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Huize Hall, Yunnan University 会泽院Huìzé Yuàn
National heritage site · Kunming, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Kunming
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Huize Hall, Yunnan University
The landmark building of Yunnan University, built in 1923–1924 to a design by the engineer Zhang Banghan as the main building of the university's predecessor, Donglu University, on the site of the old Yunnan provincial examination hall. The Western-style building has Baroque touches and some Chinese detailing, and since 2020 its ground floor has housed the Yunnan University History Museum.
How to get to Huize Hall, Yunnan University
On Yunnan University's Donglu campus just north of Green Lake; visitors have had to book a time slot online and pass a real-name ID check at the gate, so check the current rules and bring your passport.
Nearby
- Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 under 10 km
Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways - Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 10 km
Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake - Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 50 km
Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes
Also within 20 km: Lu Han's Mansion 卢汉公馆 (under 10 km), Yunnan Military Academy 云南陆军讲武堂 (under 10 km), Former Site of National Southwest Associated University 国立西南联合大学旧址 (under 10 km), Anti-Japanese War Victory Memorial Hall, Kunming 抗战胜利纪念堂 (under 10 km), Fulintang Pharmacy 福林堂 (under 10 km), Eastern and Western Pagodas 东西寺塔 (under 10 km).
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