Changshu is located in the east of Jiangsu Province, with Shanghai in the East, Suzhou in the south, Wuxi in the West and Nantong across the river in the north. It is the second batch of national famous historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council with beautiful mountains and rivers, abundant resources, developed culture and outstanding people.     

Changshu museum is located next to the tomb of Zhongyong and Yanzi, sages at the eastern foot of the ancient city of Yu. It covers an area of more than 6000 square meters and a building area of 5500 square meters. It is composed of seven exhibition halls, cultural relics storehouses, office buildings, lecture halls and auxiliary rooms. It was officially opened to the public on September 28, 1997. Changshu Museum consists of five departments: office, publicity and education department, archaeological collection department, storage department and security department. Yushan school Guqin art museum, established in October 2005, is a subordinate Museum of the museum.     

Changshu museum now has more than 15000 cultural relics of all kinds from Songze and Liangzhu cultures to the period of the new democratic revolution, including calligraphy, painting, ceramics and jade. No matter the number and grade of the collection, it ranks among the top museums at the same level in the country. Among them, 155 paintings and calligraphies have been listed in the catalogue of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy. Liangzhu Culture jade, six dynasties celadon and some Ming Dynasty official kiln porcelain and other cultural relics have been selected into the "China cultural relics exhibition" for several consecutive years and listed in the catalogue. In recent years, the museum's collections are included in the collection of complete works of fine arts, Liangzhu jade ware, the collection of four kings paintings, the collection of Wu Changshuo paintings, the atlas of Chinese astronomical relics, the atlas of cultural relics on the way to the south where Buddhism first spread, and the art of the Six Dynasties. In Nanjing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Zhongshan and other cities, we have successively held exhibitions of cultural relics. Changshu Museum collection of paintings, Changshu Museum collection of legal books, Changshu Museum collection of seals, Changshu Museum collection of porcelain, Changshu Museum collection of jade, wengtonghe relic ink, Lingao printed book, Zhao Guni printed book and other albums, which are a collection of excellent collections, have been published and released successively. The volume of unearthed epitaphs in New China, Changshu, Jiangsu, which was jointly edited by China Institute of cultural relics and Changshu Museum, was officially published at the end of 2006. The volume contains 323 sets of epitaphs collected by Changshu Museum and Changshu stele Museum in various periods, providing first-hand physical evidence for the study of Changshu's historical evolution and regional system.     

In 2005, Changshu museum was listed by the State Administration of cultural relics as one of the six pilot units of "museum display and service improvement" project at the county level. The completion of the project provides Changshu museum with a better display of Changshu's profound historical and cultural heritage and rich collection, a better platform for citizens and two civilizations.     

Under the leadership of the municipal Party committee, the municipal government and the Bureau of culture, Changshu museum will work hard to promote the further prosperity and development of Changshu culture, and launch exhibitions of fine collections or various single collections with local characteristics, so as to closely contact and communicate with all sectors of society. Facing the society, opening the door, carrying forward the history and culture of famous cities, promoting friendly cooperation and exchanges at home and abroad, and expanding the popularity of Changshu will be the main working policies and tasks of Changshu museum now and in the future.

Exhibition hall scale
Changshu museum is located next to the tomb of Zhongyong and Yanzi, the sages at the eastern foot of the ancient city of Yu. It covers an area of more than 6000 square meters and a building area of 5500 square meters. It is composed of seven exhibition halls, cultural relics storehouses, office buildings, lecture halls and auxiliary rooms.