Shenzhen Museum of History and Folk Culture

How a county of villages became this. The one museum that explains the city you are standing in.

The Shenzhen Museum wing on the Civic Center plaza — China Unhurried editorial team · Owner-authored

A painted pottery tray with ring feet, mid-Neolithic — China Unhurried editorial team · Owner-authored

Neolithic stone tools from the Pearl River estuary — China Unhurried editorial team · Owner-authored

Opening hours

Getting there

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Practical notes

Under the wave roof of the Civic Center, in the block at the eastern end. The galleries run from the salt and oyster trades of the old coast through the Opium Wars and the drawing of the Hong Kong border to 1980; the reform-era rooms — the first land contract, the first share certificates, photographs of Shekou as a building site — are the part to slow down for. Free, no booking, closed Mondays, 10:00–18:00 with last entry at 17:30.