jingzhou museumSituated in Jingzhou Zhong Lu, Jingzhou Museum was firstly built during the period of Kuaiyuan Reign of the Tang Dynasty. The history museum boasts a collection of over 100,000 relics concerning the 6000-year Chu Culture, which has 5 theme exhibitions on stone, pottery, bronze, lacquer ware and silks.

Exhibition Hall and Treasure Hall are worth a visit. Featured with green tiles and the Chu-style decorations, there are rich collections of excavations. In particular an important collection of lacquer ware, 2,000-year-old silk garments and fabrics featured with exquisite patterns and an almost perfectly preserved male corpse of a Han Dynasty official, are exhibited.

The embroidery clothing, polychrome brocades and silk ribbons are peculiar.