Jinci Museum

Jinci Museum
太原市晋祠博物馆

Address: Jinci town, Jinyuan district, Taiyuan
Opening hours: 8:30 am – 6 pm (peak season), 9 am – 5 pm (off-season)
Full price admission: 80 yuan ($11) per person
Half price admission: 40 yuan per person
Tel: +86-0351-6020014

Jinci Museum is located in Jinyuan district, Taiyuan, capital of North China's Shanxi province. Established in 1952, it is a comprehensive museum that integrates cultural relic preservation, academic research, exhibition display, scenic area development, receptions, and social education.

Covering an area of approximately 12,000 square meters, the museum had housed 7,410 pieces and sets of cultural relics, and included 2,060 precious artifacts by the end of 2019. Open year-round, it is under the jurisdiction of the Taiyuan cultural relics bureau, which is dedicated to the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage.

Jinci integrates ancient Chinese ancestral temple architecture, gardens, sculptures, murals, and stone inscription art. The cultural relics at Jinci include over 100 buildings and sculptures, 30 cast art pieces, 400 stone inscriptions across several dynasties, 200 couplets of poems and inscriptions, and 96 ancient trees, 30 of which are over a thousand years old. In 1961, the State Council declared it one of the first national key cultural relic protection units. In May 2024, the Jinci Museum in Taiyuan was recognized among the fifth batch of national first-class museums.