A short stop gave us an insight into the 3 Gorges Dam project and details of displaced communities as a result of the massive Yangtze River water level once the dam was completed. This was a benefit as we were embarking on a Yangtze River cruise that evening.

You must visit! This is very interesting museo just opposite of The Great Hall. Much to see and you can easily spend one day here.

worth the visit. What an impressive engineering task! Caters for english people and well documented.

Really worth a visit to see not only the dam project but the history of the entire region and city! Very intersting as CQ itself has not a lot of history to recognize as a traveller.

Half of the ground floor has the "three gorges display" the rest of the museum has a 360 deg cinema showing shots of the gorges other floors have other ethnic exhibits. The three gorges part takes about 45 min. film is about 20minutes. Could take much longer to view the rest.

We arrived in Chongqing a day prior to boarding a Yangtze River Cruise - which was not scheduled to leave until 9:00PM. So we had almost a full day to explorer the city and one place that we stopped to visit was the Three Gorges Museum. This Museum gives the history about the Yangtze River and the construction of the... More

It's a museum of building a dam. The model is interesting and gives perspective, esp.if you came thru the locks.

This is a free attraction, situated next to the hall of the people, it is new, impressive and well worth a visit. The museum is on four floors and tells the story of the three gorges from an ecological perspective, a sociological perspective and also examines the culture associated with this area of China. The presentation is modern, and bilingual.... More

Worth visiting just to see what the authorities saved before the area was flooded and one can imagine what was lost! Avoiding and ignoring the propaganda, it is still an amazing structural project but at what cost?