Guangzhou Thirteen Hongs Museum
For a century before 1842 this riverbank was the only place in China where Western merchants were allowed to trade — the 'factories' of the Thirteen Hongs, burned and rebuilt, finally lost in 1856. The museum stands on the site inside Guangzhou Culture Park and shows what the trade actually moved: export porcelain painted in Canton, pith-paper watercolours, lacquer, silver, the furniture of the East India companies. Free, no reservation, closed Mondays, and the metro (Wenhua Gongyuan, Lines 6/8) lands you at the park gate.
No reservation channel is published: the city's 2024 museum table and the district's 2026 directory list the museum as free with a phone number and nothing about booking — whether the desk registers an ID is for the day itselfAsk before you go: Phone: 020-81265300
Not published; bring your passport just in case. Not published by the city or district today; the museum's 2020 reopening notice (platform copy) said 'show a valid document at the ticket desk', passport not named — if the desk asks for a document, offer your passport
Free Chinese tours at 10:00 and 15:00 (according to travel platforms); the collection's labels are the export-trade objects' own English inscriptions in many cases, but bilingual panels are not confirmed.
Phone 020-81265300
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