The Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum was established in 2002. The museum covers an area of about 4,500 square meters. There are five exhibition halls, including the Treasures Boutique Museum, the Embroidery Art Museum, the Comprehensive Sculpture Art Museum, the Sandalwood Art Museum and the Miniature Landscape Museum.
The museum collects Suzhou modern embroidery, sandalwood fan, K’o-ssu, jade, wood carving, stone carving, stage costume, Peach Blossom Castle woodcut New Year painting, Ming style furniture, national musical instrument, antique bronze, carved lacquerware, metal craft and Four Treasures of the Study. There are nearly a thousand pieces of arts and crafts and treasures. The environment of the museum, the area of the museum, the variety and the quantity of the museum are the first in the national arts and crafts museum.
The museum collects Suzhou modern embroidery, sandalwood fan, K’o-ssu, jade, wood carving, stone carving, stage costume, Peach Blossom Castle woodcut New Year painting, Ming style furniture, national musical instrument, antique bronze, carved lacquerware, metal craft and Four Treasures of the Study. There are nearly a thousand pieces of arts and crafts and treasures, including some representative works of 14 Suzhou national masters of arts and crafts.
These works form a collection of modern arts and crafts in the southern China, reflecting the profound historical and cultural heritage of Suzhou and the elegant, beautiful and exquisite regional characteristics of traditional handicrafts as a historical and cultural city.
In addition to the daily exhibition of collections and treasures, the Suzhou Arts and Crafts Exhibition and Characteristic Exhibition are often held here to show the developing artistic achievements of outstanding traditional handicrafts in the contemporary era.
Address: No. 88 Northwest Street, Gusu District, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Tickets: 5 Yuan / person
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (closed at 16:30)
Transportation: Take No.313, Tour No.1, and Tour No.2, get off at Pi Shi Street (Art and Craft Museum, North Temple Tower) about 100 meters to the east, which is the Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum.
