Circuit de deux jours à Chengdu - Musée de l'histoire du sel de Zigong

Musée de l'histoire du sel de Zigong (Plus)： is located in Zigong, Sichuan province, and the whole museum is dedicated to the history and culture of the ancient Chinese salt industry. Zigong is the ‘Thousand-Year Salt Capital’. First of all, the museum is located in the building is very interesting, it is called West Qin Hall, is the Qing Dynasty style of the Jiangnan garden, the original is the salt merchants meet to talk about business. The exhibition of the museum is mainly about the ancient salt culture of Zigong, you can see how the ancients used the ‘heavenly car’ and ‘derrick’ these tools from the ground to beat salt out of the exhibits and models are particularly realistic. There are also a variety of salt well restoration model, to be able to intuitively understand the salt mining process, which is not only the characteristics of Zigong, or a microcosm of the development of China’s salt industry it. In addition, there is also a display of salt merchant culture. The museum exhibits their luxurious life, such as porcelain, furniture and other things, which can completely feel the wealth and prosperity of the salt merchants at that time.

Zigong Dinosaur Museum: is one of the first professional dinosaur museums in China and one of the top three dinosaur museums in the world. For dinosaur fans, this place is simply heaven! There are many well-preserved dinosaur fossils in the museum, and the scale is particularly large, the display of dinosaur fossil specimens is really amazing, especially those complete skeletons, such as Shulong, Dilophosaurus, these ancient giants. The exhibition areas of the museum are also designed with special care, and each area has a detailed introduction, from the geological age of dinosaurs, the evolution process to the cause of extinction, there is a very vivid display.