Museums in China
Encyclopedia
As of 2006, there are more than 2,200 museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

s
in China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, which includes public museums and museums of universities. Local non-governmental museums included, the number of museums nationwide has reached some 2,900. With a collection of over 20 million items, these museums hold more than 8,000 exhibitions every year and 160 million people visits. Some museums of cultural relic
Relic
In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...

s, such as the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an
Xi'an
Xi'an is the capital of the Shaanxi province, and a sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China. One of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3,100 years of history, the city was known as Chang'an before the Ming Dynasty...

, have become internationally known tourist attractions. The government has exchanges of cultural relics exhibitions between museums and promotes the display and exchanges of legal non-governmental collections.

Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

  • Beijing Museum of Natural History
    Beijing Museum of Natural History
    The Beijing Museum of Natural History is located at 126, Tian Qiao Nan Street, Chong Wen District, Beijing, 100050, and is the most popular natural history museum in China. It was originally founded in 1951 as the National Central Museum of Natural History, and its name changed to the Beijing...

  • http://www.cstm.org.cn/ China Science and Technology Museum
    China Science and Technology Museum
    The China Science and Technology Museum is a major science museum established in 1988 in Beijing, China.The museum contains two separate buildings, Hall I & II. The Hall I was completed in 1988, and the museum exhibits ancient Chinese technology such as astronomical devices, the compass,...

  • China Railway Museum
    China Railway Museum
    The China Railway Museum is a Chinese museum preserving locomotives built in the People's Republic of China since 1949. The museum offers a total exhibition space of 16500m² and 8 exhibition tracks....

    , Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

  • China National Film Museum, Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

  • Geological Museum of China
    Geological Museum of China
    The Geological Museum of China , built in 1916, is a geological museum, boasting 200 thousand specimens.This museum is located in the Xisi area of Beijing and opened on October 1, 1959. It is the earliest geological scientific museum of China....

    , Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

  • Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
    Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
    The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China is a prominent research institution and collections repository for fossils, including many dinosaur and pterosaurand cat poo specimens...

    , Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

  • Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution
    Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution
    The Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, or China People's Revolution Military Museum is a museum located in Beijing, China immediately west of central Beijing in Haidian District...

    , Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

  • National Museum of China
    National Museum of China
    The National Museum of China flanks the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. The mission of the museum is to educate about the arts and history of China...

    , Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

  • Palace Museum (Forbidden City), Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

  • National Art Museum of China
    National Art Museum of China
    The National Art Museum of China, or NAMOC is located at 1 Wusi Ave, Dongcheng District of Beijing, People's Republic of China. It is one of the largest art museums in China. The construction of the museum started in 1958, and concluded in 1962. It has a total land area of 30,000 square meters...

    , Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

  • Capital Museum
    Capital Museum
    The Capital Museum located at 16 Fuxingmenwai Dajie, Xicheng District is an art museum in Beijing, China. It opened in 1981 while the present building was built in the late 1990s and it houses a variety of items from Imperial China as well as other Asian cultures...

  • International Friendship Museum
  • Lu Xun Museum
  • China Agricultural Museum
  • Guanfu Museum (private)
  • China Numismatic Museum
  • China Museum of Telecommunications
  • Beijing Folk Arts Museum
  • China National Film Museum
  • China Civil Aviation Museum
  • Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum
  • Liao and Jin City Wall Museum

Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

  • Quanzhou Museum
  • Quanzhou Overseas Relations Museum (泉州海外交通史博物馆), which houses the Quanzhou ship
    Quanzhou ship
    The Quanzhou Ship, or Quanzhou wreck, was a 13th century Chinese sea-going sailing junk that sunk near the city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province, and was discovered in 1973...


Gansu
Gansu
' is a province located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.It lies between the Tibetan and Huangtu plateaus, and borders Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan to the south, and Shaanxi to the east...

  • Gansu Provincial Museum (Lanzhou)
  • Lanzhou Museum (Lanzhou)
  • Silk Road Museum

Guangdong
Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

  • Guangdong Provincial Museum
    Guangdong Provincial Museum
    Guangdong Province Museum is located on 215 Wenming Rd., Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China , on what was the original site of Zhongshan University. It is a provincial general museum, founded in 1959 and with a land area of 43,000 square meters...

    , Guanzhou
    Guanzhou
    Guanzhou Island is an island at the southeast of the central district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It has the total area of 1.8 square kilometers...

  • Longgang museum of Hakka culture, Longgang
    Longgang
    Longgang may refer to the following locations in mainland China or Taiwan:*Longgang District, Huludao , Liaoning*Longgang District, Shenzhen , Guangdong*Longgang Station , railway station in Miaoli County, Taiwan...

  • Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, Guangzhou
    Guangzhou
    Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

  • Shenzhen Museum
  • Dongguan Science and Technology Museum

Guangxi
Guangxi
Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...

  • Guangxi Museum
  • Guangxi Museum of Nationalities
  • Liuzhou Museum
  • Museum of Guihai Tablets Forest

Hubei
Hubei
' Hupeh) is a province in Central China. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Lake Dongting...

  • Hubei Provincial Museum
    Hubei Provincial Museum
    Hubei Provincial Museum is one of the best-known museums in China, with a large amount of State-level historic and cultural relics. Established in 1953, the museum moved to its present location in 1960 and gained its present name in 1963...

  • Wuhan Museum
  • Underground Project 131
    Underground Project 131
    Underground Project 131 is a system of tunnels in China's Hubei province constructed in the late 1960s and the early 1970s to accommodate the Chinese military command headquarters in case of a nuclear war...

    , in Xianning
    Xianning
    Xianning is a prefecture-level city in China's Hubei province. It is known as the "City of Osmanthus".-Geography and climate:Xianning is located in southeastern Hubei province, just south of Wuhan, between the southern bank of the Yangtze River in the north and the Mufu Mountains in the south. It...

     Prefecture

Jiangsu
Jiangsu
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou. The abbreviation for this province is "苏" , the second character of its name...

  • China Modern History Museum
    Presidential Palace (Nanjing)
    The Presidential Palace in Nanjing, China, housed the Office of the President of the Republic of China before the republic relocated to Taiwan in 1949. It is now a museum, the China Modern History Museum. It is located at 292 Changjiang Road, in the Xuanwu District of Nanjing.-History:In the Ming...

    , Nanjing
  • Nanjing Museum
    Nanjing Museum
    Nanjing Museum is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, on East Zhongshan Road, about 3 km from the Xinjiekou traffic circle to the east, just inside Zhongshan Gate...

    , Nanjing
    Nanjing
    ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...

  • Nanjing Municipal Museum
  • The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders
    Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
    The Memorial for compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Forces of Aggression is the Memorial Hall for the people killed in the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese army in and around the then capital of China, Nanjing, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937...

    , Nanjing
  • Suzhou Museum
    Suzhou Museum
    The Suzhou Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, ancient Chinese paintings, calligraphies, and hand-made crafts, situated in Suzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.It is free to visit.-History:...

    , Suzhou
    Suzhou
    Suzhou , previously transliterated as Su-chou, Suchow, and Soochow, is a major city located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province in Eastern China, located adjacent to Shanghai Municipality. The city is situated on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Taihu Lake and is a part...

  • Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum
    Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum
    Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum was established in 2002, and it officially open to society in January 2003. It is located in Suzhou No. 88 Northwest Street, in the original construction of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong years old building "Shangzhi Tang". It is east to Humble Administrator's...

  • Changzhou Museum
  • Zhenjiang Museum
  • Yangzhou Museum and China Block Printing Museum (the two are locally known as the "double museum", as they share the lobby section)
  • Xuzhou Museum
  • Xuzhou Decree Museum
  • Taiping Kingdom History Museum
    Taiping Kingdom History Museum
    The Taiping Kingdom History Museum The building was originally a palace of the first ruler of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu . In 1853, it became the residence of Yang Xiuqing, a military leader in the Taiping Rebellion. In 1958, it became the site of the current museum.-External links:*...

    , Nanjing
    Nanjing
    ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...

  • The Museum of Guangling King's Tomb in Han Dynasty, Yangzhou
    Yangzhou
    Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China. Sitting on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, it borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across...


Jilin
Jilin
Jilin , is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. Jilin borders North Korea and Russia to the east, Heilongjiang to the north, Liaoning to the south, and Inner Mongolia to the west...

  • Museum of Imperial Palace of Manchu State
    Museum of Imperial Palace of Manchu State
    The Museum of the Imperial Palace of the Manchu State is a museum in the northeastern corner of Changchun, Jilin province, northeast China...

    , Changchun
    Changchun
    Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin province, located in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, in the center of the Songliao Plain. It is administered as a sub-provincial city with a population of 7,677,089 at the 2010 census under its jurisdiction, including counties and...

  • Jilin University Museum

Liaoning
Liaoning
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...

  • Dalian Natural History Museum
  • Dalian Modern Museum
  • Shenyang Steam Locomotive Museum

Shaanxi
Shaanxi
' is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province...

  • Shaanxi History Museum
    Shaanxi History Museum
    Shaanxi History Museum, which located to the northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China. The museum houses over 300,000 items including murals, paintings, pottery,...

    , Xian
  • Xi'an Stele Forest Museum
    Stele Forest
    The Stele Forest, or Xi'an Beilin Museum , is a museum for steles and stone sculptures which is located in Xi'an, China. Founded in 1944, it was the principal museum for Shaanxi province on the site of what was formerly an 11th century Confucius Temple...

     (Beilin), Xian
  • Terracotta Army
    Terracotta Army
    The Terracotta Army or the "Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses", is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China...

    , Xian
  • Xi'an Banpo Museum
    Xi'an Banpo Museum
    The Xi'an Banpo Museum is a museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. The museum houses artifacts from the archaeological site of Banpo. The museum gives access to the excavated buildings, has a collection of artifacts from the site, and also has several reconstructed houses designed to resemble the...

    , Xi'an
    Xi'an
    Xi'an is the capital of the Shaanxi province, and a sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China. One of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3,100 years of history, the city was known as Chang'an before the Ming Dynasty...

  • Maoling Museum

Shandong
Shandong
' is a Province located on the eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese...

  • Shandong Provincial Museum
    Shandong Provincial Museum
    The Shandong Provincial Museum is the principal museum of Shandong Province. It is located in the City of Jinan, Shandong, China.The Shandong Provincial Museum was established in 1954.. It houses acollection of more than 210 000 historical artifacts...

  • Shandong Science & Technology Museum
  • Jinan Museum
  • Qingdao Municipal Museum

Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

  • Shanghai Museum
    Shanghai Museum
    The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, People's Republic of China.-History:...

  • Shanghai Art Museum
    Shanghai Art Museum
    The Shanghai Art Museum is an art museum in the city of Shanghai, China. It is located in the former clubhouse building of the Today, it is the home of the Shanghai biennial and stands adjacent to People's Square...

  • Shanghai Entomological Museum
  • Shanghai History Museum
  • Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
    Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
    Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is a large museum in Pudong, Shanghai, close to Century Park, the largest park within the inner districts of the city....

  • Shanghai Water Displaying Hall
  • C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum
    C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum
    The C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum is located in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It houses the Chinese Maritime History Gallery and the C. Y. Tung Gallery. The former contains a permanent exhibition of maps, photographs, archival material, maritime trade routes and their artifacts, reflecting...

  • Shanghai Museum of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MOCA Shanghai)
  • Shanghai Museum of Public Security

Shanxi
Shanxi
' is a province in Northern China. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....

  • Shanxi Provincial Museum (Taiyuan)
  • Shanxi Provincial Museum of Art (Taiyuan)
  • Datong Museum (Lower Huayan Monastery of Datong)
  • The Coal Museum of China (Taiyuan)

Sichuan
Sichuan
' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...

  • Zigong Dinosaur Museum
    Zigong Dinosaur Museum
    Located near the Prefecture-level city of Zigong, China, in the smaller township of Dashanpu, is the Zigong Dinosaur Museum. The museum sits on top of a large concentration of dinosaur fossils — both in terms of quantity but also of diversity. The museum claims the largest number of dinosaur...

    , Zigong
    Zigong
    Zigong , ancient name Ziliujing and Gongjing, is a prefecture-level city and the third largest city in Sichuan Province, in southwest China.-Geography:...

  • Zigong Salt History Museum, Zigong
    Zigong
    Zigong , ancient name Ziliujing and Gongjing, is a prefecture-level city and the third largest city in Sichuan Province, in southwest China.-Geography:...

  • Sichuan Science and Technology Museum
    Sichuan Science and Technology Museum
    Sichuan Science and Technology Museum is a museum about science and technology in Sichuan. It was the Sichuan Provincial Exhibition Hall until 2006. The museum includes airplanes, flying saucers, 3D movies, robots and interactive model rockets....

    , Chengdu
    Chengdu
    Chengdu , formerly transliterated Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It holds sub-provincial administrative status...

  • Du Fu Cao Tang (Thatched Cottage of Du Fu), Chengdu
    Chengdu
    Chengdu , formerly transliterated Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It holds sub-provincial administrative status...

  • Sanxingdui Museum
  • Jinsha Site Museum
  • China Colour Lantern Museum
  • Jianchuan Museum
    Jianchuan Museum
    The Jianchuan Museum Cluster is located in Anren, Sichuan in Dayi, part of Chengdu and about a one hour drive from downtown Chengdu. It consists of 15 museums which showcase China's largest private collection of artefacts amassed during the last 60–70 years....


Tianjin
Tianjin
' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...

  • Tianjin Museum
    Tianjin Museum
    Tianjin Museum is the largest museum in Tianjin, China, exhibiting a range of cultural and historical relics significant to Tianjin. The museum lies in Yinhe Plaza in the Hexi District of Tianjin and covers an area of about 50,000 sq metres...

  • Memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao, Tianjin
    Tianjin
    ' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...

  • Tianjin Natural History Museum

Yunnan
Yunnan
Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...

  • Lufeng Dinosaur Museum
    Lufeng Dinosaur Museum
    The Lufeng Dinosaur Museum is located in Jingshan , Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, China. Lufeng is the site of numerous Jurassic dinosaur discoveries, first found there in 1938. Most well known is Lufengosaurus, a Jurassic prosauropod. More recently, teeth and a skull of Ramapithecus, a Miocene...

  • Yunnan Provincial Museum
    Yunnan Provincial Museum
    Yunnan Provincial Museum is located in Kunming, on Wuyi Lu. It houses an exhibition centered on Yunnan's ethnic minorities, as well as a collection of artifacts from tomb excavations at Jinning on the southern rim of Lake Dian.-External links:...

  • Yunnan Nationalities Museum
  • Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology
    Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology
    The Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology is located on the campus of Kunming Institute of Zoology, Jiaochang East Road, Kunming, Yunnan, China...

  • Yunnan Railway Museum Kunming.

Zhejiang
Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...

  • Zhejiang Provincial Museum
    Zhejiang Provincial Museum
    The Zhejiang Provincial Museum is a major museum of Chinese art located near the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. It was first established in 1929, and now houses over 100,000 items in its permanent collection.-External links:*...

    , Hangzhou
  • Zhejiang Museum of Natural History
  • Hangzhou Southern Song Dynasty Guan Kiln Museum
  • Hangzhou World Numismatic Museum
  • Liangzhu Culture Museum
  • China National Tea Museum
    China National Tea Museum
    The China National Tea Museum is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. The exhibitions display tea production, and different kinds of tea. Exhibitions are in Chinese and English.-External links:*...

    , Hangzhou
  • China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou
  • Zhoushan Museum
  • China Finance and Taxation Museum
  • China Shoes Museum, Wenzhou
    Wenzhou
    Wenzhou is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. The area under its jurisdiction, which includes two satellite cities and six counties, had a population of 9,122,100 as of 2010....

  • China Grand Canal Museum
  • The National Sauce Culture Museum of China
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum, Hangzhou
  • Chinese Seal Museum, Hangzhou

See also

  • Universities in China
  • Libraries in China
    Libraries in China
    Early in the history of China, scholars had extensive private libraries, and all of the imperial dynasties constructed libraries and archives to house literary treasures and official records. The first modern libraries, however, did not appear in China until the late nineteenth century; even then,...

  • List of World Heritage Sites in China

External links

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