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About Imperial Kiln Museum and Imperial Kiln Factory Site
Both belong to the Taoyangli Imperial Kiln area, which the municipal government puts at 3.2 square kilometres with a core of more than 1.6 square kilometres. Besides the factory site and the museum, the area takes in the lane housing around them, guild halls and porcelain shops, quarters where kiln work was carried on, and later ceramic industrial buildings. The Imperial Kiln Factory site itself is a national key cultural heritage protection unit: this was where porcelain was made exclusively for the court under the Ming and Qing, and the shards buried in its ground come from the same production as pieces now in the Palace Museum.
The surrounding fabric is part of the point. Song and Yuan roadways, Ming and Qing buildings, lanes walled with kiln brick, guild halls and academies and industrial remains are preserved together, and the city presents the ensemble as covering some two thousand years of ceramic making, a thousand years of official kiln production and six hundred years of imperial kiln history. The area has been entered on China's tentative list for World Cultural Heritage. The phrase once used of this quarter, thirteen li of Taoyang and a hundred thousand households of kiln smoke, refers to the same ground.
What to look for
- The excavated Imperial Kiln Factory site, listed as a national key cultural heritage protection unit, where porcelain for the Ming and Qing courts was made.
- The porcelain shards recovered from the factory ground, which come from the same production as pieces held by the Palace Museum.
- The kiln-brick lanes and Ming and Qing houses of the surrounding Taoyangli quarter.
- The guild halls, porcelain shops and academy buildings preserved alongside the kiln site.
- The twentieth-century ceramic industrial buildings kept within the same protected area.
Location & getting there
Getting to Imperial Kiln Museum and Imperial Kiln Factory Site
Confirm the venue or campus, reservation channel and exhibition calendar. A museum name may cover more than one building.
- Search for 御窑博物馆与御窑厂遗址 with 景德镇市 and 珠山区.
Find Imperial Kiln Museum and Imperial Kiln Factory Site
御窑博物馆与御窑厂遗址 · 珠山区
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Sources & visit information
The linked sources support the identity and background described in this introduction. Opening hours, admission, activity availability and exact arrival arrangements have not been comprehensively checked. Confirm current visitor information with the venue; the original catalogue locality and editorial review flag are retained.