Sanxingdui — Attraction in Deyang

My No.1 recommended museum if you visit Chengdu. Visited Oct 2023 so weather 24c and sunny warm. a) Famous for its bronze relics of the very early days of China (3000BC). b) Very busy with visitors even at quiet non holiday times, be prepared for crowds. c) Main building and grounds are lovely, as you see by the pics - its quite warm inside so dress appropriately. d) Book an audio tablet or find a English speaking guide (see point 5). The art/relics have a English translated name but it wont go into extra detail -so your just skim reading whilst looking.

1. BOOK and pay for the entry tickets online (via Museum website) before you depart as it needs your passport info (also bring passport).
2. We stayed in Chengdu near Loumashi tube station , took a subway to East Railway Train station, board High speed train (193km top speed!), then took 2 buses and arrived at Museum. (left 730am , arrive 9.40am) OR just book taxi for direct route
3. If your not a Chinese national, go to the museum foreign check-in booth as they scan your passport to allow you access.
4. Museum main building is quite large, split into 3-4 main eras. Don't carry your backpack, as they have FREE automated lockers for small packs etc. Its just right of the main entrance and uses camera facial recognition to ID yourself and which locker to use, so no app or ticket needed (saved myself carrying too much!)..
5. English audio tablets with headphones can be booked at a service desk OR arrange a local translator to walk with you who normally gives you a Bluetooth ear piece to talk to you all (I recommend the audio tablet as its very busy with visitors and your translator will be rushed and can only show you the main pieces). If audio tablet, pay fee and put in a 200 yuan deposit and collect back when you give back tablet. English audio is precise and clear for me (Ask if you want to hear it first). Each artwork/main section has its own audio section around 1 to 4 mins. I decided to manually open each one as I walked past the relic/art etc so you take it at your own pace. Bring or ask for a lanyard to carry around it around your neck.
6. We went through all the main sections of the museum and finished by 1230pm - which consists of ground floor, 1st floor and tourist shop.
7. DONT LEAVE after finishing the main museum, the entire location has extra buildings, a recreation of a old temple, beautiful grounds to walk through (see in summer, as in oct things were calming down), outside catering for food, extra tourist shops and we spent another 3hrs lunch/touring the place. Took taxi back to Chengdu, 1.20hr journey as traffic was busy

Also dont mix this place with the other 'Sanxingdui Art Museum' on google. This is the...

With quite a lot of exotic sayings about the findings of remarkable artifacts of the Sanxingdui site, I was lucky to have the opportunity to give a look at those mysterious discoveries which are displayed in the Sanxingdue Museum located near the city of Guanghan.

From the commentary of the museum guide, the radiocarbon dating of Sanxingdui artifacts placed in the 11th-12th centuries BC. Many Chinese archaeologists have identified the culture of Sanxingdui to be part of the ancient kingdom of Shu (before 361 BC).

The most bizarre displays are the bronze heads and masks with extraterrestrials’ faces, especially one with protruding eyes. Large eyes, nose augmentation, wide mouth and long ears are the basic features of these bronze statues. The question, then, is who exactly are these outlandish figures imitating? Thousands of years ago on the land of China there existed a really strange appearance of an alien living in the world?

Also, a tall and thin bronze man with different features from Chinese civilization, wearing a tuxedo style robe, barefoot, standing on a high base, the bronze statue in Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan Province is more than 3,000 years old and is the oldest and largest bronze statue ever found in China.

The No.2 sacrificial pit at Sanxingdui has 6 unearthed bronze wheels, and the biggest is 85 cm in diameter with five-axis, looking like the ancient version of the steering wheel; one even said it is an alien spacecraft component.

It was really amazing when I witnessed these unimaginable ancient artefacts that I truly associated with the aliens, the extraterrestrials and the boundless space. The sight feast of the journey in Sanxingdui museum has broadened my mind and I believe that nothing is too strange...

A must go site if you are near Chengdu. Archaeologists still cannot answer a lot of fundamental questions surrounding Sanxingdui’s culture. Watch some intro videos before you go. Those can situate you right at the core of those unanswered questions. If you hold passports and have not figured out how to buy the tickets using a cell phone, just go to the museum and purchase the tickets with passports at the gate. Then you can get in by scanning the passports. Staff at the entrance will help you. There is one line dedicated for passport entries. All exhibits are well-organized with informative graphics and languages on the wall. A few animations are helpful too. It’s a fun culture related to Jinsha, another site in Chengdu city requiring less travel if you stay in the city. The exhibition halls could be packed but people move around quickly. Just go to see the objects surrounded by less people and then move to the next. It could take long time to get a close look of the objects you want to see but it’s worth it. You can easily spend three...