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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.

Guangzhou Maritime Museum 广州海事博物馆

Focusing on maritime exhibitions, the ship-like appearance of Guangzhou Maritime Museum makes it distinctive from other museums. Walking into the museum with rich Maritime Silk Road collections, one can feel the pulse of Guangzhou with its thousand-year-old history as an ancient port city.

Southern Han Mausoleums Museum 南汉二陵博物馆

Southern Han Mausoleums Museum was built on the site of two imperial mausoleums of Southern Han (917-971), housing more than 1,500 valuable collections. It was listed among the sixth batch of major historical and cultural sites protected at the national level in 2006.

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