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Q: Anyone here actually find Chinese museums interesting?
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm talking about the blatant propaganda and subjective brainwashing that these places seem to be. Has anyone been to any museums that are actually normal and interesting?
YES. in a previous post i mentioned the Museum of Propaganda in Shanghai. Also a police museum in Shanghai. I couldn't read most of the signs as few of them have an english translation, but then i probably avoided the more blatant flag-waving aspects of the places. I know that these places are probably super-nationalistic, but i never let that spoil my interest in what i am seeing 
Most museums tend to be aimed at lower intellect individuals, even when my friends translate the Chinese for me the descriptions seem to be basic and lacking any depth. The science and technology museum in shanghai is better but I felt like it was aimed at primary school level kids in the west but general population here... I genuinely left without learning anything new... This is a common theme all over china
The Silk Road museum in Urumqi, Xinjiang is top-notch. The only museum in China that I thoroughly enjoyed and left having learnt something. It was free too.
royceH:
Is that the one that has displays of all the Ethnic Minorities in Xinjiang? It's pretty new. So new that, a year ago, taxi drivers didn't know how to get there. It had lots of signs with English writing.
If so, then I'd have to agree with you. If not, please tell me more about the one you mean.
going to a museum in china and seeing photos of the us stealth bomber and the us space shuttle is interesting.
I went to the museum in Cootamundra, Australia on the weekend. The museum in Beijing is much better.
royceH:
That's your opinion, and good luck to you for it.
But Beijing doesn't have a song named after it to match the 'Cootamundra Wattle'.
And that's a fact!
I've been to the museum in Beijing at Tiananmen.....it was quite interesting. They have many different things that were given to them from other countries. There was a clock museum that was very fascinating..
TedDBayer:
China also invented the museum. Look at the Teracotta Warriors.
Here's those I got in mind
* Turpan Museum is free and great, lots of interesting things : dinosaurs fossils, lots of tools, clothes, machines from Bronze Age in very good state, lots of manuscripts in various ancient scripts. Loved it.
* Nanjing's Memorial
* Nanjing's Presidential House, where the first republic was seated
Guangzhou has a cool museum, the architecture is pretty nice. The main exhibits are kinda boring, like a chaishan furniture exhibit that never stops, but they also have nin china exhibits, like deep sea wierd animals, and a dinasoaur exhibit as well. Not good for chinese hystery so much, but a decent western standard museum well worth the time.
Not technically china, but the chang kai shek museum in taipei was more propaganda-y than ive seen in China. His old cadillacs where cool though
belle_watson:
The Chiang Kai-Shek Museum in Taipei -- I concur wholeheartedly -- almost right from Pyongyang in terms of idolatry.
The house-museum of Mme Sun Yat-sen in Beijing is really moving in a very understated way. Well worth it.
well yeah I enjoyed all the propaganda when I went to the museum in Changchun
then figured it will be the same all around the countrye so i stopped going and paying currency for that
