A new museum opened up on the west side of town - signs for it are all over. It is built on an actual site where ruins and artifacts from the Shu kingdom were discovered a few years ago. The architecture of the place is really impressive; I love how one of the buildings illuminates the ruins with natural light.
There are quite a few jade and bronze artifacts, and some of gold. For such enormous grounds, it is a pretty small collection however. A pottery display:
Directional signs are in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English, and French though the displays are only in Chinese and English. (Pretty good English, for a museum, though it assumes you know the time periods of dynasties.) They had some touch screen stations in the exhibits that explained some of the artifacts in more detail. I could not find any English on those and was disappointed since they were well illustrated and easy to navigate.
I asked about English guides at the gate but did not have the hour to wait for one to be available. It normally costs 80 yuan to get in but I got a ticket from my manager.
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