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Guo State Museum 虢国博物馆Guóguó Bówùguǎn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Sanmenxia, Henan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Sanmenxia
- Region
- Henan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Guo State Museum
A museum built over the cemetery of the Western Zhou state of Guo on Shangcunling in northern Sanmenxia, where hundreds of burials, chariot pits and sacrificial pits were excavated from 1956 onwards. Its galleries show bronzes and jades from the tombs of the Guo rulers Guo Ji and Guo Zhong, among them a jade-handled iron sword, and visitors can walk into the excavated pits where real chariots and horses were buried some 2,800 years ago.
How to get to Guo State Museum
In Hubin District, northern Sanmenxia, reachable by city bus or taxi from the centre.
Nearby
- Yuncheng Salt Lake 运城盐湖 30 km
Brine ponds that turn red, pink and green in summer, below the Zhongtiao Mountains - Xiezhou Guandi Temple 解州关帝庙 40 km
Gateways, halls and towers honouring the deified general Guan Yu in his home district - Yongle Palace 永乐宫 50 km
Yuan-dynasty Taoist murals in a temple moved piece by piece to make way for a reservoir
Also within 20 km: Yellow River Park, Sanmenxia 黄河公园 (under 10 km), Miaodigou Archaeological Site Park and Museum 庙底沟考古遗址公园 (under 10 km), Baolun Temple Pagoda 宝轮寺塔 (under 10 km), Swan Lake National Urban Wetland Park 天鹅湖国家城市湿地公园 (under 10 km), Shanzhou Sunken Courtyard Scenic Area 陕州地坑院 (10 km), Zhongliu Dizhu Scenic Area (Sanmenxia Dam) 中流砥柱 (10 km).
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