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Top 9: Huayun Museum

Huayun Museum, Tianjin's first private museum, was dubbed "the edible museum" by the celebrated writer Feng Jicai, appropriate as it is located inside a Cantonese-style restaurant.

Zhang Lianzhi, the restaurant's boss established three museums in which he put 3,000 of his privately-owned pieces. The museums are Huayun Museum which features bronze ware, stone tablets and stone carvings; Juanzhen Museum, which focuses on the furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and Guya Museum, which focuses on modern firearms.