Salt Industry Museum

The Zigong Salt Making Industry History Museum is located in Zigong, Sichuan province. Known as “Millennium-old salt capital, Home of Dinosaur, Lantern city in the southland”, Zigong also has convenient transportation, which leads to Chengdu and Chongqing respectively 168km away and 204km away.

The Zigong Salt Making Industry History Museum was proposed to be founded by Comrade Deng Xiaoping in 1958. It is a professional museum to collect, research and display the historical relics of Chinese salt industry and one of the earliest founded professional museums in China. UNESCO quarterly magazine Museum once made a special introduction of the museum in 1980s.