Shenyang
This museum is truly huge, with more than twenty exhibition halls from top to bottom, and the content is so rich it's so vast it's overwhelming. What frustrates me most is that several treasures of the museum are moved around and then casually placed aside, not even given a separate display case, leaving many people unable 😅 to find them.
First, about reservations: no reservation needed, just go directly, which is quite convenient. Transportation: Parking was tight during the National Day holiday, so we went to the Central Park underground parking lot on the west side, which had plenty of spots and was close to the road.
Exhibition content: The main exhibition hall is on the third floor, with five halls in total. We went straight to the third floor as soon as we entered, but after visiting all five halls, we didn't see any of the treasures we'd been longing for. We asked the staff and learned that it had moved to the first exhibition hall on the first floor. So we came down from the third floor and finally saw the Jade Pig Dragon, but the duck-shaped glass seal was nowhere to be seen 😅. We finally sought help again and found it—it had been placed in a corner, missing a standalone display case...... What's going on here? Is it playing hide-and-seek? 😵
Besides the basic historical exhibitions, the entire third floor also features a host of special exhibition halls: ancient Chinese inscriptions, Ming and Qing jade and porcelain, ancient bronze mirrors, ancient currency, Liao dynasty ceramics, Manchu folk customs, historical seals, Buddhist statues, and even a children's experience center—quite extensive.
