There are many buildings here and the courtyards are connected. Looking around, the quadrangle with carved beams and painted buildings, Shuaifu Garden with waterside pavilions and beautiful houses, magnificent brothels, European-style waterfront, Shuaifu office, red building, small and elegant brothels and Zhao Yidi's former residence are patchwork and complement each other. Zhang Shuaifu Museum, full of rich cultural characteristics of the Republic of China, has won the reputation of "the former residence of the first celebrity in Northeast China" with its magnificent architecture, exquisite decorative arts and rich historical and humanistic connotations.
Since the opening of 1988, Zhang Shuaifu Museum has been expanding in scale, and now it has developed into a comprehensive museum integrating Zhang's father and son research and financial research. At present, the exhibition area is 8000 square meters and the exhibition line is 2000 meters long. More than 7000 pieces of cultural relics are on display. The exhibitions "One Hundred Years of Zhang Xueliang" and "Zhang and Zhang's Family" have been basically displayed, which fully demonstrated the different life experiences of Zhang and his son.
A series of restoration exhibitions, including Zhang's office, Zhang Xueliang's office, Northeast Government Affairs Committee, Tiger Hall and Xiaoqinglou, recorded the vivid life fragments and ups and downs of Zhang's legendary life.
Shenyang Financial Museum was established on the basis of the former private bank of Zhang and his son, Bianye Bank. It is the largest museum of its kind in China with the richest contents, the richest exhibition forms and the largest number of visitors participating in projects. Its theme exhibition "Approaching the Financial World" perfectly shows and interprets the development footprint of financial history and the profoundness of financial culture, and won the "Top Ten Exhibition Awards in China in 2007-2008".
After 20 years of active exploration and determined reform, Zhang Shuaifu Museum has made many gratifying achievements in excavating the unique cultural connotation of Shuaifu, building cultural brands, building academic exchange platforms, improving the level of exhibition interpretation, and expanding external publicity. It has become a famous cultural landscape in Shenyang and a cultural brand with unique historical characteristics of the Republic of China, and is constantly developing towards the goal of building a first-class museum.
A large number of stone carvings, wood carvings, brick carvings and murals in Zhang Shuaifu are full of northeast folk customs. They are rich in materials, profound in meaning, beautifully made and lifelike. They are valuable artistic materials for studying China's architectural art and folk customs.
As the official residence and private residence of Zhang and his son, Zhang Shuaifu was once the political center of Northeast China. During this period, Zhang Shuaifu experienced two direct wars, the Central Plains War, the change of flag in Northeast China, the "September 18th Incident", and the great changes in old and new China. The vicissitudes of Zhang Shuaifu have become the witness and epitome of the modern history of Northeast China.