Zigong Salt History Museum was built in 1959. It is one of the earliest museums in China, and it is also a museum of natural science and technology history. It mainly collects, studies and displays historical relics and materials of salt industry in China. This museum is characterized by distinctive features and rich connotations. It provides a window for tourists to learn about the excellent culture of the Chinese nation. Among the precious cultural relics collected, such as historical well salt tools, contracts, account books, rock mouth tables, etc. Drilling and well control tools are the only ancient drilling tools preserved in China. It shows the history of well salt production technology, and shows the important contributions made by the ancient working people in China to human civilization for more than 2,000 years from drilling wells, extracting brine, exploiting natural gas and making salt. The magazine "Research on the History of Salt Industry" published by the museum introduced the museum at home and abroad.

Xiqin Guild Hall is the product of its heyday. From the first year of Qingganlong to the seventeenth year (1736 1752), Shaanxi businessmen came to Zigong to manage the salt industry and raise funds to build a fellow townsman's guild hall. From the seventh year to the ninth year of Daoguang (1827 1829), the main hall was expanded. Twice * * * consumed more than fifty thousand taels of silver. The whole museum covers an area of about 3000 square meters. Because the Lord offered Guan Yu the throne, it is commonly known as Guandi Temple or Shaanxi Temple. During the period of 1958, Deng Xiaoping and other central leaders inspected Zigong, and designated Xiqin Pavilion as the location of the Salt Industry History Museum. Xiqin Guild Hall was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province on 1980. 1988 was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.