Meishan San Su Shrine Museum

Meishan San Su Shrine Museum
眉山三苏祠博物馆

Address: ShahuhangNanjie, Dongpo district, Meishan, Sichuan province
Opening hours: 9 am-6 pm (last entry 5:30 pm)
General admission:
Ticket price for visiting the whole museum: 40 yuan ($5.46)
Free of charge in San Su Monument (closed Mondays except for national holidays)
Tel: (+86 283) 5081994, (+86 283) 38220186

The museum is located in the Meishan San Su Shrine -- a national-level protected cultural heritage site and tourist attraction in Sichuan province.

The site is the former residence of Su Xun (1009-1066) and his sons Su Shi (1037-1101) and Su Zhe (1039-1112) -- all were great literary masters from the Su Family in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127).

It has since been repurposed as a cultural space haunted by celebrities, scholars and literary enthusiasts paying homage to the Three Sus.

Thousands of cultural relics and documents are stored in the museum, including calligraphic works, paintings, rare books, ink rubbings, steles and plaques. The Song Dynasty ink rubbings of The Story of Old Tippler's Pavilion and The Pavilion of Plenty and Happiness hold great artistic and research value.

Over 100 steles are now preserved, including the steles of the two above-mentioned well-known works, which offer a glimpse of the excellent calligraphy of Su Shi.

Family traditions, life achievements, and calligraphic works of the Three Sus are on display. Achievement Exhibition of Three Scholars of the Su Family, a permanent exhibition at the museum, chronicles the life and achievements of the three literary giants through text, pictures, artifacts and multimedia devices.