The Yujiashan Archaeology Museum, Zhejiang Province’s first archaeology museum, is set to open in Hangzhou’s Linping District, about 20 kilometers west of the Liangzhu Ancient City Site. Spanning over 120,000 square meters, this landmark museum offers a deep dive into the region’s ancient heritage.
The museum’s exterior features natural travertine stone, embodying simplicity and precision, with each stone finely crafted for precise dimensions.
The design concept of the Yujiashan Archaeology Museum, “Jade as the Medium, Framework as the Mountain,” draws inspiration from the form of mountains and the traditional wooden framework of Chinese architecture. The museum’s structure evokes a mountain’s silhouette, with its spatial layout rooted in the “framework” of wooden beams and columns. Aligned along an east-west axis, the building is divided into several parallel exhibition spaces, seamlessly blending with the archaeological park through an integrated rice field landscape that enhances its natural harmony with the surroundings.
The Yujiashan Archaeology Museum features four main exhibition halls: the Linping Sites Cluster Hall, the Maoshan Site Hall, the Yujiashan Site Hall, and a specialized Linping Archaeology Hall designed for accessibility, catering to visually impaired and disabled visitors. The exhibits chronicle Linping’s 7,000-year human history and 5,000-year cultural evolution, weaving a narrative of early complex societies, rice-farming cultures, and typical settlement patterns in the Jiangnan region. Through a “dual-center” approach (museum + park), the museum tells the story of Linping’s role in the rich tapestry of Chinese civilization.