Zhang Jian and China’s First Museum

Lisa Claypool

James Hevia

Barbara Stafford

Postage stamps commemorating

the 100th anniversary

of China’s first domestic museum,

Nantong Museum

Central Hall 2005

South Hall 2005

North Hall 2005

Zhang Jian 1853-1926

Sushe, Jiangsu local self-government association

Siccawei Museum, established 1868 by Fr Pierre Heude

Royal Asiatic Society Museum, 1930

Museum plans, Nantong Gazetteer, 1925

North Hall, 1920 or earlier

Central Hall, 1920 or earlier

South Hall, 1920 or earlier

Museum catalog, 1914

Museum entrance ticket, before 1925

Zhang Jian’s villa

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Sushe, Jiangsu local self-government association