四川科技馆

About this audio guide

This guide to the Sichuan Science and Technology Museum in Chengdu starts on the square outside, with a giant white marble statue of Mao Zedong and a building that was never meant to be a museum. It goes back to the late 1960s and the Cultural Revolution, when an old princes' palace site was cleared for a hall with a chant of a name, and it reads the hidden codes in the statue's measurements and carvings. Best heard standing on the square with the museum at your back.