Zigong Chinese Lantern Museum

Overview
The Chinese Lantern Museum is located at No. 6, Gongyuan Road, Zigong City, Sichuan Province. It was established with the approval of the National Cultural Heritage Administration Cultural Relics Bozi No. 793 as a special institution for the “collection, protection, research and display” of Chinese lanterns. It belongs to the national county level. The public institution is the only professional museum on lantern culture in China and even the world. It is also the core of the construction of the "Southern Lantern City" in Zigong City and an important symbol of the image of the "Southern Lantern City".

History
Since its opening in 1994, the China Lantern Museum has received more than 3 million visitors from home and abroad, and has been invited to more than 60 places in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Harbin, Urumqi, Hohhot, Guangzhou, Nanning, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi’an, Zhengzhou, etc. Several large and medium-sized cities and countries and regions including Canada, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan have successfully held hundreds of collections of boutique exhibitions and large-scale lantern festivals, especially three consecutive years from 2006 to 2008.

The "Chinese Lantern Festival" held at the Ontario Amusement Park in Canada in the year attracted 440,000 visitors from North America and the Caribbean to watch the lights. It made a sensation in North America and achieved huge social and economic benefits. It became the fruit of General Secretary Hu Jintao’s visit to Canada. It has become the largest, longest lasting, most influential, and most successful event for China to promote Chinese culture and cultural exchanges in North America. It has become a model of Sino-Canadian cultural exchanges and a benchmark for Chinese lanterns overseas. For more than ten years, the Chinese Lantern Museum has always put social benefits in the first place, and achieved better economic benefits through the realization of social benefits. It has successfully held the "Kong Fansen Deeds Exhibition", "China Aerospace Exhibition", and "Weifang Kite".

Temporary exhibitions such as "Exhibition" and "" have won widespread social praise. Due to the establishment of the Chinese Lantern Museum and its extensive social influence, in November 2004, the Ministry of Culture named the Chinese Lantern Cultural Development Park radiated by the museum as the National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base; the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture awarded "2006 It is an advanced unit of cultural exchanges with foreign countries (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), and was awarded by the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of ".

The China Lantern Museum has been rated as one of the "Top 50 Bashu Tourism", the national "AAA" tourist attraction (spot), the group member of the Chinese Museum, the foreign visit point of Zigong City, the key tourism protection unit of Zigong City, the patriotism education base of Zigong City . It is praised by experts in the international tourism industry as the museum with the most oriental artistic charm and great development potential.

Information
Location: located at No. 6, Gongyuan Road, Zigong City, Sichuan Province
Opening Time: 8:30-17:30
Ticket Price: CNY35 per person
Time for visiting: 1-2 hour