Zigong Salt Museum

The Zigong Salt Museum is situated in the center of Zigong City, Sichuan Province. Xiqin Assembly Hall, in which the Salt Museum is located, was built during the Qing Dynasty by merchants from Shaanxi Province. Covering an area of over 3000 square meters, the hall combines the palatial architectural art from the Qing Dynasty with folk architectural art.

The museum was established by the leaders of the CPC, headed by Deng Xiaoping in 1959. The Salt Museum's specialty is the collection, studying and display of Chinese well-salt artefacts. One significant display is a unique and treasured collection of over 130 different types of ancient Chinese well-salt drilling tools, represented by 400 individual pieces.

As early as the period of the Emperor Chang in the Eastern Han Dynasty (76-88 A.D.) well-salt production commenced in the Zigong area. The well-salt production became one of the main sites of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty. In the years of Emperor Xianfeng and Emperor Tongzhi, it came into a period of great prosperity and the salt output took up more than half of that of Sichuan. Zigong became the center of salt making.

The museum is a chronicle of how salt mining evolved in this city and provides a rare opportunity is that you can try out the actual salt mining equipments yourself.



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