[2] On 15 September 1958, the Chengdu Municipal Government, under the direction of the Ministry of Culture to prepare for the formation of a museum, established the Chengdu Topographical Museum Preparatory Committee, located at Daci Temple.

[3][4] The deputy mayor, the writer Li Jieren, was the director of the committee.

[2] The committee eventually led to the opening of Chengdu Museum in 1984, housed at Daci Temple.

In 2007, the architects Sutherland Hussey Harris, together with Pansolution, based in Beijing, won the first prize in an international competition to design a new city museum for Chengdu.

[6] It has exhibitions of puppetry, shadow puppets, and wood carvings.