Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum, Zhejiang

Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum covers an area of 27,000 square meters, with a building area of 10,700 square meters and an exhibition area of 5,500 square meters. The building is fan-shaped and surrounds the Canal Culture Square. It has a unique shape, "traditional but not retro", and combines a flat slope with an open layout, integrating the interior and exterior, and cleverly using the ancient canal, bridges, boats, and docks as vivid exhibits. On October 1, 2006, Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum was completed and opened to the public. On September 8, 2023, after 4 months of renovation and upgrading, the "Micro Renovation and Fine Improvement" project of the China Grand Canal Museum was successfully completed, and it was reopened for trial operation on September 8. Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum takes "The Canal Promotes History, The Canal Changes Life" as the theme of the exhibition, and is divided into four exhibition halls: "Preface Hall", "The Excavation and Changes of the Grand Canal", "The Utilization of the Grand Canal", "Cities along the Canal" and "Canal Culture". Among them, there are two multimedia exhibition halls, "Half-View Hall of the Story of the Canal" and "Simulated Canal Tour Cabin", which skillfully combine cultural relics and historical materials with high technology, vividly reproducing the prosperity of the ancient canal, allowing visitors to experience the profound cultural connotation of the Grand Canal. The visit takes about two hours.