Do you need to book Sanxingdui Museum in advance?
Yes — Sanxingdui Museum in Deyang runs on real-name advance reservation. Release rule: Real-name, timed-entry reservation; book ahead — daily slots are capped and routinely sell out on weekends, holidays and through the summer peak. A foreign passport works as the real-name ID. Use the official channel linked below and confirm its current ID requirements before paying.
Verified 2026-06-13 · rules change; confirm on the official channel before you travel
The booking rule, in detail
- Reservation
- Required in advance
- Tickets release
- Real-name, timed-entry reservation; book ahead — daily slots are capped and routinely sell out on weekends, holidays and through the summer peak
- Foreign passport
- A foreign passport works as the real-name ID.
- Official channel
- https://www.sxd.cn/
How a foreign visitor actually books it
Entry is real-name and time-slotted, so you reserve in advance with your passport. The official channel is the museum's own platform — its website and WeChat mini-program (三星堆博物馆), which is Chinese-first — and a passport works as the ID. Because the booking flow and the timed slots are in Chinese, the simplest path is to have your hotel or a local contact reserve a specific date and entry window for you with your passport number. Don't turn up expecting to buy a same-day ticket at the gate on a busy day; the popular slots go early.
What else to know
The official booking page is sxd.cn, the museum's own site (not a reseller); the actual booking happens in its Chinese-language mini-program. We could not verify a current admission price from the official channel, so prices are left null — reconfirm at booking; expect a modest museum entry fee rather than a big-ticket scenic-area price. The new hall, with a preliminary opening in July 2023, is the reason to come: it puts more than 1,500 relics on show, around 600 of them displayed for the first time, including material from the sacrificial pits reopened in 2021. This is where the famous large bronze masks and heads, the gold-foil masks, the bronze 'sacred tree' and the jade blades are now presented. Trip.com and Klook are sometimes used by foreigners to book China museum tickets, but verify the slot is real-name-matched to your passport.
If the official channel does not work
Do not assume an unrecorded booking route is available. Recheck the operator’s current instructions; where the interface itself is the obstacle, the practical mechanics are in buying tickets the official way and booking without WeChat.
Other Deyang sights and their booking rules
- Sanxingdui bronzes & gold artifacts book ahead
- Sanxingdui Museum book ahead
Full city context, hotels that register foreigners, and what to eat: Deyang guide. Release times across every city we track are in Reservation Radar.