Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute

Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute
景德镇御窑博物院

Address: No 169 Lianshe Beilu, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province
Opening hours: 9am -22pm (last entry 21:30 pm)
Closed Mondays (except for national holidays)
General admission: Free admission with valid ID card (passport for foreign visitors)
To visit the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute, visitors are required to purchase an admission ticket for the Taoyangli Historical and Cultural District. Ticket price is 53 yuan ($7.30)
Tel: (+86 798) 8201378

Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute, situated in Taoyangli historical and cultural district in Jingdezhen -- China's renowned porcelain capital in Jiangxi province - is a museum dedicated to the archaeology of imperial kilns and cultural heritage preservation.

Its main structure consists of eight hyperbolic arch buildings of varying sizes. Both the interior and exterior surfaces of these buildings are adorned with newly fired and recycled kiln bricks. The museum's design is inspired by the distinctive egg-shaped wood-fired kilns developed in Jingdezhen during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and incorporates the smooth, simple curve characteristic of porcelain.

The museum currently houses a collection of over 50,000 exhibit-ready cultural items, with a significant emphasis on restored pieces and key Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) imperial kiln ceramics unearthed from the kiln site.

The museum’s specimen research laboratory of Ancient Ceramic Gene Bank is open to the public. It regularly holds public educational programs on the appreciation of ancient ceramics .

Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute runs a permanent exhibition, displaying nearly 700 restored porcelain pieces and thousands of precious porcelain shard specimens, which illustrate the historical evolution and cultural significance of imperial kilns during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911).