A Cluster of Museums Boosts Nantong''''s Reputation

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Nantong Museum, known as the earliest modern museum in China. In the new era, it now enjoys its heyday, with a vast collection of artifacts and newly-renovated facilities. Four Distinctive Features of Nantong Museum The first Chinese-founded modern museum. Nantong Museum was founded in 1905 by Zhang Jian, an influential local statesman and industrialist who sought to revive the bullied nation with industry and education. In the early-20th-century …