Anqing Museum: A City, A Story

Anqing City Museum (Image 1-14) is located at No. 8 Qianjiang Road, Yingjiang District, Anqing City, and together with the Anhui China Huangmei Opera Museum (Image 15) and the Anqing City Revolutionary Relics Exhibition Hall cum Huang Zhen's Life Story Exhibition Hall (Image 16-18), they form three brands under one institution. The total building area is 40,034 square meters, with an exhibition area of 11,680 square meters. The museum is a national key museum and a comprehensive national second-level museum, focusing on historical relics, revolutionary relics, and drama relics. Anqing City Museum has 6 permanent exhibitions and 2 temporary exhibition halls: The first floor houses the calligraphy and painting hall and temporary exhibition hall; The second floor features the coin exhibition, ancient Anqing civilization exhibition, and modern Anqing civilization exhibition; The third floor includes Anqing City Memory and Huangmei Opera Art Exhibition. A city, a story; a memory, a nostalgia. Anqing, this national historical and cultural city along the Yangtze River, has always been a strategic military location, a hub for merchants, and economically prosperous since ancient times. Stepping into Anqing is like entering a rich open-air museum: numerous cultural relics, historical buildings everywhere, streets full of signs, ranging from various professions and business associations to every street, every alley, every person, every item, all steeped in the ancient charm of the old city... This is also what we gained from our visit to the Anqing Museum. Opposite the west side of the Anqing Museum is the Anqing City Sports Center (Image 19-20). Huang Zhen's Life Story Exhibition Hall (Image 16-18) is located in the Anqing City Revolutionary Relics Exhibition Hall, in the scenic Lianhu Park at the southeast corner of the Linghu Lake tourist area in Anqing city. Therefore, after visiting Lianhu Park, we also conveniently visited the exhibition hall. Huang Zhen's Life Story Exhibition Hall, established in 1993, covers an area of 9,067 square meters, with a width of 28 meters and a depth of 100 meters, and a building area of 400 square meters. In the center of the main hall is a bust of General Huang Zhen, with over 1,300 pieces (sets) of revolutionary relics on display. The exhibition content is distributed across four halls, using a wealth of photographic materials and precious revolutionary relics to show the glorious journey of Huang Zhen from the son of a farmer to a general, diplomat, and artist. The exhibition hall is now a provincial-level base for patriotic education, provincial defense education, provincial Young Pioneers education, and a national AA-rated tourist attraction. We visited Huang Zhen's Life Story Exhibition Hall before going to the Anqing City Museum.