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One can never truly understand a city without visiting its museums first. Apart from the must-see museums like Guangdong Museum and Nanyue King Museum, here are eight Guangzhou museums with distinctive architectural or exhibiting style that you can't miss when visiting Guangzhou.

Cantonese Opera Art Museum 广州粤剧艺术博物馆

Cantonese Opera Art Museum was built in 2016 with Lingnan garden style to protect and inherit Cantonese opera art on the list of world’s intangible cultural heritage.

Guangzhou Railway Museum 广州铁路博物馆

Guangzhou Railway Museum is built on the former site of the century-old Huangsha railway station and has retained its original style. The entire museum is divided into an open-air exhibition area and two indoor exhibition halls. In the museum, you can get a glimpse of the century-old history of the Guangzhou railway.

Source: GZ photos, one of the official WeChat accounts of Guangzhou Daily
Photo Editor: Cao Jingrong
Authors : Lyu Yun, Huang Xinyi
Editor: Lyu Yun