The 1893 ancestral hall that every Chen family in Guangdong paid into, and the most decorated building in the province: brick, stone and wood carving, pottery and lime-plaster ridges, cast iron and murals, all on one 15,000 m² complex now run as the Guangdong Folk Art Museum. Since 1959 the halls have held the province's folk crafts — Guangzhou embroidery, Canton enamel, Shiwan ceramics. It is the one sight in Xiguan with a real ticket (¥10), a real official website and a Tuesday closure that catches people out.
EntranceLines 1/8 Chenjiaci station, Exit D, about 3 minutes' walk
Last verified 2026-09-21
How to book
Online real-name booking on the WeChat official account / service account 广东民间工艺博物馆 (tickets up to 7 days ahead — city table; a platform guide adds 6 per WeChat official account per day); the museum keeps a daily quota of walk-up tickets for the elderly and disabled and says to ask at the service desk (综合服务处) or phone 020-81819653 in special cases (museum notice, July 2024)Verified · 2024-09Source ↗
ID details
Real-name entry; passport handling is unconfirmed. Real-name purchase — each ticket is tied to an ID-card number (museum statement, Jan 2025); the ID-card gate swipe and the platform line that foreign visitors show the passport they booked with are platform guides, not confirmed by the museum in writing
Language
Free guided tours at 10:00 and 15:00 are in Chinese (platform listing, meeting at the main gate); the museum's website has no English section, and English labelling in the halls is not confirmed.