Macau Tea Culture House

The Macau Tea Culture House is conveniently located next to the Lou Lim Leoc Garden which is one of the premiere attractions in Macau.

The Macau Tea Culture House effectively blends in with the Portuguese-style buildings and houses in its immediate vicinity. This is the building of the Macau Tea Culture House has an imposing edifice which features a southern European touch and a Chinese tiled roof.

The Macau Tea Culture House was inaugurated on the first of June in the year 2005 and was founded through the hard work and painstaking efforts of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau. The museum seeks to promote the study of cultures around the world through long and short-term exhibitions to introduce the tea cultures of Macau, China, and the West.

Macau Tea Culture House

Relatively easy to find, the Macau Tea Culture House is a simple and small museum, compared to the other museums in Macau.

The house itself has 3 floors but the museum part of the house is only the ground floor. It is a very quiet place, and despite the free entrance, there is air-conditioning inside.

The museum might be small, but the information that can be gathered and the cultural values inside it are very valuable and tea, especially, pays an important role in both the eastern and western cultures.

Macau Tea Culture House

The tea culture in Macau and China are exhibited in the Macau Tea Culture House, as well as the different processes of making, and drinking tea. Tea ceremonies and kinds of tea all over the world are explained as well.

Macau Tea Culture House

Currently, the exhibition in the Macau Tea Culture House is about tea-drinking and tea-tasting and their distinctions. In general, enjoying tea can be divided into tea-tasting and tea-drinking. Drinking tea slowly for the purpose of self-enjoyment, with a special emphasis on moods, fragrance, color and forms, is tea-tasting.

Macau Tea Culture House

The Fascination of Zisha Teapots - Exhibition of Teaware Collection of Chui Chi Hin, organized by the Macao Tea Culture House under the jurisdiction of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau, as well as the Exhibition of Tea Ware Relics from Past China Dynasties co-organized by the Macao Tea Culture House and Guangzhou Museum, are both dedicated to tea tasting.

Tea-drinking, on the other hand, is quite the opposite of slow-paced tea-tasting. It involves intensive tea making and fast swallowing. The current exhibition of Macao's tea culture is dedicated to this method of enjoying tea.

Macau Tea Culture House

Being a melting pot of Chinese and western cultures, Macao sees rich variations of everything about tea. The Macau Tea Culture - An Exhibition of Modern Tea Houses and Tea Shops shows a total of 68 exhibits inside the Macau Tea Culture House.

They include paper labels, moon cake wrapping paper, the song lists of tea houses, news and advertisements in the tea industry, as well as the tea cans sold in tea shops.

Macau Tea Culture House

The comprehensive array of exhibits is rich in historical and cultural significance. As the old saying goes, "Customs change within a hundred miles", so it is hoped that this exhibition can deepen the understanding of local tea culture among the citizens of Macao.

Macau Tea Culture House

Opening Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Closed on Mondays, open on public holiday)
Free admission
Venue: Lou Lim Ieoc Garden, Est. de Adolfo Loureiro No. 10
Telephone enquiries: (853) 28827103, 28827104
Website: http://www.iacm.gov.mo/teamuseum/index.htm

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