The Shou County Museum occupies a building within the historic walled city and holds one of the strongest collections of Chu state material culture in China. The territory around Shou County was heavily used by the Chu rulers — whose capital Shouchun stood here in the final decades of the Warring States period — and tomb excavations in the surrounding fields have yielded bronzes, lacquerware, jade, and ceramics of exceptional quality.
The museum's highlights include bronze ritual vessels from Chu-era tombs, with inscription-bearing pieces that provide rare textual evidence about the political organization of the Chu kingdom. The Tang and Song sections cover the city's later history as a canal junction and military strongpoint. The museum is well-organized and less crowded than comparable institutions in larger cities; English labels are minimal but the collections speak clearly enough.