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57 Jiangsu Glimpses

Picturesque Museums

In Spring

There are many museums in
Jiangsu, many of which are not China’s Largest
only museums, but also parks and City Wall Museum
gardens. They are good places for
spring outings to learn history, —— Geng Chunxiao
relax and get in touch with nature.

n spring, we can walk into the Nanjing City Wall As the "City of Museums," Nanjing has newly added a blue-
Museum, where we can climb up to watch the gray museum - Nanjing City Wall Museum. It is the largest city
I spring cherry blossoms around the city wall, the wall museum in China, reflecting the history and beauty of the
Suzhou Museum of Wu adjacent to the Grand Canal 650-year-old city wall.
heritage site, the Wuxi Hongshan Ruins Museum,
which integrates buildings and lawns, and the The building itself is the largest "exhibit." Standing outside the
Yangzhou Museum of Guangling King's Tomb in the museum, the glass curtain wall is opaque, and the interior of
Han Dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.) with the fragrance of the museum cannot be seen from the outside; standing in the
nanmu. It is even more poetic to go to these museums museum, the Barbican of Zhonghua Gate clearly comes into
when they are surrounded by flowers and greenery. view. This one-way transparent effect comes from the use of a
special glass, which is the first time for a building in China to
use this kind of glass, and the area of the glass curtain wall is
the largest in the world.