Solo Cantonese Opera Art Museum Visit Guide
🌈 Traveling in Guangzhou, just go whenever you want, it's so suitable for solo trips. Yongqing Fang, recommended by locals, is a must-visit spot. Don't miss the Cantonese Opera Art Museum, and here's your guide to a great visit.
✅ Cantonese Opera Art Museum
Guangdong is the birthplace of Cantonese opera, which is a world-renowned intangible cultural heritage. The museum features Chinese-style gardens and introduces you to the art and culture of Cantonese opera.
📍 Address: No. 127 Enning Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou
🚇 Transportation: Metro Line 6, Huangsha Station, Exit B
Admission: Free Visit Time: 9 am to 9 pm, closed on Mondays.
👀 Tour Route
Garden Area — Exhibition Hall — Theater — Guangfu Stage
The visit starts from the basement level, all concentrated on the first floor, the second floor across the bridge is a corridor, where you can see the overall style. There's also a Cantonese opera costume experience.
1⃣ Garden Area
Lingnan garden-style antique building complex, with wood carvings, brick carvings, pottery sculptures, and plaster sculptures as decorative highlights, surrounding the central Wansha Lake, with six groups of courtyard spaces.
2⃣ Exhibition Hall
'Southern Red Beans · Exquisite Cantonese Melodies'
It is divided into four parts: ①Long History, ②Fragrance of Red Beans, ③Colorful Red Boats, ④Sailing in the Sea of Art.
Through exhibition panels, various display models, etc., the original paintings show the development, artistic features, and various aspects of Cantonese opera structure, and regularly host various related art theme exhibitions.
3⃣ Theater
There is a 450 square meter theater, with an advanced and complete multi-functional Cantonese opera art performance stage inside the museum.
4⃣ Guangfu Stage
The museum has a pure wooden structure building, decorated with classic Cantonese opera set pieces 'The Great Seal of the Six Nations' with large brick carvings, and the stage has regular Cantonese opera performances every week.
✅ Recommended Attractions
Classification of roles, display of costumes, artistic photos, exquisite costumes, headgear, not only a comprehensive understanding but also costume rental experience.
🌠 Stage Performances
There are three shows every day
Time: 10:30-11:30/15:00-16:00/19:30-20:30
📌 Nearby Attractions
After visiting, you'll find the Moon Bridge, leading into the Yongqing Fang district, with various snacks. You can also visit Bruce Lee's former residence, the Movable Type Printing Museum, the Time Post Office, and other check-in spots.
The architectural form is an antique building complex in Lingnan garden style, with basic exhibition halls, theme exhibition halls, theaters, garden scenic spots and Cantonese opera art heritage and protection areas. The overall layout is arranged along the cross axis skeleton, surrounded by the central evening sand lake, scattered six groups of courtyard space, the courtyard is connected and relatively independent.
The Cantonese Opera Art Museum is located at No. 127 Enning Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou. The total area of the museum is 1.72 million square meters, and the construction area is 2.17 million square meters. It is divided into north and south sides along the Lizhiwan Yong. The south bank is the basic exhibition hall, theme exhibition hall, theater and garden scenic spot. The north shore is a supporting area for the inheritance and protection of Cantonese opera art. The museum building was awarded the honorary award of China's construction industry engineering quality in 2017, "China Construction Engineering Luban Award". Cantonese opera, early known as Guangdong Grand Opera, is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macau, and spread to Southeast Asia, the Americas, Oceania, Europe and other Chinese and overseas Chinese in the place of local opera. The Cantonese Opera Art Museum is the main purpose of protecting, inheriting and promoting Cantonese Opera Art, and displaying the essence and charm of Cantonese Opera Art to the public through exhibitions, stage performances, cultural exchanges, educational services and other ways. The theme hall area of 560 square meters, regularly hold various special exhibitions related to Cantonese opera art; the park antique stage Guangfutai regularly holds Cantonese opera Cantonese music exhibitions every week, dynamic display Cantonese opera art characteristics; The theater has 237 seats, equipped with advanced acoustic and photoelectric systems, and is an advanced and perfect multi-functional Cantonese opera art performance stage in the museum.
The museum is located in Yongqingfang, and admission is free. The museum building is antique and full of Lingnan flavor. There are detailed explanations on the history, source, singing, costume, characters, Nanpai martial arts, etc. of the Guangdong family.
Just next to Yongqingfang, the pavilions are doing very well. When you walk to the second floor, you can see an old house nearby.
The museum is very large. There is a Cantonese opera performance at night. The content inside is also very rich.
a historical building at the center of the city with the traditional Chinese style garden