Formerly as a part of Prince Gong's Mansion (恭王府) located at Qian Hai (前海), Guo Moruo (郭沬若), a crucial cultural and social icon in the fields of literature, drama, history, archeology and science in modern China, lived here for 15 years and his residence became a memorial museum
This museum is of a traditional courtyard (四合院) style. As mentioned at the outset, it was part of Prince Gong's Mansion - Guo's former home keeps its original style and structure. The place is absolutely serene where visitors may learn and contemplate on Guo's philosophy and the past events of his life. Now, let us have a glimpse of this beautiful former home of this great man and of his academic, political and family life.
- One of the rooms which are kept as they were back in the old days from 1963 to 1978. Guo passed away on this premise in 1978.
- A photograph of Guo when he was in Japan after the May Fourth Movement. Guo was the one sitting in the middle in the front. The others were Chinese students studying in Japan at that time.
Guo was an important political figure in modern China. In the photograph, Guo and others took a picture in front of a train in Hankau "漢口" (a town in Wuhan, Hubei). Guo was on a mission assigned by Government Army. When he was in Wuhan, Guo initiated the anti-Japanese resistance cultural movement which greatly helped during the war against Japanese's invasion in 1937.
- Guo's identification document and pocket watch during the civil war.
- As an academic, books and papers never left Guo in his entire life. His works range from academic papers to poems and other forms of creative writing.
- Guo's calligraphy is also one of his famous strengths - elegant, free-spirited, dignified.
