Suzhou silk museum

Suzhou Silk Museum is the first Chinese museum specialized in silk.

Founded in 1991, the museum located on 2001 Renming Road, near the Beisi Pagoda in the old town of Suzhou. Covering an area of 9,500 square meters, the museum houses six exhibition halls namely for the Ancient Silk Exhibition, the Modern Silk Exhibition, the Special Exhibition for Children, the Mulberry Yard, the Silk Weaving Machinery Exhibition, and the Silk Cultural Art Gallery named after Master Qian Xiaoping.

In particular, the History Hall contains sections as Gallery of Ancient Silk, the Sericulture Room, the Weaving & Dyeing Room, the Gallery of Imperial Weaving in Qing Dynasty, the Gallery of Republican Period’s Silk Garment and the Gallery of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The museum demonstrates China’s 6000-year-old silk history from fabulous silk cultural relics, mulberry planting, silkworm breeding to finished garments. Besides, there are the performances of traditional silk weaving as well as the application of the modern silk technology on the daily life. All in all, Suzhou Silk Museum is the combination of the static exhibits and the dynamic activities, of the tradition and the modern.

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