三星堆博物馆 — Attraction in Deyang

An excellent place to learn about an extinct culture. You seem to be immersed in a wholly different universe, with all the artefacts giving you an out of this world feeling. It is as if you're staring at an alien culture not found on earth, but somehow it just landed here. Definitely worth a going and not to be missed. Guide to go there: take coach from Chengdu central station (where all the buses and trains are) to Guanghan. Then at Guanghan just hire any metered taxi on the street, won't cost you an arm or leg to get there. As this museum is relatively remote compared to all the other popular attractions around Chengdu (eg Panda conservation area), you get to see it without much distraction from too many tourists. P. S :Service rated as 1 only due to there isn't much...

New museum building is high tech, especially the placing of connected pieces in series and the lighting system to each sculptures in seperate glass chambers make 3d shadowing and clear sharp view for each viewer from different direction inspide of the crowd around it. It is a 9th wounder of the world. It is a mystry how the peoples 3000 year before can get such a high tech knowledge to create such sculptures and masks of gold, brounce and silk. The features are mix of nature and immagination resulted in mythy feeling are sometime similar to...

Fascinating museum, showcasing a culture in the area of the museum that was discovered only a few years ago and that appears very different from the cultures that grew up in the Huang He River Valley. If you are at all interested in the early history of China you...