Visitors inspect a bronze human figure wearing a dress, unearthed from the Sanxingdui ruins, on Sunday at the new Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Southwest China’s Sichuan province. Photo: Mao Jianjun/China News Service, VCG
The museum opened on Thursday and has more than 1,500 items of pottery, bronze, jade, gold, and ivory on display. Around 600 relics, including this mythical beast with a human standing on its head, are on show to the public for the first time. Photo: An Yuan/China News Service, VCG
A bronze rooster and clay pig are on display at the museum. Photo: VCG
The museum displays a net covering a tortoise shell-shaped vessel. The piece was unearthed from Pit 7 of Sanxingdui in June last year. Photo: Mao Jianjun/China News Service, VCG
Visitors on Sunday take pictures of a gold scepter found in Pit 1 of Sanxingdui. Photo: VCG
Visitors take photos of the 2.6-meter-tall Large Standing Figure at the museum on Thursday. Photo: An Yuan, China News Service/VCG
A museumgoer examines a three-legged cooking utensil on Thursday. The vessel was found in 1986 at the Sanxingdui ruins. Photo: An Yuan/China News Service, VCG
A nearly 4-meter-tall bronze tree stands in the museum. Covering an area of about 54,400 square meters, construction on the Sanxingdui Museum began in March last year. Photo: An Yuan/China News Service, VCG