Xumi Mount Museum

The tour guide explained in great detail and learned about the history of the major grottoes around the Silk Road. Due to climate and geological reasons, the distribution characteristics of Chinese grottoes, most of which are in the north and very few in the south, are bounded by the Yangtze River.

Take time to visit the museum before visiting the grottoes. The museum combines history with Buddhism, and uses seven parts to fully display the history of the civilization of the Silk Road and the art of the Buddhist grottoes, with the theme of "Silk Road and Buddhist grotto art". Feel the charm of grotto art and the vastness of the world of Sumi. The Sumishan Museum not only shows the magnificent history, but also popularizes Buddhist knowledge to tourists, which is very helpful for subsequent visits to the grottoes.

The Sumishan Museum is not rich in collections, but professionally cloth exhibitions, more inclined to be Buddhist museums, cloth exhibition combines history with Buddhism, showing the magnificent history of the Sumishan area, and popularizing the basic knowledge of Buddhism, you can better understand an era when visiting the subsequent grottoes And religion.

The main point of the Sumishan Museum is not the collection, but the specialty of the exhibition, and it is more inclined to be the Buddhist museum. The exhibition combines history with Buddhism, which not only shows the magnificent history of the Sumishan area, but also popularizes the basic knowledge of Buddhism. You can better understand an era and religion when visiting the grottoes.

The collections in the museum are characterized by the northern bronzes in the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period and the Silk Road cultural relics in the Northern Wei, Beizhou and Sui and Tang periods. The building of the museum is not complicated. There are four parts of the display building, the bell pavilion, the ancient tomb restoration museum, and the stone carvings. The display building is the main area for visitors to visit.

Part of the Sumi Mountain Scenic Area, across the water from the grottoes, is a place to visit the preheating of the grottoes. The museum introduces the history and grotto art of Guyuan area with a large number of texts and physical systems. If you don't want to go to see the grottoes, you must go here and take a closer look.