Baiheliang Underwater Museum
白鹤梁水下博物馆
The world's first underwater heritage museum that visitors can reach without diving, where you look through viewing windows at low-water records carved into a stone ridge over a thousand years ago.
Baiheliang is a natural stone ridge in the Yangtze River in the urban area of Fuling, about 1,600 metres long. Starting in the Tang dynasty, people carved stone fish into the ridge to record the low water levels of the Yangtze. More than 160 inscriptions survive, and the site has been called the "world's first ancient hydrological station". It is a key cultural relic protected at the national level. After the Three Gorges Reservoir was filled, an underwater museum was built here. Visitors take an escalator of about 90 metres down to a gallery on the riverbed and view the inscriptions through observation windows. Tickets cost about 50 yuan. It is open Tuesday to Sunday from 09:00 to 17:00 and closed on Mondays. Advance booking through the official WeChat account is required.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun 9:00 am–5:00 pm (last entry 4:30 pm); closed Mon
Nearby sights
- Yangtze-Wu River Confluence
- Dianyi Garden (Beiyan)
- Fuling Zhacai Heritage Museum (Qiu Family Courtyard)
- 816 Underground Nuclear Plant
- Linshi Old Town
- Meixin Wine Town
- Chen Wanbao Manor
- Wulingshan National Forest Park