Best places: Museums in China

Massive palace complex & museum featuring tours, art exhibits & restaurants.

Attraction renowned for lifelike sculptures of terra-cotta warriors built around the 3rd century BC.

👍 Really awe inspiring, such a crazy history for the army. Well worth the visit and the price, but it was rather confusing to find the army as we got there, not many signs up. You want to head straight forward when you reach the large courtyard, neither going into the buildings to the left or the righ...

Exhibits on human civilization's history & animals, including ancient species such as dinosaurs.

Huge, free museum with extensive displays including bronze & jade artifacts, sculptures & paintings.

This grand, well-preserved 1777 mansion with courtyards & gardens now houses a museum.

Local museum with various displays about Hong Kong heritage, including opera, design & Bruce Lee.

Built in 1894, this academic temple is a large, architecturally notable complex exhibiting artwork.

Temple dedicated to a prominent Three Kingdoms–era figure, with relics in a tranquil setting.

😠 Overall, the venue itself is fine, though not spectacular! Feel like just another "White Elephant" in the room! Grandiose surface without substance!!! The worse part is the software - people and management!!! I saw an extremely rude and uncivilized security staff at the entrance shouting and pointin...

Large history museum displaying fossils, murals, pottery & metal objects in a Tang-style building.

Free museum featuring modern & contemporary works by Chinese artists in a 2010 World Expo pavilion.

Famous brewery with industrial manufacturing displays & a lounge offering beer samples & snacks.

Majestic Ming Dynasty–era tower with ornate architectural features & a display of ancient drums.

👍 Cool insightful tour into the villages of the New Territories. Also gave us some brief insight into the world of vintage bikes! Eye-opening experience. Tours are conducted in Cantonese.

Museum designed by I. M. Pei housing Chinese artifacts, including calligraphy & ancient craftwares.

Waterside egg-shaped building with planetarium and Omnimax films, plus space and astronomy exhibits.

😐 Long awaited M+. Spend a lovely afternoon there, was it worth it? First of, surprise that there were car park space in the morning, but by the afternoon when we left, there were long queues lining up to getting in. The architecture was not bad in fact it was very interesting the use of space was rat...

Sprawling, elaborate palace complex dating from 1625, now a museum of historical art & crafts.

Museum devoted to the Republic of China's revolution & its founder & first president, Sun Yat-sen.