Guizhou - entry 17

Courtyard in the musuem

Been pretty busy with work lately, hence the absence of updates. Thought I'll pop in and just put up a quick update on my Guizhou trip.

First up, the Museum of Ethnic Marriages in Guizhou. Now, in my opinion, this is probably the most boring place we visited in our entire trip to Guizhou. Don't get me wrong, I like museums and have been known to visit the Singapore History Museum, the Lee Kong Chian Art Museum at the National University of Singapore and various other museums in other countries by myself. But this museum was really rather sad.

This museum is set in a rather nice location actually. The exhibits are housed in what used to be someone's residence and the classical Chinese architecture nicely compliment the exhibits they house.

Unfortunately, the musuem has a somewhat dusty and musty feel about it. The photos of the various ethnic groups look faded and there was dust on several exhibits which were quite uninspiringly laid out as well. It didn't help that there were no leaflets to help big groups of tourist straining to keep up with the museum guide's monotonous drone of information.

Anyway, I didn't take many photos of the place at all and I think if you're on a guided tour, you may be forced to go to this place but if you're visiting Guizhou by yourself, I suggest that you give this museum a skip.

Flowers in the garden


Street near the museum


Okay, that's it from me for today. Have a good week guys. =)

cheers