High-quality route 14: Touring Shenyang’s museums

Recommended sites: Liaoning Provincial Museum, Shenyang Financial Museum, Liaoning Agricultural Museum, Paleontological Museum of Liaoning, the 9.18 Historical Museum, Xinle Archeological Site, Liaoning Science and Technology, Shenyang Science Centrum.

Liaoning Provincial Museum is the first comprehensive museum established after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and the largest provincial historical and arts museum in China.

Shenyang Financial Museum is the largest financial museum in China and offers the widest range of exhibits.

Liaoning Agricultural Museum mainly exhibits ancient and modern agricultural tools used by people in Liaohe River Basin.

The Paleontological Museum of Liaoning is the largest museum of its kind in China and showcases fossils found in Liaoning province and elsewhere, some dating back 3 billion years.

The 9.18 Historical Museum at 46 Wanghua Nan Street, Dadong district, Shenyang, documents the "September 18th Incident" of 1931, which saw Japanese military forces attack Shenyang.

Xinle Archeological Site is an ancient tribal site of a matriarchal clan society living at the beginning of the New Stone Age, 7,200 years ago.

Liaoning Science and Technology Museum is a comprehensive 69,100-square-meter facility integrating science education, science and technology exchange and leisure tourism.

The 36,000-sq-m Shenyang Science Centrum was built in June 2000 to function as a modern science education base for Shenyang, with four major focuses: science promotion, exchange and training, conference exhibitions and recreation.