Located in the eastern part of the Zhanyuan Garden, the History Museum of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (Taiping Tianguo) was completed in 1956. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang built and bestowed the Zhanyuan garden to his brave and loyal general. In 1853, after Taiping Heavenly Kingdom chose Nanjing as its capital, the garden was the residence of East King of the Kingdom. In 1864, the garden was demolished in warfare, and soon rebuilt in 1865 and 1903.

The History Museum of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom displays 1657 cultural relics. 42 of the relics are of the first grade, including imperial robe of Heavenly King of the Kingdom, and the imperial seal.

The specialized library in the Museum has a collection of more than 8,000 volumes of monographs and local works written in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, over 200 letters of celebrities in the reigns of Xianfeng and Tongzhi, more than 5,000 photographic plates of cultural relics and reliques of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and so on.

The four exhibition halls of the museum are devoted to the intriguing and turbulent history concerning this movement. The documents room houses an interesting collection of documents, books and artefacts related to the Kingdom including army maps, Taiping coins, scrolls of Taiping laws and weapons. Besides roadshows every year, the Museum also holds many temporary exhibitions with various contents.

The Museum has publications ofArts of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom,A Collection of Materials Related to Taiping Heavenly Kingdom,Selected Compilation of Wu Xun's Archives, and so on.