China Silk Museum, located at the foot of Yuhuangshan on the south bank of Hangzhou West Lake, opened on Feb 26, 1992, is a national level professional museum and also largest silk museum in the world. It covers an area of 5 hektares, a building area of 8000 square meters and a display area of 3000 square meters. Inside the hall, there are five parts basically for exhibition, prefacing hall summarizing the history of silk and the road silk, telling audience that silk have rooted in China and been spread globally by voluminous history; historic relics hall showing 5000-year long silk culture and lofty production techniques with numerous silk relics and pictures of past dynasties; silkworm hall revealing the mystery of mulberry planting, sericiculture and filature. Whenever in season of sericiculture, you can listen to silkworms biting mulberry leaves with the sound of“Shasha” and watch the process of them spinning and cocooning; And the dyeing hall displaying folk dyeing processes of different historic periods in a number of buildings of unique local and nationality colors. If only you’re interested, you can pick up shuttles before the antiquated loom to experience the hardship of hand weaving in person, or make tiedyeing and hand drawing craftworks with needles, threads and brushes; And modern achievement hall, as a reduction of silk industry of New P.R. China, displaying resplendence accomplished by China on silk production, research and trading. And mobile halls are also available for helding of various different exhibitions. China Silk Museum boasts a powerful research team and has established Inspection and Protection Center of China Ancient Textile.
　　It has graceful surroundings around and elaborate and elegant construction styles. Inside the museum, mulberry garden, lawn, small bridge and running water let people admire great sceneries of the nature. And it also sets up auxiliary facilities including silk marketplaces, stores and tearooms, therefore being excellent place for leisure time.