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Just inside the eastern city walls on Zhongshan Donglu, the Nanjing Bowuguan houses an array of artifacts from Neolithic times right through to the communist period. The main building was constructed in 1933 in the style of an ancient temple with yellow glazed tiles, red-lacquered gates and columns. A rand-new complex, similar in design to the first, has recently been opened. 

    The museum houses an interesting exhibit of a burial suit made of small rectangles of jade sewn together with silver thread, dating from the Eastern Han dynasty(AD 25-220)and excavated from a tomb discovered in the city of Xuzhou in northern Jiangsu. Other exhibits include bricks with the inscriptions of their makers and overseers from the Ming city wall, drawings of old Nanjing, an early Qing mural of old Suzhou and relics from the Taiping Rebellion. The museum is open daily from 9am to 11:45am and 1:30pm to 4:45pm.