The Sanxingdui Museum was founded in August 1992 and opened to the public in October 1997. It is located in the northeast corner of the Sanxingdui Site, a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is situated on the banks of the Yazi River in the west of Guanghan City, 40 kilometers south of Chengdu and 26 kilometers north of Deyang. It is a modern thematic museum of cultural relics in China.The new Sanxingdui Museum is the largest single building of a heritage museum in the southwest region. The Sanxingdui Museum has two exhibition halls with an exhibition area of nearly 12000 square meters. It is the first batch of national primary and secondary school students' study and practice education bases. On September 20, 2019, it was awarded the title of National Green Model Unit. On July 27, 2023, the new building of Sanxingdui Museum opened, showcasing over 1500 sets of new and old cultural relics.
Historical significance
The establishment of the Sanxingdui Museum has led to a renewed understanding of Bashu culture and changed the view of the historical community that compared to the Central Plains region, the ancient Bashu region was a relatively closed place with little or no connection to the Central Plains civilization. The Sanxingdui Museum and its ruins prove that it was an important cultural center in China before and after the Xia and Shang dynasties, or even earlier, and had a certain connection with Central Plains culture, verifying the authenticity of the records of the ancient Shu state in ancient literature.Previously, the historical community believed that the birthplace of the Chinese nation was the Yellow River Basin, which gradually spread throughout China. However, the discovery of Sanxingdui pushed the history of the ancient Shu Kingdom back 5000 years, proving that the Yangtze River Basin, like the Yellow River Basin, was also the birthplace of the Chinese nation. It also proved that there was an ancient civilization in the Yangtze River Basin that was no less than the Yellow River Basin. Some believe that Sanxingdui represents the culture of the ancient Qiang and Yi people
Honors received
Sanxingdui Museum has successively won the titles of one of the five major tourist attractions launched by Sichuan Province, the first batch of national AAAA tourist attractions, one of the "50 places most worthy of foreigners to visit in China", the national youth science and technology education base, the world's first museum that has passed the "Green Globe 21" tourism sustainable development standard and ISO9001: 2000 quality management system standard certification.
