Fenhe Scenic Area

Exhibits on China's coal industry. You will have to pay ¥60 for a personal tour guide (who speaks English) in addition to the museum entrance fee. The personal tour guides do add to the experience though.

The Shanxi Museum is in a modern four-storey building at a prime location along the Fen River in central Taiyuan. It features a very impressive collection of artifacts from this history-heavy province. Chinese civilization first began to develop in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces along the banks of the Yellow River, and this handsome provincial museum features some of the best of the historical artifacts from around the province. The museum has on display thousands of objects in a series of well laid out exhibition halls. Permanent exhibits include those devoted to relics from the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages, ancient Chinese porcelain, painting and calligraphy, jades, bronzes, Chinese currency, historical architecture, Buddhist stone sculptures, and Shanxi merchants. Signage in Chinese and English.

named because it is located outside the Yingze Gate of the ancient Taiyuan City. North of Yingze Street, east of Youth Road, south of Nansha River, west of South Jiefang Road; is a large comprehensive park in Taiyuan, but also Shanxi Province, one of the important places for people to take a rest and visit the city, festivals and cultural and recreational activities.

A mosque at this location was first built in the Tang Dynasty, but the present one is much younger.