China Silk Museum

The China Silk Museum is located near the West Lake and includes exhibits that explain the 5,000-year-old history of silk production in China: for example, the Front Hall, the Silk Worm Hall, the Filature Hall, the Weaving Hall, the Printing and Dyeing Hall, and the Comprehensive Hall. The museum is also constructed so that there is space for such activities as business talks and fashion shows. Many visitors are sure to enjoy the shopping arcade.

China Tea Museum

The China Tea Museum was built in 1986 and occupies an area of 3,100 square meters in the Dragon Well Village south of the West Lake. It is composed of four groups of buildings featuring tea-growing areas south of the Yangtze River and includes five halls of exhibits related to tea history--that is, the best tea varieties, tea utensils, tea affairs, and tea customs. Tourists may have fun tea picking here and enjoy various arts of tea making.

Huqingyu Tang Chinese Medicine Museum

The Huqingyu Tang Chinese Medicine Museum is the only Chinese herbal medicine museum in China housed in the ancient buildings of the famous Hangzhou Chinese herbal medicine shop. The exhibition halls introduce the origin, development, and application of traditional Chinese medicine and its role in the world history of medicine. Samples of the herbal plants and a hand- processing workshop are among the displays. The museum also includes a clinic and a restaurant for Chinese herbal medicine food.