Museum
Found Museum
- Hours
- No public visiting schedule was found.
- How to visit
- The museum is housed in a small bungalow in Yile Community; from Yile 7th Lane, walk a little over 10 meters. The exhibits are indoors.
- Hours
- About 60 min
Why it is worth the detour
The walls of this bungalow are covered with more than 2,100 discarded address plates rescued from demolished urban villages. Inside, keys, diaries, photographs, work certificates and shop equipment preserve the intimate traces of migrant families whose former neighborhoods have vanished beneath redevelopment.
Found Museum is a hidden gem preserving the intimate traces of migrant families through artifacts like keys, diaries, and photographs. It offers a unique glimpse into the lives of communities displaced by urban redevelopment.
The people behind this address
Documented connections, not celebrity trivia.
Chen Zhou
The independent artist spent years salvaging door plates and personal objects from Guangzhou's condemned urban villages before co-founding the museum.
Zhang Xiaojing
She co-developed the collection and museum with Chen Zhou to document migrant lives erased by urban redevelopment.
What else is close by
The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.
1.7 km
Lingnan School Memorial Hall
A torch-like white dome inside the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts commemorates the painters who argued that Chinese painting should absorb modern life and selected foreign techniques rather than merely copy old masters. Statues of Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng, and Chen Shuren stand before the building, which was completed in 1991 and substantially restored before reopening in 2024.
1.9 km
Liao Zhongkai and He Xiangning Memorial Museum
The museum occupies the former offices of the agricultural and industrial school that He Xiangning established as a living memorial to her assassinated husband. Its story is less a static tribute than a widow's political response: she converted grief into a school meant to train a new generation for national reconstruction. ([jng.zhku.edu.cn](https://jng.zhku.edu.cn/lxwm.htm?utm_source=openai))
2.0 km
Memorial Museum of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen's Mansion
The Memorial Museum of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen's Mansion is known for being a historical site where Sun Yat-sen established his military headquarters.
2.4 km
Guangdong Museum of Art, Ersha Island
The Ersha Island home of the Guangdong Museum of Art. The Bai'etan branch is another building.
2.8 km
Dongshankou and Xinhepu
Early-20th-century villa quarter in Dongshan, walked from the Xinhepu streets.
2.9 km
Canton–Hong Kong Strike Committee Site
In 1925 striking workers transformed a former admiral's garden into the headquarters of the Canton–Hong Kong general strike, erecting simple bamboo and palm shelters across the grounds. Most buildings were destroyed by arson in 1926, leaving the old gate and a tree as rare witnesses before the red headquarters building was reconstructed on its original site. ([yuexiu.gov.cn](https://www.yuexiu.gov.cn/jjjc/ljjy/jyjd/content/post_10520138.html?utm_source=openai))
Walk it with the stories
This address is one stop among many. Our routes and quests link them into a walk that makes sense on the ground.