Wuxi Museum was established on October 15, 2007 and was officially opened to the public on October 1, 2008. It consists of the original Wuxi Museum (founded and opened in 1958), Wuxi Revolution Exhibition Hall and Wuxi Popular Science Museum. Under Wuxi Chinese National Industry and Commerce Museum, Wuxi Museum are Zhou Huai Min Collection, Cheng Ji Art Museum and Wuxi Stele Museum. It is now a national top-class museum. a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, a national social science education base, a model institution in Jiangsu Province, and a natriotic education base in Jiangsu Province. It is a comprehensive local museum that integrates the functions of display, scientific research and art appreciation.

Wuxi Museum now has a collection of nearly 40,000 culturalrelics, featuring ancient paintings and calligraphy, purple clay teapots, Huishan clay figures, modern revolutionary relics, and industria and conmercial relics. It enjoys a high reputation for its painting and calligraphy collection in particular. Aiming to become ”the first-class museum in China, the pioneer in Jiangsu and the landmark in Wuxi and following visitor-oriented design concept. the museum is arranged in a comprehensive way with 15 regular exhibitions and four respective sections, namely, Culture & History, Enlightenment of Science & Technology, Movie Education and Special Exhibitions. The nurnose is to reflect the distinctive local culture of Wuxi and reveal the unique charm of the city.

In recent years, Wuxi Museum has focused on the development andutilization of its existing collections. It plans and organizes 2~3 original exhibitions each year, gradually forming a series of branded adhoc exhibitions such as ”From the Ancient Times” ”Approaching the Masters ” ”Wuxi Dignitaries” ”Jiangnan Cultural Context” and ”Red Classics”. The museums social education activities have always been at the forefront of the province, holding more than 300 lectures and educational courses every year.A number of popular programs have been established such as the ” On the Trip study tours.” ”Wu Civilization AR courses” ”Cultural Classroom” ”Art Cassroom” ”Science Classroom” ”Science Interactive Drama” and ”Wuxi Museum School Campus Program” The Wuxi Museum attaches great importance to academic research. It holds monthly high-end academic lectures ”Wuxi Museum Forum” edits and publishes academic publications and catalogues, organizes academic seminars and carries out the young talent tunding program like the ”Wuxi Museun Talent Action Plan” All these activities have very positive social response. By combining the local history, vivid replica of cultural relics and Wuxi intangible cultural heritages Wuxi Museum is committed to designing and producing a number of cultural and creative brands with stories, novelty and quality. so as to showcase Wuxi' s civiization in various forms.

With the high aspiration of establishing a biography for the city and serving the citizens ,the Wuxi Museum is setting sail from a new starting line and with a new outlook.

Roles & Responsibilities:

1, Wuxi Museum is responsible for the collection, restoration and preservation of cultural relics and natural science specimens.

2, Wuxi Museum is responsible for spreading historical and scientific knowledge and promoting national culture through various exhibitions on revolution, history, art, science, technology and etc.

3, Wuxi Museum is in charge of the identification and research of all its collection, specimens and documentation. It also conducts academic researches on history, cultural relics, museology, popular science education and etc.

4, Wuxi Museum cooperates with domestic and foreign history museums，revolution museums, science museums and related research institutions. It also provides guidance to local museums.