[2025 Hangzhou Attraction] Travel Guide for Grand Canal Rosewood Museum (Updated May)

Revisiting Hangzhou with a well-planned itinerary from north to south, connecting the dots along the Grand Canal for a delightful walking tour that lifts the spirits and strengthens the body. Start your morning with a stroll by Gongchen Bridge at the southernmost point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, then step into the China Grand Canal Museum to explore the waterway's origins and evolution. Continue your cultural journey at Hangzhou Arts & Crafts Museum and Red Sandalwood Museum along Hexi Straight Street. In the afternoon, wander through Xiaohe Straight Street all the way to Dadou Road Historic District, where you can pay respects at Xiangji Temple and immerse yourself in the profound depths of Buddhist culture.

🏢Hangzhou Grand Canal Red Sandalwood Museum 📍No. 111, Dengyun Road, Gongshu District 🚇Metro Line 5: Walk from Exit D of Grand Canal Station 🚌Bus: Route 63/70/61: Dengyun Road Xiaohe Road intersection 🅿️There are few public parking spaces in the museum. If you drive, it is recommended to navigate to "D32 Shopping District" and park in the underground garage of the shopping mall and cross the road to the museum. ✅Recommend green travel 💳Tickets: Free (Public 🐭: Grand Canal Red Sandalwood Museum 👉Reservation, the last picture) ⏰Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday Summer: 9:30-12:00 am, 13:30-18:00 pm (last admission at 11:30 am, last admission at 17:30 pm) Winter: 9:30-12:00 am, 13:00-17:00 pm (last admission at 11:30 am, last admission at 16:30 pm) 🈯️Visiting tips: 1⃣Stamp at the service hall on the 2nd floor, there is 1 stamp🕹 2⃣There are free tours recently. Go to the service desk to find the staff. When the number of people is about the same, the staff will gather and start leading the tour. 3⃣There are 4 floors in total. The underground 1st floor is a cultural and creative purchasing area. There is also a Rosewood Craftsmanship Square from Dengyun Bridge to the canal. It is mainly for purchasing wooden furniture and handicrafts. You can visit it for free📿 4⃣The museum has many ways of display, and there are many interactive places. You can write with a rosewood pen, smell the rosewood incense, and watch documentaries📽 5⃣The wooden exhibits in the museum are really exquisite, and many of them are placed with great details. Friends who like ancient style are bold. 6⃣The Tree of Life 🌳 outside the museum turned out to be a living tree. The entire tree was moved to the museum. The roots of the tree are on the underground floor, and there is a well! Don’t miss the check-in‼ ️ 7⃣Many exhibits have guardrails, don’t cross them just for the sake of taking beautiful photos~ After all, distance creates beauty~💕 📷Photography tips: 1⃣The entrance corridor with a canal map and a sense of craftsmanship 2. Tree of Life 3⃣The main room on the 3rd floor (Zhongzheng Renhe) imitates the layout of the Forbidden City and has a red wall 4⃣4th floor Rosewood King, overlooking the busy traffic outside the window 💮Before I went there, I thought it was a very niche and unpopular collection museum, but after visiting, I was attracted by the exquisite details inside. A variety of presentation and interaction methods allow children to participate. Come to the canal. If you have time, this is a museum not to be missed!

The Grand Canal Zitan Museum is a non-profit social service organization built by the private sector. It is a place where social forces use physical objects, specimens, documents, and video materials to open to the public, educate, research, spread excellent culture, promote social and cultural progress, and protect cultural heritage. The museum focuses on Chinese classical furniture, protecting, researching, inheriting, and innovating woodwork culture and zitan culture, promoting the development of Chinese excellent furniture culture and art, and striving to stand out among Chinese arts and crafts museums and become a model of thematic museums. On August 18, 2023, the Grand Canal Zitan Museum opened. It covers an area of 2,039 square meters, with a total construction area of 4,160 square meters, and looks like an open book from a distance. The visit takes about half an hour.