Yanzhou Museum

The Yanzhou City Museum has a rich collection of more than 3,500 cultural relics from the Dawenkou Culture to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including the precious cultural relics unearthed from the bottom of the Xinglong Pagoda. The museum has a north-south axis. The north is the Xinglong Tower tourist area. In the middle is the exhibition hall. The building of the exhibition hall adopts the appearance of imitating the Han Dynasty and the roof of the big slope. There are five exhibition halls on the second floor. They are the Dawn of Civilization Hall, the Cultural Relics Boutique Hall, the First Sword Hall in the World, the Li Tigen Art Hall and the Famous Calligraphy and Painting Hall. The Dawning Hall of Civilization displays more than 300 pieces of prehistoric cultural relics unearthed in Yanzhou, including the Wangyin site, Xiwu Temple site, Liulijing site, etc. excavated by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. These sites systematically reflect the Neolithic in Shandong. The sequence of cultural development of the period. The cultural relics boutique hall displays several special topics such as bronze ware, porcelain, stone carvings and gold and jade ornaments in the collection of cultural relics. The great sword in the No. 1 Sword Hall in the world is made of pig iron, and the hilt is cast with the inscription "Kangxi Ding You in February knew that Yanzhou Prefecture was built by Shanyin Jinyifeng". The sword is 7.5 meters long and weighs 1539.8 kilograms. It is known as "" The first sword in the world".