Jinsha Site Museum

Jinsha Site Museum located in the southeast of Chengdu Plain, about 5 km from the center of Chengdu. It is the central ruins in Shang and Zhou Dynasties (about 1600 BC - 256 BC), including sacrifice places, large constructions, residential area, burial ground, etc. The ruin is the most important archeological discovery in the Twenty-First Century and is the National Relic Protection Unit in China.

The Jinsha site was accidentally discovered in February 2001 during real estate construction. Located about 50 km away from Sanxingdui, the site flourished around 1000 BC and shares similarities in burial objects with the Sanxingdui site. Ivory, jade artifacts, bronze objects, gold objects and carved stone objects were found at the site. Unlike the site at Sanxingdui, Jinsha did not have a city wall. Jinsha culture (1200–650 BC) was a final phase of Sanxingdui culture and represents a relocation of the political center in the ancient Shu Kingdom. The city was built on the banks of the Modi River.

The culture relics excavated from the Jinsha site mainly include Gold, Jade, Bronze, Stone, Ivory and Pottery items, etc. There are more than 5,000 relics unearthed at present. Among them, more than 1,200 pieces of bronze items were excavated, mainly with small items, the bronze statue, bronze dagger-axe, bronze ring, etc. The bronze statues are very similar to the unearthed Sanxingdui bronze portrait; More than 2,000 pieces of Jade, grand quantity and various shapes; More than 1,000 pieces of Stone, including stone statue, stone tiger, stone snake, stone tortoise, etc. To well protect the Jinsha site and open it to the public, Jinsha Site Museum was built in 2007 in the same site which Jinsha Site was discovered.

Other Information

Ticket price: ¥ 80

Opening hours: 08:00 - 18:00

Ticket sales close at: 17:30

Address: 2 Jinsha Site Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Traffic: It is just 5 km away from the downtown Chengdu, which is very convenient to visit. People can take Bus #5 (southbound) from Dongchengen Street. It stops several times along this street including a stop near Ping’An Xiang. You can also catch this bus on Shaocheng Road across the road from People’s Park. Get off at the Qingyangdadaobei Road stop which deposits you at the east gate of the Jinsha Site Museum. The trip takes about 40 minutes. A taxi there will cost about ¥35 from the center.