Hubei Provincial Museum

The leading history museum of Hubei province, set beside East Lake in Wuhan and renowned for its treasures from the ancient Chu state and the tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng. Its most celebrated exhibit is a colossal set of bronze bells excavated from that fifth-century-BC tomb, a chime still capable of playing music. Galleries also display lacquerware, jades and a famous inscribed sword of a Yue king. Visitors marvel at the bell rack, attend replica-bell performances and trace the bronze-age cultures of the middle Yangtze.