Where in Chengdu can we see Sanxingdui artifacts, besides the museum in Guanghan?

6/1/2016 12:27:41 PM

There is no SanXingDui art museum in Chengdu, you have to go to GuangHan. The “museum” displayed by google maps is a store.

Source: I asked friends. They confirm that the place in the streetview below at the location reported by google is a store and that the real museum is the one out of town in GuangHan.

Details:
Google does report a SanXingDui art museum in the city across from the WuHou park but as @dlanod points out in his excellent comment “the address […] seems to be lifted from this article which actually describes the same Sanxingdui Museum [i.e. the one in GuangHan], and the website Google shows for it is a Chinese design company.” [actually the website is down right now for me.]
Checking the map/street view of Baidu (the Chinese Google) for this place reveals a 三星堆玉器, SanXingDui jadeware. Given the location in a shopping area, it seems to be a store for sanxingdui inspired ornaments. Here is a streetview. Two friends from the area confirmed that this is merely a store. I reported the wrong listing to Google three months ago but nothing had changed as of today.

The good museum is the one in GuangHan, 29km out of Chengdu.

Update: A friend send me a picture that shows a sign for a 三星堆艺术馆 (SanXingDui museum) here. However, as of this Chinese forum Q&A that is only a sign with nothing behind it as of 2014:

Q: 三星堆艺术馆怎么样
A: 问了保安，说是已经没有了。只有一个空招牌而已。

Very loose translation of mine:
“What is the 三星堆艺术馆 (SanXingDui museum) like?”
“Watch out. It does not (/no longer) exist. There is only an empty sign.”

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