Yangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Treasure Museum, located at the city’s 486 ICH Hub, will officially open on January 20, providing multi-functional spaces that combine performance, demonstration and education. 

First built in 486 B.C., Yangzhou has been a major production area and distribution center for Chinese arts and crafts for more than 2,500 years and is currently home to various ICH items. 

The new museum houses collections curated from the Yangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum, the Yangzhou Jade Carvings Museum, the Yangzhou Lacquerware Museum and the China Paper-cutting Museum. It also serves as the Guangling Branch of China Woodblock Printing Museum, earning the reputation of being "five museums in one". The museum aims to offer multi-sensory experiences for visitors to understand ICH in comprehensive and engaging ways. 

One centerpiece of the collections is a jade piece resembling Chinese cabbage with a mantis crouching on it. Created by two masters, Jiang Chunyuan and Shi Qingmei, the artwork is the largest of its kind in China and honors the city’s iconic tradition of jade and lacquer production. 

Also on display is an embroidery work created by a team led by Wu Xiaoping, a master of the antique embroidery techniques originating in Yangzhou. This work was inspired by “Landscape of the Snowy Forest”, a renowned painting by Fan Kuan of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Known for meticulous stitching and elegant style, Yangzhou embroidery was included in the fourth batch of China’s ICH items in 2014. 

Moreover, the museum features a paper-cut called "A Hundred Flowers Blossom," created by master Zhang Yongshou in honor of the poem with the same title by Guo Moruo, a renowned Chinese author and historian who died in 1978. It’s worth noting that the city played an important role when Chinese paper-cut was inscribed in 2009 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.