The Liuzhou City Museum, located at Liuzhou City of Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region and founded at the end of 1958, is a local historical
museum of China. The Museum has successively excavated
a few ancient tombs and the former cultural sites of Liujiang Man fossil and
Bailiandong Cave, and discovered the former site of
ancients and animal group fossils in the caves of South
China.
The Museum has collected more than 5,000
relics (not including the fossil samples), particularly the folk custom relics
of the minority groups of Zhuang, Yao, Miao and Dong. There are over 20 Class One collections, of which a
set of bells from the Warring States Period (475-221BC), the Chunyu
(ancient bronze musical instrument), bronze mirror and bronze drum from the
Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD) are rare ones. The basic exhibition of the Museum is
the Exhibition of Relics Collected by the Museum, divided into three parts --
the primitive society, the slave society and the feudal society -- to display mainly
the ceramics, bronze and ironware, painting and calligraphy, jade, gold and
silver jewels, handicraft carvings, the ancient and extinct animals and plants
and palaeoanthropological fossils.
The Museum has held a few exhibitions on
special topics such as the Exhibition of Historical Relics of Ming Dynasty in
Liuzhou and the Exhibition of Folk Custom Relics of Minority Groups of Zhuang,
Miao, Yao and Dong, as well as an auxiliary exhibition of the Memorial Hall of
Liu Zongyuan.