Chongqing · Culture
Three Gorges Museum and the Great Hall of the People
中国三峡博物馆与重庆市人民大礼堂
The free Three Gorges Museum and the 1950s Great Hall of the People next door, covering the dam, the resettlement and the city history, with a cheap English guided tour available inside.
What you’ll do
The free Three Gorges Museum and the 1950s Great Hall of the People next door, covering the dam, the resettlement and the city history, with a cheap English guided tour available inside.
- Best for
- Travellers who want the dam story and the city's history in one indoor, weather-proof stop.
- Travel party
- Solo, Couple, Family, Friends
- Skip this if
- Anyone short on time, since it sits away from the riverfront and closes early
- How long
- 120–180 min
- Cost per person
- CNY 0–20
- When it opens
- Tuesday to Sunday 09:00-17:00, closed on Mondays except public holidays; last entry is reported as 16:00 by one local guide and 16:30 by another
- Best time to go
- a weekday morning
- Do I need to book?
- Not required
- How early?
- not needed for ordinary entry
- Can foreign visitors join?
- English support was source checked for this record.
- Language help
- Low — English support was source checked.
- How to book
- walk-in entry; English guided tour and Great Hall tickets bought on site, or through Ctrip
Where to book
We have not found a booking option we are confident recommending yet.
How we checked it
Verified · 2026-09-24
Entry policy checked on site by the owner on 2026-09-24: no reservation, walk straight in, and an English guided tour is sold for about CNY 20. The Yuzhong district government museum register published 2026-08-21 confirms the museum is free, open 09:00-17:00 and closed on Mondays, with the official site on www.3gmuseum.cn and phone 023-63679066. Sources differ on the last-entry time (16:00 versus 16:30) and special exhibitions are ticketed separately, so both remain open items.
cqyz.gov.cn source ↗ · checked 2026-09-24