drilling rig, and personally operate the same type of Beiwu 40 drilling machine as those used by Iron Man.

Address: 2 Zhongyuan Road , Ranghulu district, Daqing, Heilongjiang province
Hours: 8:30-16:00, 9:00-15:30 (on national holidays); Closed on Mondays (except for national holidays)
Admission fee: Free (passport required for entry)
Bus: Nos 6, 26, 36, 113, and 356

Aihui History Museum

Aihui History Museum was built in 1975, covering an area of 8,000 sq m with an exhibition hall of 200 sq m. Its new museum park covers 120,000 sq m and the main exhibition hall covers 4,600 sq m. Aihui History Museum is the only special site museum in China that reflects the history of Sino-Russia relations in the east. It is among the first batch of national patriotism education demonstration bases and the first batch of national first-class museums. The museum is a national 4A level scenic spot, as well as a classic national patriotic tourism scenic spot. Since its establishment, it has received more than 10 million domestic and international visitors.

Address: Sabsu Street, Aihui, Heihe, Heilongjiang province
Hours: opens at 9:10 (1 May - 7 October, last ticket: 16:00), opens at 9:30 (8 October - 30 April, last ticket: 15:30); Closed on Mondays (8 October - 30 April), Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve, and the first 2 days of Spring Festival
Email address: ahlsclgyx@163.com
Admission fee: Free (passport required for entry)

Harbin International Sister Cities Museum

Harbin International Sister Cities Museum, which opened in January 2009 and is managed by the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Harbin Municipality and Harbin Pharmaceutical Group, is the first of its kind in China. The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries honored the museum as an educational base for international peace and friendship among young people.

In order to celebrate the achievements of these global exchanges with sister cities, the city decided to build this museum. In the museum, each sister city has its own exhibition room. It showcases 1,048 exhibits in 28 rooms across an area of 1,800 sq m, and features exhibition pavilions for the sister cities of Harbin, including Japan’s Niigata, Korea’s Puchon and Denmark’s Aarhus. Focusing on international sister cities, they are depicted in paintings, sculptures, stamps, currencies, musical instruments and various traditional costumes.

Address: 91, Tiandi street, Daoli district, Harbin, Heilongjiang province

Harbin Coin Museum

Built in November 2007, Harbin Coin Museum is a three-level national thematic museum which is open to the public free of charge. Mainly engaged in coin collection, exhibition and research, its basic display covers Chinese ancient coins, Harbin’s modern currency (coins) and the coins of new China. The museum exhibits a variety of coins and related cultural relics, containing more than 100,000 pieces.

With the development history of Chinese coins as the main focus, the museum mainly displays coins unearthed and circulated in Harbin, systemically showing its emergence, development process and influence on the economy. At the same time, it also records the origin and circulation process of various coins, which deepens the interest and motivation of teenagers to learn about Chinese culture. Since its opening, the exhibition hall has received 112,000 people for free visits. It covers an area of 800 sq m and can accommodate up to 400 people at any given time.

Address: 160 Shangzhi Avenue, Daoli district, Harbin, Heilongjiang province
Hours: 8:30-16:00