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It was quite a few years ago that I last visited the Tea Museum in Hangzhou. It was supposed to be the most important one on the topic.
The most impressive exhibits to me were the miniature models of tea manufacturing machines
I like the rolling machine the most:because it looked almost exactly the same as the real one.The exhibition hall for puerh cakes and other large form puerhs was also quite illustrative of what compressed teas are:However, on the whole, it was a pretty disappointing museum lacking all the needed detail information in tea history, tea sciences, tea manufacturing, and tea culture. The exhibit and display quality was amazingly primitive and basic considering this was a national museum.(see this panel here? I would say that this is like something taken from the biology room of a small provincial secondary school! The rich botanical information of the tea plant was reduced to something that a teacher could have made with a few students in the 1970’s) Considering that China is one of the few top tea production countries (if not the top one) and the origin of tea, and that the country is so resourceful, the quality of this museum is really a big puzzle.More photos:(this is all there was about tea categorization. The tea guardian website does a job many times better than a national museum! I think the people in that museum should really be shameful about themselves)(and this was all about tea storage! Shame, shame, shame(and in the Long-jing capital Hangzhou, they were displaying Long-jing tealeaves from a few years ago — so old that they were brown and dusty! Anybody working there?)Unless there have been major changes (I mean MAJOR!) to that museum in the past couple of years, I advise people saving the trip. -
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