About Us

Shenzhen Museum, founded in 1981, consists of 4 museum sites including Shenzhen Museum of History and Folk Culture, Shenzhen Museum of Ancient Art, Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall, and the former site of Dongjiang River Guerrilla Command Headquarters. As a National 1st-Level Museum, the museum is an important public cultural service institution and a window for external display, received dozens of honorary titles.

The museum hosts 10 permanent exhibitions systematically displaying Shenzhen's history and culture, the history of reform and opening-up, collections of ancient cultural relics and animal specimens, and has won awards in the "Nomination of Top Ten Exhibitions of National Museums" for four times. The museum holds over 20 high-quality thematic exhibitions annually to display domestic and overseas cultural relics. There are more than 40,000 objects in the museum collection, including more than 5,700 precious cultural relics. The museum also has over 210,000 pieces of physical material relate to the history of reform and opening-up. The level of cultural relic protection and restoration is industry-leading. The museum has demonstrated impressive research level in the fields of cultural relics, local history, history of reform and opening-up, folk culture, archaeology and museology. Hundreds of educational activities and thousands of interpretations are carried out every year. The cultural and creative development is distinctive. The number of visitors in 2019 was 3.18 million, and due to the pandemic, the number of visitors in 2021 was 1.15 million. Shenzhen Museum has received many party and state leaders, such as Xi Jinping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, as well as many foreign heads of state and dignitaries. Now the museum is participating in the construction of several museums in Shenzhen.