How Salt Became a City
Trace the connections between Yangzhou’s canal, merchant houses, book collecting, and performance.
China Grand Canal Museum
A place to connect Yangzhou’s streets to the larger history of inland waterways.
The museum brings canal collections, research, and interpretation together in Yangzhou’s Sanwan area. Use it to think beyond a single picturesque stretch of water: a canal is also an engineered network that moved goods, supported settlements, and required administration.
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The entrance to Yangzhou's China Grand Canal Museum, photographed in January 2022.Fool Piasar · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.