Tongcheng City Museum

Tongcheng City Museum, also known as Anhui China Tongcheng Culture Museum, is located at No. 2 Longmian Middle Road, Tongcheng City, Anhui Province, with the museum site set within the Tongcheng Confucian Temple, a key cultural relics protection unit of Anhui Province. The museum was established in April 1984, covering an area of about 15,000 square meters. It is both a local comprehensive museum and a national third-level museum, receiving an average of about 40,000 visitors annually. As of December 2014, Tongcheng City Museum has a collection of more than 11,000 items (single items), including 7 national first-level cultural relics and 41 second-level cultural relics. The museum is characterized by its collection of paintings and calligraphy by famous figures from Tongcheng during the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially those by Fang Yizhi, Fang Bao, Yao Nai, Zhang Ying, and Zhang Ruocheng, which are uniquely local in nature. Tongcheng City Museum is a national advanced collective in cultural work, a national excellent county-level museum, and a patriotism education base in Anhui Province.