Recommended Tours

Nanjing Museum has 420,000  collections of various kinds including more than  2,000 national treasures and national first-class  cultural relics. The archaeological items, the cultural relics of various ethnic minorities and from  foreign countries, the palace artifacts, the documents of the Qing Dynasty, and cultural relics of  the Japanese surrender ceremony during World  War II, are all unique in China and have very  high historical and scientific value.

It is known as the “cradle of modern  Chinese astronomy”. Purple Mountain Observatory was formerly known as the Astronomy  Institute of Academia Sinica and it was founded  in February 1928. The establishment of Purple  Mountain Observatory marked the beginning of  modern astronomy study in China.

To remember this terrible period of  history and to educate people through history,  Nanjing Municipal People’s Government built  this hall on the ruins of a burial ground for over  ten thousand people near Jiangdong Gate. The  Hall was established to mark the 40th anniversary of the Chinese victory in the war against  Japanese aggression. Scenes of the massacre are  shown using technology including historical  data, cultural relics, buildings, sculpture, and  film and television. It is a “national patriotism  education demonstration base” in China. In  2015, the Documents of the Nanjing Massacre  was inscribed on the UNESCO’s Memory of the  World Register.

It integrates tourism,  commemoration, exhibition and leisure. The  attractions inside the park include the Memorial Archway, Zheng He Bell, Museum Square,  Baochuan Museum, the Watchtower, the Ancient Shipyard, and the Treasure Sailing Vessel.  The Memorial Archway is 16.52 meters wide  and 10.82 meters high. The horizontal tablet is  engraved with the characters “Baochuanchang  Shipyard Ruins” and they were inscribed by the  famous calligrapher Wu Zhongqi.