While the role of museums in citizenship education has been well documented in literature, its function within an authoritarian framework of cultural governance remains underexplored. In recent China, a museum boom has expanded both the number of institutions and the scope of educational programmes. This paper examines how the Zhejiang Provincial Museum operates as a discursive site for constructing citizenship. Drawing on Foucault's concept of the discursive construction of knowledge, citizenship is approached less a legal status than a culturally and politically mediated identity. Through the analysis of museum exhibitions, educational initiatives, and participant accounts, this paper explores how the museum fuses traditional culture with ideological instruction to promote a state-sanctioned vision of national belonging and civic duty. It highlights the role of museums in shaping political subjectivities, alongside the party-state's strategies of instrumentalising cultural institutions in cultivating loyalty, reproducing narratives, and governing through cultural means.