Heilongjiang Provincial Museum

Former Moscow Market site (1906 Art Nouveau building), Jin Dynasty relics (from the Jin Shangjing site) / mammoth fossils / Bohai Kingdom relics. The building itself is a relic — the former Moscow Market, completed in 1906, is a representative work of Harbin's Art Nouveau architecture, and its cream-colored facade and domed tower make the provincial museum part of the Museum Station landmark ensemble. The collection follows the thread of Northeast Asia's ancient history: Jin Dynasty relics systematically present Jurchen dynasty artifacts unearthed at the Jin Shangjing site, while Bohai Kingdom relics reveal the civilizational height of this local regime in Tang-era Northeast China; a mammoth fossil skeleton towers over the exhibition hall, and mammoth and woolly rhinoceros fossils unearthed on the banks of the Songhua River make the "Ice Age Northeast" vividly real. Free with reservation; the exhibition route is not large but information-dense. Linking up with the Jin Shangjing History Museum (Acheng) lets you fully understand the thread of Heilongjiang's "Jin source culture."

Getting there: Metro Line 1, Bowuguan Station