Foshan Must-Visit Museum

When you enter Foshan, you can experience the Lingnan culture and feel the spirit of Foshan, which cherishes both culture and martial arts. The reputation of being a pottery capital and a city of martial arts adds a lot to this ancient yet modern city. If you want to understand this unfamiliar yet charming city, you must start with its museums! There are many rich and interesting museums here~ Take this list and go check in Foshan right away!

Shiwan Ceramics Museum

Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Museum is the first industry museum in Guangdong with ceramics culture as its theme. It is divided into two parts: a dynamic display area and a static display area. The museum, themed around ceramics culture, allows visitors to personally experience the joy of pottery making.
Presents the development process, culture, and opera of Shunde.
A key cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province, with a large number of Qing Dynasty relics. The Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum houses nearly 20,000 Cantonese opera artifacts, over 3,000 folk relics and photos, including precious Cantonese opera relics such as the Qionghua Shuibu relic stone, Qionghua Palace incense burner, and palace lanterns. It also has a large number of Qing Dynasty and modern Cantonese opera scripts, wooden fish books, posters, stage props, costumes, musical instruments, as well as the earliest Cantonese opera films, records, stage photos, and famous performers' calligraphy and paintings.
The Southern Silk Capital Silk Museum is the first private silk museum in Guangdong Province. It aims to recreate the ecological landscape of Shunde's 'Mulberry Fish Pond'; preserve the glorious historical memory of the Southern Silk Capital; showcase the journey of the silk industry in Shunde from the Ming Dynasty to the modern era; sing the melodious elegy of the Silk Road; and promote the pioneering, enterprising, pragmatic, and inclusive spirit that once brought glory to the people of Shunde. Visitors can personally experience activities such as picking mulberries, raising silkworms, and dyeing cloth.

Eu Yan Sang Museum

A herbal medicine shop museum, a must-visit for wellness enthusiasts.

Gaoming Century Coin Museum

The Century Coin Museum was established in May 2002. It is currently the only private professional coin museum open to the public in Guangdong Province. The museum's collection is arranged in chronological order, housing tens of thousands of coins from the Xia and Shang dynasties to the new China. All the coins in the museum are genuine artifacts, forming a continuous and complete history of currency. It serves as a comprehensive textbook on the history and culture of currency and is a patriotic education base in Foshan City.