Jianchuan Museum Cluster

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Jianchuan Museum Cluster

建川博物馆聚落
1955 Shenyang J-5 and the Entrance of Jianchuan Museum Cluster
Location	Anren, Dayi County, Chengdu, Sichuan
Coordinates	30°30′12″N 103°37′05″E / 30.5032°N 103.618°E / 30.5032; 103.618
Founder	Fan Jianchuan
Website	www.jc-museum.cn/en/

The Jianchuan Museum Cluster (Chinese: 建川博物馆聚落) is located in Anren Town, Dayi County, Sichuan province, China, about one hour's drive from the provincial capital Chengdu. It consists of 26 museums which showcase China's largest private collection of artifacts amassed during the last 60–70 years.

The museum was founded by, and named after, Fan Jianchuan (1957), a local real estate billionaire native to Yibin, and a collector of Cultural Revolution Era memorabilia.^[1] Before starting his investments in real estate, Fan was the deputy major of Yibin. In 2003 he started investing his real estate earnings in the museums. The first five museums of the cluster opened in 2005. As of 2015 Fan spent the RMB 2 billion on the museums. The cluster started operating break even in 2010.^[2]

The complex features more than two million historical and cultural artefacts, mainly from the founder's personal collection, and has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times as an example of "the increasing openness about the way recent history is viewed in China."^[3] With a total area of 500 acres (2.0 km²),^[when?] the museum cluster is made up of 26 museums, as of 2015.^{[2][needs update]} It has a repository of over 8 million artifacts, with 121 of them classified as Class-One National Treasures. It is the largest museum cluster in China. Several hundred artifacts have also been donated to other museums.^[2]

The museums are organized by four major themes: Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the ‘Red era’, the Wenchuan earthquake, and Chinese folk culture.^[4]

• Red Era Ceramics Exhibition Hall
• Red Era Living Necessities Hall
• Zhiqing Life Hall
• AVIC Museum
• Li Zhensheng Photography Museum
• Red Chronicles Exhibition Hall
• Red Era Mirrors Museum

• Unyielding Prisoners of War Museum, about the Sino-Japanese conflict between 1931 and 1945^[5]
• Hall of the Frontal Battlefield, dedicated to the Kuomintang efforts in fighting the Japanese^[5]
• Museum of the Communist Resistance Army
• Hall of the Heroes of the Flying Tigers
• Memorial Hall of Long March of the Red Army in Sichuan
• Hall of the Sichuan Army in the War of Resistance
• Chinese Warriors Group Culture Plaza
• China Anti-Japanese Veterans Handprints Plaza
• Foreign Volunteer Supporters of China Plaza
• Evidence of the Japanese War Crime, opened on the 70th anniversary of China's victory against the Japanese^[2]

• Memorial Hall of the 5.12 Earthquake Rescue
• Wenchuan Earthquake Museum, exhibiting object left damaged by the earthquake^[5]
• Earthquake Art Gallery
• Hu Huishan Memorial Hall, in memory of Hu Huishan, a female student of Dujiangyan High School,who died of the earthquake^[6]

• The Memorial Hall of Yangtze River Rafting
• Old Mansion Furniture Exhibition Hall
• Three-inch Golden Lotus Cultural Relics Gallery
• National Defense Weapons Museum
• Liu Wenhui Former Residence Exhibition Hall

• Jianchuan Art Exhibition Hall
• Reform and opening heroes plaza

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  Exhibit of relief portraits of 1,812 people who died during the Wenchuan earthquake
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