Museum sights in Fújiàn
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Overseas Chinese Museum
A fascinating and ambitious celebration of China's communities abroad, with models, street scenes, photos and props. Close to the university.
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Maritime Museum
On the northeast side of town, this museum explains Quánzhōu's trading history and the development of Chinese shipbuilding. There are wonderfully detailed models of Chinese ships, from junks to pleasure boats.
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Kāiyuán Temple
In the northwest of the city is one of the oldest temples in Quánzhōu, dating back to AD 686. Surrounded by trees, the temple is serene and famed for its pair of rust-coloured five-storey stone pagodas, stained with age and carved with figures, which date from the 13th century. Behind the eastern pagoda is a museum containing the enormous hull of a Song-dynasty seagoing junk, which was excavated near Quánzhōu in 1974. The temple's Great Treasure Hall (Dàxióng Bǎodiàn) and the hall behind are decorated with marvellous overhead beams and brackets. The main courtyard is flanked by a row of wizened banyan trees; one is 800 years old! Take bus 2 (Y2) from Wenling Nanlu.…
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Jǐnxiùzhuāng Puppet Museum
Has displays of puppet heads, intricate 30-string marionettes and comical hand puppets. There are over 3000 puppet heads, though at times the service is rather wooden.
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Fújiàn Provincial Museum
Despite its tacky exterior, this museum in the park has good exhibits, including a fascinating 3445-year-old 'boat coffin' unearthed from a cliff in Wǔyí Shān and a rundown of Fujian's history. The surrounding buildings are chameleonic in nature and you might expect to find art exhibitions of various sorts at any given time. Bus 100 from the main bus station goes to the museum.
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