Jingzhou Museum

Jingzhou Museum, at 166 Jingzhong Road in the Jingzhou District, was founded in 1958 on more than 50,000 square metres of ground with a building area of 23,000 square metres, and it holds more than 130,000 objects, the great majority of them excavated. Among them are 553 pieces or sets of national first-class cultural relics, and the museum also keeps the male corpse from the Phoenix Mountain Han tomb at Jiangling in Hubei. In 2008 the State Cultural Heritage Administration rated it a national first-class museum. The displays reach back to the Chu state: the museum shows silk and lacquerware from the Warring States period, while the tiger-seat bird-support drum, dug in 2002 from Tomb No. 2 at Jiulandun, is held in the provincial museum in Wuhan, where it stands 135.9 centimetres tall and 134 centimetres wide, painted black, red, yellow and silver-white, a noble instrument of the Chu kingdom built around a phoenix and a tiger.