Located among the tea gardens around the Dragon Well between Wulao Peak and Jiqing Hill, the China National Tea Museum is the largest museum in China with the most comprehensive collection of tea utensils and exhibits on view. The compound also serves as a backdrop for a variety ofperformance and exchange programs associated with tea.
On the premises are separate houses connected by zigzagging paths, punctuated and colored by lawns and flowers and evergreen tea trees. These buildings function respectively for exhibition, tea drinking, tea performance, multiple functions and international exchanges. The exhibition section has rooms separately for history, culture, tea affairs, tea friendship, tea utensils, and tea rituals.
The cultural part is designed for all kinds of cultural activities concerning tea. The tea drinking and 
performance sections are two perfect locations for performances of the tea drinking rituals seen in different provinces and foreign countries. The museum has been a fine locale for a number of cultural activities on tea, including a series of international seminars on tea culture and exchange.
The museum provides the top-class tea, tasteful water, and perfect landscape. Tea professionals and aficionados from all over the world meet here in the name of tea. They come in groups and drink tea and talk about tea. The tea fragrance permeates every inch of the museum and the surrounding landscape. Emotions and memories get conditioned by tea at the museum. And many visitors get so intoxicated with tea that they forget the time for going home.
Editor: Li Guixiang. Source: www.hzwestlake.com
