Museums in Tianjin

Tianjin is a city that is a blend of modernity and history and it boasts unique museums. As China's first national maritime museum, National Maritime Museum of China and the one and only Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao Monument are located in Tianjin. The harbor city is also home to Tianjin Museum, Tianjin Confucian Temple Museum, Guangdong Assembly Hall and Tianfei Palace Remains Museum, which has the only Mazu remains in the north of China, and more.

National Maritime Museum of China
Covering an area of 150,000 square meters, the three-story museum has been dubbed the "ocean version of China's Palace Museum," as its 23,000-square-meter exhibition hall covers a wide range of themes including marine ecology and environment, science education and interactive programs, as well as Chinese maritime culture and history.

Tianjin Museum
Address: No.31, You Yi road, Hexi district
Opening hours: 09:00-16:30 from Tuesday to Sunday. Ticket window closes at 16:00. Closed on Monday (legal holidays excluded).
Ticket Price: Free
It is a comprehensive museum of history and art. Founded in 1918, it is one of the first museums in China. The museum attaches importance to the collection of ancient Chinese art works as well as modern and contemporary historical literature and local historical documents. In addition to 200,000 books and reference materials, its collections include some 200,000 art works of ancient bronze, jade, ceramics, bamboo, horn, calligraphy and painting, Dunhuang books, and modern history literature.

Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao Monument
Address: No.1, Shui Shang Gong Yuan Bei street, Nankai district
Opening hours: 09:00-16:30 from Tuesday to Sunday. Ticket window closes at 16:00. It closes on Monday.
Ticket Price: Free
The monument is built to commemorate China's late premier Zhou Enlai and his spouse Deng Yingchao. Zhou and Deng spent their youth in Tianjin and they had always considered Tianjin their second hometown, thus their will had expressed their wish that their ash be scattered in the Haihe River.

Tianjin Natural History Museum
Address: No.206, Ma Chang road, Hexi district
Opening hours: 09:00-17:00 from Tuesday to Sunday. Ticket window closes at 15:30. It Closes on Monday.
Founded in 1914 as Beijiang Museum, Tianjin Natural History Museum took its present name in 1957. It boasts a collection of 400,000 biological specimens, including 1,282 rare items of the first and second classes, and 1,452 type specimens. With ”Homeland” as its theme, the new museum is the first panoramic theme museum of natural history that involves nature exploration, scientific experience, and science education.

Tianjin Science and Technology Museum
Address: No.94, Long Chang road, Hexi district
Opening hours: 09:00-16:30 from Tuesday to Sunday. It opens on holidays and closes on Monday.
Ticket Price: 25 yuan/visitor
Tianjin Science and Technology Museum is one of the largest comprehensive science and technology museums with advanced facilities in China. Visitors can interact with more 80 percent of the exhibited objects.

Tianjin Theater Museum (Guangdong Assembly Hall)
Address: Southern side of Tianjin Drum-tower
Opening hours: 09:00-11:20 am 14:00-16:30 pm
Ticket Price: 30 yuan for adults and 15 yuan for children
Tianjin Theater Museum is the largest Qing Dynasty assembly hall with most delicate interior decorations. The theater stage, one of the most precious Chinese wood-structure architectures, is the body of the museum. Up above the stage hangs the ten-ton spiral ceiling structure functioning as a loudspeaker. Mr. Sun Yat-sen had gave a speech here in 1912.

Tianhou Temple (Tianjin Folklore Museum)
Address: No.80, Ancient Culture street, Nankai district
Ticket Price: Free
Completed in Yuan Dynasty, TianhouTemple is the oldest temple preserved in Tianjin. Tianhou Temple, inn conjunction with Putianmeizhou Mazu Temple in Fujian Province and Beigangchaotian Temple in Taipei, has been nominated one of the world's three most famous Mazu temples. It has thus become a research and study center for scholars and students from home and abroad.
Yuan Ming Qing Tianfei Temple Museum
Address: Da Zhi Gu Zhong road, Hedong district
Opening hours: 09:00-11:30 a.m. 13:30-16:30 p.m. It closes on Monday.
Ticket Price: Free
Introduction: The museum is home to ancient Mazu temple remains, the cause and development of Mazu worship, and the history of Tianjin. As the first Mazu temple in the north of China, even Tianfei Temple has a history 100 years longer than the city of Tianjin Wei.

Tianjin Confucian Temple Museum
Address: No.1, Dong Ma Lu Dong Men Li Ave, Nankai District
Opening hours: 09:00-16:30 Ticket window closes at16:00.
Ticket Price: 30 yuan
As a former education base, the temple is now a museum to commemorate Confucius. It is the most complete and the largest architecture cluster of Ming and Qing Dynasty in Tianjin. Visitors can find collections of all kinds of instruments used for sacrifice，exhibitions about the life of Confucius, and the renovated Da Cheng Hall. The museum's repertoire of live music and dancing in the memorial ceremony to Confucius has become a culturally influential program.

Ancient Shell Embankment Museum
Address: East side of Shang Gu Lin Nan Jin Qi Hwy, Dagang district
Tel: +86-22-63210409
Opening hours: 09:00-16:00 on Tuesday, Thursday, and Weekend
Ticket Price: 10 yuan for adult and 5 for students
Introduction: Taking shape sometime between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago, Tianjin shell embankment, along with shell embankments in Louisiana in the United States and Surinam in South America, are the three most famous shell embankments in the world.

Tianjin Old Town Museum
Address: No.202, Gu Lou Dong Ave, Nankai district
Ticket Price: 5 yuan
Tianjin Old Town Museum is the only traditional quadrangle compound in Tianjin. Currently there are more than 3,600 relic collections exhibited in the museum, which give visitors a picture of the development of the city throughout its six hundred year history.

Wine Culture Museum
Address: No.37, Ninghe Economic Development Area
Ticket Price: 30 yuan
Yi Ju Yong style brewing technique emerged around 1880 from Yuan Dynasty's Zhi Gu brewing technique.

Beijiang Museum
Introduction: Founded by French naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914, Beijiang Museum was honored as the world’s “first class” museum in the 1920s and 1930s. It houses more than 200,000 items, including animal fossils, mineral specimens and folk cultural relics. It was reopened to the public in 2016 after renovation.

Source：en.tj.gov.cn