Hemudu Site Museum
河姆渡遗址博物馆
The discovery site of the Hemudu Neolithic culture, about 7,000 years old, famous for its stilt-house architecture and rice cultivation remains.
The Hemudu site is located in Hemudu Town, Yuyao City. Discovered in 1973, it dates to about 7,000 years ago. It has yielded large quantities of cultivated rice grains, bone spades, remains of stilt-house timber structures and exquisite ivory carvings. It is a representative Neolithic site in China and a National Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit. The museum has an exhibition area and an on-site area, where a reconstructed stilt-house longhouse and scenes of early inhabitants' daily life are displayed. Admission is free (ID required), and the museum is generally closed on Mondays. It is about 30 km from downtown Ningbo, roughly a 40-minute drive.
Opening hours
8:30 am–4:30 pm; closed Mondays
Nearby sights
- Cicheng Ancient Town
- Liang-Zhu Culture Park
- Baoguo Temple
- Tianyi Pavilion (Tianyi Ge Library)
- Ningbo Drum Tower (Haishu Tower)
- Moon Lake (Yuehu)
- Former Residence of Wang Yangming
- Ningbo City God Temple