the lake in front of the Lakeside Hotel. You can take a walkway bridge to the area or walk around the lake, sorry no lake name is mentioned in English, to access the museum area. The first building we enter was the National History Museum; dinosaurs and such. The second building was the true Fujian Museum. The museum documents the history of the Fujian Province and the large overviews are in English as well as Chinese. There were some very interesting exhibits; clay soldiers, funeral canoe, headstones of a man and his wife (in Arabic as well as Chinese - from hundreds of years ago), etc. We attracted alot of attention from the 
students that were going thru the museum. One group of girls even translated enough of the headstone for us to understand that hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago, people from Arabic speaking countries were part of the Chinese society. In the area around the museums, there were petrified tree trunks placed in a garden and some statues which I could not tell if they were old or recreations.
It was a place that I will go back to if given the chance and after I see a few more things in Fuzhou. Couple of notes if you decide to go: Bring your passport if you do not have a Chinese ID card and even though it says no photos, everyone was taking pictures except of the textiles.
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